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mcs_··on Ask HN: For those who use Chrome, why do you?
I was there when IE was better than Netscape. Gmail became a thing and I loved Google and their quality since.
mcs_··on Git is too hard
I use a straightforward workflow, protecting master with PR, with some alias to create a new branch, pull and push, pick, and log.

I never used the GUI. It seems really complex for what we decided to be our workflow. Git is a complex software that can solve complex contexts, but you can limit your daily workflow to a few commands.

mcs_··on SaaS Needs a Single Point of Purchase
One of the issues of making all the services together is the discount. Implement a discount system across multiple SaaS has to do with sales strategy.

Standardize everything, including the costs, seems like the end of creativity. However, creating a massive checklist that makes the user choose between services and, step by step, simulate final costs (which will include computation, task management, monitoring, customer support, etc.) is a titanic job that could change within the next generation.

mcs_··on PRISM – NSA surveillance program did not prevent a single terrorist attack
But, if they stop an attack, say from XYZ country, is that data public? Is there any place where the failed intent of the attacks is listed?
mcs_··on Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?
Being mediocre or bad at something is not the reason to left. The reason to give up is if you do not want to do it anymore.
mcs_··on Ask HN: I'm a terrible developer, what now?
Hi,

You seem to do a lot of retrospectives right now. That is probably a necessary skill to be a good developer. You are questioning your solutions, looking at other developers' works, understanding that they are doing a better job. I can only say congratulations to you about that.

Do not focus too much on the technology or in what you know at the moment about the technology.

As a first step, you must answer if you want to be a better developer in a specific language or a better professional in one particular industry.

Technologies are too many nowadays, focus only on something you like, even if you know nothing about it at the moment.

The key is not what you have been until today. The only thing that matters is what you want to do.

mcs_··on Clover: An all-in-one notebook
Yup, Took me till the color picker.
mcs_··on Show HN: React SpreadSheet – Google Sheets-like performance
Incredible job, I just shared it with our React team. I hope to see it somewhere into our code.
mcs_··on Show HN: React SpreadSheet – Google Sheets-like performance
Not in my experience. I copy and paste large datasets directly from other sources. Performance is constant with multiple tabs. At work, we strongly rely on G Sheets as a daily base tool for accounting, data reconciliation, reporting in general.

How many rows do you usually manipulate at the same time?

mcs_··on I Know What You Download on BitTorrent
Is Torrent still a thing? I'm not sarcastic here, just not downloading music since Napster. Is it common for you to install a torrent client on your machine?
mcs_··on Does saying “Fuck You AWS” constitute offensive content?
To be fair, the ratio of spam received from EC2 has dropped in the last month, something has definitely changed (or I'm not a target since then).

I'll let you know.

mcs_··on Does saying “Fuck You AWS” constitute offensive content?
Half of the spam I'm receiving comes from Amazom web services.

> I am Mark Ben John Bill. from FBI unit,i have been instructed by the FBI Director Christopher A. Wray, to inform you that out of our thorough investigation lately , we found out that one of the abandoned valid Packages such as ATM Cards And Consignment Boxes by diplomatic agents who complained that the beneficiaries failed to pay for the anti terrorist clearance certificate to guide and show that the fund is no way related to fraud or drug money,with the information we have here , we found out that one of the funds belongs to you and it worth the sum of $10.5 million US Dollars.

So, IMO, Fuck you AWS, I'm rich now!

mcs_··on India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps
But, if a nation can be threatened by an application, a chat, or a social network, can the ban solve the problem?
mcs_··on Julian Assange charged in superseding indictment
People must have their privacy, that is for sure.

If I invest something in your company, and you are sick, should I know it?

mcs_··on Finally, I Closed My LinkedIn
Congratulation!

I remember to close all my social networks when my daughter was two years old, about 12 years ago.

I will never know what I missed.

mcs_··on Let’s Draw Together
reasonable question
mcs_··on Ask HN: Is your employer paying for your new office space, your home?
My house is not an office. It will never be one. It is my home if they pay, they will decide what to do with it.
mcs_··on [dead]
I'm confused by the final message, why is the CEO asking us to do the battle and he is dropping the project? Am I missing something? After spending months working on it, now he is cutting the project and telling the audience to fight for what he is not?

I know this is not an easy battle, but if they have more users than the US population, they are precisely the group that should not resign.

I'm alone, making likes in their projects, talking people this is happening, and when the moment comes, the fight with the system, they drop at the first sentence? What is this? Was it just a US fight? The decentralization got destroyed by a single man?

mcs_··on Dwellito Mini Office
wow!, Internet is still there...
mcs_··on Chrome phasing out support for User-Agent
sorry, anyone knows the link of the original source of this?
mcs_··on Spain's hospital IT systems under “massive attack” (in Spanish)
In some cases, people with no hope is used to execute wrong commands. As humanity, we have seen in the past military actions against people without weapons (killing them at times). I do not think the issue is them trying to do bad things, and maybe the point is we are living in a world where there are many more borderlines that are easily recruitable for some dollars.
mcs_··on WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
Well, apparently this was a real question.

W3C members are visible here: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Member/List

Those are the members that decided that WebAssembly is now an official web standard, not the testimonials.

I'm investigating more about the voting system here, https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/ERB.html.

mcs_··on WebAssembly becomes a W3C Recommendation
I'm not from China, from my perspective, those companies are from around the world.
mcs_··on Gitmoji – Yay or Nay?
If we cannot describe in the subject what we are doing, we should not commit it.

Icons are perfect to define actions (fixing bugs, improving the layout, etc) however, the commit is important when you are doing releases, cherry-picks, maintaining patches, etc.

I'm not against changes and sure the icons look very cool on the front page of GitHub or in `git log`.

However, most of the maintainers, who actually do things with commits, they work looking at the content. Be useful in the future, to understand what was going on, is the main purpose of the commit message.

I agree that a bug, a rocket (and others) can be used to improve the subject of a commit, eventually, the problems are:

-by introducing icons, are we creating a perfect excuse to be lazy during the commit phase?

-Will the icons makes our history of change the poorest?

mcs_··on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
Hi, sorry for the delay. No. I can't tell you how to improve your life. But if you like to play chess with me (a beginner), grab my contact from the bio. I'll be there.
mcs_··on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?
Yourself.

One of the most complex areas, having lots of users, that need to be fixed, is human beings. Spend all your time to know who you are, why you are like that, and change this world starting from the most promising thing it has on it: you.

In the meantime, try to carry out activities that you like (ride your bike, walk alone or with real people). Do it disconnected from any device or social network.

Do things that make you feel real and unique, without layout, template, guidelines, best practices. Ignore any negativism (fortunately you are introverted, it should help). Recognize in every moment that you have to learn a lot. Learn a lot and repeat.

mcs_··on I am dyslexic
Another one here...
mcs_··on The Cloud
If you manage some legacy systems, as I do, you will find that Cloud is very useful for automation, CI, and dev environments, why? Well, create scripts to build Window servers created with custom images is actually a big deal, so:

- disaster recovery is the first thing you should have in mind, where is the second.

- the right strategy is to preserve the business, not going to the cloud.

I always had fun building my own environments. After the fun came the work and, economically speaking, managing and maintaining those environments has always been an advantage for me. If however, I consider the time it takes to understand and fix problems in VMWare, or SQL optimization, or configure Microsoft AD, Nginx, and others..., I don't know how much I would recommend building everything from scratch by renting some servers.

mcs_··on Roblox hits 100M monthly active users, bigger than Minecraft
Education must deal with dependencies, of any kind. Prohibition is not a stable and durable solution. Transition to a better dependency is the key to mitigate the bad effects of a wrong activity.
mcs_··on Composing better emails
I highlight emergency/mistakes an bad things in general with red background. Resolved situations or positive approach with green background. In both cases white and bold font.

After a while, the same color pattern is emerging from customer communication.

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