paulhilbert

There are tabs. To open links in new tabs hold instead of tap. Couldn't find out how to open an "empty tab" though...

Is there a real difference between Firefox Focus and Firefox Klar? Is use the latter for a while now (and love it) and wonder if I am missing something. Wikipedia tells me something about "Klar" being used in a german context because of the "focus" magazine ambiguity (which is kinda weird as this magazine didn't have any relevance since forever). Edit: Ah... further reading in the german wikipedia revealed that the publisher of the magazine is partnered with Mozilla making the disambiguation a form of transparency I guess.

So we could finally port windows93(.net) to C++?

I spent most of my day coding. Except for some fresh air breaks and occasional discussions on how to collaborate I actually spend every second doing it. And I love it. The article suggests in its whole premise that this is wrong. For me and for the business. Yet it lacks any evidence on why I should want to do more than that - in fact I would even call it blindly dogmatic in that regard.

But at least in my work context I think that my boss's job is to keep me from customers and design decisions as much as possible - since that is what I love and what yields the most productive use of my time. I wonder why my joiner friends aren't told that spending all day in their workshop creating beautiful wooden art is wrong and that they should instead derive more pleasure from interactions with their customers...

Maybe in an ideal world someone who cries over every line of code since she/he would much rather make design decisions but is left out of the creativity loop just isn't a natural coder. Just like someone who hates working with wood maybe shouldn't.

I am well aware that this is a position of extremes and blocks out the gray areas that are reality. But my work reality is just not what this "Hacker, Problem Solver, Calvinist, Geek" regards as the very premise of his manager lesson.

"It’s only natural, then, that your programmer is reduced to doing only what brings him success: coding."

Replacing "success" by "pleasure" quickly reveals why there's not a single sentence in that article I can agree with. I for one am quite happy not being included in matters that sound like a different job title to me...

Both of these seem way more complicated than using the buttons to open doors (i.e. disabling the easy unlock feature) - but I probably just missed the sarcasm again ;)

At least for motorcycles I know you also make more money selling in parts. Of course this ignores the work spent disassembling...

I might add the actual legal way at our university in case anyone wonders. The official way to get paywalled papers we do not have bulk-orders for is this:

1. Go to the university library in person. 2. Submit a order-and-copy request for that paper. 3. Return 2 days later unless there is a weekend in-between. 4. Print a non-searchable, non-zoomable (extremely annoying in CG where I work) copy because getting the PDF is forbidden due to legal issues.

Now combine this with the usual way to do related work research for your own paper: 1. Search relevant papers for your topic. 2. Check who else cited these paper and read those papers. 3. Complete this breadth-first-search until time runs out or the papers become too off-topic.

This (in my field) yields a stack of around 120 papers I would have to order that 2-day-print-copy for of which in turn 100 are most probably irrelevant and hence will not be part of my papers related work section. Note also that I would have to order each "layer" of the breadth-first search separately - each time taking 2 days. Compare that to a day of related work research with sci-hub.

Quite obviously I have never met a researcher who took the legal/official road ;)

As far as I can tell the storage is quite centralized. At least I remember them allegedly moving all their porcelain to Canada when that elephant entered the room...

My usual workflow is to check citations for a paper via google scholar or getting a link from a peer which leads me directly to the paywall. From there it is a bookmark click away. In other words I always need sci-hub when I already found what I am looking for (but can't reach it). Does using sci-hub as a search engine work well?

For heavy users (like me) I suggest using one of many "implementations" of a auto-scihub bookmark here: https://github.com/nfahlgren/scihub_bookmark It is a great addition to an otherwise clean tor-browser...

This is not mine - but looking at the code you should notice fairly quickly that it is somehow trivial. Note also that it may be necessary to change the URL if necessary.

Lastly it should be said that sci-hub does indeed need donations - it is essentially a one-woman project and she can always use some lawyer-funds...

"Who knows what evidence can be collected if the rulebook is thrown away"

Pretty much all Europeans - the legality of evidence here is only refused in very intense cases (read: torture). And it works quite well tbh...

Wow, this article read like a fortune cookie. Trivial words about obvious matters in Open Source development by our #1 closed-source drive-by-installer supplier.