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coldpizza··on Ask HN: What audio resources can improve my technical skills during my commute?
This is not really audio, but when it comes to programming, I don't think any sort of listening material (by itself) is ever going to top visual material. In that department, I recommend this app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=wiki.algorithm...

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/algorithms-explained-and-ani...

coldpizza··on Pushing the trend of intermittent fasting for weight loss
> They always have to find a new name for everything.

Advertising is not always about selling products. It can be about selling a concept.

They find these new names to sell these concepts to the people who want to be "trendy" and "hip", and subsequently garner more following.

coldpizza··on Learn Kotlin in Y Minutes
> Declaring values is done using either "var" or "val". "val" declarations cannot be reassigned, whereas "vars" can.

I wonder why they decided on these very mistakable names. Why not const/constant/cons/whatever else just as long it's distinguishable from each other?

coldpizza··on Let them paste passwords
So the main complaint about SPP is that it screws password managers, but then there's this:

> Most password managers erase the clipboard as soon as they have pasted your password into the website, and some avoid the clipboard completely by typing in the password with a 'virtual keyboard' instead.

Isn't the latter approach much safer? If so, shouldn't it be the de facto standard since it prevents "clipboard stealing" and also removes the issue of not being able to paste content into an SPP form input?

coldpizza··on Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders
We can throw all sorts of thoughts into the theory pot but ultimately no one knows for sure. Humans are volatile and unpredictable.
coldpizza··on Ending the cult of the CEO
> Think of a prominent global-company CEO. Sir Martin Sorrell? Indra Nooyi? Elon Musk?

> Now, name the CFO and CMO. I bet you can’t.

I can't, but it's because it's not the CFO and CMO representing the company on the public realm, so they're not the faces and names I see when there's news about a company in which I do not work at or with.

If this "exposure" happens within a company as well, that's an issue for each company to assess and deal with accordingly.

coldpizza··on Google Earth Redesigned
Somebody will probably create an Electron app that wraps the web app, just like with Google Play Music
coldpizza··on Element – A Vue 2.0-based component library for developers, designers and PMs
"it's for desktop apps"

haha can you imagine if desktop users had different resolutions and aspect ratios on their screens? oh wait...

coldpizza··on Warzone 2100: A Free and Open Source Real-Time Strategy Game
I remember playing this on the PS1

The coolest thing about this game is that you could directly play as any unit like it was a third-person action game

coldpizza··on Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?
I didn't think it was patronising;

I think it was just pointing out a semantic flaw in the post: OP forgot to say where he lives, so we don't know what "abroad" is in his case.