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Re:Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus on Saturday August 27, 2022 @05:59AM (#32617427)
I think they made a mistake disallowing single user upgrading to paid plan.

Non-corporate users will migrate to Discord, Slack will cut resources costs = more money without new users. Everyone happy, just allow us to export data ;)

Re:Ubuntu 20.04 LTS’ snap obsession has snapped me off of it on Sunday September 06, 2020 @01:39AM (#24389244)
It seems that current LTS relase needs more bug and glitches fixing, quality is worse than before :-( It's not just snaps, also software center have it's problems (crashing, glitches/lags in listing and installing apps, driver detection problems). I used Ubuntu for many years, it's normal that some relases are more polished that other. Overally great OS and it's "free". Let's hope they will fix it. I used error reporting functionality and also donated to Ubuntu.
Re:Adventures in Netflix on Sunday December 01, 2019 @03:21AM (#21674530)
On PS4 Netflix app you can check "live stats for nerds" like resolution and bitrate pressing a single button ("option" AFAIR). It's not much fun but doesn't cost as much time and $$$ No screenshot thou :-(
Re:Ask HN: Do you do volunteer work? on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @05:03AM (#21512936)
I understand your volunteer work goal may be to "use a math / CS skill-set to impact my community in a positive way". There are many ways you can use your skills. For example, you could start participating in a well established and valuable open-source project or take a part in hackathons solving big problems, you could organize workshops, teach people. Anything you do, remember to balance your volunteer work with other parts of life and career.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for sharing.
Re:Ask HN: As programmers, why are we still going to the office? on Saturday December 08, 2018 @06:22AM (#18634792)
Why we are going to the office? In most cases I saw it's because management wants to have more control, more performance and possibility to change our environment in any moment. Also most of the employers want us to work same amount of time daily and for all of the week. If it changes it will only if goverment will change the law or something big happens. It is simply more profitable for employers and they have upper hand for most of the people.
Re:A story about Upwork and freelancers on Monday November 12, 2018 @01:04AM (#18430868)
Upwork is partially automated. They probably use market position to manipulate users. I had some bad experience and no communication also. When you register account, Upwork "moderates" your profile and "decides" if you can start to work with clients. They have some kind of automated moderation with percentage pass value. It's not working great. If you aren't using in your resume a lot of words that they think are marketable you will be banned as not being eligible for working with Upwork. They will send you e-mail with misguiding information that you aren't good fit for them in nice words and that you can reapply in the future. Reality is that some bad data processing took place. For many people reading such type of e-mail that they send can be offending (if not depressing in cases when they didn't get what happened). In my case I just added some more keywords and tags because I was almost sure what happened and resubmitted profile. After a couple of hours my account was Up and Working ;) No sorry or any other information from them - not a nice way of starting bussiness with a client.
Re:Waking up early serves capitalism on Thursday October 25, 2018 @10:31AM (#18301160)
I belive it's a clickbait article or the author doesn't really tried to understand benefits of getting up early. How can it serve capitalism if someone uses first hours of the day for himself not employer.
Re:Show HN: Websites in 2018 on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @01:36PM (#18285525)
Sad, but true. Time to change.
Re:OpenBSD 6.4 released on Thursday October 18, 2018 @11:23AM (#18249054)
I used OpenBSD for some time as a platform for a hobby servers around version 4. It is very stable, has low hardware requirements for a base system (I had running WordPress on 32MB RAM and Pentium 200 MMX to my amusement), has very fast and powerfull firewall / packet filter. It is one of the most elegant operating systems I've ever used. Simple in use but has huge functionality. I second that documentation is one of the best. Must try it again maybe on desktop this time.
Re:Ask HN: Drawbacks of Solid project by Tim Berners-Lee? on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @05:44AM (#18120085)
Interesting points.
Re:Ask HN: How do developers learn new skills quickly? on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @03:30AM (#18119464)
Everyone learns differently so it's hard to generalise. It seems for you it could be more efficient to "learn by doing". For example start some simple project and then gradually add more advanced topics (there are many websites with ideas for such beginner projects).

If stuck try to find answer by yourself googling, read documentation/books or seek for help from community. I think it's more efficient and entertaining than reading whole books chapter by chapter before starting using knowledge.

If you must learn something quickly I would probably search advice from a person who already knows what is important to learn first or search if someone resolved similar problem.

That way you will learn just needed subset for a beginning to resolve a problem and then you can learn more.

Ask HN: Drawbacks of Solid project by Tim Berners-Lee?

Solid is a new interesting project backed by famous Tim Berners-Lee. Project is focusing on giving control back to Internet users. Everyone can have his own "container" named POD for data, but data is also interconnected fe. your POD host your images but if someone comments it he hosts his comments, so it seems like a good way of having control but from technical point of view it's not great...

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