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by dorfuss 3y ago
Very good point, I do that all the time, because I can have about 2 games installed at any given moment.
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by dorfuss 4y ago
I am blown away that auto suggest is so wrong. I simply have this feature turned off.
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by dorfuss 4y ago
I tried TikTok in 2020 to understand why young people were so much into it. What is so appealing? I've been using the platform, even publishing some videos and commenting a lot, and I still cannot answer why it is so nice. Let me try t
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by dorfuss 4y ago
This is an excellent question. There were many "Aha!" moments in my journey. Here is a couple of honest examples: * Action Script 3.0 - It may sound stupid and unlikely place, but classes and OOP started to make perfect sense only
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by dorfuss 4y ago
I have never touched Fortran, but my wife worked on 50 years old code for atmospheric physics / boundary layer modelling. I have no idea how stable it is, and my wife is not cs but a physicist, so wouldn't tell me, but I have a fe
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by dorfuss 4y ago
For me, working for a small/medium company building something real. None of social media, Microsoft, Amazon or Google. Something that builds precision lasers for engineering, something like packaging or manufacturing or warehouse manag
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by dorfuss 8y ago
I would like the publishers to understand that I use the blocking software because their JavaScript is so poorly written that it consumes 90% of my CPU power, which is not acceptable on a laptop. There must be a better way, and I'm hap
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by dorfuss 8y ago
Learn languages (human languages). Important for mobility. You won't have time to study a language for 2 hours every day later in life. Build big projects steps by step, 30 minutes every day (code, write a book, run a YT channel). Othe
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by dorfuss 8y ago
At a Fortune500 company, I work for the Global IT departament, developing tools, providing top tier IT support, reporting, access management, change control and management, network management, contacting with vendors, doing market research
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by dorfuss 10y ago
http://www.fonerbooks.com - because of the "content first" design, and because its demise was caused by a major change in the Google search algo that promotes social media hype and interaction more than readable and va
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I absolutely agree - it has to be something in the browser, because it has to be familiar and visual. No theory. Open the source, show people how simle html 1.0 elements work. Bold, italics, paragraphs, some simple styles. Then people would
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Definitely NO! Not another calculator!
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Do you remember that Major Major's father made a good living by not growing more alfalfa than anyone else in the county? But let's put things in order: I think your assumptions are wrong. First I would deal with the automated driv
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by dorfuss 10y ago
David Kushner's ''Masters of Doom'' about John Carmack, John Romero, id Software, Scott Miller and Apogee and the game industry in the 1990s. Well written and, as far as I'm concerned, fascinating part of the h
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by dorfuss 10y ago
After someone tells me her/his name, I always say: "I'm terrible with names, so I will ask about yours a couple of times, but that's the only way for me to remember," and I smile very very friendly. 90% of time peop
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I'd second that. Ukraine in general is just ridiculously cheap. Lviv is a beautiful city with great history, but has a rather continental climate, cold in the winter, humid and hot in the summer. Lviv is quite remote, as well, but has
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Although I am a white heterosexual man, I have always refused to provide such information as gender (I have recently made a new passport without gender information). Your gender should not be of concern neither for the state and administrat
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I have recently tried to connect my old iPhone5 to my very old MacBook with Snow Leopard, and I could not open the phone to transfer some photos. I connected the phone to PC and got access to the catalogue righ away. I'm litterally pis
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Movies are, in my humble opinion, not the best "standard" yard stick to measure fluency. First thing is that films most often use quite limited vocabulary, and it's wildly different vocabulary than, say, found in newspapers,
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Seducing a partner is a good one ;) But very true! I'd add: understanding a joke...
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Do you remember the 10 000 hours principle, popularised in Malcolm Gladwel's Outliers ? Well, it comes from research by Swedish-American scientist, Anders Ericsson. I talked with him. He says that there is no precise, scientific defin
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Have a look at Diaspora, it could be at least an inspiration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network)
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by dorfuss 10y ago
It would be great to see such a collection from 1990s...
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by dorfuss 10y ago
on the meta level: Older people don't understand what is an operating system, is it different from Office? Or between an Icon and a Program. It's truly amazing that they actually can do something on the computer.
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I would simply say: there are too many changes in the interfaces. And I agree with that - every new device and operating system changes things, and most often those changes are not necessary. I am not talking about functionalities, but UI.
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Right now I live in Germany. Don't go to Germany - the bureaucracy is absolutely @#@#$ crazy. Today I went to a lawyer and to AOK (German NHS), they said two contradicting things, the system is insanely complicated, I waste SO much tim
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I was 13 when learned HTML by reading source code, playing, and a very good tutorial (no longer around), then CSS. I tried different languages, C++ with Borland compiler, but I could not understand how the basic syntax can be translated int
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by dorfuss 10y ago
They are making business of a free service, that's still quite unique and innovative. I think that most of happens in Facebook is not visible to the user - keeping the uptime and performance are the key concern.
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by dorfuss 10y ago
I think that things are easy and intuitive for the designers, not so much for the user that tries the app for the first time. Devs don't see the problem. Moreover serious qualitative research is expensive and difficult to do. Finally i
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by dorfuss 10y ago
Blaug is a history of economic though and is far from "practical way". Moreover what concerns me is that Blaug wrote the book way before I was born i.e. over 30 years ago[1]. There are things we simply know better today, a lot of

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