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by caoilte 6y ago
last time I was working in Typescript (a year) ago, the date/time libraries were still disappointing and precision math libraries were very way too cumbersome. Both are well solved problems on the JVM and in other languages.
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by caoilte 6y ago
They offered 2.5x salary...
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by caoilte 6y ago
The JIRA culture would be fine if the software wasn't a total piece of crap.
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by caoilte 6y ago
Yup. Very often. In fact every system I ever saw being outsourced was being done so in the knowledge that it was going to die. It's a face saving gesture that allows executives to sidestep the sunk cost write-off. In a couple of large
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by caoilte 6y ago
I'm not sure that's a violation of GDPR. If person A has accidentally authorised their personal correspondence to be sent to person B they are pretty culpable for the consequence. Good systems require you to verify your email addr
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by caoilte 6y ago
Pretty sure a lot more greedy people have taken lessons from the carceral state than a no sale.
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by caoilte 6y ago
That's not the definition of "rule of law" or it would be punishable to break the spirit of the law instead of the "letter" of the law. This is a lot like the difference between tax evasion (breaking letter of the l
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by caoilte 6y ago
I didn't know it was scaled. That's better than nothing. Thanks for clarification.
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by caoilte 6y ago
Their real crime is trying to cream off the healthy patients onto their service. GP services get paid a flat fee per patient regardless of how much attention that patient needs. Babylon is trying to attract healthy tech savvy patients from
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by caoilte 6y ago
I got my family group chat setup in Signal. The biggest problem was how long it takes signal to sync your contacts. WhatsApp can do it in seconds but signal was taking an hour or more (this was on Xmas day).
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by caoilte 6y ago
Well it ain't for nothing that New Zealand is Mossad's favourite fake passport when assassinating Palestinians in foreign countries. Probably other factors as well tho.
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by caoilte 6y ago
fair, but also a lot of Uber's business model is leveraged on top of the basic platform.
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by caoilte 6y ago
Two weeks of kissing up to your manager is not going to save you. Managers are unlikely to make a decision based on what you do in the next two weeks. The only time I've seen it happen is when colleagues started casually mentioning the
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by caoilte 6y ago
You don't get herd immunity until you hit at least 70%so that isn't very reassuring
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by caoilte 7y ago
Those are pretty bold claims to make without sources. Maybe less air travel would be more civilized.
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by caoilte 7y ago
Small enough to drown in a bathtub.
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by caoilte 7y ago
Better to get on with closing nearly every store and introduce rationing. This is stalling.
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by caoilte 7y ago
Who knows who comes round every month for protection money. Hopefully it's just the beat cop.
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by caoilte 7y ago
Given I've regularly flown on flights where over half the plane were business/first I'm not sure that necessarily means what it seems.
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by caoilte 7y ago
The exact same thing (WYSIWYG editor) happened with JIRA over ten years ago. And here we are...
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by caoilte 7y ago
The difference is government entities can be made democratically accountable which means effective pressure can be brought to bear on them. It doesn't mean they are setup that way or that they (or the electorate) don't become capt
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by caoilte 7y ago
No. We're all being gamed. Academics were just nearer the front of the queue.
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by caoilte 7y ago
Life is indeed complicated. What fueled Iran's involvement in Yemen was Saudia Arabia invading it. They worked very hard to keep the Houthis at arms length prior to that because as different religious sects go the only thing they reall
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by caoilte 7y ago
I don't think you understand what EuroDollar means... https://www.investopedia.com/terms/e/eurodollar.asp
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by caoilte 7y ago
Why not? We have enough sunshine and wind to power the Earth many times over. If you take the battery part out of the equation there is no advantage left for nuclear and many many disadvantages, - is hugely expensive to design, build and ru
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by caoilte 7y ago
How can you still think Nuclear is a good idea after reading that article? If a solar/battery farm is that cheap now, how cheap do you think it will be once you've spent 15 years building a nuclear power station that will either g
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by caoilte 7y ago
There should be different permissions for foreground and background access to APIs.
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by caoilte 8y ago
Unusual to see the IT department get involved in politics. Sloppy.
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by caoilte 8y ago
Good answer. One interesting addendum is that many food producers are lobbying to argue that reducing the amount of plastic in their packages will likely lead to more food wastage. The feedback loops here are fascinating, but I'm incre
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by caoilte 8y ago
I agree up until the last part. Habits aren't formed in a vacuum. Corporations sell products in bad packaging and for most people most of the time there is no reasonable way to avoid purchasing products in that form. The only way to ch

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