noble_pleb

Personally, I don't think its possible to even work in your 100% capacity with WFH. Some might think that focusing extra hard on your work while ignoring the noises and family feuds will help but the long term toll it takes on your mental health and the amount of stress it builds is devastating.

The debian benchmarks website. It was called benchmarkgame.alioth.com earlier if I recall correctly.

They had a plan to disrupt the optical fiber scenario too not so long ago, IIRC. What happened to that?

That's exactly what any CEO or "Downsizing Consultant" would say. That may be an OK situation for a corporate company, but for a non-profit foundation like Mozilla, its unhealthy and rings some disaster bells.

There is a fully open source port called VSCodium[1], I believe.

[1] https://vscodium.com/

Opinions vary on that one, does a footprint reduction by 90kb really matters in the day and age where megabytes of bloatware like angular, react, vue, etc. goes unchecked?

If adding 90kb helps me write `$(document.ready()` instead of `window.addEventListener(DOMContentLoaded)`, I'd rather add that because making code more intuitive and readable is what software engineering is about.

Is it worth switching from jquery with all the extra verbose code you must write for DOM manipulation?

Plus the new generation is pampered with much cheaper resources (RAM and CPU), so programming efficiency goes out of the window.

I need a simple seo tool to find keyword rankings and check backlinks without going through the complex routine of google adwords or costly keyword platforms. Will you be able to build such a tool and make it open source?

Not just Java, there is a lot of old Microsoft tech floating around too. VB6 and old versions of .NET and MSSQL are still common in many enterprises.

Off-topic but medium has almost turned into a paywall these days, it won't allow you to read more than 5 articles without subscribing to their paid service. Should HN and Google be promoting such a walled garden, especially when creative commons content is found aplenty on the interwebs?

Can relate to that. I used to work for tech mahindra and they were using vb6 and .NET 2.0 for a major client even as late as 2014 when I quit from there. Its most likely that they are still using that old stack because its typically difficult to justify migration costs to a newer stack.

Flask (python) or even CodeIgniter (php) are my frameworks of choice for this sort of thing. They may be a bit old and organizing a large project could be difficult but nothing can beat them on performance!

Seems to me like a Deja-Vu after I answered this[1] on quora yesterday.

[1] https://www.quora.com/Github-now-allows-unlimited-private-re...

An alternative to putty on windows is to get the entire Git SCM package[1]. You get not just git, ssh and sftp but many other useful command line tools too.

[1]: https://git-scm.com/

In other words, "if we are reducing advertising costs, let's not forget to collect maximum PR benefit out of it".

Have you tried the PHP OpenCart? It may not be perfect but there seems to be a good plugin ecosystem around the project and you can also hire a programmer on upwork, etc. for some quick customization.

>> but increasingly [not] having a facebook account is not an option.

but so is the case for google maps, gmail, linkedin, twitter, uber and a zillion other services. Facebook is just like any other web service at the end of the day.

>> FB's customers are the advertisers.

Even if that's true for arguments sake, I don't see how FB becomes a "monopoly" in that case. There are potentially large # of advertisers buying advertising space from potentially large # of website owners. How does FB have a monopoly on advertiser spending?

But the difference is that "ALL OTHER" monopolies are priced whereas facebook is a free product. Can it be called a monopoly if your product is free? Pretty sure, most lawyers won't have a hard time convincing a jury that it can't be.

Besides, if FB is a monopoly then so are Twitter, Google, Reddit, Quora, etc. Its an oligopoly of sorts with each player dominating a slightly differentiated product and all products are free of cost.

I've found that sometimes fiddling with some wireless settings like operation band, channel, tx power, WMM, etc. helps, provided you know what you are doing. Especially so if you're in an overcrowded wifi zone or in a poor reception area.

Do they seriously expect users to pay to be able to perform searches? Users don't need new platforms, its vice versa.

Most important tech company? Google and Apple are arguably more advanced and important than Jio.

Jio can become more important provided other Reliance web services like JioMart, etc. start seeing an increased usage.

I think one reason why pro abortion is "pro choice" is because it actually involves making a choice. Not aborting and giving "life" to a newborn is the default selection and doesn't involve making choice.

Brainstorming is the key, take each one of your ideas and scrutinize it from all perspectives. Ask the journalists' questions (how, what, why, when, etc.) and read as much as possible. If its a technology or programming language you daily dabble in, the content should come naturally to you.

As for the problem of having the content all in your head but still being unable to put it down on paper (or laptop screen), I can understand and empathize with that problem! Writer's block can be due to many reasons but the best way to solve it is to just have a ritual of just sitting on your desk daily at a stipulated writing time. Even if writing doesn't come to you in the beginning, it will eventually flow as you make this a habit. In many trades, success is just a matter of showing up, its the same about writing.

There are still other processors like Mastercard and Paypal, I believe. And then there is also bitcoin, the last remaining refuge of free speech activists.

Those who HAVE money can AFFORD to work on solving interesting problems. So yes, as a plebeian, money comes first for me.

Seconded. $(document).ready(fn) is far more easier and comprehensible than document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', fn, false).

Even if I'm aware of the latter, I refuse to use it when former is available just for the sake of being "PureJS trendy".

In other words, the prospective APT or YUM of the windows world.

Ability to turn off all political content (not just ads) is the most needed feature right now. Once they start that feature, only then they will understand how many of us twats are really interested in consuming that toxic stuff!

The bigger question to ask here is where is the Google Adsense competitor? Google may have some favorite political inclination and being a private firm also has the right to deplatform anyone. But why has no Adsense alternative emerged even after so many years? Do people just enjoy Google's monopoly in advertising?