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mcs_··on Samsung to Permanently Discontinue Galaxy Note 7 Smartphone
So,the lesson here is Shit happens... at any scale.
mcs_··on Show HN: Client not paid? Add opacity to the body
Point 6 is very good.

Not in USA but in Italy web development is still "something exotic". I was there 2 years ago as a contractor of a big bank but out of the enterprise world, freelancers need to accept very uncommon agreements if they want to work. An incredible amount of works are "gentlemen agreements" and contractor are exposed.

I'm not defending this kind of "ideas", mostly because theoretically nothing should be introduced into the customer application without his/her approval. Just considering that "ideas like this" are probably happening because a more complex situation in background.

mcs_··on Hacker fakes German minister's fingerprints using photos of her hands
> Something you are (i.e. fingerprint) > ...it can never be changed

well, we should change the Minister

mcs_··on Introducing .NET Standard
I'm still lost. What should I use and when "to go live"? We are small company with a lot of legacy code that wants to upgrade from 2.0 and 3.5. In 2016. Which .NET should we use ?
mcs_··on Ask HN: How did you learn coding
In many cases. Telling others... yes! I can learn how to do that.

At 17 a friend of mine asked me some help to port an old (and probably still working) COBOL app. Project wasn't really financed and absolutely not intended to be a production ready solution.

At 20 I was still working on that project. At that time in production and at least with the budget for us.

Year after year I can tell that my knowledge was totally community driven. Than.. I understood Unix (yes Microsoft was everything for 10 years). And I definitely understood how to code looking at other's code.

Btw. Thanks everyone for the open source.

mcs_··on “Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry” (2012)
》There will come a point where the accumulated complexity of our existing systems is greater than the complexity of creating a new one. When that happens all of this shit will be trashed.

I think it applies to bank system, politics, and more in general to anything that can be improved and where there are enough money to think about re-design. At that point yes, another life cycle will starts.

mcs_··on GitHub was down
Someone else you pay to keep data safe, up and running to do continuous integration in this particular case.
mcs_··on GitHub was down
This is why you keep your code in a GitLab self hosted machine with 2 cheap disks in raid. Github should be used as mirror.
mcs_··on Create React Apps with No Configuration
Thanks !!!
mcs_··on Ask HN: GitHub vs. Gitlab?
We started with a HUB. Small account 5 projects. We then switched to a self hosted Lab. A small VM running CE.

With no effort we are managing dozen of projects and now we are in love with CI (and OpenShift)

We want to start using HUB again as mirror (still need to understand how...) but no plan to leave GitLab.

Here the feedback

. Easy to use . Easy (apt-get) to update . Nice to manage . Yours . Same flow as git hub if you use it as git repository...

mcs_··on Ask HN: Examples of reliable software you enjoy using
* mint, * git + gitlab ce, * webstorm + nodejs, * chromium
mcs_··on Announcing .NET Core 1.0
sudo apt-get install dotnet-dev-1.0.0-preview2-003121 ... some second later...

>> This software may collect information about you and your use of the software, and send that to Microsoft.

Edit: Please visit http://aka.ms/dotnet-cli-eula for more information.

The link is a 404 on GitHub

mcs_··on DataGrip: Swiss Army Knife for Databases and SQL
I have it. And I agree...
mcs_··on Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment when interviewing?
If you don't want to work with them, for them to improve their system... just run. If you don't want to meet assholes.. Change industry.
mcs_··on JavaScript libraries should be written in TypeScript
we probably should start doing new 'hello world' in ES6.
mcs_··on Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
thanks for the reply.

will look at that but still, in this moment and with the current api of skype, an instance of it must run in background somewhere.

mcs_··on Dear Skype/Microsoft: Problems with Linux client
46 active contacts and 12 blocked account in my Skype 4.3.0.37 (2014 Skype and/or Microsoft Patents Pending)

Family: Wife (mac), Mom(ubuntu) and Sister(win) All - Family = work or business (i can safely say that 90% are OS from MS).

Do I want all those contacts in my slack ? No i don't.

Do I want to change to another very powerful chat system? Well, sometimes connect sqlite3 to find a conversation is not really what i want to do but the problem is to use chat system as storage for important communication so, No I don't what another shitty chat system.

My "rest folder" contains current work, future work, very good and bad work experiences from the past and maybe unplanned new jobs.

People are still there in green every morning cause they may want support or want to give jobs and after they pay they tends to use less email and more (shitty) chat systems.

In my case skype is only for work and i don't what to confuse the clear skype sound in my phone with something else that the work. Remove those contacts today means lose money tomorrow, i cannot remove that program and it is immediately installed after vim and git.

So after declaring to be a slave of skype like many others, I don't ask microsoft to change it, to fix it, to improve it or do it more cool or modern. I ask for my freedom: We need public, usable and having a sane license API to build something _better_ around it and remove that green icon from the status bar or my GNU/Linux Mint.

mcs_··on PayPal Starts Banning VPN and SmartDNS Services
If it is legal, the problem is not PayPal. Is it?
mcs_··on LinkedIn shares drop 40%, erasing $10B of company's value
Well, can happen if you want thousands of unknown people that do not use a copy of your products, to decide what to do with share value.

Is it statistically a good idea be a public company?

mcs_··on Netboot
Thanks
mcs_··on How Facebook makes us dumber
I understood I have less than 10 contacts in my life after closing fb 5 years ago.
mcs_··on Ask HN: Should I accept a CTO position without much experience?
Wikipedia->CTO: A chief technology officer (CTO), sometimes known as a chief technical officer, is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupant is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization.

you: 0 $us until we get funded... save some money and eventually become an entrepreneur.

If you accept a major role in a society, conscious of losing money and time, and you're willing to use your savings in the hope that your work will bring results within a specific time ...

Wiktionary->entrepreneur: A person who organizes and operates a business venture and assumes much of the associated risk..

you: And apparently, they saw my "enthusiasm" me: if you're willing to work for free between now and May, the enthusiasm is not the first thing that they noticed.

Should I accept a CTO position without much experience?

my answer is Yes! but prepare yourself to an experience that will make you grow up in many different ways ...

mcs_··on This is party time; Internet Explorer 8, 9 and 10 die on Tuesday
i don't know... how much is the cost to develop an application to cover 100% of the available desktop browsers? maybe use that value to improve mobile target make more sense at this point?!
mcs_··on Neon: Node plus Rust
nice to have access to rust libs from node.
mcs_··on The European Commission is preparing an attack on the hyperlink
when was internet free? i always have paid to use it. i understand free software but internet is here cause an infrastructure was created and deployed (means paid). my lan is free (cause i paid for that).

i don't get the point. someone wants to control a wan. is that a news?

mcs_··on Show HN: CloudScrape – Cloud-based web scraping platform
how can be the research into internet unethical? or the automation of that unethical?
mcs_··on Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
finally. i like the idea someone can remove my last purchase and manipulate my account.
mcs_··on Is Eclipse JDT dying?
Agree,

what about settings and configuration... export your eclipse settings from one workstation to another can be half day of work.

mcs_··on Monorepos
agree with this. I think monolithic repos are part of legal strategy in enterprise.
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