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by ruipgil 4y ago
You can't do without either of them, but one can hide flaws in the other I was listening to a podcast the other day and something caught my hear: the difference between a VP and a C-level is that the C stands for confidence.
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by ruipgil 5y ago
How’s it any relevant?
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by ruipgil 5y ago
> in film, you start with the best and make your way down to the worst only if you take imdb top films ranking... take a tour through Kurosawa or other Japanese masters, get deep into korean cinema, lose yourself in the Italian masterpie
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by ruipgil 8y ago
But then again, from that report, most are fossil fuel producing companies. So one would imagine that less fossil fuel demand would reduce the impact of those companies and have an even more important effect on CO2 emissions
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by ruipgil 10y ago
Quick answer: no. Unless there's a unified effort between major browsers to bring support for a new language we'll have to use js. And that seems highly unlikely (see dart for instance). However, you now have languages that compil
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by ruipgil 10y ago
You can't fight negativity with negativity. Let the good and positive boil to the top. Anyway, that would certainly not save twitter. They seem to be lacking better management and focus on their core product.
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by ruipgil 10y ago
I found the same about YT history. None of the videos that I view on the laptop are shown in the history, only videos viewed on mobile. I think it's because I block ip addresses, that track your data, on the laptop.
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by ruipgil 10y ago
And I'd add to that: in the USA (with a bit of extrapolation).
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by ruipgil 10y ago
Sharp had a similar phone. Samsung had the Edge, which is near bezel-less from the sides. And those are not concept phones, at least the edge is not. Sarcastically, the success of these phones are dictated by how reliably they can be used,
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by ruipgil 10y ago
The competition may not come directly from technology companies, but from car companies. Tesla might be one of them.
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by ruipgil 10y ago
Downgrading is always hard. Even minor differences in speed/fluidity will seem much more accentuated.
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by ruipgil 10y ago
If they're not using regex, they can't be affected by it anyways
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by ruipgil 10y ago
I've been using it lately for my thesis. Good job!
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by ruipgil 10y ago
Two things very wrong with the landing page: the horrendous parallax effect and the "Go" instead of Gb.
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by ruipgil 10y ago
Besides whamlastxmas point, the danger that I see is also tied to copyright infringement. Imgur and other small sites, mostly because they don't have much profit, don't suffer a lot from copyright takedowns. I think reddit won&#x2
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by ruipgil 10y ago
> $X for every commit Even if you're supposedly giving money to reputable developers that are the percentile less likely to commit fraud, there's still a risk of it happening. A more reasonable approach would be a monthly or a
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by ruipgil 10y ago
Hydroelectric generation is not the major source of energy. Wind is, and I think it was that unusual amount of rain, coupled with stronger winds and the occasional good days of sun that contributed to this milestone. Besides the sun, I thin
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by ruipgil 10y ago
That kind of control is in the hands of the webapp. For instance if I close this tab , where I'm typing the comment, there will be no prompt. Whereas facebook will prompt me if truly want to leave the page.
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by ruipgil 10y ago
I might be the minority here, but I think that using the backspace to go back is counter intuitive. In my mind backspace is to delete something, and I always worry about that.
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by ruipgil 10y ago
I'd say more like a 50% user base. I'm going on a limb here, but nowadays, 60% of macbooks (mainly the pro) are used for software development and 30% for creative work (video and editing). While something like half of those profes
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by ruipgil 10y ago
This is the way to hold on to more technical users. I've tried ddg, but switched back to Google because the results were not good enough for my technical needs. If they are able to lock on this focus group, they'll have a strong u
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by ruipgil 10y ago
Finally, I really hated the additional complexity and gotchas that boot2docker carried.
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by ruipgil 11y ago
uBlock Origin (and uMatrix) are the only ad blockers that I trust and that I advise. The developer has strong ethics and, needless to say, they are open source. ABP made a name for themselves as one of the first and best players, but they h
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Introduction to web scraping(ruipgil.com)
5 points by ruipgil 11y ago|1 comments
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by ruipgil 11y ago
Yes, that is true. Only the singles are available to stream. However, there's no guarantee that she's gonna release it in AppleMusic, she may only release older albums, like she does in Rdio and like other bands did in Spotify (sp
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by ruipgil 11y ago
Pretty much every other streaming service, except spotify, has the album available. No exclusive here.
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by ruipgil 12y ago
On the first question, yes, it's possible and easily done with the Router.
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by ruipgil 12y ago
Scraperjs is supposed to be used as npm package. So, if you do "npm install <package-name>", you download the latest version of package to the same folder as the closest package.json file (if there's none it will go to
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by ruipgil 12y ago
For web scraping purposes ScraperJS and ScraperJS would probably use the same lines of code, however ScraperJS has most of the tools you need for web scraping, something that CasperJS lacks (that's not their main goal). ScraperJS is mo
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Show HN: Scraperjs – A versatile web scraper(github.com)
192 points by ruipgil 12y ago|36 comments

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