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by xtracto 3y ago
I'd conform with the 1st one. CEOs should be personally liable for a company's crimes. After all they are getting billions of dollars in bonuses.
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by xtracto 3y ago
Just yesterday I was thinking of publishing a heavy moderated sit or subreddit named "nuance" . A platform for healthy dialogue of subjects that normally cannot be discussed . With a minimum of say 100 words per reply, and a week
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by xtracto 3y ago
Same here. I made a DOS spreadsheet program (with modeX charting! And formulas), a couple of games and a couple of viruses (aaaa TSR looked like magic)... I think they might be in some floppies in my mom's basement.
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by xtracto 3y ago
Here's my 3rd world country perspective, from someone growing in the 80s: We never had intel chips. They were expensive. I had a Texas Instruments 286 and a cyrix 486 years later. The computer in my Dad's office were all "p
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by xtracto 3y ago
Firefox source being hosted by Microsoft us blowing my mind as a child of the 80s. If someone had told my 80s/90s Libre/OSS advocate rebel mind how things would pan out, I'd laughed.
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by xtracto 3y ago
Pax Americana. The empire is slowly but steadily crumbling. As a 3rd world spectator I only have to say "it's about time"
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by xtracto 3y ago
I'm just building a team for a SaaS b2b company where I'm the cto. I'm going crazy doing iso27001 stuff, recruiting, devops, programming and product development. Just recently I've hired people to help me in most of t
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by xtracto 3y ago
I'm in Mexico and the news here mentioned that Motorola and Samsung did this as part of a "pilot" program in the country. Mainly because the consumer protection agencies here (PROFECO and IFETEL) are basically toothless and c
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by xtracto 3y ago
Its truly sad we cant get access to fully use the phone resources. Like programming in C or even assembler.
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by xtracto 3y ago
No. This is just because phones in Mercadolibre, or other Fayuca places are cheaper and better models than the overpriced ones they sell in Samsung's own "official " store. I'll replace my phone this year. And was lookin
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by xtracto 3y ago
I find these articles quite funny because in my experience Edge is way of a better browser than Chrome. So much that I ended up installing it in both my work and home laptops running Linux (mint) Edge gives me functioning vertical tabs
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by xtracto 3y ago
> but I think a similar thing might happen if America broke up into separate countries. You’d still have a sizable amount of people that identify more as Americans than as Californians/New Yorkers/etc. And yet, invariably when
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by xtracto 3y ago
One of the things I recommend to the startups I advise is to include documentation within the repository. I always try to have a /doc directory which includes Markdown (I like using [1] self rendering markdown pages) and MermaidJS
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by xtracto 3y ago
LOL, that was a great read. The more things change, the more they stay the same! It reminded me of the WinModem times or the OSS -> Alsa times, and countless others. Oh my I've been around Linux for more than 30 years now. It&#x2
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by xtracto 3y ago
Ooh is thereba new CiSk game? I enjoyed playing the first one some years ago I'll have to check it out!
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Ask HN: Experiences with low-code Open Source Dev tools?
3 points by xtracto 3y ago|1 comments
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by xtracto 3y ago
Just want to put it here: relational data is not a matter of someone's view, there's theory and science behind it. In fact, there's more than 40 years of theory: https://opentextbc.ca/dbdesign01/chapter&#
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by xtracto 3y ago
My first reaction was to ask: who is the author?I wish it was someone with good CTO credentials under their, but it doesn't tell me anything. I've been cto at 3 companies over the last 10 years, and maybe I'm getting old and
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by xtracto 3y ago
The US government has to start providing a social health system that is A) cheaper than the alternative, b) better than the alternative. Then people would stop paying crazy amounts of money for insurance and treatments. Some will continue
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by xtracto 3y ago
I make open source code for myself. I've done several minor "contributions" to different open source projects. Three examples: - Linux mint start menu isnt able to perform basic numerical computations. I made some simple chan
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by xtracto 3y ago
Oh my, I've never heard about gambas. It is just what I was looking for! I always get stupid ideas about simple UI based applications in my day to day linux usage, but everything I've tried is very cumbersome. I installed and tri
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by xtracto 3y ago
VB was the Macromedia Flash of our (pre-internet) generation. Too bad theres nothing as good an ubiquitous nowadays.
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by xtracto 3y ago
Sorry, I'm pay Mexican pesos, as I hire in Mexico. Theoretically I could hire from outside Mexico, but people in US and Canada are expensive
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by xtracto 3y ago
I've got REITs. I've got pension investment. I've got a house I'm getting interest off of, I've got stock, both Mexican and US (TQQQ and chill!), and I work at a company earning enough to HAVE to go into the Mexica
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by xtracto 3y ago
I agree. You have to do the test that really relates to what you are looking for. For backend web devs I'm hiring I established a modified version of a process that has worked for me well before: 1. Interact with a RESTA api and solve
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by xtracto 3y ago
A tangential comment given your mention of whatever 99 B form: Every time HN discussion about US taxes comes, I imagine a sizeable group of users from developed country watch in amusement the craziness that the IRS makes its taxpayers go t
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by xtracto 3y ago
The problem with "Engineering Managers " in our software verticals is that we mostly get people who are shitty engineers and shitty people managers. What are the JDs of "Engineer Managers" ? And what are their REAL resp
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by xtracto 3y ago
Or NAT prices... there's a good reason why there's FCK-nat. Those nat prices are terrible
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by xtracto 3y ago
Some already realized that. For USA companies, the problem with Asia, India, and even East Europe is timezones. I used to work at a US company that had offices here in Mexico and had a GREAT QA team in India (despite the hatred they get her
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by xtracto 3y ago
Look at the history of 3dfx . They were up there with envidia at the dawn of 3D graphic cards wars. But bad logistics brought them down. Mainly they decided to manufacture their tech here in Mexico instead of in Asia. But here on Mex we d

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