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by vulcan01 6y ago
> in the region Nah, that happens everywhere (at least where governments change every few years).
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by vulcan01 6y ago
It depends on the number of applications. If the number of applications is unmanageable, then credentials can be a useful first filter. This is also why the SAT/ACT is still important in college admissions: they get a lot of applicatio
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by vulcan01 6y ago
One partial solution is to get Microsoft off the WHATWG, because they also use Chromium. Perhaps instead of looking at which companies release browsers, they should just start putting the Chromium, WebKit, and Gecko teams there.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
In defence of the OP, at risk of also getting downvoted :) I think what the OP is trying to say is that it is hard to imagine a career politician instituting such a program.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Off-topic: Damn, how do people get such good handwriting? It looks typed at a first glance. Wow.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
You could try putting double arrows around the corners and sides. Like these (unicode): ⬌ ⬍ ⤡ ⤢
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I think you can drag on the space around the cube to reorient without making a move.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> Wonder if there could be a shell tool to just dump the first stackoverflow hit for a search. I use https://github.com/samtay/so , which lets you search any stack exchange site (SO by default). It's fully termi
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by vulcan01 6y ago
And there's another option: I WILL WAIT because I have severe allergies and people say not to take it... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25358753 UK has warned people with allergies not to take the Pfizer/Bio
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I use Bing... sometimes. They literally give you rewards points (that can be redeemed for Microsoft/Xbox gift cards) for searching. Pretty funny, the lengths they go to get you to use Bing... https://account.microsoft.com&#x
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Product Hunt ( https://www.producthunt.com )
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by vulcan01 6y ago
This link has a timestamp on it... dang could you remove the timestamp?
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by vulcan01 6y ago
This book is really good... (It used to be printed as "The Psychology of Everyday Things", if you're looking in your library).
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by vulcan01 6y ago
For the other high school (maybe even college?) kids out there that want a free alternative (especially if your teacher doesn't specify a textbook), OpenStax by Rice University is pretty good. I've used their textbooks for the pas
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Same here. I'm a high school student; I learned about the Pinkertons last year in US History... (Carnegie Steel's Homestead Strike https://www.britannica.com/event/Homestead-Strike )
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Hello! Could you please format your message so that it's more legible? > Blank lines separate paragraphs. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> I was suggesting that people test on themselves. My fear is that people may be deceived by random people to test "miracle drug" that turns out to cause heart problems or something equally serious.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I hadn't thought of this; thank you!
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by vulcan01 6y ago
How do you get mobile navbars to work without JS? When I've built websites before, they're typically the only place I'm compelled to use JS in.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
From one of my previous comments in another thread (this past week, probably): > IANAL > What I think they mean by this is that you shouldn't link to resources on their website to make it seem like they endorse your (product, web
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> Are they not being treated as a commodity to suit a need in that moment? Kant calls this: using people as a means to an end.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
Windows Explorer, IIRC (I don't use Windows anymore), searches the content and title of most(?) files.
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by vulcan01 6y ago
IANAL What I think they mean by this is that you shouldn't link to resources on their website to make it seem like they endorse your (product, website, whatever).
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I copied (most of) my method for taking live LaTeX notes from this guy. https://castel.dev/post/lecture-notes-1/
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I didn't realise clicking on the name lead to the profile for 2 months after I started lurking on HN. It's not that obvious...
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by vulcan01 6y ago
I started programming about 5-6 years ago (I'm a high school student). I started with VSCode, but about 1.5 years ago I switched to Vim for the simple reason that I wanted to live in the terminal. Unlike some other commenters here, I d
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> Linux doesn't run the software I need it to run Fair enough. Lots of software either doesn't exist for Linux or doesn't run well. Also, I don't want to have to deal with all the smaller bugs that exist on Linux. At
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by vulcan01 6y ago
> if everyone has a baseline income, nobody does I believe the argument for UBI is based on economic utility: $1000 a month is worth more to a poor person than a rich person.
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> Big question remains why boomers are so prone to divorce, considering that they lived in the easiest economic times. Theory: Couples who do not go through hardship together (whether economic or otherwise) do not bond as closely as th
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by vulcan01 6y ago
To add on, the reason why it might seem that > the HN crowd generally prefers native apps is because it is hard to write a good Electron / web app that is actually performant + easy to use. Which is why many people here are wary o

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