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by tpxl 6y ago
A good post mortem is basically "We've made a mistake, try not to make the same mistake as us". Useless to end users, useful to engineers in similar situations.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> you can turn it off right at the top of about:preferences Thanks. Whoever though it's a good idea to make behaviour non-transparent to users -.-
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by tpxl 6y ago
This is the Linux experience I find (running Ubuntu) and is also driving me crazy. On my Windows7 installation Ctrl+Tab switches to the next tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab switches to the previous tab. New tabs are open after the current tab. This
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by tpxl 6y ago
I have looked around a bit, and apparently GDPR applies to: - People in the EU - Any data being processed in the EU, regardless of where the person is located
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by tpxl 6y ago
> gpdr on the other hand is tough to enforce on companies who wholly are in the US. If you do actual business in the EU they can block financial transactions, and if you don't do business in the EU, there isn't really any incen
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by tpxl 6y ago
>If you were in Texas when that data was collected from you, and you returned to the EU, I doubt that GDPR would apply to that data. Afaik GDPR covers EU citizens traveling abroad, as well as non-EU citizens in the EU. Edit: It does not
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by tpxl 6y ago
This comment always comes up and the answer is always the same. The dark patterns are straight up non-compliant with the law. The GDPR mandates about 0 of those popups, it's the shitty companies that "comply" because they wan
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by tpxl 6y ago
> Playing most games require accounts. No it does not. Most games are not multiplayer games and don't require accounts. > Downloading games is greatly enhanced by accounts. It's greatly enhanced by accounts _with the applica
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by tpxl 6y ago
America is the largest (primarily) English speaking community in the world and both Reddit and YC are US companies. It's not surprising some assume the whole audience is American.
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by tpxl 6y ago
XBox and Occulus have no absolutely no reason to be services. Requiring accounts for no reason is anti-consumer and therefore evil. Of course online stores require accounts, but those are not required to use the hardware.
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by tpxl 6y ago
My uni had a latex template that was made and updated by one of the professors and it was glorious. No fussing about with styles or anything, just writing the content.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> I’d say the average Web app is more robust than the average desktop app... Yes, those robust web apps that disappear as soon as the vendor loses interest, unlike those pesky desktop apps that work years after the vendor is dead.
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by tpxl 6y ago
>With AWS or any other IaaS provider you're paying to outsource shifts of people around the clock that will work to keep servers and network connections up and running. This is so often repeated, but at my previous company, the amou
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by tpxl 6y ago
> they're considered trucks about as much as a catfish is considered a cat Well yes, but someone without this knowledge will get confused.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> Although such methods won't work with targeted bot attack Neither will Captcha
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by tpxl 6y ago
In my country, the Ford F150 truck would be referred to as a car or a "half-truck", while a semi-truck is what would be referred to as a truck. That's a piece of cultural difference that will dirty your training.
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by tpxl 6y ago
There are accounts of people killing bears bare handed (though I don't know how adult they are), so it may not be as far fetched.
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by tpxl 6y ago
I don't have direct links, but Factorio does this and may have some articles about it in their Friday Facts.
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by tpxl 6y ago
What is this functionality named?
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by tpxl 6y ago
The builder allows you to have immutable objects. While I dislike builders and seldom use them, I dislike mutable objects even more.
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by tpxl 6y ago
There's also the Pine64 stuff nobody seems to be mentioning. Also, like the sibling said, just do it. If every option is ARM, there shouldn't really be much of a difference if you swap the underlying system.
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by tpxl 6y ago
It's a zero sum game, no matter how much money you put into it, the result is always gonna be the same.
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by tpxl 6y ago
> I guess what I'm alluding to is something like CSS for desktop apps. JavaFX supports CSS styling.
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by tpxl 6y ago
You can still do a 6 or 4 hour work-day at your day job, and dedicate the rest of the work-day to your project.
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by tpxl 6y ago
>relocating to a third-world country There is a large part of Europe (and I'm sure the US) where the standard of living is decent and you can easily get by on <15k€/year.
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by tpxl 6y ago
Hey. I've been working (with a co-founder) on a side project that's about to pan out for the past 2.5 years. About 1.5 years of that was working after hours, then about 10 months or so of 6 hours at my day job and 2 hours in my co
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by tpxl 6y ago
You get some things wrong when designing a huge project ahead of time.
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by tpxl 6y ago
>All the combined efforts of thousand developers at a FAANG found it impossible, but against all odds, you succeeded where they failed. I'm working on a product where google is my competitor and the thousands of super genius enginee
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by tpxl 6y ago
> When one person plays a game, it locks the whole game library. You can get around this by running steam in offline mode.
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by tpxl 6y ago
I run nVidia on Ubuntu 20.04 with proprietary drivers and few (gaming) problems.

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