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In this day and age I wouldn’t be surprised if this was just a marketing stunt.


Does it?

May it be that HN is more or less known among tech workers in country “X” (eg: due to language, etc…)?


Sure, you can even say that both France and Germany just have larger populations than Italy. But still I would argue that being open to the international tech scene is pretty important to have a local tech scene. It's also crucial to keep up with innovation.


Would you say that consuming HN is some sort of "benchmark" that measures how open a society is to the tech scene?


Which is probably one of the counter-arguments driving the global consolidation toward services owned by megacorps. This, in turn, contributes to the smaller/independent alternatives to become more prone to this sort of situations. And the cycle begins again.


ProtonMail managed to figure it out after the DDoS attack they faced 5 years ago:

https://protonmail.com/support/knowledge-base/email-ddos-pro...


Darn, even GNOME jumped on the let's-make-the-UI-flat bandwagon.

To be honest I'm lost for words here: what's pushing this trend to make the actionable items blend with the content in such a confusing way?

I understand modernization but I'd really love to get a UX designer point of view here: what's the problem being tackled away by flattening all the actionable items here? What are we gaining in terms of usability?


> Making the style feel lighter and reducing visual noise is a major goal for the style refresh

> if applied carelessly, it can also make certain layouts ambiguous. For example, a text-only button with no background would look exactly same as a window title. To prevent that, we only remove background from buttons that we can be confident won’t look confusing without it — for example, buttons containing a single icon.


Would the moonlighting clause apply here if the employee happened to be a CA resident?


Nope, because the contributions in question are to IBM's VNIC driver, and until 3 days ago this employee was working on this project in an official capacity. The employer is expressly allowed to claim ownership of work that relates to the employment, which this did.


That brought tears to my eyes. Browsing Reddit on slrn is just so much better...


Isn't there a "Size chart" link in every product page, right beneath the size selector?


Not on Firefox Android. Niether mobile or desktop views.


This one, people. This one.


Having to use my browser porn mode just to be able to read a simple post on Medium is a testament to how we should get rid of Medium before ranting about Git.


Not sure what browser you use, but since disabling JavaScript for Medium (Chrome) it's been better.

I agree with you still though.


No. No. And no.


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