aikah

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by aikah 4y ago
> Gitlab ships various ci runner executables for all platforms. I use their Windows ci runner and it works well, but I wonder how they test it without running windows. Maybe with a Windows VM.
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by aikah 4y ago
Nice, this is why I browse HN for. Can you tell use more about the tech involved? Perfect for a daily meditation.
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by aikah 4y ago
> I am not conflating anything. I have had a very similar experience in EU and Singapore and while the case of Singapore is ethnic preference in EU it's about the language even if the working language is english. Are you complaining
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by aikah 4y ago
> Or in case of Europe in an international company a team decides to hire only people that speak german / russian / french even when the interaction with other teams is obviously just in english. You're clearly conflating
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by aikah 4y ago
The 2 reasons why I don't use Chrome is 1/ You can't mute tabs by default 2/ You can't prevent videos to auto-start. Simple as that, I think muting tabs was possible in the past, but of course, Chrome team removed t
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by aikah 4y ago
Yet all the summer music festivals are packed, sold out within minutes. It's just that the kids value live experience more than they value mp3 or Spotify.
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by aikah 4y ago
> isn't that rust, but better? Clearly no, because Vala has a bunch of issues with memory safety. Not because it's a bad language, but since it translates directly to GObject, there is a lot of problems around pointers, ownersh
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by aikah 4y ago
Yes indeed, it's time to move from Unity to something else because I don't want to pay for that kind of people's salary: > Devs not baking monetisation into the creative process are “fucking idiots”, says Unity’s John Ricc
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by aikah 4y ago
> The REST standard There is no such thing as a "REST standard" and that's why we've been having all these pointless arguments for the last 15 years. If Fielding really wanted web developers to use REST he would have
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by aikah 4y ago
> Would you like me to give you statistics on the drug related crimes? Horrible criminal networks exist thanks to the illegal nature of the drugs. The same thing with immigrants. See what is your problem? You don't even care about w
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by aikah 4y ago
Your denial of the facts of illegal immigration from third world countries to Europe is unmatched. https://www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-and-statistics/cri... The rest of your comments here just look like a typical
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by aikah 4y ago
2 wrongs don't make a right. Uber operates like the mafia. I'm not going to take their defense just because they are a "just an app" or that the competition is as bad... Uber became popular because it leveraged VC and ch
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by aikah 4y ago
same here. I miss Fireworks, a software that didn't try to nickel and dime those who wanted to do both vector and raster graphics with the same tool, and it worked very well for website prototyping. great addon community as well, thank
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by aikah 4y ago
you bet I'd never install a TODO app that needs to read my phone contacts in the past. It's not even possible to see if apps have in-app purchases anymore on Google Play. It was only useless for you, I don't have time or KB t
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by aikah 4y ago
1/ it's easy to publish a library to NPM, anybody can do it 2/ Node.js has a barebone standard library for server purposes, in fact you can't parse a multi-part POST request without using a package or writing your own. 3
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by aikah 4y ago
It's crazy we are still having these kind of debates in Europe. 20 years ago most youth around 18/20 thought Cannabis would have already been legalised by now, I don't believe one second that any of the European elected offic
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by aikah 5y ago
Love Deno and using it as a node replacement. Fantastic work. I encourage anybody who has npm packages to move everything to deno.
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by aikah 5y ago
Businesses refuse to invest in workers education thus refuse to hire juniors. Then they refuse to hire older developers because "not culturally fit". Tech businesses are full of sh...
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by aikah 5y ago
Problem will always be the hardware. Until we get some 80's IBM style architecture on mobile, there is no viable Linux for smartphone. I have 4 phones. None of them support lineage os.
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by aikah 5y ago
No it's not, it has a terrible API. Not sure why people here are still defending that mess imposed by Mozilla when developers could have had something better, websql. Another spec that failed from a practical perspective because of Moz
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by aikah 5y ago
> There’s a percentage of children born every year considered “intersex”. The percentage will vary depending on what your criteria for “intersex” is. "intersex" isn't a precondition to put X on a passport, so it's irr
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by aikah 5y ago
People here forget that typescript is both a language and a static code analyzer for Javascript. You don't have to use Typescript syntax to use. You can write plain old Javascript and still use Typescript compiler to make sens of your
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by aikah 5y ago
It's not a fad, it's based on JS.net and Actionscript (ES4) syntax that existed well before Ecma Script 5 existed. Microsoft has been iterating over Typescript for about 20 years.
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by aikah 5y ago
This is bad but it's going to force all these companies to overall their IT system, period. They can't keep on losing data or paying ransoms eternally, because at that point it cannot just be "the cost of doing business&quot
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by aikah 5y ago
> algorithm could not be based on that. what you described is highly personal and doesn't make sense when optimizing for profits. That's irrelevant. My point is that no bias is eliminated at first place, since the algorithm is
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by aikah 5y ago
> Fascinating tech. imagine if human element is removed from critical decision making, meaning bias is drastically reduced (if not completely eliminated in this case) The algorithm could be biased at first place. if(employee.isnt_s
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by aikah 5y ago
I thought the cost of arbitration was solely the responsibility of the employer? How is not a scam then to be forced into paid arbitration?
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by aikah 5y ago
> However if we are talking about monetary damages, those require hard proof of the damages and even then it is unlikely that they will have to pay all damages. Most lawyers I talk to usually recommend against suing for monetary damages.
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by aikah 5y ago
> Damages require proof. Unless they can show they lost something because of the mistake, then there are no damages. You're basing your understanding of slander/libel on US laws I presume? If that person lives in Europe, genera
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by aikah 5y ago
> * Support for Android apps built into the OS (using Intel Bridge technology whatever that is?) Interesting, why would they do that? I mean it's nice ;) but, is this the new MS mobile strategy? Android?

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