frostwarrior

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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Yes, of course. But it would be a great motivator if they actually bothered to relocate you in case you showed remarkable performance and added value to the company. "We just want someone to work for cheap without prospect of progress&
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
As a web developer, I would really like to get involved in Open Source software and give back to the community a bit. But the amount of options is overwhelming tbh, and the skills needed for open source projects are far from the backend API
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
I had an interview a few days ago and I asked something similar. I asked about the possibility to travel to the US to greet my coworkers and work alongside them. They said they won't raise my salary and they expect me to stay in my reg
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Maybe it's a joke, but a problem I see in every "open source self hosted alternative" is that people tend to underestimate how much work is to self-host everything. It's either paid hosting like AWS, some intermediate do
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Imagine getting hit by a car. Poor car.
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
My entire experience with MOBAs is that people will rip you to shreds for not doing or knowing every overly specific thing people didn't know either when they had less experience.
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Those checks and balances weren't in Tzarist Russia either.
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
I don't think that (2) is OP's fault. Look the words up in a dictionary. It's ok not to know and to learn but you shouldn't expect everyone to adapt to your lack of knowledge.
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Also, it was until 2015 where Intel was on a great streak with their processors and didn't show signs of stagnation until around 2017/2018 I5/i7's were great at that time
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Also it's baffling how high the bar is for those who want to do good. Most mainstream vendors will shit on your privacy and sell information of your entire life as a product and nothing happens to them. But the privacy-respecting compa
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Today's KDE can be almost identical to a MacOS desktop, if you customize it properly. I'm a KDE user since 2010 and a week ago I purchased an M1 Pro (hopefully to install Asahi in the future). My desktop was basically a top bar wi
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Not everything is corruption and cronyism. There are cases where the one that gets the promotion it's the one that sells themselves the most, instead of the "overengineer". Being assertive, going straight to the solution and
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
You are treading dangerous waters here. Why paying a decent wage and have a nice work-life balance when there are people in the 3rd word working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and for pennies? Worker's rights should expand towards the w
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Actually that's the opposite. Back then, an advantage of Linux against other Unixes was being able to run in a domestic IBM PC Clone. Which, at the time, was the "small fan computer" at least compared to big mainframes runnin
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
You think heat and power management is a pointless goal? Technology should be made as a contribution to humanity. But it should also solve problems and make lives easier for its users. A thin and light laptop that consumes a fraction of pow
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
My unsubstantiated guess is that the Kernel team has a lot of intelligent people but not on the emotional and empathy field. And some of them are really full of themselves, so you need to get them off their high horses
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
We'll have to wait until Asahi Linux is mature enough
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
And doing all this work for a $100 loan?
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
> For whatever reason, distros will ship with the new thing. Chicken and egg problem: Popular distros will follow popular DE's, because they have the most people making their way out of bugs and problems. MATE, on the other hand, is
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
I even say that instability of the Linux desktop was a considerable contributor to the decline of Linux powered workstations. People were getting used to the old reliable Gnome2 and the Windows-esque KDE desktop. But there's always som
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Turns out soap is not THAT essential to personal hygiene, if you have running water. The point of bathing is to rub off dead skin cells, excess oil off your skin (note that I said excess). And you can actually do all that without soap. Also
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Wait, you people don't brush your teeth after lunch?
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
IMHO Technology has the potential to be awesome. It's just that we're focusing most of the engineering effort on selling ads and generating dark patterns in phones.
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
> What I don't want to understand is how Google could come so close and fail. They have 10% projects and moonshots. They have the monopoly-like income stream to fund it. But instead of creating progress, their products seem to get w
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Early google represented "the good guys" against the bully Microsoft. Back then, they created Google Talk which rivaled MSN. Android started as a "open source mobile Linux" which rivaled Windows Phone. People trusted Goo
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
AFAIK this is the idea behind ImmutableJS: https://immutable-js.com/
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
Functional programming itself is really old. Practical functional programming for scale is the new trend. What's new is the scale of software being developed right now. Developers simply can't afford to create mutable and shared s
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
It's similar with their stance to Hackintosh, but more legal. It was a violation of their terms of service, but they didn't prosecute people that didn't try to make money with it. It's like saying "we'll leave
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
You don't lose it completely, though. And it's easier to relearn and get back on track than to learn it the first time. I learned C like ten years ago and then I moved on to PHP and then to JavaScript. I'm sure I forgot most
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by frostwarrior 4y ago
I get it, but you already have a job. I assume you are be pretty busy, but at least you already have a secure source of money and you're not against the clock or anything like that. You don't need to spend all day in a class like

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