yarcob

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by yarcob 5y ago
I think the best, most reliable way to get a software engineering job is to get a software engineering degree. If you want a shortcut, I would look for ways to complete your degree faster. Do more courses at a time, and make sure to finish
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by yarcob 5y ago
> much of my job satisfaction came from the sense of comradery of working on a team I think this is a seriously undervalued factor and something I was completely unaware of. I used to always judge job opportunities either by how well the
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by yarcob 5y ago
I first learned that someone cracked my app from a company that offered to help me fight cracked downloads of my app. I was immediately suspicious.
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by yarcob 5y ago
Too be honest I've never heard of "baltic birch" before so I can't comment on how different it is from the normal birch plywood we get here in EU. I just googled it and saw that it looks exactly like the birch plywood I
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by yarcob 5y ago
It took many years before dating platforms became viable. I remember trying some dating websites early on, and there just weren't any people in my area at all. It was fun looking at the profiles, but it wasn't actually useful for
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by yarcob 5y ago
I've met (and worked with) people who built something, and were looking for someone to sell it. The unfortunate truth is that this usually doesn't work because of two reasons: 1) If you can't convince anybody to buy your prod
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by yarcob 5y ago
> I’m surprised so few people care about where there cofounder lives. If I wanted to find someone in my city, a global website would be the last place I'd look. Maybe the people who use a global matching platform are more interested
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by yarcob 5y ago
I'm not saying it's bad, I've used birch plywood myself and I like it. But you can't compare the 13 layer plywood made from peeled wood with the stuff made from 3 layers of sawed wood. They are completely different types
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by yarcob 5y ago
I've never worked with bamboo plywood, but the product on the website looks like it should be compared with 20mm 3 ply wood panels made from cut hard wood instead of the cheap ply wood made from peeled wood. So a better comparison wou
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by yarcob 5y ago
I assume they just mean that they get too heavy for practical use. They stated that they offer boards with a thickness of 30-40mm, they just don't offer panels of that thickness. At a density of 1200kg/m2 it's almost twice as
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by yarcob 5y ago
Germany has a lot of high end car manufacturers and other industry, which means that there are a lot of experienced engineers in the country that they can hire. Most people also speak English well enough, which makes it easier to collaborat
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by yarcob 5y ago
> unless the whole of MacOS is redesigned to be used with fingers People use a lot of web apps that were designed mobile first, and using them without a touch screen sucks. You wouldn't use the touch screen as primary input, but it
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by yarcob 5y ago
Touchscreens are the big missing feature on macOS. It's not useful as a primary input method, but after using a Windows Surface computer for some time I'm surprised how often the touch display is useful. Lots of websites are optim
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by yarcob 5y ago
Instead of having to replace the mag safe power brick for 85€ you can now just replace the cable for 55€. However, it my personal experience, I've never had the cable fail, but I've had 2 mag safe power supplies fail (they started
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by yarcob 5y ago
My girlfriend bought 100€ worth of adaptors for her Macbook Air and can never find them when she needs them. For a desktop it doesn't matter, but for a portable device that you need to carry around every extra thing that you need to ca
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by yarcob 5y ago
> Both 14" and 16" have 254 PPI, up from ~220. That is a very welcome improvement! I like scaling my display a bit so I have more real estate, but then the fonts get a bit blurry. 10% more resolution sounds great!
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by yarcob 5y ago
My girlfriend also loved her 11" Macbook Air and was disappointed that the smallest option is now a 13" Air.
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by yarcob 5y ago
Who do you think is responsible for the new iMacs? They took a very versatile all-in-one, removed almost all of the ports and added an external power brick -- just to make it a bit thinner. Which is even more ridiculous considering it'
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by yarcob 5y ago
They recently introduced a new standard that allows up to 240W
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by yarcob 5y ago
It will of course work with other monitors, but there aren't that many high res monitors out there. The Apple display is the only 6k monitor I know of. There are a few 5k monitors and lots of 4k monitors. There's one 8k monitor fr
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by yarcob 5y ago
The new "feature" is that the function keys are full height. Apple laptops had half height function keys for as long as I can remember.
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by yarcob 5y ago
> What happens if someone's creating a script that will shell out simultaneously to multiple Go programs? Do they all inherit the parent's environment variables? By default, every process inherits the environment of its parent
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by yarcob 5y ago
HP accidentally revoked a code signing certificate recently. Since certificates are regularly checked for revocation by macOS, suddenly all HP printers stopped working on macOS. It took a few weeks until everything was fixed again for me, I
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by yarcob 5y ago
I'm reminded of another story I read (probably on HN), where they showed architectural plans / designs from either 19th or early 20th century, from a time when houses where decorated with intricate stucco. The plans showed none o
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by yarcob 5y ago
If you would use that variable, you wouldn't set it globally. You would set it only for the syncthing process. For example, when you use systemd to run syncthing, you can configure the environment for syncthing in the unit file. Other
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by yarcob 5y ago
> VAT and invoices are part of GDPR? No they are not. VAT and invoices is just something else that's also easier with EU vendors. > But if a company invoices you with bad invoices then you can just refuse them and ask the correct
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by yarcob 5y ago
> any US company can implement a more stringent data policy beyond the scope of legal remit within the country of operations Theoretically, yes, you are right. But some companies are just going to say, oh, you are based in the US, let&#x
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by yarcob 5y ago
Google, Apple and Microsoft have been making a lot of security-related changes in the OSes in the last few years. The result is that a lot of apps need updating or just no longer work. It's not an issue for apps that are actively devel
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by yarcob 5y ago
I guess silicone is a good material to make a seamless mould of a smooth object. Since it's flexible you can remove it from the original object without cutting it.
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by yarcob 5y ago
> Why would you not just print a negative directly - as indeed she later does? Is it because she considers the concave surface difficult to sand smooth? I think the problem with sanding a mold is that it would be very hard to sand both h

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