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601.
by arkh 7y ago
> The article is mixing a few different points in a strange way. Paris has an excellent subway system with about 350 stations, everywhere you want to go there is a subway station less than 500 meters away, sometimes you have 2-3 stations
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by arkh 7y ago
In France: OVH. Their kimsufi lineup is hard to beat.
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by arkh 7y ago
> I know n=1 but, my girlfriend is a teacher and I see her working about 40 hours a week, for a 24h job. She has a 0.6 FTE contracted position (and an according 60% monthly salary), she's at the school about 4 days a week. On her of
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by arkh 7y ago
> "How to tell an over-confident student they still have a lot to learn?" Make them try to explain what they understood to their peers.
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by arkh 7y ago
> we don't even have the physics knowledge to describe how a tactile hologram could exist at safe handling energies Direct nerve interface. That would be one hell of a disruptive technology.
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by arkh 7y ago
> I must say the trend of using touchscreens to replace dials and buttons on cars is extremely worrying Most are going back on that. It is just that what is currently being sold was developped years ago.
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by arkh 7y ago
I'd like to extend this to fucking VR. All VR experiences lack one thing: full body haptics. Take something inspired from the "Pacific Rim" cockpits ( http://i.imgur.com/DLze6j7.jpg ) so you can have some con
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by arkh 7y ago
> Nice thought policing there. I'd call it gatekeeping. I hear woke people are against this kind of behavior.
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by arkh 7y ago
If the only diversity you acknowledge is just skin deep you may have a lot more problems.
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by arkh 7y ago
Older people and women: usually prefer a good work life balance. So they're harder to exploit.
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by arkh 7y ago
> it's quite reasonable to ask what major problems are arising that need a new framework learning every week The answer is simple: someone read a new chapter in the Gang of Four's book.
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by arkh 7y ago
> I'd say it's about 80% male. It's more like most women will go for 20% of the men. If you're part of the 80% you'll feel alone. As an experiment just make a fake profile with some model's picture to discov
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by arkh 7y ago
> the current free internet cannot be sustained as it is today Which would be a good thing.
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by arkh 7y ago
> the pop-ups interrupt and obstruct, breaking immersion. Here is a trick for website owners: don't track your users. No need for any popup anymore.
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by arkh 7y ago
> 5. Torrents are more convenient. Some people enjoy "crazy good" less than 1Mb/s internet conexion: no way you're streaming anything. So yeah, torrent it is.
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by arkh 7y ago
> The thing is: homework can be a rather powerful tool for learning. Not for everyone. Once you've understood something, doing it 10 times won't help. Especially if you could do something more fun on the side. I think it is jus
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by arkh 7y ago
Then: North American Nouvelle-Bourgeoisie. Or Puritans 2.0.
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by arkh 7y ago
> The US was not deterred by Pakistan having nuclear weapons. Because they were not there for resource. Iraq would have been another story: getting oil from a radiation scorched area is not fun.
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by arkh 7y ago
Decentralized social network: a customized phpBB with a good OpenID module would be enough. Host your own, authenticate yourself to other instances, use RSS feeds to create your own composite timelines.
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by arkh 7y ago
10 years ago you'd be called a privacy lunatic when you said that website owners who used google analytics were just selling their users' data to Google. Same reflexion about those using ad scripts.
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by arkh 7y ago
> When somebody isn't following reasonable guidelines it takes one person to point them at the FAQ, help them understand what they did wrong and why it could be done better next time, etc. If you haven't I encourage you doing
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by arkh 7y ago
Maybe after working some time and helping juniors people tend to develop this reflex: if you're trying to do something really crazy with your tool you may have fucked up 2 or 3 steps before that. It's like if someone asks how to u
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by arkh 7y ago
> As if you need to be a dick to maintain “quality”. Maybe you can't. Being nice does not scale: being nice mean you take more time to answer and try to make people not offended. With an internationnal audience, good luck not findin
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by arkh 7y ago
The Mariana Trench is better: 10 km of water then it's a subduction area so it'll end in the Earth mantle.
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by arkh 7y ago
That's where pair programming can shine: when I see a junior who need help, I'll ask if they don't mind me coming around and helping. Just asking the right questions and guiding them to find a solution to their problem usuall
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by arkh 7y ago
> And this was common workplace discussion!? It must be US culture there: everywhere I've worked (in France) arguing about politics was always ok. Even fun when you get people of differing views who can explain how they came to thos
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by arkh 7y ago
> docker-compose is just fine Not when part of your dev use macOS and another part uses linux: gotta love how docker manages file permissions between host and containers.
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by arkh 7y ago
To what end? If we accept the heat death of the universe and the fact nothing can go faster than light everything is bound to disappear. Trying to better Earth based life is useless. Then why bother trying to attain something higher? Just m
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by arkh 7y ago
It's why I like my Up!: they decided everyone already has their own touchscreen with infotainment. So you have a dock for your phone, a USB charger and a bluetooth enabled sound system. The rest uses mechanical controls.
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by arkh 7y ago
> properly disposing of resource It's php. Everything is trashed once the http request has been served.

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