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by balabaster 7y ago
I have an Ecobee rather than a Nest, but I had the Nest before I moved and the one thing I note is that it having access to temperatures and weather outside the house means it can choose just to run fans to circulate the air from outside to
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by balabaster 7y ago
With day rates you then have to start looking at VAT requirements though for inside and outside IR35 and given I haven't lived in the UK for 20 years, I'm not familiar with all the nuances this adds. I'd definitely need someo
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by balabaster 7y ago
I can't speak for GitLab specifically, nor for the whole of Europe. I'm from the UK and living in Toronto (which seems vaguely comparable to SV in terms of income/cost of living). I generally keep a pretty close eye on the UK
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by balabaster 7y ago
Having worked at half a dozen remote companies and a bunch of companies where I'm on site in the office I can tell you this from experience. People in general suck at communication. Those teams that are the most productive and produce
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by balabaster 7y ago
Except MS Teams suuuuucks compared to Slack. The interface just isn't intuitive and you can't just use it. The number of times I miss things because I didn't realize my input was needed, or I'm still getting notified on
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by balabaster 7y ago
I think Google is probably able to determine based on personality profiles created from our searches who we're most likely to mesh well with... whether that's based on interest or personality profile, who knows. It would be an int
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by balabaster 7y ago
Google should do dating based on people's every day searches... "Hey, we know you're both single, or at least looking for other partners. You're literally the only two people on earth that share this fascination, everyo
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by balabaster 7y ago
Your list would probably grow even faster... where are you based?
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by balabaster 7y ago
this is the problem with hosting it at home on your own server with your own hardware. Your kids will hack it when you're not looking and install a Roblox server and let every idiot into your server to do whatever they want with it. Al
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by balabaster 7y ago
In my years I've been a keen swimmer and cyclist. When I'm pool swimming, I don't usually get that euphoric high until the cool air of outside hits me in the face as I'm leaving the building. The harder I swam, the highe
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by balabaster 7y ago
I think for anyone that started programming in the early days of home computers like the ZX81, C64 and BBC Micro, except for the fundamentals, most CS courses seemed to be completely useless. I cannot honestly say anything I learned in my c
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by balabaster 7y ago
Thanks for this. I began programming when I was 8 on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K from books I liberated from my Mom back in 1983. I grew up as the internet was just becoming a thing, communicating with other would be developers and hackers o
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by balabaster 7y ago
Which really goes to show that to be the best at anything, you've gotta work hard to be better than everyone else that's doing that. It's the same in the software industry. There's millions of us developers. We're a
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by balabaster 7y ago
Or it'll just become like "pilot"
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by balabaster 7y ago
You forgot a multiplier and that is "increases the productivity of their peers and the company." A 10X developer isn't necessarily more productive in themselves, but they enable increased productivity in everything and everyo
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by balabaster 7y ago
The same way tying work visas to employers limits employee mobility and increases the "slave labour" effect. People end up stuck in jobs they hate just because they have health insurance and will have to go without it for a period
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by balabaster 7y ago
You mean when everyone was dead long before the cancer could've had a chance to kill them?
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by balabaster 7y ago
In my experience of being around a lot of kids, my own included, kids tend to tolerate colds a whole lot better than adults do.
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by balabaster 7y ago
Now now, many of the British have far more varied and refined palates than you suggest. Since we actually have some of the leading chefs in the world our cuisine has actually stepped up it's game. It's not been the bland stodge we
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by balabaster 7y ago
If my memory serves correctly, it was protected right up until Phil Zimmerman circumvented them by writing a book containing the source code for PGP and winning the case based upon the argument that the book was protected by his constitutio
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by balabaster 7y ago
So if I establish that my religion believes in end to end encryption and that in order to practice this religion, all communications shall be end to end encrypted and all services will be presented to the congregation using such means... I&
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by balabaster 7y ago
Ah yes, but you'd still buy the Macbook Pro, because all other things being equal the Macbook Pro with the touchbar still suits your purpose better than the alternative available product. The market bears out because you vote with your
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by balabaster 7y ago
But equally, the consumer buys what the consumer wants. All Apple is guilty of is making decisions that feed the consumer's wants. Apple's income is proof positive that the consumer is willing to pay as much as they are, and quite
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by balabaster 7y ago
> you need a great deal of insight to reach some form of truth And even then, it's often a matter of perspective where both people's experiences tell them that their truth is the correct truth, while still holding opposing trut
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by balabaster 7y ago
I find this premise amusing... I find it amusing because my ex (whose name really is Aimee) often had opinions that my life experiences and education suggested to me were suspect. Aimee used to do a bunch of reading, but the material she re
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by balabaster 7y ago
Having that behaviour reinforced by rewarding it with payment doesn't exactly discourage it though, does it?
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by balabaster 7y ago
It's worse than this - their entire life needs to be Instagram worthy. Everything they do is in the name of getting the next perfect shot, so they can influence others in the name of social advertising to make a quick buck. They either
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by balabaster 7y ago
Wasn’t this concept the basis of the Netflix show Salvation where they found the asteroid plummeting on a collision course with earth?
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by balabaster 7y ago
> Now I keep my bedroom window open at all times. I don't always keep the bedroom window open, but it's open enough, even in the middle of winter that it's not unusual. I feel way better sleeping with the window open than
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by balabaster 7y ago
I would wager it's a combination of factors: 1. In general, the north american diet is disgraceful. 2. Consumerism and brainwashing people into believing that they can only be happy when they achieve X, Y or Z, does nothing for people&

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