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by caoilte 10y ago
At least that's more time than Congress got to think about bailing out Wall Street in 2008.
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by caoilte 10y ago
That's a really depressing point of view. Especially, as trade seems to have been redefined to mean anything which might enable corporate profit...
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by caoilte 10y ago
> What's the difference between the EU-US WTO agreements and the TTIP WTO was about import tariffs. TTIP seems to be mostly about de-regulation and legal harmonisation. PR flaks are counting on the good will that people have towards
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by caoilte 10y ago
Everything points toward the opposite - to the extent that TTIP happens at all (which seems unlikely). At this point I'm most worried that this whole merry go round will just start up again in a couple of years under a new name. The Mu
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by caoilte 10y ago
> Fortunately for us she won't be elected though! What makes you think that? At this point I don't see a way for her to lose, unfortunately.
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by caoilte 11y ago
Blame is occasionally useful, but for me more than half the time the file gets moved somewhere else or the indentation changes as part of some other change so you lose all context about the original commit. The code is the thing for me. And
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by caoilte 11y ago
Isn't this just a thin skin on iTunes?
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by caoilte 11y ago
Whenever I get invited to things I always ask how it was arranged and it's always either Facebook or Whatsapp. So even if you're not directly using Facebook it may well still be influencing your life. (I'm not on it or Whatsa
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by caoilte 11y ago
Lots of work, but getting harder every year to employ people without visa.
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by caoilte 11y ago
Good call. It would have to be Munich for a similar Euro experience.
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by caoilte 11y ago
You can't afford to be too complacent because ad agencies know this too and will come at you sideways - 2nd hand advertising is going to become a recognised thing. Advertisers reaching you and me through celebrities we respect, through
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by caoilte 11y ago
More likely to see ad companies (Google, Facebook) start serving sites.
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by caoilte 11y ago
Not much of an effort apparently.
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by caoilte 11y ago
Hard to know, because High end London property is pretty weird. It's basically a piggy bank, a tax dodge, a money laundering vehicle and a fashion accoutrement all tied up in one dirt cheap currency.
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by caoilte 11y ago
I've also been on that journey and am starting to feel the same way about variance.
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by caoilte 11y ago
We use Ruby extensively in testing and infrastructure and have lost months of cumulative developer time to this attitude. It works for a single user constantly making changes to a small piece of code and prepared to work out the solution to
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by caoilte 11y ago
or Europe got lucky and Ogodei died just as Subutai was about to roll over the entire continent (we may never know for sure). The Hardcore History podcast did a nice series on it. http://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardco
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by caoilte 11y ago
I still remember being blown away when I realised how institutionally organised longbow practice was as I read this Rosemary Sutcliff as a child https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1195105.The_Armourer_s_H...
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by caoilte 11y ago
Would rather they started down the road of getting rid of null.
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by caoilte 11y ago
_rapid gentrification_ of Congo whuhh??? Just 'caus it had a CIA sponsored coup, doesn't mean things got any better.
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by caoilte 11y ago
banks... defence contractors... governments... If you guys didn't have something horrible to hide you wouldn't need this encryption.
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by caoilte 11y ago
In the spirit of rapprochement, how about we say bad vs bad people?
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by caoilte 11y ago
me too. _nine_ years ago.
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by caoilte 11y ago
Jira 3 was an okay issue tracker. Jira 4 is a SLOOOW issue and a terrible agile planning tool. Much happier with Trello and a zero bug policy.
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by caoilte 11y ago
Can you not install extensions directly any more?
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by caoilte 11y ago
sbt isn't very good for copy&paste build masters, which was pretty much all of us who had to setup Ant and Maven projects. It demands a certain amount of investment in learning its core concepts, but OMIGOD it's sooooo good on
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by caoilte 11y ago
Unlimited leave policies encourage employees to self-police and conform to peer pressure. At a place like Netflix I can imagine the result being that people end up taking less than the industry average. A better gimmick would be if Netflix
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by caoilte 11y ago
The problem is that many banks gave Greece loans for many years and at very low interest rates in exactly this scenario. And then Greece attempted to make the structural changes you described only having reduced expenditure to $100k per yea
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by caoilte 11y ago
They haven't been "playing the dumb communist" they've been smeared with it by their own media, by strategic "leaks" from EuroGroup meetings by "analysts" in International Finance and by the Internati
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by caoilte 11y ago
Adrian Cockcroft does and I don't disrespect his opinion even though I'd far rather functional languages won the developer mindshare myself. We shouldn't be under-selling how light the Go footprint is. In the long run it may

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