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by woutr_be 6y ago
Kind of unrelated, but I'm unable to shop on Amazon because of this. As soon as I click on an Amazon link anywhere on the web, it opens the mobile app and enters this weird redirection loop where it keeps asking me if I want to switch
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by woutr_be 6y ago
This is one of my main pain points with a lot of websites, including Google. I live in Hong Kong, and it constantly keeps setting itself in Chinese. Quite a few websites do this, even though my browser is set to English. Worst of all, even
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I looked into the IR blasters before, was wondering if they're strong enough to transmit to multiple targets. I've previously written a Telegram bot, so was thinking to reuse some of that.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I've never seen it, but I assume they only target people in the US.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
Very cool project, I've been wanting to do something with my Raspberry Pi as well. I mainly wanted to focus on turning my AC units on and off. I assume I'll need some sort of IR transmitter, and possibly a receiver to understand t
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by woutr_be 6y ago
Out of interest; what kind of "full experience" is provided when I do disable my ad blocker? Are ads part of the experience?
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by woutr_be 6y ago
A lot of companies tend to forget interviews are two-way processes, it's as much about them getting to know you, and you getting to know them. Especially in tech, where you often need to do take-home test; I've seen so many compan
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I feel the need to disagree with you here, it's absolutely possible a candidate just doesn't have any questions, maybe they've done their research up front, or all their questions were asked during the interview, I wouldn&#x2
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by woutr_be 6y ago
Thanks for clarifying, but I still don't think this is relevant to the current discussion. This is probably another discussion as to why people allow censorship, one reason could be the punishment, but there are probably many other rea
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I'm so grateful for my mom signing me up for typing classes when I was young, I rarely look at my keyboard when typing these days. And I secretly judge people on their typing skills as well, especially programmers.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
You can list any number of things, but we were talking about censorship, so I don’t see the need to throw another subject into the mix.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
Look, I've spoken to this to my friends in China about this before, and I can understand that to them it's okay, they've seen their lives improve over the past 10 years. And I understand why they feel that way, they've n
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by woutr_be 6y ago
You don't think censorship is a big deal? That's exactly the reason why their government gets away with it, because people see it as no big deal.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I use WeChat to talk to friends in China, (I live in HK) and I noticed that last year, especially when the protests were intense, many of my posts just didn't show up. These were mostly pictures unrelated to the protests. I had the sen
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by woutr_be 6y ago
Stories like this - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rom_Houben - terrify me, imagine being assumed in a comatose state, but being conscious the entire time. The claim that this was true was rejected years ago, but thinki
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by woutr_be 6y ago
Honestly, they're only hard and nasty if you make them hard and nasty. A text link is as easy as <a href="">...</a>. You can of course use React with 2 different libraries to achieve the same goal, but why wo
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by woutr_be 6y ago
There are some nice communities out there, but they’re usually well hidden and relatively small. Once a community grows, it turns into the same shit show as the rest of Reddit.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I’ve actually always wanted to do this; Categorise FB comments based on the original post, then build some sort of Q&A platform where the answers are just those FB comments. (Of course with randomised names and profile pictures)
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by woutr_be 6y ago
It’s one of the reasons I refuse to open Reddit anymore, 95% of the comments are insults, made up facts, misinformation or people living in their own bubble and refusing to accept any opinion other than their own.
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I have the 2016 MBP, and the digital escape key makes me angry almost every single day, there's just no feedback whatsoever. And every so often I accidentally "press" it. Other than that, the only useful feature is music cont
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by woutr_be 6y ago
I tried out pock.dev a while ago, but didn't really find it useful. I just rarely use my dock, it's been hidden for years. I open almost everything with spotlight (Or Alfred a few years ago), and switching is just cmd + tab. I do
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by woutr_be 6y ago
> I guess my point is that, as an engineer myself, I often feel very disconnected from the users themselves. We see errors and issues as percentage of total traffic. Low number of errors, not important. We don't always stop to think
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by woutr_be 6y ago
> Nothing says organizational dysfunction better than having a disempowered employee email the same last-ditch "please may a human see this" support email address that's given out to customers. And yet it's all too co
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Sadly I’ve met so many of these people, that my default assumption is that everyone is like this. I’m sure there’s good ones, and I really hope I get a chance to work with them.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I have been looking around for a new opportunity, but I haven't come across any that made me comfortable enough to resign from my current job. My fear is that it will just be the same thing, and in that case, I might as well stay where
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> I do have an issue being treated like a character in a badly organized DnD game. And I have had no qualms in the past making it clear that I don't tolerate being blamed for bad planning or shoddy requirements gathering. I have fou
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> I've been through three full-fledged "agile transformations" in my career. I hate agile so much. I hate it because it encourages dogmatic behavior instead of rational behavior. I'm going through that right now, in f
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> Alas, that’s not how the world works. Sadly not, although I wish it was. In my current team, developers are only there to agree with POs, and to build whatever they want. Any resistance from a developer is seen as bad. Of course if we
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> Disagree with PM on a feature? If you feel strongly enough, you build it your way until they remove you from the project. This really only works in certain companies tho. I’ve seen some of our best developers removed from our project b
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by woutr_be 7y ago
If we’re talking about China, then this has nothing to do with distrusting the government, most people take the government’s words for truth. This has more to do with people exercising caution after almost two months in lockdown. Maybe they

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