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by smoe 6y ago
This just reminded me of the first bug of my career that took me hours trying to figure out. Colors weren't working correclty in IE 6 (pre IE Developer Tools) and I eventually learned that Firefox accepted both spellings "gray&quo
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by smoe 6y ago
I think one big big aspect, in “use the right tool for the job”, that is often overlooked, is how good you already are wielding said tool. I use Terraform to manage the few personal cloud resources I have. It is overkill, but I already lear
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by smoe 6y ago
Personally, from a consumer perspective I'm not convinced postive reviews are actually that useful, vetted or nor. E.g. on Amazon I ended up only ever reading 3 star reviews. Not for their positivity or negativity, but because they oft
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by smoe 6y ago
In my opinion whether those are red flags depends entirely on the context. How many people work on the project, code base size and age, etc. I feel these days projects are often starting out with way too much complexity and shiny tools. It
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by smoe 6y ago
The media stories would have come out either way. Some people are set to not take a vaccine, they will take whatever version of this story as an argument for their view point. It is not about them. But take someone like my father (76) as ex
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by smoe 6y ago
I think in large parts of Europe you need to identify/register when buying a sim. No idea how hard it is to get one without. Also I was just wondering, albeit maybe ridiculous, if criminals have the same issues with messenger apps as t
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by smoe 6y ago
As a non native speaker, the only times I have ever seen people using the word outside of its dictionary definitions when I was reading a bit of MAGA/Q sites out of boredom last year. I took it to just mean something based on US style
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by smoe 6y ago
I guess it depends quite a bit on usage types. I don’t use many web apps, don’t visit many product and landing pages. Probably 90% of the sites I visit on mobile are news sites, blogs, recipes and similar, all of which usually fulfill the b
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by smoe 6y ago
I can dislike overuse of white space and scroll bars at the same time. Also I like my phones to be as small as possible, not the size of a baking tray. I’m not an Apple user on desktop, but even there I have scroll bars disabled everywhere
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by smoe 6y ago
Seems a bit hypocritical to me, since I have hardly ever met a startup programmer/sales person that cares about the accessibility for disabled people of their product.
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by smoe 6y ago
Ok, I haven’t thought of this inline case since I haven’t seen it in a while. But to be honest I’m not sure I would have noticed the scroll bars if those were full width elements. Personally I’d prefer some other visual indicator at the bot
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by smoe 6y ago
I never used a trackball, but I would have expected there to be either a button on the mouse or some key you could hold to turn the ball into scroll mode?
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by smoe 6y ago
Not GP, but I pretty much only ever use the mouse/trackpad for testing from a user perspective or in some apps that don’t have good keyboard support. For the browser I use the Vimium plugin to navigate and only need to use the mouse in
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by smoe 6y ago
> I have a really hard time believing anyone would chose this as opposed to some design lead at Apple pushing a weird personal preference for tidyness on their entire user base Maybe I don't understand completely what he is referrin
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by smoe 6y ago
Argh, somehow I completely missed that skimming it on the phone during lunch :/
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by smoe 6y ago
Someone currently working on a new language should grab that name. Not bad to from the get go to be able to put a name like Facebook as a heavy user of your technology on the landing page ... Edit: and then go to an interview at Facebook an
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by smoe 6y ago
I quit my job twice to travel. First time around in 2008 I was a bit nervous since I was only one year into my career so wasn’t sure how easy it would be to get a job again. But it was a perfect moment, because I was still living at my pare
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by smoe 6y ago
I'm far from ultra rich, but I like that many of the items in my apartment have at least little bit of story behind them or their makers and are not just being purely functional or decorative. Not that I feel the need to tell the stori
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by smoe 6y ago
Maybe, if we could finally get out of the cold war mindset, we might realize that there are more than two black/white options to run a society.
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by smoe 6y ago
I think tech events focused on specific groups can be great, but from my perspective: - Better if it is not the corporation organizing it, but just sponsoring either trough financial contributions or things like providing space instead. - H
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by smoe 6y ago
I think it should be FAANGMULTAD+ to be more inclusive of other, maybe overlooked high growth tech startups.
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by smoe 6y ago
As a Swiss, the political system is to me the best aspect about the country. It makes it so, that it is almost impossible for anyone to obtain enough power to really abuse it. It also make any change, for the good or the bad, very very slow
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by smoe 6y ago
Tax declaration are the cantons (state) responsibility . Some are further than others. I filled out my first declaration some 14 years ago via a web platform. Most everything being decentralized maybe makes nationwide digitalization slower,
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by smoe 6y ago
I agree with you, but in my opinion, articles like this could generally do a better job separating between privilege and the ridiculous amount of work and commitment it can take to make it in art, especially as an independent. Anecdotally,
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by smoe 6y ago
They briefly talk about it in this Veritasium Video at around the 9 minute mark https://youtu.be/GhsZUZmJvaM He says, unlike in the movies, it is not really an issue. With 1% earth’s atmosphere there is very little matter a
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by smoe 6y ago
Not sure if this is true about the past era. I don't know much about TV, but in newspapers print and online, where to put ads has at least for a long time included considerations beyond of just what space is available. At the news site
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by smoe 6y ago
You can't get out of it completely, but you can reduce the risk of it actually occuring and, maybe more importantly, reduce the constant paranoia whether the system is ok or not. What has helped me as the only technical founder, as fre
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by smoe 6y ago
This is what I like most about SQLAlchemy, I can use the ORM most of the time, but in cases where it needs optimizations or aggregation queries I can drop down or refactor to core, while still using the same model/table definitions, ab
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by smoe 6y ago
I kinda abandoned email as a tool of communication long ago and just use it to centralize slow notifications. Slow meaning, things I kind of like or want to know about eventually but not important enough to show a distracting notification o
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by smoe 6y ago
Even if you include things like circuit diagrams as text I don't agree that you should always bet on text. Personally I think you should always pick text as a default, unless you have good reasons to chose something else and use text t

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