smashu | 7 years ago | on: WordPress 5.0 introduces a flexible block-based content editor
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smashu | 7 years ago | on: People start hating their jobs at 35
I'm 39, I've been at this job for almost 5 years and still don't hate it
smashu | 8 years ago | on: America’s flat-Earth movement appears to be growing – Daily chart
America’s flat-Earth movement will soon become a global movement (LOL)
smashu | 8 years ago | on: How Booking.com manipulates users
I work in the travel industry as a developer and my current task is to make our booking engine more "bookingcom-like" (yes, this is exactly how the requirements were formulated by product management).
To achieve this task I did a small research of other travel web sites and I realised that most of them added such psychological elements lately.
Today I found this gold article and forwarded it to the product managers, hehe :)
smashu | 8 years ago | on: Cannabis reverses aging processes in the brain
now
smashu | 9 years ago | on: What terrible treatment have you seen in the workplace?
I worked in a start-up where the CEO complained that the employees (4 developers) are spending too much time on the toilet.
smashu | 9 years ago | on: Theories about a link between the human mind and quantum physics
Please just read this brilliant comic together with this article: http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3
The answer is there, in the last panel ;)
smashu | 9 years ago | on: Should a Programmer Learn to Design?
well... Should a Designer Learn to Program?
smashu | 9 years ago | on: An Ode to Linux Desktop Users Everywhere
my ThinkCentre home desktop runs on Ubuntu for 3 years, my Dell laptop runs on Fedora for 1 year. All smooth ;)
smashu | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are the hottest startups related to beer / brewing?
https://www.brewdog.com/
also see https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/feb/29/brewdo... which was on HN not long ago, discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11201300
smashu | 9 years ago | on: Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Deprecating Our AJAX Crawling Scheme
... since 2015
smashu | 10 years ago | on: Can IMDb’s Ranking System Be Trusted?
I know people who wouldn't watch a movie if it has an IMDB ranking of less than 7. LOL
smashu | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Would you be interested in Job Application Organizer?
A startup in Vienna is already doing it https://www.myveeta.com/en/
smashu | 10 years ago | on: How Google's new Logo is just 305 bytes
agreed
smashu | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Do you still use an RSS reader?
Feedly, daily.
smashu | 13 years ago | on: PC sales plunge, Microsoft and Windows 8 blamed
What about the poor quality of the new PCs (laptops / desktops) ?
In the last years I never heard anybody saying "I bought a new PC and it's great" but rather "I got screwed buying a new PC".
Lenovo, Dell, HP! WHY U NO BUILD GOOD PCs ANYMORE?
smashu | 13 years ago | on: Aggressive negative advertising by Microsoft against Google.
I think you can opt out:
https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/preferences/?hl=en#o...
smashu | 13 years ago | on: Belgium watchdogs: Apple is 'deaf to demands' over consumer rights
"within the European Union, two years' warranty must be provided for products free of charge"
There is no such thing, the law refers to something else. Check this: http://www.apple.com/uk/legal/statutory-warranty/
smashu | 13 years ago | on: Why do you need a Smartphone?
I don't, as I'm always surrounded by computers (at work and at home).So I just bought a Nokia 113. Exactly what I need.
smashu | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many hours do you sit in front of a computer per day?
8 to 12 :(
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