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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Say what you will about European regulations, but as an American who moved to Europe, I was absolutely floored when I bought a cheap bottle of sparkling mint-flavored water from the grocery store, and the ingredients were exactly: * sparkli
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Yeah it’s nearly the main benefit of Ruby/Rails that you can spin up an mvp of your company in like a week, and have a decent feature set within a couple months. The trap is when you start growing and it is hard to change. Because the
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I totally agree about how the lower investment in the non-Randstad parts of the country does not seem to have a negative affect. At least the further-away cities/towns that I’ve visited have been absolutely gorgeous. People are friendl
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
That’s not the only thing that maintaining consistent style involves. For example, we have an auto linter at my job, but there have been a few (bad) engineers whose code I can recognize even after it’s all auto-formatted. Plus, when you’ve
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I think paying Apple and Mozilla to be the default search engine, as well as within Chrome, counts as intentionally crippling other search engines. If Apple made them default because they’re the best, then that’s fine. But spending a ton of
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Those are actually all converted to heat eventually, just with more steps. Moving an electric vehicle causes motion, but that motion is absorbed by the air and ground via friction with both, aka heat. Light is just energy in a photon — when
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I agree with your general idea that America’s obesity problem is not generally genetic. It’s fairly recent, and much too recent for genetics to be a major factor. But I disagree that it’s a willpower problem. It’s a society problem. I moved
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Yeah, they have a graph of temperatures from 1940 onwards with a linear trend line— but just by looking at the data points, it seems that an exponential curve would fit the data better. Maybe someone more skilled than me has analyzed that a
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Agreed. I lived somewhere that switched from a credit card reader on the machines, to an app. The credit card reader was instant. You could just put in your laundry, swipe your card, and that was it. Instantly started. They switched to an a
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
It’s funny because I still feel the opposite of you — I think the example where you say that you like their solution is a better approach, as long as it’s not horrible. It leaves open the possibility that you as the reviewer are actually mi
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
I also bike to work and meet friends every day, and it’s basically no effort. And you don’t sweat much more than walking, just ride more slowly if it’s hot out. Though I do live in a city in the Netherlands that has put some effort into ma
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Agreed, and my company has done exactly that. Our public API is fit for the use-cases of our big customers that want deep integrations, and our frontend’s API is able to handle our specific workflows. We have a bunch of shared backend code,
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by BytesAndGears 3y ago
Wow, that first one is genuinely horrific, I can’t believe they had the guts to release something so strong. Glad they did though, it probably saved a ton of lives.