aikah
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Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Nice, this is why I browse HN for. Can you tell use more about the tech involved?
Perfect for a daily meditation.
Comment · 4 years ago
> I am not conflating anything. I have had a very similar experience in EU and Singapore and while the case of Singapore is ethnic preference in EU it's about the language even if the working language is english.
Are you complaining that people in Europe talk their native language instead of English and that a company located somewhere prefers hiring locally? Whether a company is international or not is irrelevant.
You are certainly implying that 2 distinct situations are equivalent and it's "a problem" for you. I don't see where the problem is, personally.
Now if you have witnessed specific instances of racism or racial discrimination at work or during the hiring process, then you should report it to HR or the proper local authorities.
Comment · 4 years ago
> Or in case of Europe in an international company a team decides to hire only people that speak german / russian / french even when the interaction with other teams is obviously just in english.
You're clearly conflating ethnicity with language.
1/ Just because people talk the same language doesn't mean they have the same ethnicity.
ex: French is spoken as a native language on every continent.
2/ Just because people have allegedly the same ethnicity, doesn't mean they share the same language or even culture.
ex: All black people living in Africa do not share the same culture, yet Americans reduce black people to a single ethnic group.
> Well the US definition of diverse is much more picky about what diverse means.
Yes, in US the definition of "diverse" is politically loaded, implying you subscribe to a specific partisan ideology. It's so loaded that you can't talk about diversity as "diversity of opinion", it has to be racial
https://nypost.com/2017/11/17/apples-diversity-chief-lasts-j...
Comment · 4 years ago
The 2 reasons why I don't use Chrome is
1/ You can't mute tabs by default
2/ You can't prevent videos to auto-start.
Simple as that, I think muting tabs was possible in the past, but of course, Chrome team removed that function because youtube.
Comment · 4 years ago
Yet all the summer music festivals are packed, sold out within minutes. It's just that the kids value live experience more than they value mp3 or Spotify.
Comment · 4 years ago
> isn't that rust, but better?
Clearly no, because Vala has a bunch of issues with memory safety. Not because it's a bad language, but since it translates directly to GObject, there is a lot of problems around pointers, ownership, ... mainly because that language lacks maintainers and GTK/Gimp developers didn't like it because they are "C essentialists".
Comment · 4 years ago
Yes indeed, it's time to move from Unity to something else because I don't want to pay for that kind of people's salary:
> Devs not baking monetisation into the creative process are “fucking idiots”, says Unity’s John Riccitiello
https://mobilegamer.biz/devs-not-baking-monetisation-into-th...
If he talks in public like that, imagine how this guy talks to his employees behind closed doors...
Comment · 4 years ago
> The REST standard
There is no such thing as a "REST standard" and that's why we've been having all these pointless arguments for the last 15 years. If Fielding really wanted web developers to use REST he would have wrote a normative spec about REST.
Seems to me that REST was never about developers writing web API. The whole "smart client" capable of API discovery through "hyperlinks" is... a browser with a user clicking on those links. Except that API aren't consumed by browsers but other apps that are neither as smart nor complex.
Maybe with a Windows VM.