robtherobber

The company does owe employees a lot more than agreed compensation. Companies, as entities in our society, fulfill certain roles which are without exception means to something else. We use (commerci…

Also to: https://github.com/public-accountability/oligrapher

My comment is bound to be redundant in this thread, but so have I. SumatraPDF is an excellent piece of software that has made life for countless people easier and without them having to pay anything i…

Didn't work for me in 80%+ of cases where I was having trouble sleeping. And when it did work, I tend to assume that it worked because I was having a good night and probably everything would have…

I also recommend this wholeheartedly.

I'm using this software on and off, but it's especially useful when clients plan to redo their websites and I want to make sure I have a copy of the pages offline but don't have access …

(Sorry, I must've turned off the notifications in HN, because I never know when someone replies to a comment I've made.) Rather than recommending films, which can turn into a long list since…

1770 films so far and as a European I'm more in awe with early Iranian cinema than ever. Definitely a world away from Hollywood, in the best possible sense.

I agree. But I think we need to look at these things even further. It's sensible to separate the two in principle, but the arguments forwarded by the author seem to ignore the actual substance of…

This, I believe, is not really news worthy unless you consider the fact that no one should ever accumulated that much wealth to begin with.

In addition to Screaming Frog, which is very well-known in the industry, you may also be interested din Sitebulb, which seems to have been inspired by Screaming Frog but took a slightly different appr…

In the UK there's also https://www.4dayweek.co.uk/employers They run an accreditation 4-day work week with no loss of pay scheme.…

Not exacrtly tech oriented, but technology is often addressed as a fully-fledged topic: Boston Review: https://bostonreview.net/ Columbia Journalism Review: https://www.cjr…

I second this. I've been using Typora for some 2 years now and I'm extremely happy with it. It's currently free but the developer intends to charge for it once it's out of Beta.

I don't disagree with this, just like I don't disagree with the fact that many people who stood to lose from Brexit voted for Brexit. I think the conclusion here could be that these are both…

If you don't mind the ideological aspect, this article from 2006 is rather relevant to this historic event: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2006/08/patc-a03.h…

I must contradict this. Virgin Media (a large UK ISP), as well as other service providers, see running a web server on a residential Internet connection a violation of the Terms of Service. (Unless I …

I second this. While many developers banter with each other about how marketing people are more or less useless, very few seem to understand that in the vast majority of cases creating a technical sol…

I guess it depends whom you're asking, because developing WP is one thing, writing & managing content is another and generally speaking different skillsets are involved at each level. For dev…

That sounds terrible. Although I agree that life is complex enough to require sacrifices at times - it's simply unavoidable sometimes, I find it hard to swallow that people are required to go thr…

There's a fairly common misconception that if the people couldn't have pirated a book (song, film), they would have bought it, as if there's some sort of guarantee that a book will …

I can wholeheartedly recommend that film (and Ken Loach's filmns in general). The following review excerpt [1] is telling and heartbreaking: The stakes of the film are simultaneously huge and sm…

I tend to agree with this. I understand the convenience it offers, but as long as the services it connects to are "free", I'm not going to pay more than one or two dollars / euros …

Portmaster looks nothing short of amazing. I have tried it some two months ago but for couldn't really get along with it, I can't remember why. I should try it again, many thanks!

I'm aware no one asked, but in case anyone was scanning for Windows, simplewall is a reasonable alternative, both free and open source (development powered by donations): https://www.h…

To quote Jeff Sovern, "Capitalism may be the best economic system ever devised, but one of its drawbacks is that it provides financial incentives to harm and even kill people." [1] There nee…