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by ako 3y ago
Don't know, gold still seems to be wanted when financial times are uncertain.
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by ako 3y ago
Having children is not financially nor fiscally sensible. And it's also bad for the environment.
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by ako 3y ago
Jewelry is not unpractical, it's like an insurance for bad times. When shit hits the fan you still have your jewelry to sell.
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by ako 3y ago
There's so much irrationality in the world, everyone is guilty of them: irrationally believing in gods, irrationally being happy when someone else wins a sports match, irrationally being happy with a very expensive red sportscar, etc,
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by ako 3y ago
Might as well just search your browser history?
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by ako 3y ago
Isn’t this the same versioning approach that graphql proposes?
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by ako 3y ago
There are databases (and data warehouses) that need to provide random query api’s, e.g, for reporting, analytics, etc. Databases can be considered to provide an api layer themselves, way more flexible than most standards APIs provide. Graph
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by ako 3y ago
With cable you’re paying the cable company, not the content provides. For that you’d have to pay the stations as well. Similar to Netflix, pay for your network, and pay the content provider.
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by ako 3y ago
You can disagree with something, but still do it because your environment expects you to do it. He might not have been able to succeed in his goals if he hadn’t gotten a phd, not because of the phd itself, but how companies and people perce
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by ako 3y ago
Product Owner and Product Manager is not the same, especially in a larger organizations. Product Managers usually dont manage sprint backlogs, as its too fine grained. I often see sprint backlog that contain 20+ stories that add up to 1 cus
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by ako 3y ago
It’s about responsibility, the PM is responsible for the success of a product. To achieve this he collaborates with all the parties you mention, but in the end the PM has the responsibility. Key in this is bringing together knowledge of the
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by ako 3y ago
This is an old article from 4 years ago, testing Postgres 9.6. Have things changed? Another question: years ago we would design the tablespaces that hold the tables to use multiple datafiles on multiple disk on different io controllers, so
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by ako 3y ago
I mostly use an iPad when i don’t need a keyboard, especially when sitting on a couch (typing this on my iPad). I noticed that as soon as I pair the iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard, and an external display, I’ll also use my mouse to navigate
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by ako 3y ago
That' a common way to implement (faceted) search where the search expressions are dynamic depending on the user input. With this style, if the user wants to search on one or more fields you simply add "and field = :value" and
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by ako 3y ago
As an employee you also know what situation you’re in, they already downsized from 1500 to 500. That in itself should be warning enough that you’re working at a very risky company.
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by ako 3y ago
Why do you think shoving everything into a DB will not get us there. What about a scalable database platform like snowflake?
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by ako 3y ago
Oracle has had this for ages, I’ve built websites by printing html from the database I think somewhere back in ‘97/‘98. Oracle’s framework has grown into an entire low code development tool running in the database: oracle apex. It work
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by ako 3y ago
Pretty depressing story, it’s sad to see how countries and companies only care about money and power, and how much of our individual well being is down to pure luck. Reading this makes me feel helpless (not buying their products will probab
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A Fleet Prone to Captive Labor and Plunder(theoutlawocean.com)
40 points by ako 3y ago|2 comments
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by ako 3y ago
> but you can't expect _everyone_ to be able to live like that. Not even if the alternative would mean millions and millions of deaths due to heath, draught, fires, flooding and wars due to people try to move to livable areas? I bet
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by ako 3y ago
High output management, by Andy Grove: https://medium.com/@iantien/top-takeaways-from-andy-grove-s-...
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by ako 3y ago
If I remember correctly there were plenty books on programming 68k assembly on amiga.
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by ako 3y ago
I can imagine that low payment doesnt really inspire one to work hard…
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by ako 3y ago
Having a cadence helps improve quality by standardization and repetition. It’s just like with agile and scrum, the cadence improves quality, and releasing often reduces risks by making smaller changes.
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by ako 3y ago
This has nothing to do with phones, but products in general. Many product companies try to release new product versions very year. Not because they expect customers to update every year, but because buyers looking for a new product want to
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by ako 3y ago
I use Firefox everywhere, MacOS, windows, iPad iOS. Not sure what features I am missing out on. I don’t use any plugins, mostly happy with performance, no complaints about current feature set regarding tabs. I really don’t have a wishlist o
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by ako 3y ago
And how do you know upfront that the mass surveillance is worse than the alternative, e.g., a country run by organized crime, children and young women being exploited at large scale? Do you think police can be effective without mass surveil
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by ako 3y ago
If you were in government, how would you propose to limit child porn?
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by ako 3y ago
I work for a low code vendor, and use that ikea example quite a lot. Fact is, most people can’t or won’t afford a carpenter but would rather save time and money by using ikea furniture. I believe there’s a market for ikea software and I bel
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by ako 3y ago
I'm sure you are aware that there's way more going on than just a slight increase in average temperature (otherwise maybe ask the people on maui, greece or canada if they like their slight increase in temperate), but I agree that

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