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by Lutger 4y ago
90% accurate sounds impressive, and it is, but its still 100% incorrect almost always.
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by Lutger 4y ago
This is often deliberate. Postponing payment of invoices means you have at any given time a larger warchest to invest and gain an edge, or conversely have to pay more interest. CFOs often set a target and push back on swift payments. Some c
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by Lutger 4y ago
It is not depending on settings of clients nor is it magic. The HTTP headers are as much part of the input of a request as the url itself. The only difference is that most people aren't aware of the http headers and they aren't sh
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by Lutger 4y ago
That is true for now, but in increase in mastodon usage is really mind blowing. It is hard to believe such a big social network to migrate overnight, but it has happened before with digg moving to reddit.
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by Lutger 4y ago
yeah, most of them are doing it
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by Lutger 4y ago
I believe because it shows how much we depend on good behavior of Big Tech (or Big anything really) and are at their mercy. I think most people do generally have the expectation of big corps leadership behaving somewhat decently most of the
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by Lutger 4y ago
Now is the perfect time to check back in with your developer account to see if you haven't been banned without warning. Its pretty amazing to make Google seem like a beacon of stability, but Twitter managed to do it. I feel for all the
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by Lutger 4y ago
> requires shared resources and has knock-on effects > It's their money, not ours No? Does not compute: its our resources and we are the recipient of knock-on effects, not 'they'. For example: if India will decide to ge
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by Lutger 4y ago
Code Quality is not subjective. If some improvement really is, then its probably not a code quality improvement. The ability to reason about it or even measure it might be subjective, in the sense that most developers aren't really goo
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by Lutger 4y ago
Yes. This doesn't mean gas stoves are banned (existing ones are not outlawed). In fact its not about stoves at all. It means some countries are doing at least something to address climate change. Eventually we all need to move away fro
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by Lutger 4y ago
The gas stove ban that is in the news is a US thing, not a EU or CA as far as I know. I haven't heard of any gas stove bans in the EU being talked about, though some were already on the table in an effort to get rid of gas altogether.
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by Lutger 4y ago
Trying to be the new Rupert Murdoch, but failing.
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by Lutger 4y ago
I would say you are overstaffed if A) you can't afford them and / or B) you've grown so fast, you don't know how to make use of the staff you have. Perhaps there is a C) which is a variant of B) the business model you ar
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by Lutger 4y ago
I've also more or less organically grown into a management kind of role at my previous job, and I regret some of that. I did miss out on a lot of experience I could have had building things. At some point I worked hard to return to a d
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by Lutger 4y ago
I only hope a very aggressive competitor emerges that disrupts Deere out of existence. Sometimes I wonder why groups such as farmers dont band together to form a collective which can protect them against such predatory companies.
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by Lutger 4y ago
"The solution is simple - keep using old gasoline vehicles to save a few dollars, which cause massive emissions even while the country suffers megadroughts, winterstorms, wildfires, coastal homes are being flooded and hurricanes grow m
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by Lutger 4y ago
I don't think GDPR will prevent you from entering a contract where you sell your personal info and get paid in free access to services. It just prevents companies from doing so without your consent. Google and other could just provide
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by Lutger 4y ago
I agree. Honestly I think this should be a government provided service, not a corporate one.
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by Lutger 4y ago
This doesn't strike me as something inherently part of entrepreneurship in a world-wide context, but rather something particular to anglo saxon countries, and especially Americans which are big on neoliberal ideology. Americans are als
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by Lutger 4y ago
This is true. You can have bad unittests which make the system worse and you would be better of without them. You can also have useless unittests with 100% coverage, which is pretty much the same as bad tests because more code means more bu
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by Lutger 4y ago
This is the way. We have format-on-save in our editor, works like a charm. Sometimes the CI still catches sometimes, but generally its very low friction.
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by Lutger 4y ago
Yes, lots of people have (and I did as well, a bit earlier but around the same age). There's no easy trick, no how-to you can follow and get a guaranteed result. Nothing with which you can bypass hard work on it and not have to confron
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by Lutger 4y ago
You don't get them out, you get out yourself.
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by Lutger 4y ago
Why not try to measure snappiness directly? There's tons of research about this in UX land, which is not my field but I'm aware of it, defining precisely which kind of interactions at what latencies feel instantaneous and so an an
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by Lutger 4y ago
The fact that you need to bet is exactly the problem, even when you are right. The article does 'blind monitoring of memory usage', which the comment you respond to points out suggest to the problematic, but in fact could also be
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by Lutger 4y ago
On the one hand: I agree that years of delay are pretty wasteful, considering a lot of projects are really needed to solve urgent problems. With windmills, the same thing happened in my village, which was all up in arms against them. On the
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by Lutger 4y ago
Yes, can I subscribe to the internet?
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by Lutger 4y ago
Thank you for your listening, I appreciate that. There is one case where we agree: telling somebody they are wrong is not gaslighting, ever. For example, Bob claims Lizard people blew up the Nord Stream pipeline. Alice says Bob that he is w
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by Lutger 4y ago
Yes, generally abusers like to paint themselves as victims, these kinds of inversions are quite common. If limited to the perspective of debate, gaslighting is just a variation of an ad hominem attack, which is easily recognized and not sub
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by Lutger 4y ago
> "gaslighting" is defined as a form of manipulation that an abuser uses to sow self-doubt in a victim. But telling someone that they're dead wrong- while it might not the most effective way of convincing- is not necessari

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