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h4l0 | 1 year ago | on: Raspberry Pi 5 now supports Valve's Steam Link

This is my current setup as well. While on the subject of Raspberry Pi 5, if you are using RPi5 with Raspbian as a Moonlight client and want to capture window manager shortcuts like `alt+tab` but unable to do so, Wayland is the problem. I'm trying to put this knowledge out their in the hopes of a search engine indexing it.

h4l0 | 2 years ago | on: Losing my son

I read it all through. Yes, there are no words. But seeing "Sign up for more like this." form at the end was so confusing.

h4l0 | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: A color picker for named web colors

Funny to me that how #FF0000 is named Red, #0000FF is named Blue, but #00FF00 is Lime. Maybe it was supposed to be RLB. Although Green is the canonical name for that color range, what we actually refer as Green in daily life is close to #008000.

h4l0 | 4 years ago | on: Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer

Disclaimer; I work at Atlassian as a Software Engineer.

First of all, he has this weird take at the very beginning

> Interesting fact 1: Atlassian is the only company that has words "sh*" and "f*" in their core values.

Those values are "Don't f* the customer" and "Open company no bulls**" (oh the irony). This 'take' immediately threw me off. Why would you even mention something this trivial? I'll give it a pass as his emotions were probably elevated.

> After being in the company for more than a year I had found that folks with children are less likely to get a promotion. I had no evidence, it was a feeling.

Most of the folks I've seen got promoted had children. Having no evidence to support your claim in an article like this (with a banger title) is a red flag to me.

PTO is unfortunately something that I'm unfamiliar with. The country that I live in prohibits unlimited PTO by law, so I've never had that experience. Although, using the PTO that I acquire is still subject to approval of my manager. That part of the story is what the author should have really focused on. Going after the whole company in such a vicious manner is not a good look in my opinion.

I agree with most of the top comments here. Stay low, get a lawyer, deal with this silently. Hope his wife has a fast and easy recovery. Tough times, tough challenges for the author personally. No matter how hard I try, I certainly wouldn't be able to fully empathize with him.

h4l0 | 5 years ago | on: Raspberry Pi as a local server for self hosting applications

I wasn't aware that my Samsung Smart TV had been logging almost my every action on the TV until I set up a PiHole server. Also, my respect for Apple grew by the fact that only device that wasn't doing loads of telemetry turned out to be my Macbook in the whole household.

h4l0 | 5 years ago | on: A complete 4-year course plan for an AI undergraduate degree

Yes, maybe my approach and perspective are skewed by traditional thinking. Unfortunately, I'm still failing to see a need for AI split in CS. An AI student might not need to learn basics of programming languages, operating systems, OOP, DB management, and many other core topics for CS but what else remains to be honest? If we were to simply convert elective AI courses to "must", then are we going to offer classic CS courses as "elective"?

h4l0 | 5 years ago | on: James Damore and three others end Google suit

> in the view of that reader, was to insinuate that women can't be engineers

Although his intentions were unclear by his vague approach to the subject, I believe he didn't mean to say women can't be engineers.

Most of the time he gave population-based examples of how women decided not to be engineers. His thesis was to show that forcing women in STEM fields is not a fair practice to both women and men who want to be STEM professionals.

h4l0 | 6 years ago | on: Firefox 74

> Facebook Container prevents Facebook...

Considering that Mozilla is already protecting their users from specific target sites, it is only logical to assume that they are also improving user experience for a website which has 1B+ users.

Edit: I still cannot overcome the fact that both products are owned by the same company.

h4l0 | 6 years ago | on: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students

and think that they actually didn't get a job at teaching programming but they involved in politics and appointed as "Minister of Technology" for their "loyalty" to the Head of State. That's what Turkey is dealing with right now.

5 or 6 years ago, our ex-minister, claimed that it is dangerous to work with computers since they can be challenging for the mind in a conference about cloud computing. Let that sink in.

h4l0 | 6 years ago | on: Turkey buys Delphi licenses for an estimated one million students

I really don't want to sound cynical about this great initiative(!) but it saddens me that among many open modern languages and tools, they instead opted for Delphi.

I cannot think of a single positive reason behind this decision in 2020. All I can think of is that the people that came to this conclusion are the ones who graduated from Computer Science related studies in ~1998-2004~ and immediately got themselves in politics. I lost count of how many times have I heard that if you pay for it, it's just better...

Finally, I admit that I'm definitely highly biassed when it comes to Turkish Politics.

h4l0 | 6 years ago | on: What Happened with West Virginia’s Blockchain Voting Experiment?

Blockchain for voting sounds like a terrible invitation to a terrible party. Voting is already a delicate subject which is really hard to secure on information systems. Researchers have spent decades to figure out a perfect solution but came short.

Blockchain has already surpassed its boundaries for multiple reasons. However, voting should be beyond that line. There are many questions that need to be answered before even thinking about using blockchain for voting.

- How will identification work?

- What is the proof-of-work scheme?

- How can you be sure that every vote ends up in the ledger? Transactions usually get lost and sometimes takes few tries to reach to miner.

- Most important property is that not a single vote should be traced back to its caster. Blockchain is all public, how are you going to anonymize everything? IP addresses of transaction owners are already open.

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