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Reading this, I am immediately reminded of Al Bundy in Married with children, isn't he An American hero quite similar to Arthur Dent? Other than that I always thought of the Show King of Queens as similarly depressing, ... would be curious how that fits into the narrative of American heros

I think it is important to stress that both, color _and_ shape should be visible distinctive, and as you say it is important that the color palette is chosen in a way that even if the color does not stand out for a the color-blind person, the contrast stays visible.

Making everything monochrome is surly not more accessible, because there sure are people who find it easier to distinguish by color than shape.

I have resisted that move for a long time, but this year I moved to using a hosted and managed nextcloud instance for all my file syncing needs.

It is run by a small local webhosting company, at which I've been a customer for my whole adult life (~20 years)

Thanks for the link, I think I ride with a similar style in the city, but I wasn't aware there is a word for it.

Android Tablets with Mobile Internet are perfectly fine phones. I've used a LTE Samsung tablet exclusively as my only "Smart" phone for a while, and had a Dual-Sim to share the same Phone number as on my "Dumb"-phone, (Nokia 8110 4G) ...

Looking forward to finally have the i-dont-care-about-cookies add-on for my phone.

Sometimes you get cron jobs with a cheap webhost, so you would not even need to maintain a cheap VPS

Just as satisfying as the git man page generator https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

Can say from my professional experience, that this is definitely a problem worth solving.

Google-Fonts could be made part of Google-Chrome and would never be downloaded ever again for Chrome Users

Most of the currently popular frameworks follow the pattern of organizations that make the case that "Designers" and "Programmers" need to be strictly separated.

But how to retrigger all jobs that are loading a plugin, when the plugin is updated?

Nice, but I just got myself a Casio F-91W

This is a very simple principle, yet I see it constantly violated in big projects with plenty of redources. Even though it seems obvious, it takes a lot of effort and arguing to keep these kind of interfaces small and effective.

16K $ is quite a mild punishment for a top executive, but I guess the families of those dead, und other harrassment victims will sue for damages after the criminal trial.

I take plenty of trains in Europe, and booking well in advance, I never pay the "full" fare. It is usually quite easy to take advantage of early booking offers.

I've been using cookiecutter for this mostly. But in general I feel like excessive boilerplate is more like a code smell. Reusable code should live in libraries, and frameworks should have sane defaults and configuration be kept to a minimum.

Watch Movies and channel your favorite Monologues.

I gave Notion a quick try on my Android Handset, but it felt quite slow and unresponsive, adding a subpage gave me a spinning wheel animation, that took a little bit, and trying to reorder items by dragging quickly flashed the keyboard over the content.

My preferred way to keep notes of thoughts that I have on the way, is "Simplenote". I've tried other Note taking Apps, but so far Simplenote feels the most solid when it comes to syncinc the content. Syncinc NEVER blocks the App, it happens automatically and quickly in the background, I Never had to wait for the sync, or press a button or refresh anything.

Other than that, "Simplenote" feels very lightwight and fast, exactly what I want, when I want take a note when in hurry.

Probably way more people are dying from car accidents, yet people are starting a major hysteria about a few wolves returning.

Millions of cars running through european towns at speeds high enough to kill a pedestrian, yet a wolve roaming through some far off forrest is considered more dangerous and newsworthy.

This whole proposal sounds just like one that a spoiled teenager would make.

Instead of feeling lucky to have a skill highly sought after, and to live in an economy that can afford to not only pay good money, but that will even send people out to throw that money after you, you still find reason to complain.

Set aside, I am aware, that there are crappy jobs, companies and people around, that want to scam and screw you.

But overall, that situation is quite a luxury, ... complaining about that is even beyond the proverbial first world problems.

I would speculate (without exact justification) that this is because Americans are nowadays heavily indoctrinated in neoliberalism.

Though Europeans are catching up there too.

That sounds basically like a Credit Rating System, similar systems exists in probably every first world country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_rating

Obsessing about the design of a landing page is like obsessing about the floor layout of a retail space.

Sure, it might be interesting and eventually pleasing to look at, but in the end it is like obsessing about the manufacturer of a specific Coin-Slot-Component of an Arcade-Machine.

And that means it only makes you happy, if happiness is the sound that coins make in your purse. And that is a quite boring and limited outlook on happiness in my opinion.

I enjoyed reading that article while secretly substituting "tech worker" for "clerk" in my mind.

sounds like a major difference, if a labour law only protects rich people, it is not really in the spirit of an actual "labour law"

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One interesting aspect that seems to be completely left out of that discussion is the issue of labour protection laws.

Firing someone in Europe for some minor issue like that would probably be a major legal issue here.

They only people who may complain about those violations are the copyrightholders of the code that has been violated. Everyone else who is chiming in here and bashing the offender is IMHO suffering from some kind of torches and pitchforks mob mentality.

GPL violations as far as I understand it are always a matter to be settled between the original authors and the offenders. I am not aware that the GPL gives bystanders and angry fanboys'n girls the right to sue anyone.

Clearly a first world problem. I especially like the "outrageous" language in the article: "built an lies", as if it was a major drama, ... honestly, who cares? ... But then I again, I do not even care to own a car.

Yes,

A) Live in a large city, preferable a "Tech Hub" B) Find (small/Startup) Companies that are near where you live C) Research a nice Cafe somewhere close to their office D) Write an informal mail, "Hey, I saw you are looking for a 'INSERT JOB TITLE HERE', I live pretty close to your office, how about a short meeting at 'INSERT NAME OF CAFE HERE', I'd like to ask some quick questions about your company and the job position?

Have a nice day, 'INSERT YOUR NAME HERE'"

See what happens, ...

A good way to prepare for that is to go to meetups in the same city that are closely related to the technology that the company uses, and chat up existing employees.... But attending meetups all the time can be tiring too.