krisgenre

Did I read it correctly? This person learnt to code and released a product to compete with Google in just three years?

That's very impressive!

I am using fish along with fzf[1] and it makes `ctrl-r` even better.

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

I am going to turn 40 in a couple of years. Honestly, I have never liked the idea of 'preparing for interviews'. If I want to switch job I mostly want to apply what I have learnt so far to clear the interview.

The interview at my last two jobs (current and previous one) were both vastly based on a coding task. I always prefer this as it is closest to how I work.

I was quite amazed by IntelliJ's refactoring capabilities just few days back. I had code like below

  switch(sort) {
      case "asc":
        sortedComments = topicComments
                .stream().map(Comment::getThreadComments).filter(Objects::nonNull).flatMap(Collection::stream)
                .sorted(Comparator.comparingLong(PostResponse::getCommentPostedTimeMilles)).collect(Collectors.toList());
        break;
      case "desc":
        sortedComments = topicComments
                .stream().map(Comment::getThreadComments).filter(Objects::nonNull).flatMap(Collection::stream)
                .sorted(Comparator.comparingLong(PostResponse::getCommentPostedTimeMilles).reversed()).collect(Collectors.toList());
       break;
  }

I selected the first case and applied "Extract to method" and IntelliJ automatically suggested and applied the method to the second case also. Not sure if Eclipse will do that.

Try https://www.baeldung.com/

Long back there was similar bug in iOS camera itself https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2413926

>> host it close to metal as possible

Wouldn't it be less efficient to host something myself than to use some cloud provider?

I am indebted to Firebug forever. If it weren't for Firebug it would have taken me a really long time to understand how the web (browser) works.

Why they have not done the same in India? They must be having more users in India than in US.

Unfortunately deep technical depth is unwarranted and unwelcomed in many organizations. In fact you repeatedly get told that "the customer doesn't care about your code". At the end of the day adding yet another 'if' condition to patch up things is what is usually appreciated.

Sorry, the actual article title goes "70% of surveyed Americans" but it has been edited here.

>>We asked 950 currently employed Americans.. and the title goes "70% of Americans Say"

Isn't the sample size miniscule to make such a big statement?

Off topic, I wonder how people publicly admit they released a side project while working a full time job? AFAIK no company accepts this.

Who knows they might even acquire Canonical.

>> data locked down so no publisher can access it?

Maybe I didn't understand but are you suggesting hoarded data shouldn't be locked down and any publisher should have access to it?

True. I have always wondered why no other species on Earth have evolved in a way Humans have. Every other species maintains the balance in nature but we are the only species actively creating imbalance and destroying the planet. Prometheus might have been true after all.

What a coincidence! I was just reading https://redis.io/topics/replication few hours back and when I saw this leader-follower (master-slave) I couldn't help but wonder why they were bringing in a new terminology.

"Google Offers No Help"

Even though I love Google, this is increasingly getting scary. More than hackers getting into my account, I am actually more afraid of getting locked out by Google one day.

An year or so back I created a Google account for my five year old daughter to be used on a Nexus 7 2012 (yes, it still works). Recently, I reset the device and tried logging in with my daughter's account but had forgotten the password. In spite of giving the recovery address correctly and entering the OTP that was sent, Google kept telling me it couldn't confirm if I was the owner of the account.

Since this is a new account I don't have a problem but what if this happened to my main account?

I am still on a 13' inch early 2015 MacBook Pro (128 GB SSD). Mojave already takes up 50 gb, is it worth upgrading to Catalina?

To be fair I get a very similar notification when an app requests location data in the background in Android 10 too.

I bought the same in 2016. Last year the speakers got fried and since few months back it has started to shut down abruptly. The max time I can use it now is only around 30 mins :(

One way or the other aren't most of us building for someone else's platform anyway?. Mobile, desktop, browser...

Floppy drives were dropped at a time when CDs were quite popular and the 1.44MB(or 3.xx?) of storage was obsolete. The same with CDs (pen drives became cheaper and were reusable). That's not the case with headphones. Bluetooth headphones are not only costlier but the sound quality too sucks.

Oh yeah, I was blown over by the 'cube' switch back then. When Chrome gained popularity, I remember using Compiz to hide the title bar on Firefox.

Even for someone who likes Google, this is insane.

I personally know people who think they are signing into Chrome when they sign into google.com. Maybe the Chrome team is right about their larger user base?

You can't really draw parallels with the virtual and real world. Starting at someone's Facebook profile pic is not the same as standing next to the person and doing the same.

These things keep coming now and then on HN. I built one myself[1] long time back and this makes me wonder if there is actually a market for clipboard mirroring.

[1] https://github.com/krishnaraj/oneclipboard

On a side note, the card animation is interesting. I thought it would be some GIF but the text is actually selectable!.

On Chrome you have the SessionBox extension - https://sessionbox.io/discover