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npmaile··on Ask HN: I'm an incoming freshman to college for a CS major, what should I know?
I absolutely agree. I have a degree in Business Economics and got a job as a software engineer within 6 months of graduation. I started in the tech support help desk of my university, followed by a programming job within the school. I used that job to get a job doing automation for a large corporation and then got a job engineering for said company. No ragrets
npmaile··on Google no longer providing original URL in AMP for image search results
if typing "!google" is too much of a hassle "!g" also works. you can also do pretty much any letter and it will search another service from bing to yahoo to images to maps to wikipedia to whatever.
npmaile··on Show HN: I wrote an open source cloud gaming service by WebRTC and Golang
I discovered Eclipse Che at the last DevNexus and thought it was fairly neat. https://www.eclipse.org/che/
npmaile··on Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman (2007)
C was tied to unix and C ++ was on the coattails of C. Java was actively sold to every major corporation in the early aughts. I will agree, that python came up without a platform to support it.
npmaile··on [dead]
It says that it is commonly used in aquariums. I made the same mistake in my comment below.
npmaile··on [dead]
Why not link directly to the banner health page? This article seems to be needlessly political given the drop of Trump's name. I'd gladly dive into an article about the president's rhetoric and its effects on public health, but this story is better served by the linked article (http://bannerhealth.mediaroom.com/chloroquinephosphate) which also explains how the couple may have aquired such a dangerous chemical, which I think is useful information.
npmaile··on Bash $* and $@ (2017)
second this. We recently added it to a project at my company (https://github.com/homedepot/spingo) as part of a github action and it is awesome. A quick search for the specific code in the shellcheck wiki reveals the problem and a solution. I've had no real issues with it yet.
npmaile··on Coders Programming Themselves Out of a Job (2018)
I have read it, and it has become my most recommended book for someone trying to get into programming or technology in general. It won't tell you how to do every single thign in the universe, but it can give a great starting point for automation and programming in general.
npmaile··on Using Firefox for a faster, calmer and distraction-free internet
I've been using Firefox developer edition for a couple of months now and think it's great.
npmaile··on Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
I'd argue that a company at the near trillion dollars scale can and should be Contributing mere than the few tens of millions they've put into open source, but you are not wrong and I'm not particularly willing to die on the hill I've climbed.
npmaile··on Microsoft has removed the “use offline account” option when installing Windows
I understand correcting the title to be more accurate to the situation, but I think the discussion should be focused on how Microsoft is taking power away from users, and has business incentive to do so. I don't like that the greater tech community rallies behind Microsoft for doing some basic contributions to open source and then hand waves away moves like this.

Edit: the comment section has shifted and I'm less disappointed.

npmaile··on If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot
Hey, I'm from near there! Go Cyclones!

also my two cents: it's dangerous as all heck doing anything but driving on those roads. I almost got hit by a friend of mine who was texting and driving while I was running about 30 miles from there out in the country.

npmaile··on Get Started Making Music
I'd recommend you check out the Tennage Engineering OP-Z. It's a neat little thing that can do a bunch of the stuff you mentioned, but in a crazy small form factor.
npmaile··on Volkswagen’s bold plan to create a new car operating system
My car's software feels like the one thing in my life that I can't freely hack on. Given some sort of a mildly standard interface like the one in the article, I think it will be nice to have the ability to modify and maintain my car's tech internals just like everything else I have.
npmaile··on Update on AB5
As someone who drives Uber on occasion when I'm a little bored and looking for something to do, I think it's great that I'm not an Uber employee.

I can do 10 hours or I can do 0 hours based on nothing but my own whim. I don't have a problem with people organizing to get a better deal for themselves, but I like the way it works now.

I've worked for companies that misclassify workers, and Uber isn't it as far as I understand. I may be convinced otherwise, but I don't see it.

npmaile··on Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do
My problem with this is that I have a russian event every night that only shows up on my phone calendar. I did the fix to remove it from Google calendar through the web, but it's only gone on the web. It still shows up on my phone with no option to delete all.

I've been deleting the next 4 days every 4 days for the last two weeks.

npmaile··on Reasons Not to Use Google (2015)
well the linux kernel is compiled with the gnu compiler project, so literally everyone uses it if they connect to the internet or have an android phone.
npmaile··on Alpine 3.10 Released
As far as I understand, most people use alpine in docker containers due to it's being quite lightweight with a decently large number of packages. I personally use it directly on the hardware on my personal server and I love it. It's all the fun and flexibility of a minimal system like arch, with all the simplicity of upstart. Also it takes about 2 minutes to install, which is helpful for setting up testing environments.
npmaile··on The Sideways Tide
I would absolutely recommend playing a game called Kerbal Space Program if you have any questions on how orbital mechanics works.
npmaile··on Sway 1.0
I've been using sway nearly exclusively for about a year and love it. Nearly everything I do with it just works. Additionally, I keep seeing Drew all over the net with various projects, blogposts, and other useful contributions. sr.ht is an interesting project I would recommend people take a look at.
npmaile··on Apple Is Blocking Linux User-Agent on appleid.apple.com
Just yesterday I came across this issue trying to set up my podcast with iTunes. I probably would have gone crazy if I hadn’t seen this post.
npmaile··on Altavista: The rise and fall of the biggest pre-Google search engine
sadly enough the answer here is also google. flights.google.com hotels.google.com
npmaile··on Explore ISS on Google Maps
Seriousness aside, the drop protection, liquid spill holes, and general durability are useless in zero g.
npmaile··on Adding a Trackpoint to an Inexpensive Mechanical Keyboard
I'm currently typing this from a Tex Yoda II, and I can say that at least for me, the trackpoint keyboard on my work desktop is very nice. The biggest problem I have is that I more or less sit in exactly the same position for hours on end without moving any joints beyond my hands. Also, whenever someone needs to take over for me on my machine, they are always taken aback by the lack of mouse.
npmaile··on Court rules universities may have duty to block websites that harass students
If Joe happens to be a deviant criminal and doesn't like to be reminded of the fact, then he should avert his gaze when driving by. If Joe is not a deviant criminal, then he can sue the person who put up the billboard for damages incurred.
npmaile··on Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH
Now all they have to do is switch their kernel to linux, their gui to kde and get their office suite to LibreOffice, and Windows will be the perfect computer.
npmaile··on People are “consistently inconsistent” in reasoning about controversial topics
I could not disagree more with your second point.

Just because a group of misguided individuals support a specific idea, person, or ideology, doesn't mean that the thing they support should be judged based on the merits of those people. The things should be evaluated based on the individual merits of whatever it is.

Following your logic, I could easily say that Hitler was a vegetarian, so if you don't eat meat, you stand with Hitler.

npmaile··on Show HN: Websites in 2018
I'm not certain this is 2018. I saw the words and letters immedately instead of gray rectangles showing me where words and letters could be before being shocked by the appearance of the actual words and letters.
npmaile··on The First Rule of Microsoft Excel: Don’t Tell Anyone You’re Good at It
I feel like grep/awk/sed (actually just perl) should be taught in High School just due to how often I find myself using them in day to day life. Maybe not even the entire programs/languages, but just regular expressions.
npmaile··on [dead]
Things are nowhere as simple as this. I read a few years ago that there were more abandoned homes than homeless people. Why is homelessness still a problem? Maybe instead of analyzing the problem on a deeper level and working to solve it, we should just critisize other people who have more money than us. Great Idea
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