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by bastijn 9y ago
Okay I’ll bite. It serves the common good today, but if you intend to say it may turn out to make us live our lives based on something that can disappear any day and that would cause more harm than the benefits up to that point, then yes, t
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by bastijn 9y ago
> It serves Google and the common good. There. Fixed it for you. You can’t deny the benefits it brings to the average person having all this information a (google) search away.
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by bastijn 9y ago
Are you? Or did you just pay them peanuts for a tracking device that helps them make many times your peanuts with their real (real) customers?
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by bastijn 9y ago
When the API becomes common practice the xkcd is no longer relevant, yet it was correct (at time of writing). Unless educating on the difficulties of the past of course, then it would be relevant.
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by bastijn 9y ago
The proof that even XKCD can go out of date. Now (soon) we just call a google image API :).
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by bastijn 9y ago
Megabytes, really? “640K ought to be enough for anybody!”
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by bastijn 9y ago
It is fundamentally more secure as it functions as a private controlled proxy for the public repo. Also solves some other nice gotchas such as people pulling a left-pad joke on you and reproducible installs as all packages are cached so you
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by bastijn 9y ago
Minutes before reading this comment I sent an email to our team to verify our artifactory did not download any packages over the weekend. Most likely not as nobody is working (to add a new one or update a version) but better safe than sorry
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by bastijn 9y ago
Nothing is wrong with gender neutrality. However, referring to one’s child in gender neutral form is not (that) common. Gender neutrality is there to avoid distinguishing roles according to people's sex or gender, in order to avoid dis
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by bastijn 9y ago
That worked. Strange, normally links as on your FP redirect to the right app store (region).
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by bastijn 9y ago
Can’t get used to those iPhoneX screens. Still look awful to me. Congrats on the work though. A major item for becoming a successful anything is having a large community. Broadening access to the technology helps a lot to achieve it. US App
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by bastijn 9y ago
Thanks for clarfying. What, if you don’t mind me asking, makes you feel their gender in this context is worth censuring? You made me think about it and it is quite interesting. From reading your post I was surprised. Thinking about it makes
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by bastijn 9y ago
Offtopic: are we now so gender neutral we even cannot address our own kid as he or she? Or did you do this on purpose to hide the gender of your kid as part of your privacy? No flame intended. Honest question. Never thought about the gender
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by bastijn 9y ago
But would those companies need this service? I can hardly inagine they do.
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by bastijn 9y ago
The reason why I not fully believe in it is that there is no huge benefit to the parties for supporting a thing like themer. UIs are highly custom and if X companies make a product seperately you will have as many implementations of the the
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by bastijn 9y ago
Actually, it is the smaller and midsized companies who benefit from shared food delivery services. The big ones can run it themselves and not have to pay the middleman. (Though in the end they will join the service again as it is not only a
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by bastijn 9y ago
True. That's why I said US might be exceptional here. The chances of a person drawing a gun are large compared to other nations. Which means as an officer you have more reason to quick draw and as a convict/victim you have more re
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by bastijn 9y ago
+1 for the Netherlands. Nice job on an irregular name :). Regarding mostly fictious: we have national television reporting our first aid/response units are being assaulted on their jobs. We have police officers on trial for arresting p
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by bastijn 9y ago
Here we have the exact opposite and police are often prosecuted for firing their weapon. Result is they get kicked, slapped, scolded and vocabulary assaulted by 13 year olds who know they would win the case for a judge if it comes to it (or
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by bastijn 9y ago
One of the reasons I run Solarized Dark theme as my default. Instead of requiring a themer tool to support all the tools I use, I have a theme that is always one of the first themes to be available for my tools. Google mytool+Solarized neve
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by bastijn 9y ago
Thanks for the elaborate reply. > I get where you're at, though. You don't get value from taking notes until you've taken a lot of notes and it takes forming the habit of taking notes to get that value Exactly, I think.. I
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by bastijn 9y ago
The problem for me isn't that I can't find a note taking app that works. My problem is I don't know how to take notes. I always read on people favoring apps and using xyz for the past decade. All I wonder is what do these peo
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by bastijn 9y ago
Merry x-mas!
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Merry Christmas to HN
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by bastijn 9y ago
That would be a contractor or contingency worker for me. They are hired to do X. When they leave their work stops, a critical difference with a consultant. Consultant does mean something. Means you temporarily hire experience in a field you
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by bastijn 9y ago
It is, though it was desgin not degsin. "desgin assets such as color palette and images to be used". Under 1.3. Also in your reference.
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by bastijn 9y ago
Noticed the word "design" was written as "degsin".
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I replied above, it depends on the level of the consultant. Never say never. For a five figure a week consultant I would say it is not the first priority.
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I consider Google a rare breed. Make no mistake, I absolutely love companies where software engineering is understood by the exco as first (and only) class citizen. The real world is a matter of location and experience I guess. Silicon vall
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by bastijn 9y ago
Your example reads like a programmer wrote it instead of a consultant. - Would not expect to see a "such as" in statement of work in the locations you used them. - Would not expect typos in statement of work. - Consultant will pus

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