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kaixi··on Feel the power of the Manifest v3
I like ads, but detest cookie banners.

Good ads can teach you a lesson about copywriting or storytelling, cookie banners are pure time wasters.

kaixi··on Choose Boring Technology (2015)
PHP + jQuery/Vue/Alpine + SQLite
kaixi··on Ask HN: Amazon killed Alexa.com, so what's a good alternative?
similarweb
kaixi··on Ask HN: Google Guice another abandonware from Google?
Yes, I don't know anyone who uses Guice, but lots of people who use Spring. The momentum was never there, nor it will be.
kaixi··on Tell HN: Current WFH trend (part 2)
This trend will benefit big companies and harm small local companies.

Hiring abroad is not as easy as you might think, usually you need to establish legal presence in the other country and other requirements. And who has resources to do that? Bingo, big companies. Small local companies will be left unable to compete, as they will be forced to hire locally, at higher expense.

kaixi··on Chrome users beware: Manifest v3 is deceitful and threatening
Extensions will still be able to read all the requests, just not block them, so Google's argument for privacy is moot.

Given that one of the biggest performance hogs are the ads and tracking scripts on a page, the argument for performance seems sketchy too.

I don't use adblockers myself, as I actually like seeing ads, but Google's arguments are very weak here.

kaixi··on We will be retiring Alexa.com
SimilarWeb
kaixi··on Microsoft Edge GA on Linux
Google Chrome is closed source too.
kaixi··on Will Cloudflare R2 Win Customers from Amazon S3?
B2 to Cloudflare egress is free, they are both part of Bandwidth Alliance: https://www.backblaze.com/b2/solutions/content-delivery.html
kaixi··on Windy.com
Where does Windy's data come from?
kaixi··on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
- One tap to enter Picture-in-picture mode in Safari when watching YouTube.

- Choosing an emoji in WhatsApp Desktop.

- Pausing and seeing a podcast's listening progress in Apple Podcasts, even when the app is in the background.

- Compiling in Android Studio.

I have a physical ESC key, so I don't have a problem with the touchbar.

kaixi··on Apple Reports Fourth Quarter Results
I love the TouchBar!
kaixi··on Ask HN: Which Software Engineering podcasts would you recommend?
Laracasts Snippet (https://laracasts.com/podcast)
kaixi··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)
Wikiloc (https://www.wikiloc.com/) | Mobile Engineer (Android / iOS) | Remote (or onsite in Spain)

Wikiloc is a place to discover and share the best outdoor trails for hiking, cycling and 70+ other activities. With over 6 million users from 190 countries, Wikiloc is one of the most vibrant outdoor communities of the world, and our users have collectively shared over 17 million outdoor trails and 30 million photos.

We are hiring:

* 1 Android engineer

* 1 iOS engineer

to reinforce our mobile app engineering team and develop new exciting features for our community.

You will join a small team of friendly, motivated and hard-working people, and build products to help people have better experiences doing outdoor activities and to inspire and support the preservation of nature. We have an ambitious vision with lots of cool stuff to do and you will work on all product-level decisions. Your work will reach millions of people worldwide in a short time.

Our Jobs page has more detailed information and instructions on how to apply: https://www.wikiloc.com/jobs

kaixi··on Android Studio 4.0
Sorry, I'm not an expert. What am I supposed to do with the emulator-symbols.zip?
kaixi··on Android Studio 4.0
I need to add

hw.audioInput=no hw.audioOutput=no

to every AVD I create. Otherwise, the Android Emulator uses 100% CPU all the time, even when it's been idle for minutes.

I'm far from the only one having the problem, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37063267/high-cpu-usage-...

I'm on a Macbook Air 2014, Intel i5, 8GB of RAM, 500GB SSD. Hardware acceleration, etc. all enabled.

kaixi··on Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50%
US salaries are really high. For context, in Southern Europe, most developers don't even earn $3000/month BEFORE taxes and expenses.
kaixi··on Lyft cuts internship salaries by 50%
I live in Spain and have never heard of any salaried employee that makes $9600 per month. Not even those with 10+ years of experience.
kaixi··on Ask HN: I want to resign with nothing lined up
Good twitter thread on quitting your job: https://twitter.com/adamscrabble/status/1100835023165493254
kaixi··on Ask HN: How do I overcome mental laziness?
Get some quality sleep. Seriously. I thought I was mentally lazy, it turns out I was just exhausted from chronic sleep deprivation.
kaixi··on What Would a WeChat Replacement Need?
WeChat is a not a chat app. It's a micro universe. Imagine WhatsApp, Facebook, Twitter, Paypal, Uber, etc. and an entire app platform all integrated into a single app. That's WeChat.
kaixi··on How SEO Ruined the Internet
First result on Google now. Well done!
kaixi··on Go 1.12 Release Candidate 1 is released
Lockless channels when?
kaixi··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
A single set of extensions and bookmarks.

With Chrome, even if you manually sync your profiles and keep the same set of extensions installed in both profiles, it runs 2 processes of the same extension. Even when the second profile window is closed.

But for me the deal breaker was managing a separate set of bookmarks.

kaixi··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
Safari is the best choice if you care about battery life. I literally get 2 extra hours of battery life when using Safari on macOS vs using Chrome.

What's incredible is that Chrome uses more CPU on Youtube than Safari. When playing the SAME video side by side.

kaixi··on Goodbye, EdgeHTML
The ability to use multiple accounts of Gmail, Trello, Bitbucket, whatever service you use in a single window. I happen to use the same services for work and for private purposes and it's inconvenient having to log in and log out all the time.

You can sorta do the same in Chrome by creating a full separate profile and opening an extra window, but then your passwords and bookmarks are separated as well. It's a pain in the ass.

kaixi··on Ask HN: Linode vs. DigitalOcean in 2018
If you are in Europe, go with Hetzner.
kaixi··on Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?
Their commit messages are the golden standard of commit messages.
kaixi··on Ask HN: What is the best-designed software you've used?
Redis and Postgresql.
kaixi··on MapTiler: Map overlay, cut map tiles for Google Maps, GIS layers and mobile apps
What CDN do you use?
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