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by zamber 9y ago
Secure Scuttlebutt is p2p and offline-first. Mastodon is neither one of these and community-hosted. More about building the community part of the social network than the truly decentralized backbone (where each user has a copy of all posts
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by zamber 9y ago
A person on his way to Burnout Paradise.
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by zamber 9y ago
That's exactly what the Mi Home (for Xiaomi IoT stuff) app does. Pesky little buggers.
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by zamber 9y ago
Still it's behind Audible ;).
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by zamber 9y ago
Well maintained packages do have that: npm install npm run (dev|build|deploy) Poorly maintained ones don't have these run command set and instead rely on pages upon pages of crap in README.md or do have a subset hacked tog
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by zamber 9y ago
In JS world we got a package lockfile fairly recently. Locking your own package.json version wasn't enough because packages have deps too. Beforehand running npm install on newly checked out repos was a gamble, especially given that we
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by zamber 9y ago
You should see the look on people's faces when they realize my SteelSeries Sensei has a small LCD on the bottom - https://steelseries.com/gaming-mice/sensei Bought it because you can do simple macros for buttons w
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by zamber 9y ago
Your observation is shared by hosts of the ATP podcast. Bug fixes do sell when paired with minor development, major impact features. Push the load to a couple of built-in apps to make them more smooth and focus on under-the-hood stuff. The
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by zamber 9y ago
Currently I have ~90 tabs open in Firefox. It uses 3.3GB of RAM and 1-3% of CPU (on a i7 though). Closing and reopening is faster than doing the same in Chrome with far less tabs open. IMO it's they usual software cycle of bloat ->
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by zamber 9y ago
You don't have to guess - https://wiki.mozilla.org/Quantum
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by zamber 9y ago
NetGuard https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.faircode.ne... allows for blocking traffic for apps per-domain and per-app. AFWall https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=
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by zamber 9y ago
Isn't "fake it 'til you make it" a common mantra among CS grads entering the work force in the US?
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by zamber 9y ago
On Android and Windows I'm finding Firefox better than both. Extensions in Firefox on Android are particularly helpful. There's an issue with not-always-60fps scrolling in Firefox on Android and the UX is not ideal, but having uBl
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by zamber 9y ago
Thanks for this. Will keep it in mind when RSI kicks in. Here's a synopsis of the talk http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/using_voice_to_code.html Couldn't find the repo for the dragon stuff he promised to publish on
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by zamber 9y ago
I did. You could re-implement the Vim command building language in a natural language. You'll hit walls sooner or later. Don't get me wrong, it would be awesome for ergonomics and a pretty powerful tool, but for now Google Assista
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by zamber 9y ago
HEATHEN! The holy, never-ending war must continue. Seriously, what voice commands would be better than clacking on a keyboard? For code structure we have AST-fueled refactoring tools, auto linters, auto formatters... the main problem with t
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by zamber 9y ago
If there are trash bins marked as landmarks then it's Ingress.
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by zamber 9y ago
I've got one cat that's around 1.5y old. Some time ago I was playing an FPS game and he looked at my left and and the screen and then back again, finally made eye contact and again looked at the screen. I'm pretty sure he in
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by zamber 9y ago
Somewhat related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better https://pchiusano.github.io/2014-10-13/worseisworse.html https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15125949
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by zamber 9y ago
I recall hearing about weighted blankets used as a way to help kids with sleeping issues. Quote from the article: As one more example of the goodness of blankets, there has also been a decent amount of research about the calming effect of w
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by zamber 9y ago
Had an opposite experience. Did QA for an Android app which set up a local VPN and selectively pushed traffic to a SPDY proxy doing some magic. Had to do a fair bit of work with Wireshark to troubleshoot protocol issues. It was eye-opening
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by zamber 9y ago
“You never fail until you stop trying.” ― Albert Einstein I'm doubting this attribution is correct but the quote itself summarizes this approach nicely. Mistakes do come naturally. Life is a probabilistic game of guessing what outcomes
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by zamber 9y ago
`Bespoke` in the marketing community.
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Money laundering and CV padding. Currently working with a guy that has a React book on Amazon. 0$ on Kindle, 22.50$ paperback so at least you can see for yourself what quality it is. The book is artificially elongated and full of advise scr
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by zamber 9y ago
In Poland it was standard to add ads as mail footers among homegrown free providers. Some still do. If they don't have sold ads they just advertise themselves. Made me hate pretty much all footers, especially the bloated corporate ones
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by zamber 9y ago
Imitation is the best form of flattery but you can also be proactive in your learning how to write better. Read code that's open-source and solves similar issues for a similar case in the same tech stack. Understand the architecture an
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by zamber 9y ago
156 points, posted 10h ago and only 2 comments? 1st time I see a lack of discussion about a link on HN. https://screenshots.firefox.com/E6WSxBWmgXKtBUV3/news.ycombi...
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by zamber 9y ago
I do Python and JS daily. Never had to do hand memory management in my life (maybe once in Objective-C). Webdev is not the best tool for the job but it's cheaper and substitutes for a sleeve of other specialised tools. The user experie
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by zamber 9y ago
There's demand for web devs in my area. Not so much for GUI people except for iOS/Android. The market shapes the tech that's developed and companies shape the market. It's a self-reinforcing vicious cycle of hype-driven
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by zamber 9y ago
That's why I too often have that xkcd strip about people being wrong on the internet in mind _before_ writing a comment on HN. StackOverflow is for "well, actually...".

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