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by yoz-y 6y ago
Also some platforms block it. E.g.: Amazon Prime for downloaded videos.
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Definitely. I think though that programming is at least partly creative endeavour, and thus it can be harder to do it without any motivation whatsoever.
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by yoz-y 6y ago
> Should such stories also be banned, to ease the psychological burden (fear) on billions of people? No, they are clearly different. One encourages dangerous behaviour for yourself and more importantly others around you, the other does n
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by yoz-y 6y ago
> Usually the part of out-of-scope of software is dealt by product managers. Life happens outside of work too, it's nice to be able to talk about other things than coding. Out of scope questions can be also useful when asked the fea
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by yoz-y 6y ago
True. And I don't have evidence that it has inflated the problem beyond anecdata. That said I don't think it's reaching to believe it has. Anti-vaxx movement was started by a bogus publication from a then reputable source. It
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Look at external data. We now have diseases reappearing that were eradicated decades ago. Inside anti-vaxx communities. Nobody is “forced” to watch a YT video. But if these show up in searches, along with pseudo-scientific articles, pseudo-
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by yoz-y 6y ago
As a software engineer who didn't read almost any books about software engineering I have a question: How did reading any books about SWE changed the way you work? I found that reading books on other subjects (from non-fiction I'v
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Isn't there some sort of hack with subscriptions in the US where you can change your address to California and they have to offer you an electronic solution for cancelling?
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by yoz-y 6y ago
There is a little bit of irony in this. > Yglesias, turn off the TV! Write more books instead! Heck, write more tweets, if you prefer! If all the "great minds" stopped watching tv (and by extension reading tweets, reading books
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Shouldn’t the onus be on the open platform to become attractive and provide services that a closed platform can’t or won’t?
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by yoz-y 6y ago
> So I think he is justifiably happy that Apple created a fair competition by clearly spelling out the legal rules for everyone. Thing is he's only happy because those rules are good for them. The way he talks about renting partial
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by yoz-y 6y ago
> UIs are not hard. They just aren't. It's a skill like any other. I think the idea behind the phrase "UIs are hard" is precisely that, they are hard like any other skill. So don't expect to be able to make one w
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Except that it's only true because way more people use computers now than back then. There might be more indie developers making wonky stuff out there now, that there were programmers altogether in the early 90's.
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Wouldn’t a vélocipède be 100% efficient (in transferring motion of legs into motion of the wheel)?
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by yoz-y 6y ago
UIs are not UX. Also most programs have terrible UX (and bad UIs). UIs might not be hard, but there are not many people having the correct blend of skill, personality and motivation out there.
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by yoz-y 6y ago
An often repeated things is that you should buy tools for what they can do right now, not what they might be able to do in the future. There is nothing wrong with waiting a bit more. One of the great things about docker is/was that one
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Never saw anybody do this. There might be some people who can get their part done quickly and are no longer interested in climbing the ladder, but that must be quite rare. People are not evaluated on the amount of time they spend in their c
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by yoz-y 6y ago
The twitter example seems more like those Nobel prize winners that later reconvert to crackpots. I definitely agree that conspiracy theorists reject authority and are contrarian, but most don't strike me as curious except for a superfi
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by yoz-y 6y ago
I feel that the article is reaching, a lot. Seems like the author wanted to talk about something, and needed to wrap it around UX to get more clicks.
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Interesting approach. Where do you get the calorie data from, is it user entered or some database? Also, I'd recommend not putting the workout calories next to the junk calories as that might give impression that one needs to "bal
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by yoz-y 6y ago
My guess would be that more people look at front page and follow the links than those who go to /show
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by yoz-y 6y ago
At least in part, art is a great way to transfer large amounts of money for goods or services.
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Ah, if you use the color as a hue then I agree. I was thinking about degrees. As in somebody would say: "30% saturated, 20% bright color at 127deg hue"
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by yoz-y 6y ago
While saturation and brightness (value is probably a weird term for most) are explainable and straightforward, even if you explain what hue means, I doubt most people would be able to intuitively reason about it. I use HSV all the time but
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Dupe is not a good word, but maybe disingenuous? Apple is touting silence now, but had the thermals of intel MacBooks been better they could be way less of hairdryers too. Apple could have also introduced better power controls for Intel Mac
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Yes they do. But the question is, why would they make a decision that will instantly make the machine completely unusable for a substantial portion of their clientele? Also, the portion that arguably gives MacBooks and, especially, iOS devi
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by yoz-y 6y ago
Why would they?
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by yoz-y 6y ago
TFA specifically says that the colors added to greys and primary are there to convey states: warnings, destructive operations, tendencies and so on. > They are almost imperceptible on my screen, but I would say that the page would look e
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by yoz-y 6y ago
I was actually offered a cook book where every measurement is in grams, including oil or spices (so yes, measurements like 0.5g are common in there). It's also typeset in LaTeX. (Although tbf, I haven't ever actually use it except
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by yoz-y 6y ago
> The whole model of having content free but showing ads to visitors has many problems and this is one of them. "Content behind paywall, didn't read." must be in the top 5 complaints about posts surfaced here on HN.

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