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by tpxl 6y ago
Could also be that the package manager doesn't use spaces and most people use package managers? Ie maven will create a folder structure like "/home/user/.m2/repository/com/example/example.jar&quo
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by tpxl 6y ago
FWIW you can disable animated emojis
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by tpxl 6y ago
> But search engines could have the bot retry requests to check the website‘s honesty. A simpler solution to this is just having a human check it.
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by tpxl 6y ago
It also makes sense since it's the same as frequency, and historically with baud rates in the 10s and 100s it makes sense to not divide it by 8.
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by tpxl 6y ago
It's against google rules to show different content to their crawler and the end user (images for the crawler, login for the user).
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by tpxl 6y ago
> relatively open to people without degrees The best programmer on the last team I worked on didn't have a high-school diploma, the second best was a waiter. I'm not sure how much more open you can get.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> And a law like that would not work The parent meant a law as in "a law of physics", not a piece of legislation.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> Loss of productivity. (1) Learning a new UI Man it bothers me so much when applications change their UIs on updates for no apparent reason other than "it looks better". IntelliJ changed the way build and debug buttons looked
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by tpxl 6y ago
Some of these require certifications to be applied (employed?) - Medicine, Law, ..., and some of these require hardware (and legal stuff for buying components?) - chemistry, ... Software is unique enough in that it doesn't require any
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by tpxl 6y ago
Personal opinion: take home tests are way less work for the employer and than the candidate in an already asymmetric relationship (or can be). Personal experience: I have never had an interview last more than an hour. I have also been hired
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by tpxl 6y ago
They are perfectly good names, no? Assuming you know what libre means, it tells you it's free as in beer and self-hostable, and X is, well, whatever X is.
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by tpxl 6y ago
They were doing four days of work and getting paid for five, now they do four and get paid to do four :) I also went from 8 hour day to 6 hour day with a cut in pay and no loss in productivity and I feel it was a win. I've enough money
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by tpxl 6y ago
> If you tolerated Chrome and it's "evergreen browser" behavior, you supported the process This meme needs to die. If all the choices are bad and you choose the least bad, you don't support it.
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by tpxl 6y ago
Web apps have a tendency to disappear andor change without the users wants or needs. I agree app stores are user hostile, but so are web apps.
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by tpxl 6y ago
Having to expand every single comment in reddit threads is infuriating . The HN UI is just the right amount of information dense and readable for me.
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by tpxl 6y ago
I see my sarcasm didn't go over well. Replacing search results with quips from websites is parasitic as fuck.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> Google has begun to replace many search results with answers directly from them > Companies like Pinterest are parasitic Surely you mean companies like Google are parasitic?
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by tpxl 6y ago
FWIW from that thread I got the feeling that Ammon truly did not comprehend what the problem was and came back a few days later apologizing and reversing the decision.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> "The road is most utilized when all traffic comes to a full stop" -One of my managers This is what I hear every time someone optimizes engagement.
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by tpxl 6y ago
If I understand correctly, this is a re-skin of the game in a different setting? This is something I'd have no problem with :)
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by tpxl 6y ago
> Transsexuality, non-binary etc. are facts Yes, facts, but not choices.
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by tpxl 6y ago
Do elaborate please.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> I really see no difference between allowing to have a nutritionist, a personal coach, a bioengineer and access to all kind of legal substances that do not exist in nature and just let it go, grab some popcorn and see. One of those has
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by tpxl 6y ago
> Right, I'm thinking specifically of code like shaders that do produce copyrighted content. What do you mean by this exactly? What I meant was "code" that produces a Disney movie for example. > anyone could have produc
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by tpxl 6y ago
> There are multiple app stores for android devices and you don’t even need an App Store to install an app on an Android device. There are, and google is preventing vendors from installing them.
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by tpxl 6y ago
I quite literally meant the code to be something like MIT/GPL licensed and art/sounds licensed something preventing commercial use, but all being available. This should make replacing sounds and art rather trivial. > Some asset
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by tpxl 6y ago
> Yes, but this is a choice. When _some_ make this choice to be at the top, _all_ must make this choice to be at the top. At that point it's a roulette of who will dare take the most drugs and live to win. > I see no reason why n
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by tpxl 6y ago
Source available games (don't even need to be "Open Source" or "Free and Open Source") benefit greatly from modding, keeping games alive much longer and making them better even in the very short run. I dabble in gam
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by tpxl 6y ago
Or, you know, actually don't like the privacy-breach-for-profit business model and their arrogance?
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by tpxl 6y ago
> The example in sports is a good one too. I think that we should not test anybody for anything because a sportman today is not a normal being anyway. This would lead to a large number of injuries and overdoses because of the drug use. I

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