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by bartvk 4y ago
The writer of the piece, Nathan K., has been such a hero to me. He used to post scathing (or glowing!) reviews on Google Plus, on whether certain cables, chargers or other hardware stuck to the standards or not. I believe it got him into ho
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by bartvk 4y ago
I feel you're trying to say something with your short comment. In the Wikipedia entry on The QT Company, he is (still) mentioned as the current CTO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Qt_Company
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by bartvk 4y ago
Yeah but he has "an actual career in technology", which apparently makes him also an authority on investing. What's weird, is that he poses two possible situations: a) she didn't know about crypto being a risky investmen
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by bartvk 4y ago
I’ve done this in Beijing. I asked for sunglasses and they gave me the lenses and the frame separately, then at the back of the building, some person dipped the lenses in a dark liquid and after drying, put them in the frame for me. Amazing
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by bartvk 4y ago
If I remember correctly, such percentages are the reason that Andy and Dave started PragProg press. They quote "up to 50%": https://pragprog.com/publish-with-us/
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by bartvk 4y ago
Good question, I don't know. I'll see if I can measure and weigh them!
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by bartvk 4y ago
That's a pretty fun store. I also like this particular vendor on AliExpress that sells bags of randomly assorted dice: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32831351903.html They can contain dice that are specifically m
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by bartvk 4y ago
To me as a Dutch person, that's not disingenious at all, that is exactly what you want. You go from a 5 day workweek to 4 days, and take a 20% paycut. Sometimes it's possible to work 4 days of 9 hours, but it always comes with a p
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by bartvk 4y ago
Almost all Dutch companies will honor such a request. Of course, it comes with a 20% salary decrease if you simply go from 5 to 4 days of 8 hours.
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by bartvk 4y ago
> I believe Air France does their flight training completely different from the US Why do you believe so? Honest question.
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by bartvk 4y ago
I don't see what corruption has to do with it. I'm a subcontractor and usually the contractual terms are dictated by my clients. If I get the chance however, I put forth my terms and these say that I'm the author of the code
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by bartvk 4y ago
The HN title does not exactly match the article title, which is: "Neubrutalism is taking over the web" (I have no idea about design so not sure if it's actually significant.)
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by bartvk 4y ago
I always found this protocol fascinating due to its apparent simplicity. As a first-year student, I was fiddling with configuring the kernel, and found the ATA-over-Ethernet driver and immediately thought I'd understood it: just throw
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by bartvk 5y ago
Do you know about Amethyst? I've been told it's not as fast as i3 but I'm a happy user. https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst
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by bartvk 5y ago
Defining a multi-year buy & hold strategy as speculation doesn’t sound like something I can get behind. I get what you’re saying, but I think you’re making sweeping generalizations here. There’s plenty of people that invest in useful ec
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by bartvk 5y ago
Well yeah, I think that most transactions will behave the purpose of active trading, because hodlers aren’t making transactions. However if you look at the volume traded, versus the total market, I think you get a different picture.
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by bartvk 5y ago
I assume the vast majority of crypto is actually Bitcoin and Ethereum. Do you characterize these as "speculation"?
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by bartvk 5y ago
Is it really the unfortunate side effect of the US tag/legal system? As an outsider (from Europe), it seems that Intuit was able to take over Mailchimp, but was not able to smoothly transition their new employees from one insurer to an
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by bartvk 5y ago
In science, lots of Python is used. Perhaps do a web search for scientific programmer jobs, or look on the jobs sites of institutes. If your background/interest is in physics, check NOAA, NIH, NASA, JPL, et cetera. For other fields, ch
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by bartvk 5y ago
Seems like you're the Marcan of Asahi Linux fame! I'm a supporter of your work, thanks for making the world a more interesting place!
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by bartvk 5y ago
Howard Oakley is such a prolific writer on newly appearing macOS issues. Take for example this piece. It's collecting new information and trying form a picture, and that's how the community starts learning. Awesome content.
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by bartvk 5y ago
RIP, Douglas. I had such fun reading the books, watching the movies.
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by bartvk 5y ago
That monitor has not been for sale for some time, I looked it up. IMHO you are lucky to have one.
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by bartvk 5y ago
> I found the place where he answers the question in the headline The author is a woman.
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by bartvk 5y ago
Ah interesting, thanks! On which "virtual resolution" do you set it? Or simply at 2X?
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by bartvk 5y ago
So what monitor do you use then?
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by bartvk 5y ago
I think they're joking :)
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by bartvk 5y ago
That's the monitor that Apple sold for the past years in their stores (and has now replaced with this new monitor).
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by bartvk 5y ago
If you make such strong statements, I would expect that you back it up. For now, it reads as a shallow dismissal, and the guidelines talk about that: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by bartvk 5y ago
There are the iPhone Smart Battery Cases. It's not the same as a full 5000mAh battery, that's true. But you can kinda get there. I'm also surprised they never released such a phone. Perhaps the production would be just too sm

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