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elsurudo··on Workers at Amazon's main Italian hub, German warehouses strike on Black Friday
It's starting to become a think in Poland as well.
elsurudo··on How Queen and Pink Floyd were judged before they were famous
Personally I liked it. Looking at those authentic, old, typewritten documents added a certain charm, and brought me back in time. I wish the "animated" segments were longer, and included audio, though. I was even looking for an "unmute" control on the first one.
elsurudo··on Bootlegging Jane’s Addiction
I got to see them live with NIN I think in 2009 or 2010 (NINJA tour reunion or something like that), and despite being in a huge venue in Irvine, their stage presence was amazing. One of the best I've been. Great band.
elsurudo··on What the Heck Is a “Progressive Web App”? Seriously
I always thought it was a web app that functions reasonably even on older browsers with JS turned off (for example). Then the experience gets "progressively better" if you have a newer browser, and allow JS to execute.

Or am I confusing terminology?

elsurudo··on If you type the letter “i” and it autocorrects to an “A” with a symbol
I use a 4S with 7, but decided not to upgrade further. There was a performance decrease from 6 to 7, but it's still very usable.
elsurudo··on Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
I find it overwhelming. I don't know how to get over that.
elsurudo··on Atlantropa
Neat to think about, but a bit arrogant regarding our abilities. Each of those dams would have been a single point of failure, the failure of which would have meant utter devastation of a scale probably not seen... ever.
elsurudo··on Closh – Bash-like shell based on Clojure
Which of these are missing right now? Is there a decent backend framework in Clojure?
elsurudo··on Mark Twain’s Get-Rich-Quick Schemes
That's... the joke.
elsurudo··on An ode to pack: gzip’s forgotten decompressor
It's okay, we're all adults. You can say Brainfuck :)
elsurudo··on Paperclips
Yeah, eventually I figured it out. The trick was to start an exponential growth of probes by focussing on self-replication... then things started unlocking and it went on from there...
elsurudo··on Paperclips
So I've obtained full autonomy, I've got clip factories and tons of drones, and they are mostly "thinking", bringing me gifts. the problem is, there are no more projects... Did I find a bug and get stuck, or am I supposed to be more patient? I don't see a way to level up any more..
elsurudo··on Firefox Send: Private, Encrypted File Sharing
Probably branding purposes. Even non-techies recognize the Firefox brand. Mozilla – not so much.
elsurudo··on How We Built the ARKit Sudoku Solver
Oops, must have missed it. Thanks for the clarification.
elsurudo··on How We Built the ARKit Sudoku Solver
Definitely cool, and I like the application of ARKit. But using ML to solve a sudoku seems like overkill. I remember writing a constraint-based solver as the first assignment for an undergrad-level AI course back in uni. Surely this implementation is less efficient? Someone let me know if I am wrong.

If the aim was to simply learn new tech, though, then I get it. I am just wary of ML being a hammer used on anything even remotely resembling a nail.

elsurudo··on The Moldbug Variations
I get your point and I in fact agree. I just wanted to say that that is a sentence structure that only a programmer could find beautiful :)
elsurudo··on Microsoft gives up on Windows 10 Mobile
Heh. I was an intern there when this happened. In fact I think I was in the float in front of this one. To be honest this was blown out of proportion a bit. It was an internal celebration of release, and each team picked a theme. Most in good fun. In retrospect the funeral themed-one... yeah... didn't age well, and was perhaps in bad taste (I can't recall which team this was). It was just a bunch of overworked PMs, devs, and testers having some fun and blowing off steam.
elsurudo··on Wix Code
I'm sorry... can you explain that second paragraph? What is a Wix Cafe space with a focus on the Wix platform? what are Amazon AWS popup lofts?
elsurudo··on Ask HN: Resources to learn blockchain and smart contracts?
It's really just a marketing name.
elsurudo··on Uber says it's leaving Quebec if province insists on stricter rules
> Nobody gets killed if I do a bad job.

Maybe not literally, but lawyers _do_ have the power to ruin lives, just the same. Not defending you competently being just one example.

elsurudo··on iOS Version Stats
I know that is the case for the desktop apps (Electron I think), but is that also true of the mobile apps?
elsurudo··on iOS Version Stats
I'm using a 4S as well, but have stuck with iOS 7. I've been pretty happy with my "outdated" apps until recently, when Skype (whom I may for a subscription) told me I need to upgrade my app to continue using the service. Unfortunately, there is no update available for iOS 7... Shame.

Props to those companies that continue to support older iOS versions. Notably Spotify.

elsurudo··on When all job differences are accounted for, the pay gap almost disappears
There are male teachers, too.
elsurudo··on The Blockstack Browser: A Gateway to a New, Decentralized Internet
Why do you consider "small-time SaaS products" as "unethical", if I may ask? They may be "potentially unethical" since you don't know exactly what they are doing with your data, but it's not for certain.
elsurudo··on SQL is 43 years old – Here’s why we still use it today
That's true, but you could always either create them yourself in SQL in a migration, or use a gem like foreigner (as I did). Always use FKs...
elsurudo··on Better battery life with Microsoft Edge
Serious question – what was wrong with Channel 9?
elsurudo··on What the Hackintosh community wants in the new modular Mac Pro
Might be an opportunity to make them into customers. A lot of these people are probably people they alienated with their last Mac Pro generation.
elsurudo··on VS Code uses 13% CPU when idle due to blinking cursor rendering
Fair enough, but double-digit usage of an entire core... when the program is IDLE? how can you justify that? That's just broken.
elsurudo··on Text Editor Performance Comparison
Since it's based on node-webkit, that will be difficult. I find it hard to understand why they thought building text editors in a web engine was a good idea. Cross-platform support seems to trump all other considerations.
elsurudo··on Rails 5.1.0 Beta 1
After this integration with webpack, will it still be behind?
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