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Re:Winamp’s woes: How the greatest MP3 player undid itself (2012)
on Saturday June 20, 2020 @10:01AM (#23583978)
Huge fan of Winamp.
Damn. How many good product died or stagnated, because of stupid politics.
Re:The relationship between mindset and age (2017)
on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:02AM (#23507205)
>> Still, the message seems to be that our chronological age really is just a number. “If people think that because they are getting older they cannot do things, or cut their social ties, or incorporate this negative view which limits their life, that can be really detrimental,” says Terracciano. “Fighting those negative attitudes, challenging yourself, keeping an open mind, being engaged socially, can absolutely have a positive impact.”
And this.
Re:The relationship between mindset and age (2017)
on Saturday June 13, 2020 @02:00AM (#23507193)
https://www.oldest.org/sports/marathon-runners/
People had run/are running marathon in 70-90s age group. Hack, the oldest runner was 102 year old.
May be we can do lot better, if we force ourselves to stay active.
Mark Twain said it better - "Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.".
Re:Ask HN: Could I build a browser that doesn't support JavaScript?
on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:26AM (#23499538)
I wish someone create one.
It will solve problem of cross site tracking. However lot of sites will break because of their over dependence on javascript.
Have you ever tried browsing by turning javascript off. A lot of garbage just does not get loaded.
Re:Ideas That Changed My Life
on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:22PM (#23448900)
50 is too much. Reading about yoga these days. Seems like following 5 Yamas & 5 Niyamas or noble eightfold path may keep clear from most of the troubles.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niyama
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamas
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_Eightfold_Path#The_Eight...
Re:The world might run out of people (2019)
on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:15PM (#23448852)
Writer didn't accounted for covid or something more dangerous coming up in future.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015)
on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:13AM (#23445685)
As lot of businesses do not reach that scale where architectural or design or quality issues may pop up, "full-stack" devs keep moving the wheel. I think that is good enough and good enough is OK.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015)
on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:06AM (#23445649)
Another drawback of complex stack bites those people who have idea and money, but try to get product done through consultancy because they lack tech skill or does not have enough experience.
They read lot of 'buzzword' on the internet or heard them from their tech friend and ask for everything i.e. Microservice Architecture and cloud and all and etc. since beginning. Resulting in unnecessary huge team and tech complexity. An idea or poc which could had been easily done and tested in market with small techstack/small team. No wonder lot of these products fail.
Re:Choose Boring Technology (2015)
on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:41AM (#23445297)
Job description these days become reflection of complexity in new age tech stack. Know C++/Java/Scala/Enter_Your_Lang_Here with python and React/Angular/Blah/Blah with Big Data Technologies - Hadoop, spark, etc. with Docker/K8 and with Azure/GCP/AWS.
It is time consuming process to become expert of one thing, requires couple of years of continuous focus.
I don't know How many people are actually expert of all these and how they are going to perform when some issue pop up in production. Try that judging it 30-to-60 minutes of interview.
Re:'Did I miss anything?': A man emerges from a 75-day silent retreat
on Sunday June 07, 2020 @01:15AM (#23444938)
The mind is difficult beast to tame and Simplicity is hardest thing to achieve.
Try to sit in meditation and focusing on breathing, first 10-15 minutes monkey mind does not even calm down and can't sit more than 30 minutes. Back starts hurting. Sitting on chair for so long and back muscles have become weak.
However, there are so many unprocessed emotions which keeps popping up when I try to sit down idle or try to 'not think', ranging from things read on social network (twitter) upto childhood emotion. Total Emotion roller coaster. Plus, awareness about shallow habit of mind of continuously judging and having opinion on everything. Worst is realisation that I don't event have control or influence on what is going around.
Blessed are people who have achieved control over thinking. The momentary calmness and freedom, I feel is simply liberating. But it does not last long. How can you live in this world and not be affected but it. It's tough battle with 'self' for now for getting into bad habits just because of not being self aware.
For guidance, that quote - "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away". Getting rid of bad habit one by one is starting point.
Sigh.. may be someday, will become truly free.
Re:What is the business model for DuckDuckGo? (2017)
on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:36PM (#23340072)
This is some good news. I was worried that they are not making enough money and might shutdown. I will continue using it.
Re:macOS Catalina 10.15.5
on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @10:38AM (#23323989)
Amid lockdown, I am scared to update.
Re:92 of top 500 subreddits controlled by same 5 people
on Thursday May 14, 2020 @10:53AM (#23180250)
>> Voluntary janitorial work.
How many hours people spend, as they also have jobs which actually pays them?
Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro
on Tuesday May 05, 2020 @12:44PM (#23081968)
>> have you ever lost more than a few hours to "required tinkering" over those years
- Not really. And Linux ecosystem has improved tremendously in last 10 years.
For one of the colleague at the office, tried some Thinkpad , but that was not such a good experience. Now everyone on the team (> 30 people) gets Ubuntu Laptop or Desktop.
If you are going to use it main dev machine, then definitely Latitude. Ask Dell guys to preinstall it for you. They will install proprietary drivers for you.
I also have Macbook Pro 2015 model. Don't expect trackpad experience like it. I always use external mouse and keyboard any way.
Not tried XPS series yet, So can't comment.
Re:New 13-inch MacBook Pro
on Monday May 04, 2020 @01:11PM (#23070623)
Not XPS, but I have used Ubuntu as main dev machine on Dell Latitude Laptop for more than 6 years without much issue.