aavotins

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by aavotins 8y ago
I'm an individual software contractor and I pay for a personal plan. GitHub UI and UX appeal to me more than competitors do. Also it seems that all the libraries I regularly use keep their code on GitHub, it feels like a community to m
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by aavotins 8y ago
Lada 2101's aren't the same as Fiat 124. Russians bought the designs and rights to manufacture and changed them significantly enough. * Fiat used either OHV or DOHC, Lada used SOHC * Fiat had rear disk brakes, Lada had drums * Lad
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by aavotins 8y ago
Long story short - I was brave and stood up for myself, demanding the righteous thing. I was 15 years old back then. I had just learned how to code and my hunger for programming was insatiable. I didn't think much, browsed through rele
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by aavotins 8y ago
Would you mind sharing where you found leads on technology oriented Slack channels? I'm old school, used to hang out on IRC some 15 years ago, but went silent and passive after starting a family. However my boys have grown and I'm
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by aavotins 8y ago
I had such high hopes when I opened the arsenal. I anticipated it would an article of how to write code that's both JavaScript and Python syntactically correct.
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by aavotins 8y ago
Wow, this was a trip down memory lane. In fact it was Frontpage 98 that inspired me to try out my hand at building the web, back in 1999. I was just 10 years old back then. However it sparked my interest, because I could create something. C
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by aavotins 8y ago
I wish projects like this caught on and became an art trend, as in digital artists would create pieces like this and put them for sale. I love the idea of smart "paintings" that illustrate the technical detail and inner workings o
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by aavotins 8y ago
Some suspicions can be clarified. Especially ones with clear photos available. As per online presence - we do not hire people that we have never seen. We're a remote and distributed team, thus rarely any hires get to have a walk-in int
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by aavotins 8y ago
No offence, but googling your name yields some very questionable search results about events in Woodstock, IL. If it's true, then perhaps the true cause of cultural discrepancy comes from assumptions based on a Google search? Perhaps I
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by aavotins 8y ago
If that happens, I feel it's one of the good things, speaking from general perspective on how humans interact with devices. I'm a power user, who discovered f.lux around 3 years ago, and I've been hooked ever since. Around a
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by aavotins 8y ago
An article about unhealthy desire for prestige has surfaced on HN, a subsidiary of a very prestigious VC firm, a site with clever upvotes and, most importantly, karma system. It strikes me as ironic. I also think that John was a metaphorica
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by aavotins 9y ago
Not US, but my wake-up call was my sister purchasing a small apartment for just 8000$ in 2002, in an industrial part of the city, surrounded by beat-up apartment houses and humungous acetone storage units. Whole place reeked of chemicals an
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by aavotins 10y ago
So it's the same issue as with many failed startups - solving a problem, that does not look like a problem for the end user. At all.
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by aavotins 10y ago
Or it would be even greater if it requested/generated all certificates upon configuration file parsing and delayed nginx from taking those values into account until valid certificates have been obtained.
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by aavotins 10y ago
You do realize that you are breaking the license terms of Apple by installing OS X on non-Apple hardware, right? What the author did is a nice read and a cool tech gig, but it's illegal. I have thought about building a Hackintosh multi
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by aavotins 10y ago
Norway has one of the highest taxes in the world. Combined with labor laws that are somewhat biased in favour of the employee. Wouldn't it be hard to create a scene like that in a socially developed country. Large wages would mean ridi
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by aavotins 10y ago
Am I the only one who finds it really hard to fathom that it's 19 years? Almost two decades. I don't think I can find a single device that I had 19 years ago, but this takes continuity and dedication to a whole new level.
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by aavotins 10y ago
I just discovered this, took my time to get acquainted with the whole situation and I must say that I'm amazed! You did a really great job, don't be too hard on yourself. As a developer I always value tools over a product, and you
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by aavotins 10y ago
For me(I maintain a purely platonic relationship with JS) it offers an easy choice. An example: I don't have to choose MongoDB over Postgres just because the Yeoman generator that actually has all the items I want, decided to go with N
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by aavotins 10y ago
MongoDB reminds me of an old saying that if you have a problem and you use a regex to solve it, you end up with two problems. I have personally used MongoDB in production two times for fairly busy and loaded projects, and both times I ended
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by aavotins 10y ago
This is a chip that gets soldered directly on the board. While it is possible to solder this specific chip to a detachable interface that can be removed, I highly doubt anyone will ever do it. This form factor has a huge advantage for OEMs
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by aavotins 10y ago
It's BGA, so it's soldered onto the motherboard/logic board. Non user upgradeable, and if the SSD dies, you're in for a costly repair. Another step in the direction of (very) disposable hardware with little to no service
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by aavotins 10y ago
I have been eyeing Xiaomi for some time and even bought some of their products. And I was not disappointed. Something tells me that it's going to be the next Samsung.
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by aavotins 10y ago
I could not help myself, but laugh, when I read about Node.js Yes, the magical silver bullet, that kills the dungeon master! Snake oil extracted from within the great depths of brogramming. Acme Elbow Grease to help develop scalable™ MVP&#x
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by aavotins 10y ago
As bizarre as it may look, it's still a small step towards something. Internet-of-Things(buzzword), smart appliances - it's already entering our lives in some fashion. And so will cybernetics. There has to be trendsetters that sta
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by aavotins 10y ago
Maybe programming with Google by my side has taken away some of the romance I associated with programming, but it has certainly made me a better and more productive programmer. I found a Zip drive(anybody remembers those?) with lots and lot
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by aavotins 10y ago
I think you're forgetting that we live in a world of capitalism. Nobody promised no one nothing. Owners and share holders decide a business model and it's up to you, the consumer, to decide whether you go with it or not. There&#x2
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by aavotins 10y ago
The flashing bit looks annoying, but I think that electronic picture frames that don't suck are finally here! A poster that changes during the night(so you don't see the flicker) and you wake up to see something new every day. I a
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by aavotins 10y ago
What caught my eye immediately is their licence agreement that prohibits using the engine to develop, quoting "Serious games". That's a rather vague and broad statement, what's a serious game?
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by aavotins 10y ago
With Germany prosecuting people who download torrents, UK banning internet pornography and US manhunt against Edward Snowden and Assange, there is definitely more than one shade of free. The image of freedom is being shaped and tailored for

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