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by xtracto 3y ago
How's its GUI? you know, because I was talking about GUI based file searching.
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by xtracto 3y ago
You brought back a muscle memory I forgot I had: ALT+Space would activate the Control Menu [1] and then pressed down twice and enter to resize the window using the keyboard arrow keys. [1] http://the_messenger3.tripod.com/r
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by xtracto 3y ago
I never understood the switch between win3 groups and windows based view to the START menu and sub sub sub menus view. I preferred the former.
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by xtracto 3y ago
File search in graphical Linux is terrible as well. Just the other day i was trying to do sone simple file search in Mint and oh god the GUI search function is completely useless. I had to jump around installing 3 "file search" p
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by xtracto 3y ago
Ooh i got several of those. The one I like the most is this: https://github.com/obaqueiro/dominoparty The idea is to make a minimalistic tabletop online multiplayer game engine that only draws the "pieces" an
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by xtracto 3y ago
Aah the feeling of masd closing a HUGE list of tickets as ABANDONED in the jira board of a 6 year old startup. Most likely 70% of th e ticket owners don't even work here anymore
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by xtracto 3y ago
What,? First time I hear the idea that a whole apple smoothie would lose the fiber of an apple. Where do we suppose the fiber goes to?
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by xtracto 3y ago
There are some pretty good efforts into human organs/body simulation. I remember reading about some reserach lab in Italy that is putting a lot of effort in this branch. The problem is, biologists still dont have complete understanding
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by xtracto 3y ago
I feel Arxiv is kind of this. Back when I was doing research I had a couple of "papers" that I think had interesting ideas but I just hated the submit/publish dance (part of why I left academia after I years). So I just uploa
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by xtracto 3y ago
One should trust science, just dont trust scientists. I was "around" science for a good chunk of my life (both mom and that used to be academics, and I spent 8 years in academia myself doing a phd and postdoc). The amount of cra
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by xtracto 3y ago
Nuance is a dead art these days. It's either I'm right and you are wrong. Its sad that discussion over the internet in general have devolved into this. And politics go this way as well . American food is OK. I can consider an in&
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by xtracto 3y ago
You are so right. I've been CTO of several startups of different sizes , and the frustration of non-product teams to get ANY automation love was terrible on each of them. And the funny thing is that usually, very simple things would m
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by xtracto 3y ago
I've written countless of patches / PRs for diverse OSS . Most of the times was to scratch an itch. Most of the time as well the PR doesn't get accepted because of various reasons. I don't care. I do the PRs so that the
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by xtracto 3y ago
I hate these new "open core" freemium companies. The best "open source " business is one that gets profit from doing something else and publishes some open source software on the side . Like react. Open core are just co
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by xtracto 3y ago
And also a good reason to block http/https, most exploits in the wild are distributed via this protocol. The percentage of malware in this protocol compared to others like ftp, nntp or gopher is outstanding. Disabling it will make y
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by xtracto 3y ago
People need to understand this I buy several ETFs. I dont give a crap about the companies each etf is composed of. And I care less about how good or bad the company is with their environment, society or whatnot. The only thing I care abou
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by xtracto 3y ago
I sadly agree: Popcorn time and webtorrent was the most recent "improvement" into torrent technology . But for the tech progress available now, we should have the MPAA, RIAA and all other copyright cartels shivering on their knees
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by xtracto 3y ago
For technical stuff I've long replaced Google search with phind.com even just pasting so.e generic error spit from the console works.
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by xtracto 3y ago
The problem I see with criminalizing drugs (including sell, posses and transport) is that drug addicts and abuse is mainly a health issue. There's an underlying reason why those people start consuming that shit. Same as with sugar&#x2
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by xtracto 3y ago
Shit, I once got a colonoscopy in the UK's NHS without sedatives nor opioids. It freaking hurt a lot which apparently shouldn't have. That gave doctors the clue that I had IBS and a very sensitive colon apparently (I didn't
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by xtracto 3y ago
Right on. My wife had some tremendous neck pain for days when we lived I Germany. Something that here in Mexico would have been treated by ibuprofen , until it receded. The German doctor basically redered her to a masseur (sp?) Prescribin
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by xtracto 3y ago
I am tech advisor to a bunch of startups. One of them doing stock buy/sell came to me with their MongoDB based system. The first thing I told them is that using a document based db for oltp for their use case was going to give them pr
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by xtracto 3y ago
This happened to me with AT&T herein Mexico: I have an AT&T pre-paid sim card that expires after a year. At the end of the year I got a call supposedly from someone form AT&T and told me about some special discount offer if I pr
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by xtracto 3y ago
I've been in the rodeo for 20 years now. I started as a Jr dev in a Microsoft based software company that had some kind of M$ certification which gave us all the MSDN CDs. I was the first C# .Net programmer when I joined as C# had jus
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by xtracto 3y ago
This thread is super interesting for me as a Mexican. I've never understood dishwashers: expensive machines you buy to wash dishes you've already had to wash in the sink. I pay a "human" dishwasher $20 dollars a day and
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by xtracto 3y ago
Cool, i normally ger domains through name.com and I think they dont do it.
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by xtracto 3y ago
So nowadays I use google domain's feature of easy email forwarding (forward some xxyyy@mydomain.com to a personal email). Is there an alternative provider that can do that?
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by xtracto 3y ago
This was THE prank we played at Uni in the computer labs. This was late 90s, when girls from the social sciences schools would go into the computer labs to check their email and shit. So you turned their screen upside down, opened their tra
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by xtracto 3y ago
>There were websites which aggregated downloads of keygens for various games. These worked more often than you would expect. Reminds me of serials.ws . It was pretty good at the time.
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by xtracto 3y ago
One thing i liked from the OPs page is the "dehyped" title. Current article titles are pretty bad at explaining what an article is about. This in the web in general. For example "my nodejs is as bit rusty " may be a goo

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