News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

eloox

Re:Ending All Respiratory Infections on Thursday June 25, 2026 @12:25AM (#48668864)
What's that? Any particular dosage?
Re:Google just gave Android power users a sideloading win on Sunday March 29, 2026 @02:01AM (#47560759)
That may be, but I think you are missing the point of the outrage: this solution is not good.
It can be great, but I've noticed lag during screen sharing. Other colleagues have noticed it too.

Even so... it's better than slack for audio/video and my organization uses teams as primary for calls and slack for text communications(group chats, channels, dms)

Re:I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016) on Thursday November 10, 2022 @06:14AM (#33544902)
What do you mean by "series A"? :)

I never hid the scripts. The automation was out in the open and everybody in the team was making use of them.

I quit because I didn't receive pay raise and wouldn't have in that position(EDIT: They wanted to promote me to team lead(people management), but it is something I'm not interested in). Plus with the skills I've gained I managed to get a better paying job.

Re:I strive to be a 0.1x Engineer (2016) on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:33AM (#33544162)
That's how I became a software developer. I was working for a big tech firm as a data entry "specialist". Everything (except some pricing calculations) was done manually. I was hired as the 7th member of the team. It started with copy/pasting some simple VBA scripts to automate small tasks. In a year I managed to automate most of the tasks. More notably: A monthly task that took 2 days(and quite prone to human errors) of the entire team into a less than an hour job for a single person. And automated discrepancy checks between the data sources.

It was quite satisfying and made me realize that I should be doing this for a living. I quit that company for way better pay as a software developer. I don't know if I'll be able to find such a job again, but I really enjoyed it.

Re:Checkbox Olympics on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @10:01AM (#31824044)
setTimeout doesn't guarantee that it will execute exactly after 3000.

  (() => {
    const targ = $(".setGo");
    const targ2 = $(".theSport > div:nth-child(2)");
    const observer = new MutationObserver((mutations, observer) => {
      if (mutations[0]?.target?.classList.contains('going')) {
        targ2.childNodes.forEach(c => c.click());
      }
    });
  
    observer.observe(targ, {
      subtree: false,
      attributes: true
    });
  
    $('.readyButton').click()
  })();
  
This gives me consistent Time: 0.001 in FF. "Time: not yet set" in Edge/Chrome.
Re:Poll: Where do you live? on Friday February 04, 2022 @04:50PM (#30213811)
Nice :) What library did you use for the graphics?
I don't know much about the history of these tests. Can Hanlon's razor principle be applied here?