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mcs_··on DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
one of the best comment this week
mcs_··on Ask HN: Refusing to join meetings that require proprietary programs
Clients first.

Clients first.

I do support, 24/7, I get s..t from anything, including WhatsApp. After that I have the chance of reorganize the requests into my favorite task manager.

Customers just want to know you are there...

Clients first, and always replay via email. Be consistent in accept from any channel, replay, report, notify via email.

mcs_··on Assholes: A Probing Examination
I'm an asshole. If you work form me, work come first, as is the most important thing to me, after (and outside the office) your life, lifestyle and everything that is important for you.
mcs_··on We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business
> Freezing funds only seems to happen with terrorism related closures

Try add the word Bet next time in the transfer's detail...

mcs_··on You Are Not Google (2017)
You should do a show with this script. Educational and fun. Well done.
mcs_··on Chessvision.ai – Analyze chess position from websites, images or video
will be nice if chess.com (and others) could tell you that your opponent is "chessvisioning".
mcs_··on French ISPs Ordered to Block Sci-Hub and LibGen
Not sure if it applies but... The entire Google plus.
mcs_··on Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?
- online curses

- hours of youtube conferences

Sometimes learn is impossible at work, or...

i had and experience... i was working for a bizarre company, the culture was very far from what i could consider decent, in some cases they were toxic. Nobody could understand what i was trying to say/do. MSSQL, C# and other very cool stuff.

But wait... they weren't able to understand what i was doing but... i was able to understand what their business was, their special use-cases, their customers and requirements.

Those moment are in the past now. But i learned a lot from people that could not understand me, having a completely different background.

Everybody can teach us something...

mcs_··on Getting too absorbed in side projects
After I got my motorbike everything changed. My coworker went for a bicycle, everything changed....

I use to do side projects to learn more. That is what I used to say.

The reality was that change the activity I really loved for decades to another has not been easy.

Side projects has been the perfect excuse to stay on the laptop.

How do you replace a no-competitive activity where you are in control of what you do and decide what and when to do?

So what worked for me?

Find something that exists in the real world, in my case an old, unchecked desire (learn to ride), and just do it.

How long I waited? Long time, years.

mcs_··on Binder – Turn a Git repo into a collection of interactive notebooks
Any examples?
mcs_··on Announcing unlimited free private repos
I'm confused about this definition of social network. GitHub is a place where we work. I have thousand of commits and 1 actual friend. Am I the only one or are we changing the meaning of social?
mcs_··on Show HN: A JavaScript Handbook
Sure it is possible but why?
mcs_··on Ask HN: YouTube down?
Mine is sleeping, I was ready to enjoy the new justforfunc episode... I'm the one that is crying...
mcs_··on Blockchain isn't about democracy and decentralisation – it's about greed
I wonder if publishing in read-only mode the banks databases will stop this feeling that blockchain will solve the world economy.
mcs_··on Ask HN: name@a.com and name+1@a.com should be considered 2 different accounts?
Thank you, I like the idea of rules. Billing, user, admin etc.

The issue with the credit card verification before trying the product is that as a user, I do not like that approach.

I want to try first and eventually pay. That is the experience I'd like to offer.

mcs_··on Ask HN: name@a.com and name+1@a.com should be considered 2 different accounts?
Thanks for sharing this prospective.
mcs_··on Ask HN: How can we make React better?
I do not have any particular request for the team. At office we love react and the journey of porting legacy to it has been enjoyable.

One thing that is somehow frustrating with multiple repositories are those shared components.

I know this is not directly an issue with react itself but after create-react-app one, two, three. ... times the amount of duplicated code/components become a huge debt.

I'm not sure I need something new/different from react@next but guidelines for creating libraries and produce high quality components (type definition done right for example) is something that I'd like to have.

mcs_··on Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks
I start using Kubernetes with gitlab months ago with the free account. Today i'm using it for a side project. I never used kubectl since then. the project is very simple but still it is split into 3 different repos (all connected to the same cluster). Even if the documentation is not clear about how to connect different repos to the same cluster, after a couple of hours i had to click some buttons in the gitlab interface and auto devops is enabled in 3 projects.

in office we do not work with docker, containers, cloud etc, we run legacy asp.net 2.0 on-premise without any kind of automation (just a couple of us coordinating the releases and copying and pasting into the customer Windows Server 2008).

Kubernetes for personal projects? In my case, after 10 years of on-premise deployments, VM Ware, SQL Clusters, web.config, IIS, ARR and the rest of the things related, YES!

I absolutely want 3 hosts for less then 100$, a gitlab account for 4$, a free account in cloudflare, code and deploy.

mcs_··on Ask HN: What is causing the recent sudden uproars against Google?
A never dreamer here. Google is what we wanted since the beginning. Someone else to balance the market. And yes, they collect what I see. And yes I use them for free since the day 1.
mcs_··on Microsoft intercepting Firefox, Chrome installation on Windows 10 Insider build
sudo apt-get forever
mcs_··on Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
I think that to post here, is a good sign. Show HN wherever you are able to do, alone or after a 100M financing is one of the reason forums like this one exists. The other is to just share your code and meet digital people.

> It doesn't feel adolescent but more grownup to me

Showing skepticism is also fine, our industry is not just nice code review and beautiful moments where people want to encourage you.

mcs_··on Show HN: I'm 12, learning JS, and wrote Wolfram's cellular automaton in Node
Thank you Lia. You inspired me today.
mcs_··on Can this cooler save kids from dying?
Mi piacerebbe sapere come garantire la genuinità del prodotto trasportato. La falsificazione è una realtà (sono stati spesi grandi capitali per proteggere industrie non vitali come l'intrattenimento).
mcs_··on Illegal prime
I remember the news about the example used in the post. This is a proof of a society where 50% loves math and the rest makes money with who loves math.
mcs_··on Friendica – A Decentralized Social Network
Is the "Rebuild from scratch the same thing but using another paradigm" a good option to improve social?

I don't have any Facebook accounts but after 15 years programming stuff, I don't see the copy/paste as a powerful solution.

Also, distribution is not really the problem here. From architecture point of view Facebook is distributed.

The problem is the need of store huge amount of data in the cloud and pretending that to be free.

mcs_··on Statement on Potentially Unlawful Online Platforms for Trading Digital Assets
Working?
mcs_··on Show HN: My embarrassing personal website from the 90s
Miss you, <td> vertically and horizontally center... that was a real accomplishment
mcs_··on Malta: an island of secrets and lies
I worked for different sports book, casinos and poker companies there. Gaming licenses there are regulated and the environment is toxic. My work experience was very bad. Despite the regulations for that industry, mafia still drives the entire sector and is not something hidden.
mcs_··on Let’s have no managers, instead of managers with no engineering experience
In my experience management was either good an bad. I think that culture was the most important thing at the end of the day. Engineering is not everything when productivity is important as well as environment.

In some cases/team there is the need of an extra effort in order to balance resources AND people.

If I could pick a manager from a pool I will probably take someone with experience in people first and docker later...

At the end manager that are open to listen to the team and the customers will probably take the right choice in term of technology.

mcs_··on Facebook lost around 2.8M U.S. users under 25 last year
Over 36 here.

I keep post my position in this kind of news. I never used it. I will never use it. It will close before I will use it.

I could consider to use it if hired or paid to test it.

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