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Re:Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld on Friday February 01, 2019 @01:30PM (#19056933)
I just think it's funny how we imagined us using technology in the future (VR and flying cars) and how we ended up using it (posting on social media platforms and discussing these posts in the comment sections).
Re:Life Off the Grid, Part 2: Playing Ultima Underworld on Friday February 01, 2019 @12:56PM (#19056519)
We went from 2D to 3D and instead of playing VR games in 2019 we discuss blog posts of people writing about playing 30-year-old games.
Doing customer support for one of the big app stores, you will encounter adults spending hundreds or thousands of dollars on play-to-win in-app purchases and subsequently blaming it on their child to get a refund on a daily basis.
Re:Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do? on Saturday January 12, 2019 @02:43PM (#18892902)
Just do it.
Re:SpaceX to lay off 10% of Workforce on Saturday January 12, 2019 @06:07AM (#18890703)
In Germany you see things like a single person having to do all jobs at once at a Pizza Hut or only three people working at the same time in a supermarket. A lot of customer-facing businesses are insanely understaffed. If your employer doesn't hire enough coworkers for whatever reason, your life will be miserable.
Maybe 9,900 of those employees are hired to step in anytime Alexa doesn't know how to interpret a voice command.
I use todoist (free plan) which lets you assign todos to different projects.

If i wanted to give each project a priority as well, i would probably just add a number to the project's name.

I just started using a todo app, instead of the note app i used for years.

Now i can give each thing i think of a priority and a deadline.

I sort my todos by priority and make sure i get the important things done, before anything else.

I start the day, by choosing which todos i want to get done today and then i work my way through the list in no particular order.

Here's a nice documentary about foreigners moving their startup to Shenzen, where they can have same-day prototypes built and go into production immediately: https://youtu.be/SGJ5cZnoodY
If you can't find a simple solution, you're thinking too complicated.
Re:Mmm, Pi-hole on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @04:39PM (#18080054)
Check out coil: https://coil.com
Re:Brain Drain Within the EU? on Sunday September 23, 2018 @05:19AM (#18050218)
100k is completely unrealistic for a German software engineer, especially after only a couple of years.
Re:Twitch is reportedly blocked in China on Friday September 21, 2018 @04:54AM (#18038196)
This development has been bugging me as well. And while joke comments used to be ignored, now they trigger a chain reaction of joke answers.