spain

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by spain 11y ago
Does he know that's why I'm coming in 5 minutes late? Maybe he just thinks I'm a slacker who doesn't want to get out of the bed in the morning. I think I'd rather try and explain to him the situation I'm in bef
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by spain 11y ago
By left, I assume you mean left the job completely? As interesting as a story this is, is it really the only reason you chose to leave? Did you enjoy the work and did you try and negotiate at all? I don't mean to criticize your priorit
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by spain 11y ago
The new reader modes that browsers are adding let you kinda do this.
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by spain 11y ago
I recommend f.lux too. The only problems I've encountered with it are: - doesn't take into account wacky sun hours in nordic countries during winter, I get around this by setting my location to be somewhere else - isn't able
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by spain 11y ago
If you like BeOS, you should check out Haiku which is an open-source OS inspired by BeOS [0]. [0] https://www.haiku-os.org/
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by spain 11y ago
Might have something to do with the scrolling: the video at the top autoplays if it's visible and pauses if you scroll past it. If you've already paused it and you scroll past it makes the audio cut in and cut out for a second (at
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by spain 11y ago
Probably because Github is hosting code they don't like (e.g. code used to bypass censorship).
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by spain 11y ago
As someone who thinks Lisp is pretty cool and uses Emacs to study it and is about 100 pages into SICP: I still don't get it. Common Lisp macros went entirely over my head too. A programmable programming language? Aren't all lang
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by spain 11y ago
Funny I should see this. Just today I finished section 1-3-3 in the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) which dealt with continued fractions. I threw my answers up on Pastebin if someone wants to take a look, it's
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by spain 12y ago
If he knew he would have probably mentioned it.
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by spain 12y ago
I have to agree, the first thing I did was roll my eyes at the choice of name. "Screencoatening?"
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by spain 12y ago
>Emojis with skin tones, something every human can use, that have arrived before a character that only Bengalis use is taken as an "outright insult"? Who cares if emojis can be used by every human? Bengali language support is
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by spain 12y ago
This article strikes so many right notes for me and I can easily come up with even more examples of it in action, like systemd. I'm sure there exist valid criticisms but there's also a lot of people who would hate it just to look
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by spain 12y ago
>Logitech discontinued their best cable based mices, MX500 and MX518 too. The MX518 for me at least lives on as the G400s. I used to own an MX518 and got the G400s recently and it's basically the same thing except with a better surf
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by spain 12y ago
>Just like I wouldn't listen to Usain Bolt if he were trying to teach me the biological mechanisms behind doping, I can't see why Stallman's opinion is considered so correct in these matters. That's a false analogy. S
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by spain 12y ago
In my experience I cut out a lot of candy, sugars, and sweets from my diet at a very young age and haven't looked back, so I don't have that much experience with the "cravings" or withdrawal symptoms people describe (I d
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by spain 12y ago
>As an aside, the hilariously long user-agent string is perhaps the best evidence that string-based browser detection is something that web devs should avoid at all costs. It manages to include "Safari", "Chrome", &qu
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by spain 12y ago
>distros ship with horrible defaults. I guess you haven't used Ubuntu lately, which ships with better fonts than my Windows machine.
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by spain 12y ago
Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer.
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by spain 12y ago
China?
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by spain 12y ago
I still prefer LibreOffice to cloud document editors because it has better support for writing in Finnish through plugins like Voikko (for proofreading and the like). I would assume this also applies to a few other languages.
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by spain 12y ago
> That made me very, very uncomfortable. Probably one of the worst things I've ever felt while comfortably sitting in front of my computer, browsing the web. No kidding. I only noticed after it was over how much I was sweating. It w
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by spain 12y ago
I wouldn't recommend Iron. http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.ht...
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by spain 12y ago
In my experience I stayed with Firefox after I learned about tab groups. Sure you can run an extension on Chrome to do the same (and you can run extensions on Firefox to do things Chrome does) but after seeing just how much extensions can b
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by spain 12y ago
At least with Titanfall coming in at 48 GB (and probably other heavy-weight AAA titles coming out nowadays) the reason for the huge size wasn't really the amount or quality of the assets, but mostly just because the audio assets were
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by spain 12y ago
Interesting article, though I wonder why the title here on Hacker News is "How One Stupid Tweet Ruined Justine Sacco's Life" whereas the title on the actual article is "How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life.&
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by spain 12y ago
As a programmer who is too often focused on perfection, yes.
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by spain 12y ago
>Why does "being a programmer" mean that I don't want my usb key to automount? Why does "being a programmer" mean that I should want to hack my desktop environment? Maybe I want to work on my own stuff, and have
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by spain 12y ago
> Don't let the "unstable" tag fool you, stability is a relative term. I don't see why people throw this around a lot, it really isn't. Most recent example I can remember is when Debian decided to remove NVIDIA d
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by spain 12y ago
I like watching it to get a better idea of people's workflows (and through that hopefully improve mine).

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