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xab9··on New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines
To me paracetamol works. Or at least worked, until I got addicted, so we're trying to switch to apranax, which acts terribly slowly (plus we added divascan as a generic migraine reducer).

Now I'm at the point where doctors are telling me to avoid pain relief pills so four days out of seven are usually just shit. Makes life harder then it should be.

xab9··on An Alphabet X concept from 2016 is an unsettling vision of social engineering
Did anyone think of Asimov's Foundation? I doubt that we will ever have "big enough data" for such a scale, but the socio-genetical ledger is a concept that may lead toward ubiquitous informational systems.
xab9··on Make front end shit again
ko was a pretty sane view engine back in the day, though their constructor pattern advocated in the docs will drive mem usage through the roof... but still Best and Sanderson are great devs. If you like ko, be sure to check out vue, you will feel right at home.
xab9··on Make front end shit again
Oh boy, it's a bit far fetched if not downright cynical (or maybe I'm oversensitive and this was not meant to be a response to people who cry about minute long cached webpack compile times or megabytes of angular payloads).

Frontend complexity went through the roof in the last ten years and compared to desktop software (not geocities) our developer tools and end results are not that great (ymmv).

But that's just my personal opinion, after fifteen years of web development and growing up along the c64 - 286 - pentium road, debugging in Watcom and fooling around in Turbo Vision.

xab9··on Malware Found in the Ubuntu Snap Store
One word: electron.
xab9··on Pyre: Fast Type Checking for Python
TS > flow.
xab9··on Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
Fortunately gnome 3 people fixed this by removing all mnemonics, so you can only use the arrow keys to navigate the window menu.
xab9··on Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
KDE is kinda okay now, but I just can't forget the nuclear clusterfuck called kde 4 back in the day.

I kinda tolerate gnome 3 (despite its marvellously obvious flaws) for now and if I find it way too annoying, I'll rip it out and use fluxbox or smg similarly low level wm.

xab9··on Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
Wouldn't cinnamon help? I know it's a bit of an overkill, but it's a gentler entry to the gnome3 world.
xab9··on Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu has never been better
Except when they break horribly. Some of them modifies gsettings directly, so even if you remove it, you still have to clean them up manually.
xab9··on Self-Awareness for Introverts [pdf]
A very important part I think is "the fool was not me". It's important to not to hear others and to take your time to analyze your thoughts (it's not an introvert thing of course).

First you may want to experience your feelings (you feel hurt, vulnerable, angry), but then try to understand what made you angry. Maybe you have an inner need for contribution and the other person states that instead of contributing, you made something terribly stupid (from his point of view) so you feel hurt.

And then, think about the abusive manager in this case. what may he feel, what may be his needs? Isn't is possible that he felt ashamed because he needed stability, but that need was undermined during his presentation?

Most of these are in the presentation in a form or another, but in fact this is a mediating thechnique by Marshall Rosenberg, called NVC. Anyway, take your time. Don't be ashamed to look into your heart. This is easier said than done, but it's possible to get better in it.

xab9··on Subscription Hell
Indeed, you're right. Don't Adobe give you some "cloud storage" thing though? Fortunately now that we're using Figma I don't have to deal with the hundred pound gorilla called Photoshop.
xab9··on Subscription Hell
Like Webstorm?

I do feel that I get value for my money and with the yearly fee I get all the updates (which are important in the ever changing world of web development), but sometimes it still feels like protection racket.

xab9··on Version 6 of Angular Now Available
This was A1, which came out in 2010. I've spent two years using it, I know its strengths and weaknesses, there are just better offers out there.
xab9··on Version 6 of Angular Now Available
You probably are not aware how many (rather big) projects out there are still on angular 1 with no upgrade plan at all. Last time I turned down a job offer because of a similar scenario.
xab9··on Thinking of yourself as an insomniac may be a part of the problem
The mind is a bitch.
xab9··on Thinking of yourself as an insomniac may be a part of the problem
I had been recommended agomelatine (in the form of Valdoxan) for my anxiety, but it's primarily a sleep regulator. I'm not a doctor, don't know much about medicine, but maybe it's relevant, dunno.
xab9··on Thinking of yourself as an insomniac may be a part of the problem
I believe that the article is right about how the labels we create for ourselves start to define us, to many of us the real question is how to stop caring, or being afraid, or being anxious though.

You can tell someone to stop fretting about something - but probably a good psychologist is a better way to hear these pieces of advice, not to mention how we are bombarded by advertisments and beliefs in our everyday life that go against the message of "don't fret".

xab9··on Visualizing Layers in Web Inspector
Probably because chrome dev tools doesn't have that :)
xab9··on Visualizing Layers in Web Inspector
Maybe he's not like "most people", the point is that you can not know.
xab9··on "@" on Twitter
Mobile twitter site is shit, but the real irony here?

Twitter came up with the ui framework "Bootstrap" long ago and it was a game changer for responsive frontend layouts.

xab9··on What I learned by living without artificial light
Mine was a pretty big player and we had to track times like crazy (two separate systems and a third opaque one, plus I did one for myself to cover my ass).

But it really depends on the company, I worked in both scenarios. Sometimes I can't broker a better deal or find a better company and again, a good team or an exciting project may make up for dickhead management and their paranoid lack of trust.

xab9··on What I learned by living without artificial light
Yes, I'm employed full time, work law requires 40hrs a week (afaik this is true for most countries) - right now we have time tracker cards for gate entry so the timesheet is accessible by the employer.

It's not as uncommon as it sounds and I'm in fact fine with it, but by the end of the week I feel quite tired. I quit my current place but there only the employer firm had access to the card timesheet data, which felt wrong to me... it was a stinky company anyway. Too bad I'll miss the guys, the team was pretty good.

xab9··on What I learned by living without artificial light
If you want to spend time with family that sounds a bit harsh, plus 30 minute commute in a big city is way too optimistic, but of course you're right that free time will not evaporate magically.
xab9··on What I learned by living without artificial light
By definition I gotta work 8hrs, we have one hour off for lunch, so technically if I started at 11am I would be around til 8pm :(
xab9··on How to avoid getting stuck with the middle seat on a Ryanair flight
The issue is that it's entirely possible to pay more for the seats than for the flight itself. I myself find this an issue, but ymmv.
xab9··on How to avoid getting stuck with the middle seat on a Ryanair flight
Afaik Wizz does the same randomization logic, it's a new "feature" though :(
xab9··on Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
Nope, it's not "done right". It's a table layout from the nineties. But probably there's an api so noone would have to scrape a wiki page, I never needed to do that fortunately :)
xab9··on Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
Using IE11 with the emulator switched to IE5 I can assure you, it works in IE5. At least the main layout, no popup though :D Still equal parts scary and astonishing.
xab9··on Why it took a long time to build the tiny link preview on Wikipedia
This thing is not exactly customizable.

I couldn't care less for the huge image in the popup layer, scrollability and extra content would be much nicer.

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