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New comment by clu3l355 in "A Great Old Timey Game Programming Hack (2013)"

clu3l355 — Sat, 13 Oct 2018 10:55:04 +0000

I dunno if OP was complaining necessarily - there are a lot of cool stories to be read in the old threads too!

New comment by clu3l355 in "Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub"

clu3l355 — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 20:39:41 +0000

I had a pretty similar experience with skype. I lost access to my connected email account and was essentially locked out of my account forever - repeated emails to support were met with silence, alas! Then I connected my facebook account to use skype instead... then they discontinued support for that. Now it's got to a point where attempting to create a new account on the OSX desktop version just shows an error screen every time, so I'm stuck unable to use skype forever. I've moved on to other, better solutions, naturally :)

New comment by clu3l355 in "Ask HN: What music helps you code better?"

clu3l355 — Thu, 24 May 2018 16:01:05 +0000

Glad to see this here! Modern Day Babylon are great for those looking for instrumental work in the same sphere as the above. Disperse as well - Jakub Zytecki is a fantastic guitarist and features on a lot of David Maxim Micic's work.

New comment by clu3l355 in "Macbook Pro frying USB peripherals"

clu3l355 — Wed, 02 May 2018 15:29:55 +0000

I had a similar experience with an authorised repair place - my keyboard went on the blink (as has been reportedly recently with all the touchbar MBPs. Upon opening it they found a coffee stain from where I had spilt coffee on it months before. Their response "we can't fix it sorry, Apple wouldn't allow it"...

New comment by clu3l355 in "Apple will start paying $21B in back taxes to Ireland"

clu3l355 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 11:49:22 +0000

Moreover, Ireland was the fastest-recovering nation financial crisis, driven undoubtedly in part by its preferential corporate tax rates

New comment by clu3l355 in "How to avoid getting stuck with the middle seat on a Ryanair flight"

clu3l355 — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 11:30:16 +0000

Compared to the other budget providers (Easyjet, Flybe [who frankly, aren't even budget prices]), they're miles ahead. The Easyjet routes I used to fly regularly were late every single time, and a member of airport staff told me ~50% of Easyjet flights were delayed in that particular airport. While Ryanair is certainly super basic, and they take every opportunity to sell you tat, they've been far more consistent and far cheaper than the alternatives in my experience

New comment by clu3l355 in "Google bans cryptocurrency ads"

clu3l355 — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 13:27:11 +0000

Is it not the female equivalent of "this dude"?

edit: seems that's how the author intended it

New comment by clu3l355 in "A tiny US island with a British accent"

clu3l355 — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:15:55 +0000

None of the people in the videos had a remotely British accent, am I missing something?

New comment by clu3l355 in "Where Dutch directness comes from"

clu3l355 — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:46:33 +0000

I feel the Dutch are a lot more casual about it and less grumpy. Germans are direct when unhappy about something ("don't be so loud", "get your feet of the seats"), but are much more likely to stare disapprovingly. Dutch are also more direct when talking about themselves/their feelings - you would never hear a German say "my new haircut looks great"

New comment by clu3l355 in "Where Dutch directness comes from"

clu3l355 — Thu, 01 Feb 2018 12:34:26 +0000

As a tourist who has attempted to learn the language, I've been told to "please just speak English" nearly all of the times I've tried it (much to my dismay!)

New comment by clu3l355 in "Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2018)"

clu3l355 — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 02:13:02 +0000

Wevat | Frontend JavaScript lead | London

Wevat are a seed stage startup digitising tax refunds for luxury shoppers in the UK. Our core market is from China, and we are currently in the process of scaling up the team to expand operations to another two European countries by Q3 2018.

Your responsibilities:

  - develop a dashboard for administration and support of and reporting on user data
  - develop tooling and test harness for it  
  - define and enforce the coding standards, practices and architecture for JS codebase  
  - hiring further frontend team members in Q2  
  - contribute to UX/design feedback proactively
  - develop and manage development for a wechat mini-app

Your qualities:

  - self-sufficient  
  - likes a good argument  
  - owns mistakes early

For any queries, hit me up on patrick@wevat.com!

New comment by clu3l355 in "France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools"

clu3l355 — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 21:06:37 +0000

How does a phone ban stop this from happening? Not to mention the challenge of actually enforcing it. I suspect the kids who want to take pictures of others and upload them mockingly will still do it.

New comment by clu3l355 in "France to ban mobile phones in primary, junior and middle schools"

clu3l355 — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 20:56:26 +0000

>Perhaps not the best choice of words from the OP, but look up premature sexualization and psychological trauma.

Existence of it is hardly grounds for mass hysteria - this smacks of 'will somebody please think of the children'.

New comment by clu3l355 in "Bitcoin passes 10,000 USD"

clu3l355 — Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:39:25 +0000

>I can't really think of many reasons why you would use crypto to pay for a coffee or a sandwich if you live in the West (or frankly, even most developing nations).

Credit card companies/banks sell your transaction data for a lot of money, and plenty of unscrupulous players can garner a lot about your life from such data. While BTC is only pseudonymous, it can provide some shielding from this.

New comment by clu3l355 in "Prime Day 2017: 12.9M DynamoDB requests per second"

clu3l355 — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 12:43:27 +0000

Other retailers doing it doesn't absolve Amazon

New comment by clu3l355 in "The Cost of Skipping TDD and Code Reviews (2016)"

clu3l355 — Mon, 11 Sep 2017 09:36:18 +0000

Sure if you run manual tests once they might be faster than test implementation, but having an automated test suite protects against regression. Having to do a full manual test for every change is going to consume a lot of time.

New comment by clu3l355 in "Messenger.com Now 50% Converted to Reason"

clu3l355 — Sun, 10 Sep 2017 11:44:56 +0000

If developing your idea in something else takes longer or is buggier, perhaps you'll never get to a stage where your company worth acquiring.

New comment by clu3l355 in "Opioid Use Could Explain 20% of the Drop in American Men from Labor Force"

clu3l355 — Thu, 07 Sep 2017 16:29:13 +0000

The article is saying that those unemployed have a higher rate of prescription though, not just illicit use

>Krueger’s study linked county prescription rates to labor force data from the past 15 years