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fzil··on A Website for Learning Vim
>I did change my keymap even further, so that arrow keys are mapped to fn+hjkl. This way, I can navigate everything just with hjkl (:

Yeah once you get used to vim way of working with text you can essentially never go back.

fzil··on My worst tech interview experience
AFAIK around 2010ish Google asked a bunch of these kind of questions.
fzil··on Show HN: Rapid Recipe – Reader mode for recipes
my understanding is that recipeasly was "stealing" page views from the blogs which led to ad revenue decline. this extension modifies the page afaik so shouldn't be the same issue.
fzil··on Ask HN: Skill you want to learn in 2022?
For your sanity, I suggest you get the free open source app called Rectangle. Makes managing window splits and the like much nicer.
fzil··on 90% of Black Friday deals were the same price or cheaper six months before
Yeah 10 years ago Boxing Day was all the hype in Canada. Most of classmates would stand in line at Best Buy or other retailers to buy some latest console or game disc. Times sure have changed.
fzil··on Apple buying Google ads for high-value subscription apps
yes, but they aren't running these apps for small apps like that. The ads according to TFA, are for giants like Tinder, HBO Max etc. The little guy making < $1M would obviously appreciate the free publicity.
fzil··on Higher Math for Beginners (1987)
> - Gallian, Contemporary Abstract Algebra

That is an amazing book. I will also recommend "A walk through combinatorics" by Miklos Bona for simple explanations and well made exercises with solutions present in the book itself.

fzil··on Six Palestinian organizations hacked with NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware
That's the excuse used to bomb every hospital, school and press building by the Zionist regime. Hard to take anything that comes out of their mouths seriously.
fzil··on Facebook Reports Third Quarter 2021 Results
comments like that always remind of that rsync guy's comment on dropbox's launch on HN. I wonder how this weird blindspot develops in people.
fzil··on Ask HN: How do you memorize things you read?
That is an incredibly beautiful website. Thank you for sharing!
fzil··on Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
I see, I stand corrected then. I'll have to take a closer look at their store ToS.
fzil··on Dutch watchdog finds Apple App Store payment rules anti-competitive
> I'm sure you'll be happy to pay the 30% extra for that service.

if that's how things worked then we wouldn't be having all this commotion. Part of the reason why devs are going after apple is because they /can't/ charge more on iOS compared to other platforms and they /can't/ explicitly state that they have to pay 30% to apple.

fzil··on Ask HN: What is your strongest contrarian opinion?
I thought this was the mainstream opinion of Go, outside of its own community?
fzil··on Show HN: I made a meme creator that makes around $4k a month
So I signed up on your website, and the confirmation email it sent me doesn't work. The link goes to localhost:8080.
fzil··on 1 out of every 153 American workers is an Amazon employee
> Half the stores are gift shops for socks and blankets etc.

Yeah this annoyed me to no end, however after a few shops I realized the only reason these are even open right now is because of the high margin gift section. Check the prices on their plushies when you are there. $35 for a small rabbit! and people buy them.

fzil··on Don’t Apologize: If the mob comes for you, stand up for yourself
That's just weird, does being of jewish heritage make you incapable of being a nazi? There's certainly a ton of polish and slavic nazis. What does Andy being a gay Asian man have anything to do with the claims of him being a white supremacist?
fzil··on Note that I wouldn’t pass the listed minimum requirements
I am not sure how it is at the more experienced levels but for new grads and juniors you apply for the company, then have a "general" interview (think leetcode, some nominal system design stuff). If you clear the bar, you proceed to some team matching stage (this where the companies start to differ). Your experience and your input is taken into account and you are matched with a team where you fit in best. Some companies have the team manager talk to the new candidate to check for fit, others have different processes.
fzil··on Ask HN: What huge mistake did you make early in your career?
mind elaborating what rights are being curtailed in Canada? Quebec right now has that stupid no religious attire in public offices law right now. What else?
fzil··on Researchers fear a scenario in which smart speakers feed sleepers subliminal ads
to save everyone else a click, its PragerU bs.
fzil··on How to get yourself to do things (2015)
this is somewhat sad/hilarious. I watched that video like a solid 5 years ago, now I am back with the same unsolved problems lmao
fzil··on Google diversity head in 2007: Jews have ‘insatiable appetite for war’
Yeah, definitely seen a lot of “If I were a Muslim, I would’ve ...” sort of nonsense in my pretty short life.
fzil··on Poor in Tech
That requires living in an expensive city, at least in North America.
fzil··on Ask HN: How to attract perm Snr Engs when the contract market is so lucrative?
Totally unrelated but why are you 20 versions behind? Is there some specific use case or just can’t upgrade for whatever reason?
fzil··on Python vs Common Lisp, workflow and ecosystem (2019)
I am sorry but what does this mean:

> the author trying to be clever (in the Kernighan sense)

I know that Kernighan is the author of the C book, but its been a while since I skimmed it.

fzil··on I need to explain to you just how dire America's Pokémon card crisis is
but that only makes sense if the only thing you did with shovel was dig for gold...
fzil··on Firefox 88.0
after reading your comment I checked again and realized that activity monitor has a column for %GPU as well under the CPU tab. So here's the eyeball average after watching the GitHub page for about a minute.

Firefox 88 (no extensions, private mode):

CPU% 55 (avg) 61 (peak)

GPU% 65 (avg) 77 (peak)

Safari (no extensions):

CPU% 33 (avg) 40 (peak)

GPU% 33 (avg) 40 (peak) <- same numbers for both CPU and GPU in safari.

fzil··on Firefox 88.0
I did the same test on my M1 Air. Safari is using 40% CPU while Firefox is 55%. Not sure why there's such a large difference between your results and mine.
fzil··on Avoid Consumer Routers
the coddling of our dairy and telecom industry is frankly ridiculous. I was hoping that some American company would enter the Canadian Market but that doesn't seem like something that will happen anytime soon.
fzil··on Google isn’t happy with Microsoft over online news
I believe you misread the comment, gp isn't saying that Linux doesn't support SSO but rather MS's website doesn't offer that when accessing from Linux unlike when they are using Windows.
fzil··on Apple buys a company every three to four weeks
imagine having to go to the genius bar to get your chicken cooked the right way
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