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rffn··on Ask HN: Tabs or Spaces
Spaces.The right amount is inserted by autoindent or by setting tab width to the desired value and hitting tab then.
rffn··on If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening
I was always under the impression that human multitasking means failing at multiple things at once. It seems to be just that different people feel different about success.
rffn··on If Your Laptop Is Open, You're Not Listening
It is pretty simple. If I am forced to attend unnecessary meetings I either bring my laptop and it is a valid assumption that I am not 100% following the meeting or I bring something else if laptops are banned (printouts, etc.). Worst case I will just space out. If meetings are relevant, well planned, interesting I will listen and contribute. I still might bring and use the laptop for notes.
rffn··on The Leica Q: A six month field test
I wonder how this camera compares to a Sony A7 (or it's successors) if the Sony is paired with a comparable lens.

I recall having heard that either the first or the second generation A7 has the same sensor as the Leica Q but this might be wrong.

rffn··on Barack Obama: Why we must rethink solitary confinement
Singapore has the death penalty on drug possession and is a very safe place in general compared to the US.

There might be more Asian states fulfilling the statement (Thailand?), but this was the first one which sprung to mind.

rffn··on Shareware Amateurs vs. Shareware Professionals (2003)
While the article has a point on the differences which makes success or not in shareware the phrase

Ask empowering questions like, "How can I increase sales by 20% or more?"

sounds a lot like bullshit bingo.

rffn··on Resolutions for programmers (2012)
Depends on how much you want to embrace the uncomfortable.
rffn··on 'New' Python modules of 2015
The Python module I learned to love this year is Click. Gets me better command line interfaces fast. URL is http://click.pocoo.org.

It does progress bars too...

rffn··on Source Control for Art Assets Must Exist
They are advertising for a while to offer a hosted service themselves: https://www.perforce.com/helix-ondemand

I did not try this though.

rffn··on Source Control for Art Assets Must Exist
Perforce does what is requested in the article:

- Working with large files

- Getting only the needed files form the sever, not all

- Not wasting space with .svn/.git copies of the files

- Reasonably fast.

They have quite some customers in the video game industry because of their support for huge projects and large files. We are using it for a different kind of application with similar requirements (100000s files, size up to GBs range per file). Perforce is well suited for the job and has good 24/7 support.

rffn··on Mozilla to stop Sponsored Tiles in Firefox
This would be outright stupid. While I do not want any default ties to external services like Pocket in the browser I for sure hope that such a data harvesting and customer acquisition effort at least yields money for Mozilla to further fund open source development.
rffn··on Ask HN: What's your favorite online course?
The Sedgewick/Wayne algorithm classes: https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partI and https://www.coursera.org/course/algs4partII
rffn··on Apple TV vs. Roku 4 vs. Fire TV vs. Chromecast
He misses the NVidia Shield. It has stellar gaming support, has the ChromeCast functionality included and has a similar set of media apps to the AppleTV.

Even with the prospect of AppleTV's app selection growing faster than Android TV's the Shield should be a worthy opponent.

rffn··on Flipboard, Once-Hot News Reader App, Flounders Amid Competition
I found Flipboard always be a nice app to show what a cool device it runs on. Other than that it had major flaws which were never fixed or only after a very long time of not listening to user complaints.

- No easy way of using RSS/ATOM feeds. I know they can be added, but last time I checked the way to do this was counter-intuitive.

- Read articles are not marked as such. Therefore they block the view on not yet read articles.

- For a long time no web interface.

There was probably more I did not like, but forgot. Finding the app as part of the undeletable junk on a Samsung device did not exactly create cosy feelings on my side either.

rffn··on Show HN: Mini_printf – minimal, self-contained and verified printf()
Your code does not seem to mention its license anywhere. This makes it impossible to use in most projects. For commercial embedded a BSD-style license seems to be better. For using it in GPL software GPL would work better. IANAL but without a license and a copyright notice depending on the country the viewer is in it might be even up for grabs for them to put on their own copyright and license.
rffn··on How adblocking matures from no ads to safe ads
Adblocking does not mature to safe ads. It corrupts.
rffn··on You Can Now Pre-Order the Pyra Linux Handheld PC
So this is picking u the pieces from Open Pandora. While I like the idea of open source hardware in general I am somewhat skeptical on why it might work this time. Nevertheless I hope they are successful.
rffn··on About 56% of users dislike systemd
The whining about systemd seems never to get old. Is this on the way to become part of Internet folklore (like Gnu Hurt, etc.)?
rffn··on [dead]
Alfred is a recognizable name. Just for something else though: https://www.alfredapp.com/ The Alfred app is popular on the Mac.
rffn··on Apple's 'Move to iOS' app bombed with one-star reviews
IMHO the one star votes are childish reactions.

Voting for an app should require to have used the app first.

rffn··on Apple's 'Move to iOS' app bombed with one-star reviews
For me a phone is a tool, not a hobby. I want to use it, not play/tinker with it. Hence I prefer it delivered in a state I can live with and not in a state requiring root and firmware change first.
rffn··on Ask HN: What books are you reading?
Sevenenves - Neal Stephenson
rffn··on With Obi Smartphones, John Sculley Takes Old Lessons From Apple and Pepsi
Yes, I found the name Obi for a world phone an odd pick. OBI is a strong brand in Germany and has also presence other European countries (Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, etc.).
rffn··on Lovin' their elevator: why Germans are loopy about paternosters
There is not much a difference to me whether she want to have mandatory classes on Paternoster use, the Greens want to impose a veggie day a week or the CSU wants to have a data retention law to allow to sniff in our digital life. I do not want any of this. For the parties missing in this list above I am sure I can find for almost all of them a fitting example to add them. To me this seems to be a more general issue.
rffn··on The Mac App Store Still Needs Paid Upgrades
About "confusing to casual users who aren't used to this model, and might not expect it": If we tailor everything to the person with the lowest possible knowledge* , we get two things. 1. Everything around us will be a stupid as we can make it. 2. Eventually a person with even less knowledge will be found.

* I had a much stronger word there before...

rffn··on Lovin' their elevator: why Germans are loopy about paternosters
The article misses important points about the reason for the outcry on the proposed law. Many people here are fed up with the overregulating nanny state with more and more unnecessary rules imposed by inept control freaks like Andrea Nahles. She also seems to have difficulties with judging the impact of her ideas. There are now way too many similar the her in today's politics (throughout most of the political parties in Germany).
rffn··on Using Windows 10? Microsoft is watching
Did the same for me. Incognito mode in Chrome fixed that though.
rffn··on We've Adapted Our Reading Habits to Fit Our Screens, but at a Cost
I found the article largely unreadable due to all the movement from the animations. Did the author want to show how bad he can design the screen reading experience?
rffn··on Ninja web browser for Android
From reading through the readme: "Incognito mode is a necessary feature for a web browser, but since ...some API not there anymore... the incognito mode is conflict with our UI design, so we stop it"

I would rate incognito, or privacy and security in general much higher than UI features/design. Seems to me to be an odd feature decision at best.

rffn··on How a German Soda Became Hackers' Fuel of Choice (2014)
> Afri-Cola: "Liebt einander und werdet durstig" / "Love each other and get thirsty" (1999)

This is a correct but too innocent translation. "Liebt einander" can both be translated to love each other and also to make love. The latter leads to:

Make love and get thirsty.

I am sure the ambiguity was intended.

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