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by sspiff 13y ago
I agree. I worked for a company that was building their own TV platform on top of Android. From their (and my) point of view, Android was meaningfully open. You don't need Google's closed services to have a working and meaningful
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by sspiff 13y ago
Is it that much harder to find a job when you turn 35? I mean, a lot of my older colleagues have had a hard time finding jobs, but most of them are not very passionate about what they do. They want to work right next to their own front door
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by sspiff 13y ago
I would follow yk's advice: it is much easier to get a Visum when you are invited to work for a company. Is asking the startup for employment an option?
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by sspiff 13y ago
rayiner wasn't talking about software. Software companies have an easy time "producing" their products. It's much harder in the hardware sector or when you invent car technology. Getting into those markets is expensive.
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by sspiff 13y ago
I very rarely use my mouse while working, and most of the time I stick to touchpad or trackpoint navigation when I need the mouse. This is one of the reasons I absolutely love the trackpoint: it allows me to use a mouse without my fingers l
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by sspiff 13y ago
A friend of mine did the same to improve his ambidexterity (he's a surgeon and fine motion is important to him). I can't get used to it though.
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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm sorry about misinterpreting, it's just how I interpreted the comment. My bad.
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by sspiff 13y ago
Your comment implies that whistle-blowers are a sub-category of traitors. Is that intentional?
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by sspiff 13y ago
He claims the release of information facilitates terrorism, without sharing any argumentation: no examples, not even hypothetical scenarios, nothing. He's asking to restrict the sharing of information, supposedly information on how &qu
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by sspiff 13y ago
I think this is not inherently true for all humans though. Not all noise prevents me from doing "insightful" tasks. Passing cars, birds, heavy winds or unintelligible conversation don't seem to bother me. Conversations I can
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by sspiff 13y ago
I agree that defacing is not the best way to go about this, but taking down the site and/or holding your own work hostage until a payment is made seems fair to me.
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by sspiff 13y ago
> But will this increase the web designer's chances to get paid? The customer has a choice: pay for the product he had developed and approved of, or look for another web developer to do it over again. Finding a new web developer wil
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by sspiff 13y ago
HN has downvotes if you have over 500 karma. There's always the flag button to report content you consider unfit for HN (this article would match that criterion in your case).
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by sspiff 13y ago
If you accept it by ignoring it, you're just waiting for them to come for your next means of transportation. You need to speak up and protest _before_ it is too late. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_ca
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by sspiff 13y ago
There's a poem that describes this behaviour: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came…
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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm in Europe, but it may well be that a similar law is in effect here. However, a lot of consumers (me included) wouldn't know about that, and companies try to get out of repairs that they are legally required to perform. Take a
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by sspiff 13y ago
Exactly the same experience here, except that I never had a mini-USB failure. After roughly 6 months of use, the USB receptacle of my LG smartphone was just not holding on to any cable anymore. I sent it back to LG, and they replaced the pa
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by sspiff 13y ago
I've been following the development of Rodina[1], which is a similar game except that it uses Lua instead of a DCPU, and has made decent progress in the past year. It will also follow a release early, release often way of working, with
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by sspiff 13y ago
Also check out Rodina: http://elliptic-games.com
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by sspiff 13y ago
If he can only associate my previous page view with my current requests, then how does he know it's me again? I mean, the image request is separate from the page request, and in any case only comes later. So he would need to store a ma
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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm not saying what he's doing is OK, but do we know the context of this?
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by sspiff 13y ago
He seems to speak of the supervisor of the packers as someone who is above the working life, but the fact is that he is trapped for life as well, he just happens to be trapped one sport higher on a very long ladder. I figure this being trap
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by sspiff 13y ago
Depends on the country you live in, and whether you're willing to relocate to spend your money. A lot of countries will look the other way if you invest a reasonable amount of money into developing their economy or people. There are al
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by sspiff 13y ago
None of those usecases seem like something I would find useful, and talking with my mouth full doesn't seem convenient, I'm guessing your recognition ratio would go way down.
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by sspiff 13y ago
Whenever I see posts about voice controlling your computer, I spontaneously think "thank the heavens I don't have to share an office with you." I realize some people work alone, at home or in a sound proof office, but every w
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by sspiff 13y ago
I don't know the green card process and what benchmarks you compare it with, but I've heard this about a lot of immigration procedures. Bringing a partner (with possibly a child) into Belgium for instance is also a long and error-
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by sspiff 13y ago
Call me paranoid, but outsourcing my browser engine to the cloud is not something I'd consider in the current privacy climate.
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by sspiff 13y ago
You're right, I was a bit overreacting with the opinion bit, and slightly thick-headed in accepting the arguments of some of the other posters.
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by sspiff 13y ago
I'm not complaining about /r/haskell posters making pro-Haskell posts. I'm guilty of similar things. I'm just not sure what it's doing on the HN front page, and I find the contents of the post lacking in terms
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by sspiff 13y ago
Regardless, his argument makes little sense.

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