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Re:Ask HN: Pregunta para los devs hispanohablantes on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @02:31AM (#48275832)
La dificultad de aprender un lenguaje de programación normalmente no está en el idoma; sino en en modelo mental que uno tiene que construir en la cabeza y las complejidades del ecosistema.

Esto que propones se ha hecho anteriormente con LOGO, un lenguaje con propósito educional pero poderoso, se tradujo a africanaans, holandés, español... y hay diferentes variantes de español España, y Argentina las más notables.

Revisa los resultados de esto, aprende de la sabiduría del pasado.

Re:Solar Balconies Take Europe by Storm on Thursday April 02, 2026 @03:45AM (#47611262)
Solakon One has a quite decent API you can control without cloud being involved...

Ask HN: Had you ever found Agile (a.k.a. SCRUM) to work?

I'm dealing with a head of product who is extremely process-driven. He's a stickler for Agile rituals - strict definitions of done, rigid meetings, and a "by the book" approach to SCRUM. His main concern is organizational discipline rather than the quality of our product, and it's starting to feel like it's stifling both flexibility and innovation. Now, he's even planning to bring on a...

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Re:Denmark postal service to stop delivering letters on Thursday March 06, 2025 @09:27AM (#43280579)
If you do that here in Germany the whole country collapsed under a week.
As a headcount reduction measure it usually means that the people that stay are the ones that are not good at what they do, so they can't find another jobs.

The good ones have more opportunities, so they don't take the BS and leave for better working conditions.

Re:React 19 on Friday December 06, 2024 @01:07PM (#42342345)
Probably there will never be, that's like saying "Still no good component or UI libraries for HTML".

HTMX philosophy is to be timeless and agnostic as HTML is, is just a nice extension on top.

Re:How to minimize your exposure to microplastics on Tuesday June 18, 2024 @03:58AM (#40715206)
for tea I use metallic container, but for that you can't use powder tea, you need dried leafs... which I think are also better
Dating after 35 is quite hard, it feels like going for job interviews...
People that I meet that don't share this kind of feeling and are not impressed at all by the complexity of the mundane are very disappointing to me... sorry, but it's a way I have to judge people very quickly
As a Cuban person, I'm very proud of this... My dad, an engineer, does stuff like this all the time
Re:Ask HN: Why do you find your job satisfying? on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @02:04AM (#34500400)
I could have rewritten this my self. Same story here...
I hope that coach is Muslim
This is a global website that operates on the World Wide Web. Even if the main language of the content here is English, what is "foreign" to you might not be foreign to others.

I'm sure many users here are non native English.

Re:Google Interview Warmup on Friday June 03, 2022 @05:36AM (#31606148)
I really really wanna know what is so special of this website (and many others) that does not support a non-Chromium browser aside from Safari.
Berlin, Germany

Actual: Coaxial, 50€/month, 1Gbps/50Mbps, No IPv6

I could also get: Fiber, 75€/month, 1Gbps/100Mbps, IPv6 I guess

But no fucking way, it is already expensive and will get almost no benefits. Deutsche Telekom is a scam with no competitive pricing.

Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:38AM (#26178264)
Usually is the person smuggling it or installing it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gross
Re:Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders on Thursday February 18, 2021 @05:36AM (#26178249)
But you can't reserve from Cuba or Venezuela. If the government of USA really wanted to overthrown those governments would let Starlink do business there providing an alternative internet to the state controlled internet.