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by blowski 4y ago
What can you do with the bits that make up your Bitcoin, other than trade them for something else?
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by blowski 4y ago
What, no Russets?! And Pink Lady are all sugar and no flavour.
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by blowski 4y ago
And Chess is the "clearing and settlement system".
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by blowski 4y ago
I mostly use comments to explain business rules, and why are they implemented there. # High value orders need to be approved before refund # Similar logic is also applied elsewhere, this is here # as a failsafe. i
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by blowski 4y ago
I can imagine how IE11 gets a higher proportion in traffic in B2B. In B2C, particularly amongst some niches, I'd guess Firefox is still proportionally popular. For example, I'd love to see browser stats for HN. (Disclosure: I am s
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by blowski 4y ago
That's like asking "can you name a product better at being Notion than Notion?". Rephrase the question as "what problems do you have which Notion is trying to solve, but you think there are better solutions on the market
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by blowski 4y ago
Are you not worried the chicken is a Musk informant? Shouldn't you be using a range of animals who each only have access to part of the message?
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by blowski 4y ago
Chandler reminds me of the “Dreaming in Code” book, which didn’t have a happy ending.
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1975 Icelandic Women's Strike(en.wikipedia.org)
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by blowski 4y ago
An episode of the BBC Radio programme "In Our Time" discussed this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v59gz
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by blowski 4y ago
That's a good one. I also like 'hole'.
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by blowski 4y ago
I receive as much social media spam as I do email.
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by blowski 4y ago
It would be nice if it understood natural search. For example, “messages Dave sent to me privately last week including a URL”. But on the whole, it works well enough as is.
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Code Complete made me see the difference between scripting and engineering.
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> is that theme custom or available somewhere Looks a bit like https://newcss.net/ or Water CSS
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by blowski 4y ago
I've done a similar move, so for my part, I'd say that I miss the learning opportunities. Large companies usually have people with a deep knowledge in one particular skillset, whereas small companies are more likely to be made up
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by blowski 4y ago
Personally, I found the problem isn't engineering. I do that for free in my spare time. It's dealing with corporate bullshit that grinds me down. As such, helping worthy causes with their technology problems can be hugely rewardin
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by blowski 4y ago
It's a huge amount of work, but I've met a couple of people who set up their own out of hours "school" and have been running it for years. That said, they lost money on it and even now it only breaks even in a good year,
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by blowski 4y ago
...and repeating such stereotypes like this only serves to further them. Let's not spread such nonsense.
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by blowski 4y ago
That's part of the idea of adware social networks that want to track everything about you as an individual. It's not an intrinsic requirement of all social networks.
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by blowski 4y ago
It depends too much on the details to give a definitive answer. Assuming the "typical" company made up mostly of people who've been there for more than a year, and where commuting is easy, maybe every 3 months is enough. New
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by blowski 4y ago
So the observation here is that Tim Berners Lee's original vision was all these documents that would be linking to each other, across different hosts. But today's websites are mostly silos that only link inwards. Have I got that r
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by blowski 4y ago
Absolutely, there are hidden costs, in both directions. If you only hire within the pool of people who are willing and able to commute to your office, you'll both need to pay more and have less choice. Workers are more tired as they sp
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by blowski 4y ago
I lumped a few costs onto that, which aren't taxes, but are tied to salary. Pension contributions, life insurance, health insurance, for example - these all come out of the same budget as national insurance contributions.
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by blowski 4y ago
The taxes I mentioned are part of the cost of running an office - especially local government taxes ("rates" in UK parlance). The £9K figure _doesn't_ include taxes on individuals, such as NI and pension contributions. That c
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by blowski 4y ago
I didn't personally calculate it, or see exactly how they came to it. But I know it included things that all employees need, whether remote or not, plus a few things specifically needed by remote employees. For example: * Laptop * Acco
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by blowski 4y ago
Your figures sound about right, based on my experience. In London, the cost per employee I’ve used is £15k pa. That includes office space and maintenance, taxes, plus IT costs, entertainment, HR, etc. The cost for fully remote employees is
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by blowski 4y ago
Message size, perhaps.
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by blowski 4y ago
I saw Tim Ferriss do a presentation at Google Campus once. He was there for about 4 hours, so of course, somebody asked what he'd be doing with the rest of his week since he'd finished working. He said those kind of events aren&#x
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by blowski 4y ago
Indeed. You'd view recommendations from Sam Bankman-Fried differently today compared to 3 months ago.

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