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by agd 5y ago
I understand your sentiment, however whenever I look at colleagues' or friends' browsers, they do indeed have an endless stream of tabs. Often 30+.
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by agd 5y ago
Yep, I'll give it a try.
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by agd 5y ago
Hey, just want to say good luck and keep at it. Lots of skeptical comments here, but that's always the case for different ideas. Stay positive :)
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by agd 5y ago
As a regular overwatch player I instinctively don't like this product. It is cheating and will help certain people over others. However... I also see a huge gap in the market for automated video game coaching and think people will pay
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by agd 5y ago
There’s no magic in Hey. No algorithms or AI. You literally filter everything manually. It’s the complete opposite of what you’re describing.
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by agd 5y ago
I’m not sure why we should rely on a ‘phd astrophysicist’ to evaluate the evidence for this. This article doesn’t seem to add anything to the debate, and certainly doesn’t persuade me that this hypothesis is a ‘conspiracy’.
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by agd 5y ago
Regarding explicit vs implicit imports, elixir supports both. However explicit aliases are preferred both for clarity and compilation speed. Perhaps discuss with your team why they are (seemingly) preferring to import rather than alias?
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Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year(theguardian.com)
347 points by agd 5y ago|437 comments
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by agd 5y ago
I don’t see this as a whatabout. It’s a similar case that I’m sure Belarus and Russia will point to. It exposes the hypocrisy in the statements coming from our governments right now.
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by agd 5y ago
Worth noting the incident in 2013 where the US and EU collaborated to ground a plane to target a whistleblower: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evo_Morales_grounding_incident
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by agd 5y ago
As a counter, I built an elixir team from 0-15 people and the devs love it. No particular problems hiring - finding fantastic devs is always hard, but lots of people we hired were attracted by the language.
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by agd 5y ago
> But that’s not enough because they aren’t able to find a product that people want in large amounts. They’re a very successful and profitable company for 20 years. How is that ‘not enough’?
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by agd 5y ago
I’ve used Hey for over 6 months and am enjoying it. It supports my needs: - No notifications by default - Helps me reduce inbox clutter (I try to minimise the amount of email I receive) - Privacy first by stripping out trackers (this alone
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by agd 5y ago
Yes, enjoyed the article, but in case others are unaware, there are several other popular block style editors today which use the same data model. E.g. https://slite.com/ , https://editorjs.io/ (open source)
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by agd 5y ago
I found this very persuasive. Would be great to see a counter argument from a virologist.
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by agd 5y ago
I'll assume this question was asked sincerely and in good faith. By cancelling in this context I mean trying to ostrasize those they disagree with. Talking negatively about them, excluding them as much as possible from social and profe
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by agd 5y ago
The context is the same as many other companies - employee activists creating strife and division internally and causing other employees to feel uncomfortable.
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by agd 5y ago
Think we'll see a lot more companies coming out with statements like this. Who wants their work slack to look like the worst parts of Twitter and Facebook? With employees cancelling each other and demanding they recognise various polit
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by agd 5y ago
They also set out how they've paid the value of these benefits to employees instead, and have started a profit sharing plan. Looks like a better deal to me?
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by agd 5y ago
Thank you Sophie for speaking out about this. It looks like a conflict of interest. FB is wary of closing accounts linked to leading political figures presumably due to a) not wanting to be seen to interfere with politics too much and b) no
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by agd 5y ago
As someone who used to work in this industry, I'm kind of torn on Lambda School. It's clear that Austen lied in the past about outcomes and the company perhaps preferred growth over customer experience early on. However college ed
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by agd 5y ago
I don’t think Substack will own the creator economy for writers, but it seems the shift is real. Why would I pay for dull news wire stuff from the mainstream media when I can get fantastic, expert, lengthy, niche content on stuff I care abo
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by agd 6y ago
Gov agencies can hack devices to read the contents - this is not specific to Signal or any weakness of Signal. However Signal does provide secure e2e encryption which prevents mass surveillance.
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by agd 6y ago
Payments was also launched in Brasil, and Facebook are on record as saying they want to expand it to more countries.
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by agd 6y ago
I don't believe the main competitors to Firefox (Chrome, Edge, Safari) offer a payment mechanism? So this wouldn't be required for core feature parity. However the two main competitors to Signal (Telegram and Whatsapp imo) do have
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by agd 6y ago
WhatsApp payments isn't available yet in all markets, but you can be sure it's coming.
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by agd 6y ago
AFAIK crypto is the only way to get private and secure payments. Any other payment mechanism wouldn't fit the ethos of Signal.
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by agd 6y ago
I think there are 3 attitudes towards Signal: 1. Anger from purists who care about the fact it's not decentralised, and that Moxie runs the show, and that it uses phone numbers etc etc... 2. Indifference from those who have never heard
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by agd 6y ago
This was my favourite top gear moment. Great to watch!
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by agd 6y ago
The European regulator and the WHO have said that countries should continue to vaccinate with the AZ vaccine, but the national governments are ignoring this. With this many countries pausing vaccinations, we know that there will potentially

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