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Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp on Friday January 08, 2021 @05:41PM (#25691477)
what do you mean by zero-rating?
Re:Poll: Switching from WhatsApp on Thursday January 07, 2021 @09:46AM (#25671595)
> What's more, several cell phone operators' plans include unlimited WhatsApp, but only a few GB of other data... meaning when your data limits are reached you can still use WhatsApp for the rest of the month, but not i.e. Signal or Telegram. That makes is rather hard to convince people to switch.

isn't this illegal? Portugal had such a problem, but i don't think anything happened since this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15905843

Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 on Friday June 19, 2020 @05:47AM (#23572818)
maybe it's time for ios developers to (temporary) remove their apps from the App Store as a protest?

Taking 30% without providing alternatives to install apps seems totally unfair

Re:Apple gave me the Hey treatment back in 2014 on Friday June 19, 2020 @05:46AM (#23572814)
maybe it's time for ios developers to (temporary) remove their apps from the App Store as a protest?

Taking 30% without providing alternatives to install apps seems totally unfair

Re:Apple Is Trying to Shut Down Hey on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:22PM (#23558436)
maybe it's time for ios developers to (temporary) remove their apps from the App Store as a protest?

Taking 30% without providing alternatives to install apps seems totally unfair

not fair. it's not a normal service. it's a transportation service. If I can't travel on date X, traveling on date Y may be useless.

One could argue it would be useful for another trip to a different location. Sure. But because airflights prices are so shady (prices changing every day, prices that are different if you have a VPN connected, etc etc), the voucher could make you choose for the worst price.

That doesn't seem fair to me tbh

Re:Google's Down on Thursday March 26, 2020 @01:02PM (#22695583)
Good to know that Google+ is healthy
Re:GitHub: Increased Error Rates on Wednesday February 19, 2020 @11:24AM (#22366950)
really mixed feelings with phabricator. it's cool to have the concept of review instead of sending each comment immediately, but the UI still sucks. It's hard to understand which repo the pull request/review we are looking at belongs to for instance.

and it gets all f*cked up if you started a comment and didn't close the input. among many other UI stuff (not sure if the UI has improved or if any of it is configurable btw)

> Yet, you’ll rarely find software engineers complaining about long hours or being woken up because of a production issue. The software is our baby, and we like to care for it as such. That means if it needs feeding in the middle of the night, we do it. If it needs extra care over the weekend, we do that too, all with a smile because our creation is growing.

We need to stop this! We are promoting unhealthy extra hours. We are making it like it's ok to expect/ask developers to work overnight and weekends. Work-life balance is not just a cliché, we need to incentivise developers to have a real life outside of work

> I was once about to leave my place with a date when the office called because of a production issue. She sat and waited patiently for an hour while I tried frantically to fix the issue before she ultimately took off (I couldn’t blame her), leaving me to my work and my coworkers in IRC sharing my misery.

is this company really so dependent of a single developer? unless it's a startup with 3 employees it sounds like a problem. Or maybe the developer thinks it's the only one able to save the day?

Re:DNSimple Offers 100% SLA on Thursday December 05, 2019 @04:16PM (#21716620)
I'm a bit skeptical on this 100% SLA claim they do... all 4 of FANG have downtime, but DNSimple doesn't?
Re:Vim 101: How to Start Using the Text Editor for Developers on Thursday October 24, 2019 @09:16AM (#21344358)
I miss a good tutorial on vim plugins :) still not trivial to explain to new comers how to use plugins they find on github for instance
Re:Ask HN: Getting Started Investing on Sunday July 14, 2019 @10:10AM (#20433460)
looks similar to seedrs http://seedrs.com (which was used by revolut to get investment AFAIK)
Re:Google’s robots.txt parser is now open source on Monday July 01, 2019 @03:17PM (#20328765)
can this been seen as a initiative to make google robots.txt parser the internet standard? every webmaster will want to be compliant with google corner cases...
Re:Ask HN: Do you use a GPG key with GitHub? on Monday February 18, 2019 @02:57PM (#19193809)
I do :) Never had any problem where GPG would have helped me by certifying I was the author, but we never know...

a quick guide if you need https://pedrorijo.com/blog/git-gpg/

going for a CS degree will give you an overview of existing topics, meaning at the time you finish you degree, you will know things, and you will know which things you don't know. Without a degree, you will know things, but you won't know what else is there
Is there any comparison with other similar storages?
Re:Parsing JSON is a Minefield on Sunday April 22, 2018 @03:28PM (#16898023)
I'm always saying that I can't understand how do we have a new hipster programming language/framework every year, but we still struggle dealing with JSON
why would anyone want to achieve a 50:50 gender ratio for new software engineer hires? you should simply aim for hiring the best software engineer despite their gender/age/color. The only ratio you could try to achieve would be to have 50:50 applicants for the roles and the select the best candidates.

Or will you hire a female even if she sucks at the job because your team is only made of males? Are you filling a sticker collection or building a team?

Ask HN: What keyboard do you recommend?

The new macbook keyboard is 'incompatible' with me. overall I think it's awful:stuck keys after my first 12 days usage; the arrows are too small, and even with the other keys I end up making typos all the time (way more than before)So, I'm thinking about a new external keyboard. Any recommendations?

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