alex__c

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by alex__c 8y ago
I actually had it happen on me.. visited certain websites, pressed "Restart" in Windows and left the room, computer came back on with Chrome displaying my last session in its full glory. Thankfully no one else was home. Apparent
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by alex__c 8y ago
Why, yes, I think what you're describing is a management problem: a) the new employee was given customer-impacting tasks without checking their competency properly, and then b) his work quality was not constantly evaluated in a feedbac
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by alex__c 8y ago
And sometimes it's an entire city that's the problem. My girlfriend comes from a mountainous zone. We live in the city that I was born, a dusty place in the plains. Guess what, within one year she developed respiratory problems. W
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by alex__c 8y ago
Notifications have this huge downside that they disturb you from your work and from your leisure time, fragmenting attention to the point of being useless to yourself. This has long been decried by people like Cal Newport and others. Knowle
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by alex__c 8y ago
It's an interesting bit, this. When you open an avenue of communication, then others get re-prioritized accordingly. Having text options lowers the perceived need for calling in person. Having Facebook lowers the need for in person con
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by alex__c 8y ago
The objects under test are brittle and bound to change dramatically. Selenium can't offer you insurance against this. I now remember a test suite we had on my project (automotive). We tested against the code structure... that is, we wo
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by alex__c 8y ago
Perhaps this article will show you what your interlocutor means: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/aug/06/catherine-nich... It is not a new phenomenon for women writers to be taken a shade less seri
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by alex__c 8y ago
> If you only ever expect to get to go to London once in your life, you're going to be very busy trying to see everything in the week you have. The trap is, of course, that it's monumentally stupid to cram "seeing London&q
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by alex__c 8y ago
Wanting to spend a pleasant time doesn't seem to rhyme with people that end up in a two-hour queue in London or Milan. I do know people who genuinely want to have a nice, relaxing vacation. They book holidays at the beach, in warm coun
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by alex__c 8y ago
Sure you can, but their point is valid: you don't care about the money, you care about getting a damn car ASAP.
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by alex__c 8y ago
> keeping a kid off a screen and giving them other activities is expensive, in parental time if not direct cost. Some 30 years ago, in my country the parent instructions to their kid, for the afternoon, would be: "go outside, play w
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by alex__c 8y ago
If shops and schools are sane, they will adjust the schedule according to daylight. No point keeping a shop open at 7am if there's no shoppers, because they're all sound asleep.
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by alex__c 8y ago
People learn better when there's pain involved. Let there be much pain, and people will learn.
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by alex__c 8y ago
That sounds easy until you realize you would need a special adblocker for Facebook. Ublock Origin doesn't handle those. And don't even get started on mobile adblocking, it's still widely uncharted territory. I had to use an a
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by alex__c 8y ago
Publishing words also involves a bit of typesetting; not much, but some . It may need to be re-done on a new platform. Exporting a large body of work is not trivial if you don't know how to do it programatically. Heck, even a blog mig