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by wvh 10y ago
The site lets you choose a lot of parameters for CSS3 animations and shows the effect on a number of selectable objects. It then lets you download the CSS3 code with your selected parameters, so you can use them in your own CSS. CSS animati
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by wvh 10y ago
I agree, and I'd like to add that what one does with/after those 10000 hours matters too, i.e. the individual factor. There's not just a large range between all-or-nothing, but there are many different "alls" too. A
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by wvh 10y ago
But if you can force yourself to run a marathon every other day, you'd very likely also be able to stick to a healthy diet. So both kind of depend on self-control – or whatever one wants to call it – and it would be interesting to know
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by wvh 10y ago
I can't help you with statistics, but it doesn't seem strange to me. I tend to start with (pure) Go for web services. If the frontend gets bothersome, I use something relatively lightweight, like Vue. If the backend gets a bit unw
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by wvh 10y ago
I think I often get rated poorer by management compared to others because I tend – by nature – to focus deeply on complex problems (Donald Knuth-style), whereas a lot of other developers communicate more, answer emails promptly, go to a lot
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by wvh 10y ago
Nowadays outrage is all the rage, I guess communicating early and briefly could nip some minor drama in the bud. This doesn't seem likely, but you never know... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firebird_%28database_se
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by wvh 10y ago
I'm pretty athletic and fit but also have to fight through periods of depression. It would be interesting to know more about the mechanisms involved and if my otherwise healthy lifestyle could compensate for any negative effect. The st
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by wvh 10y ago
Same with Jolla – my first gen is breaking and I can't buy a replacement running Sailfish at this moment. I like Sailfish and I'm interested in Ubuntu Phone, but clearly they seem to have some issues convincing manufacturers to re
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by wvh 10y ago
I'm sorry to be this negative, but people simply don't care. They don't care because thinking critically and trying to grasp subtle nuances and balance complex opinions about the world will not directly improve their lives. C
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by wvh 10y ago
I made a low-power system and installed Debian on it for my girlfriend's mother some time in 2002-2003, who is in her seventies. She's mostly moved on to a Macbook Air by now though. She's an intelligent person and really wan
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by wvh 10y ago
Thanks! Some of those are somewhat embarrassing, especially for something that's meant to be software used in secure environments. Why does a client need to specify an interpreter to run on the master host? Or changing the template bra
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by wvh 10y ago
From the projects I've been involved in, the reason is simply that we don't want to have 2 persistent storage systems. There's a need for a fast cache system, and there's a need for a reliable – as in certainty above spe
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by wvh 10y ago
I've been using a CTO T440s with Intel WiFi option the last few years, running Debian and Arch Linux. I switched the HD for a SSD when I bought the machine. Initially I was somewhat disappointed because early reviewers seem to have got
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by wvh 10y ago
These sort of issues are becoming more and more a reason to switch to more open alternatives, where you have at least sufficient access to the system and a fighting chance to mess with some tools to debug and perhaps solve the issue yoursel
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by wvh 10y ago
Now you can get the news from many different sources. That's probably a blessing if you are capable of critical thought and want to invest a minimal of effort to do some fact-checking and to get the big picture. If you can't or do
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by wvh 10y ago
Well, in most (older) init systems, boot scripts were shell scripts and you could do anything if you knew how, including shooting yourself in the foot. Great flexibility, great responsibility. In systemd, services are described in a simple
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by wvh 10y ago
In my day, it was thought PCs would never need more than 640KB... No, seriously... Usually these kind of devices end up doing a lot more, like file serving, backups, code repository duties, music playing services, SMTP relay or even build m
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by wvh 10y ago
There's a difference between "concerned with personal privacy" and "privacy-conscious". Europeans, like people pretty much anybody in the world, are oblivious, ill-informed or simply don't care about what goes
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by wvh 10y ago
That's also my experience. "Senior" is little more than a random title in most companies I worked for. It can be someone in their early twenties who just happened to have worked for 2 years on one product, even if it's t
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by wvh 10y ago
This might provide a good incentive to the postal infrastructure to improve their prices and service offerings. In lots of European countries the postal system is semi-privatised but still in a state of semi-monopoly. End-user logistics as
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by wvh 10y ago
What a "democratically elected" government does and what private people think is acceptable are not necessarily the same thing. There's often a surprisingly strong discrepancy between government action and the will of the peo
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by wvh 10y ago
Slightly off-topic but it's good to see after all these years that companies like Microsoft (and Apple?) have to make a serious attempt to embrace the open-source community or miss out on a lot of cool new software and developers. Time
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by wvh 10y ago
Some needs are so deeply wired into us – like the need to be loved, especially by our parents – that no matter how hard we rationalise and fight our emotions, we will always want to fill that gap one way or another. It is especially heartbr
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by wvh 10y ago
Rationally I'd have to agree, but emotionally is a whole other ballpark. You have to be able to have peace with yourself, to have done at least that which you yourself think is the absolute minimum to be a "good person" and l
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by wvh 10y ago
They seem to have the same problem Jolla has – a phone OS without devices. Every once in a while a smaller hardware manufacturer (BQ, PuzzlePhone, FairPhone, Turing Phone, etc) makes some promises or actual releases a model with some suppor
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by wvh 10y ago
I have a 2 year old. Already I feel she's slipping away and I can't protect her anymore. I'm sorry for your loss.
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by wvh 10y ago
Software going out of fashion shouldn't be an issue if you take care to use applications that have open data formats, or can at least export their data to something usable by other software. Hardware became a commodity; software is on
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by wvh 10y ago
Metadata can be quite variable. Library, catalogue, picture tags. The majority of terms are common, but some can be pretty specific and (as a developer) you'd need to store them. You might not have control over the schema or even have
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by wvh 10y ago
And funnily enough, Google itself is behind a lot of that JS bloat and background tracking. They are probably not the ones that should be pointing fingers at Flash.
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by wvh 10y ago
I'm happy to see Flash on its way out – I haven't even tried to install it the last few years. Native browser support tends to work and integrate much better on Linux than having to depend on a third party to deliver up-to-date so

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