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santialbo··on Podswap: Keep airpods alive and out of the landfill
It costs 75€ in Europe, which is stupid since a new pair costs 130€.

https://support.apple.com/es-es/airpods/repair/service

santialbo··on Countries That Consumer More or Less Electricity Than Bitcoin in 2021
I wish you could mute certain topics on HN like you can do on Twitter.
santialbo··on Grumpy Cat NFT sold for nearly $80K
This is ridiculous. How is this not considered a fucking scam?
santialbo··on Facebook to restore news in Australia after last-minute deal with government
What surprises me the most is how Murdoch made the media look like the good guys here, when this was just bluff from someone who still lives in 1999.
santialbo··on SwiftGraphQL – A GraphQL client that lets you forget about GraphQL
I see a lot of hatred in the comments towards GraphQL. Is someone forcing you to use it against your will?

I've been using it for more than a year with TypeScript types generation and couldn't be happier. All of my interactions with the server are properly typed and haven't had a single bug related to server/client missmatches.

santialbo··on SwiftGraphQL – A GraphQL client that lets you forget about GraphQL
GraphQL was released as an specification with a node example implementation. It wasn't "written for server side javascript".
santialbo··on Draw an iceberg and see how it would float in water
Note drag increases with speed. So objects accelerate until drag negates buoyancy and then it just goes upwards at a costant speed.
santialbo··on Villarejo: The rise and fall of the Spanish state’s secret fixer
Until it's a foreigner doing it, then we all team up against.
santialbo··on Chakra UI – Modular and accessible UI components for React apps
I have mixed feelings about more advanced components like datepickers because they always make quite opinionated choices:

- do they use moment, date-fns, ?

- do they favor an easier and rigid API or a more complex but customizable?

- do they allow custom i18n? Most of the ones you find out there have English hardcoded in.

All of these reasons usually make me go the route of building my own one.

santialbo··on Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
It was 8 weeks on 2019, 12 on 2020 and 16 on 2021. Plus now men can also request "Lactancia" which adds an extra couple weeks.
santialbo··on Finland to give dads same parental leave as mums
Spain is progressively doing this. Starting 2021, men and women will have the paid same parental leave of 16 + 2 weeks (non-transferable).

The main reason is fight against the discrimination from employers who think hiring women is inconvenient because they can go on parental leave for very long.

santialbo··on Typhoon Lands in Japan – Windy Storm-Tracking Platform
I'm travelling Japan. This morning I took one of the last Shinkansen from Tokyo to Kanazawa. Even here the rain and the wind is scary.
santialbo··on Pika CDN – A CDN for Modern JavaScript
Does it inspect your code for potentially needed polyfills or do you need to specify a list of polyfillable features that you have used?
santialbo··on Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations
Thank you for pointing out. I found a comparison wiki article. I think this is an improvement over messageformat. They have tackled many of the issues with mf I didn't even know I had :P
santialbo··on Fluent 1.0: a localization system for natural-sounding translations
Looking at the examples, it looks like something like messageformat (https://messageformat.github.io/messageformat/) would have been a good solution to them. We've been using this at my job and we are very happy with the flexibility it provides. The hard part comes when a third party has to do the translations because someone from tech needs to be involved.
santialbo··on PCjs Machines
There's a really high pitch sound when the emulator starts that hurt my ears (was wearing earphones with high volume). Beware.
santialbo··on Firefox 65.0 released
it's common on google apps ;)
santialbo··on Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada
There's more countries in the world other than the US, you know.
santialbo··on Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?
> and [unlike Barcelona] everyone speaks English

Do you have any stats proving that? Just asked a portuguese friend living in Barcelona and said that is a quite bold statement.

santialbo··on Nvidia Appears To Have A GPU Inventory Problem
Let's see if this translates into a price drop. I have been wanting to build a gaming pc but the prices for high end graphics cards are absurd.
santialbo··on The way we run Exist
Why would I do so? the nice thing about this is to have the historical of data. If I created a new account I would have to start over.

Unless, of course, you could import historial data somehow. But then maybe just make that feature not available on trial.

santialbo··on The way we run Exist
Well, it was for me. I read the blog post and decided I wanted to try it until I had to add my cc details on the sign up form. If you are providing a one month free trial why on earth do you need them?
santialbo··on The way we run Exist
You are comparing this service I've never heard about before with a service everyone knows. I think there's a little difference there.
santialbo··on The way we run Exist
Asking for credit card details on a free trial is going to be a stopper for new users.
santialbo··on Diamond – fast search across all your cloud services
I'm also to worried about giving full access to my emails but I don't think that makes me a scared person. I think wrorrying here is perfectly fine and understandable.
santialbo··on Kotlin and linear programming
Just adding that there are tricks that allow adding (apparently) non linear conditions to the problem such as variables that activate or not based on other conditions or even if-then-else statements.

Without these tricks the technique is pretty limited at solving real world problems.

santialbo··on Browserling goes viral with cheap phone users trying to use WhatsApp
I'm amazed hn users are bashing Peter for wanting to monetize the trafic. This is not a cheap service to run. He has to raise entire virtual machines and he's getting ddosed by thousands if not millions of people.

The fact they are indian is totally irelevant here.

Maybe making them tweet stupid stuff was a mistake but hey, we all do mistakes, that doesn't make us assholes. You don't know the relationship he has with his competitors, maybe they are in good terms. Why are people judging him this easily?

santialbo··on Finance information on Google
Are you planning on supporting european stock markets?
santialbo··on We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
I'm saying that they usually end up in a rejection, not that I reject them because of that. Rejections happen because other factors.
santialbo··on We only hire the best means we only hire the trendiest (2016)
That's something I know and it's a decision I make due to not being able to interview everyone. If I can interview 5 people I won't pick 5 random cvs. I'll pick those that, in my opinion, are more likely to be a good fit.
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