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alexdumitruon BMW’s new flat logo is everything that’s wrong with modern logo design

I really love flat designs and I'm a huge fan of this trend, but this logo looks so awful.

I'm really bad at design and this looks like a sketch made by me when I have an idea and I want it to show it to a designer.

alexdumitruon Windows93

This version of Minesweeper seems a bit hard to beat.

alexdumitruon Monobloc chair

I weight just around 70kg and I broke two in an hour by just standing on them. I'm quite scared using them now.

alexdumitruon Windows Terminal Preview 0.9

I've started using hyper yesterday and it seems much more polished than this.

alexdumitruon Show HN: Web app to track Coronavirus with city/state breakdown and graphs

I wanted to improve my coding skills and decided to work on this small part-time project. I hope you'll enjoy it.

Please let me know if you'd like to see more features. I'm looking further on improving it.

alexdumitruon Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network

I kinda doubt this title would get up votes:

> spam can't ml neural network ai btc crypto

> Bad: 0.0013 - Good: 0.9986

alexdumitruon Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

How is that a reference to Hitler?

alexdumitruon Mistakes on Our Way to $88k in Revenue

I'm pretty sure most logos are retina.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retina

alexdumitruon New Device Harvests Energy in Darkness

I quit reading it because of the scroll behavior.

alexdumitruon HEAD – A guide to <head> elements

>  <meta name="generator" content="program">

Is Dreamweaver still a thing? I haven't heard of it in years, many years.

alexdumitruon Pre-built solar homes could make renewable energy almost 50% cheaper

I'm in Romania and it heats to 180C in about 3 and a half minutes.

alexdumitruon Google to stop showing news snippets for French users

I think it's only available in Netherlands. I checked it out now and I get the same, even though I'm in another country.

alexdumitruon In Japan, It’s a Riveting TV Plot: Can a Worker Go Home on Time?

This. I don't have strict working hours and I don't expect my employee to really work for more than 4 hours a day.

alexdumitruon Google will no longer make its own tablet devices

The Nexus 9 was awful. It was very slow and lagged all the time. I think it was due to the Nvidia CPU as I've also had a Chromebook with an Nvidia CPU and it's also really slow.

alexdumitruon [dead]

I don't know why is this on the frontpage. It's most likely just a sponsored article. I own a few blogs and I've received emails about posting similar sponsored articles on all of them from a company promoting xnspy.

alexdumitruon Reddit confirms $300M Series D led by China’s Tencent at $3B value

Reddit's slogan is "the front page of the internet". I think he's referring to that.

alexdumitruon Chrome Never-Slow Mode Prototype

Chrome feels way slower than Firefox and the only reason keeping me from making the jump to Firefox is laziness. I'm too lazy to find alternatives for all my extensions, move bookmarks, history, passwords etc, but Firefox feels way faster.

alexdumitruon Why Captchas have gotten so difficult

I manage to get rid of line 99.99% of spam with a hidden checkbox. Bots tend to check them, so I just ignore it if it's checked.

alexdumitruon Boeing 787 Suffers Rare Dual Engine Failure on Landing

I was watching Air Crash Investigation yesterday, where a reverser deployed right after take off and caused the plane to crash. They said now reversers can't be activated unless all wheels are on the ground, as you've said.

alexdumitruon Ask HN: How to distribute hundreds of terrabytes of data across servers?

I didn't know, but I'm gonna check it out.

alexdumitruon Ask HN: How to distribute hundreds of terrabytes of data across servers?

It's more than 10 times more expensive than Hetzner. It's not viable.

alexdumitruon Morocco abruptly drops clock change

Yes, because I will enjoy more day time. I never wake up early enough to be dark outside, so that was never a problem for me, but there are days in the winter when the sunset is just a few hours after I wake up.

alexdumitruon Morocco abruptly drops clock change

I had the feeling more states agreed already. In Romania we'll switch to winter time tomorrow and stick to it.

alexdumitruon Morocco abruptly drops clock change

Aren't they dropping it tomorrow?

alexdumitruon Morocco abruptly drops clock change

Almost all of Europe will abolish DST this year.

alexdumitruon Morocco abruptly drops clock change

Most of Europe will move to winter time tomorrow and also abolish DST and I have the same feelings about it as you. I prefer darker mornings than evenings, as I've never been an early riser.

alexdumitruon Senior scientist argues that we should bypass Europa for Enceladus

Amazing explanation. Even if we found a way to feed any hungry person and any other person would earn $1000 for every poor person fed, a considerable percentage of the population would oppose it.

We will never be able to come to an accord on something and it's probably a good thing though.

I wish much more money were spent on space exploration so I could enjoy the findings in my lifetime, even though it might not affect me more than a tv show.

alexdumitruon Comcast has disabled a throttling system that it deployed in 2008

Micro ISPs have been gone for 10 years I think. They only exist in rural areas and such.

Now we have 3 major ISPs and they all offer similar services.

alexdumitruon Comcast has disabled a throttling system that it deployed in 2008

I really don't understand how ISPs became like this in the US. In Romania I pay $9.9 for 1000 Mbps down / 500 Mbps up with no data caps or throttling and it actually works, even though piracy is huge here, so people use a lot of bandwidth.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7391249917