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krotton··on Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017
You can customize what pages are displayed in the quick dial screen (and pin them, so that they stay there), but you cannot change the images and reorder sites by dragging (you need to re-enter the URL in some further tile).
krotton··on The War Against Pope Francis
I think "most of them" is quite a stretch. There indeed is a faction in Poland despising (or openly opposing) Francis, but from what I've witnessed, they seem to be a (vocal) minority. Anyway, that's from an atheist point of view, so probably not very informed.
krotton··on The Downside of Full Pay Transparency
And that's precisely the subjective part. If neither party knows the worth, neither can objectively argue, so we deal with emotions on both sides.
krotton··on Don't Take Security Advice from SEO Experts or Psychics
Woah, sounds like Internet's Gollum with just one more personality.
krotton··on More than 60 women consider suing Google, claiming sexism and a pay gap
May that be because tech is perceived as more competitive or stressful? Lots of people make fortunes these days doing technology and the pace is tremendous, unlike in sciences. Anyway, I think the theory that it's probably just parents telling their girls it's a man's sport most of the time appeals to me a tiny bit more. I don't however see any reason to straight out presume biology has no effect whatsoever, it's probably a complex mixture of factors.
krotton··on Google Can't Seem to Tolerate Diversity
Either: * You're hypothesizing and I don't quite get it, * haven't read the text and are basing on some misinterpretation you have seen somewhere on the internet * or you're purposefully lying (which I assume you're not).

Please, just read the text: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914586/Googles-I...

krotton··on Programmers Should Automate More
Pandoc can generate and convert between various document types, including Office docs based on a template (although I haven't used the option myself, I just convert Markdown to PDF/HTML most of the time).
krotton··on Programmers should not call themselves engineers (2015)
Well, at least in Poland (and I'm not sure about the rest of Europe) having graduated from an engineering school (a polytechnic) serves as formal licensing, even for classic engineering disciplines, like e.g. civil engineering. So in order to be able to take responsibilities and perform work of a civil engineer, you are required to have graduated from a civil engineering faculty, but have no additional certification after you do. Software development is also thought in polytechnics (among other options) and you formally become an engineer after graduation (though it has no real life consequences) - I'm formally a software engineer myself for example.
krotton··on Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, including the taxman
Until the UK adopts rules regarding SIM card registration which are effective in some other European countries (I know of Germany and Poland): every pre-paid card must be associated with a specific person and vendors won't issue/activate you one until you present them with your ID card.
krotton··on Google Has Dropped Ban on Personally Identifiable Web Tracking
Google does, but DDG has done it earlier as far as I remember.
krotton··on My favorite day of the month is bank statement day at my company
It's quite interesting in Poland, where you formally have to have a company bank account in order to register a company and banks refuse to open one for you unless you give them your company registration numbers (which you get after registration). So basically, you have to lie.
krotton··on Is There a STEM Crisis or a STEM Surplus?
I'd risk a guess: because salary. Some companies may afford paying more and some may not (because of their current growth stage, market they operate on etc). Even if some of them manage to get past the early stages, employee rotation is something worth thinking about.

On the other hand, in most or all of the companies I've been somehow related with, more experienced developers have naturally invested their time in helping juniors learn.

krotton··on Scythe, the most-hyped board game of 2016, delivers
Yeah, there's also a symbol of "Poland Fighting" used during the Warsaw Uprising on the same art.
krotton··on A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell
And wait forever instead of getting any actual work done.
krotton··on Confirmshaming
Actually my university requires exactly six characters for library passwords. They may only be changed by the library personnel and you must either write them down on a piece of paper for them to type or just spell it out loud...
krotton··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
I guess you mean MariaDB when saying MySQL.
krotton··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
..true..false
krotton··on Show HN: Booleans as a Service (BaaS)
Using an additional byte for the size of the address and the specified number of bytes for the address itself. Then you will only need a few identifiers stored locally to access all the bits.
krotton··on Algebrite, a computer algebra system in JavaScript
There's also https://www.scala-js.org/
krotton··on Why Go gets criticized so much
In Scala, Option[Whatever] may also be null. The difference is that it's considered "some Java compatibility leftover" and never exploited by any sane piece of code.
krotton··on What do you call this in Ruby?
SBT's the worst offender.
krotton··on Comparing Rust and Java
I like Gradle too, although I very much recommend having a look at QBS (Qt Build Suite, although unlike Qmake it's not really bound to Qt and can be used for general build scripting). I've used it about a year ago and was really amazed to see what was probably the first sane build tool I've used for years. Of course Gradle is rooted in (yet not limited to) the JVM ecosystem and QBS started as a C++ build tool, so they are not really equivalent, but comparing the ease of use, predictability and the overall impression, QBS beats Gradle by a full grade in my opinion.
krotton··on Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird
It's a shame you can't fix.
krotton··on UN panel 'rules in Assange's favour'
And it would be an absurd and a clear indication of lack of any kind of independence if they could not.
krotton··on Pingendo – Free, simple app for Bootstrap prototyping
As opposed to the original explanation, yours actually applies to virtually any CSS framework, so makes no argument after all.
krotton··on Anti-Education by Nietzsche, and why mainstream culture does our best thinking
I don't see the article claiming Nietzsche would praise popular culture - it seems to claim otherwise ("Anti-academic Nietzsche may have been, but his mistake was in pinning his hopes on “high culture”") and it's rather solely what the author of the article thinks himself.
krotton··on Telegram bans public ISIS channels
I've diff-ed the two and they basically mentioned channels explicitly in a few places.

< But sticker sets and bots on Telegram are publicly available. [...]

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> But sticker sets, channels and bots on Telegram are publicly available. [...]

< [...] we have to process legitimate requests to take down illegal public content in Telegram (sticker sets, bots) [...]

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> [...] we have to process legitimate requests to take down illegal public content in Telegram (sticker sets, bots, channels) [...]

< User-uploaded stickers sets and bots by third-party developers are not part of core Telegram UI. [...]

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> User-uploaded stickers sets, channels and bots by third-party developers are not part of core Telegram UI.

< [...] While we do block terrorist (e.g. ISIS-related) bots, we will not block bots that peacefully express alternative opinions.

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> [...] While we do block terrorist (e.g. ISIS-related) bots and channels, we will not block bots that peacefully express alternative opinions.

< [...] Please include the phone number you use on Telegram in international format in your message.

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> [...] If you’re using a virtual number of any kind, please also mention VOIP in the subject line. Don't forget to include the phone number you use on Telegram in international format in your message.

krotton··on YouTube Will Remove Videos of Creators Who Don’t Sign Its Red Subscription Deal
An entire nation has long ago decided to go with this spelling, so I'd say it's quite correct in some circles ;).
krotton··on The Danger of E-Books
Although to a lesser extent (it used to be much worse 10 years ago), that's what it often looks like in Poland - and today's Poland can hardly be called a third world country. One particular example of such content unavailability I've recently experienced was when I tried to order an album of a German (!) artist some time after it's been published. I'd heard a few samples on Soundcloud some time before and I loved them to the extent, that I was desperate to get it when it's ready. And I couldn't. The album was available in all of the western Europe and the USA, but when I tried to order it from any source (be it Amazon, iTunes and a few more digital stores), I was just presented a message explaining to me that they do not sell music in my region. Another example is that there is quite a high percentage of music normally available on Spotify or Apple Music that is disabled in my country. Why? Because.
krotton··on Facebook paid £4,327 corporation tax in the UK in 2014
I'm not an anarcho-capitalist, I'm just conducting a mental experiment to see how far state minimalism can go. I'm quite convinced we can (and probably should) limit the competences of current behemoth governments - what I don't know (and am therefore trying to discuss) is to what extent.
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