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by com 2y ago
There is a proverb: once bitten, twice shy. If we want our teams to be broadly representative of our communities and recruiting the best people for the roles, it’s clear that we cannot put the weight of solving the problems that lie behind
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by com 2y ago
I played HMRABI on a DEC-10 with a teletype and a modem with an acoustic coupler when I was a kid - literally a game changer since affordable 8-bit computers came out shortly after and we could build rubbish games a bit similar to this. It
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by com 2y ago
I thought that metaphor would go in a different direction, tbh. I was thinking “praetorian guards”, “imperial decline”, “decadence”, “barbariand resettling inside the limes” etc.
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by com 2y ago
I think it’s missing the European Union/CoE in “Other” - probably the African Union too, in terms of institutional recognition.
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by com 2y ago
I am a fluent English speaker who spoke not a word of Dutch for my first few years in the Netherlands. Got contract work, friends, and in the end language and citizenship. One example is anecdote, not data, but I know an awful lot of EU and
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by com 2y ago
I’m amazed that the Fast Fourier Transform is from the mid 1960s - when we studied it University I had the impression that it was from the golden age of fin-de-siecle mathematics. What recent algorithms with transformative applications have
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by com 2y ago
There is so much consultancy FUD about DORA. It's not going to impact freelancers or most SMEs. The regulation mostly expands regulation - there are already EBA requirements around outsourcing for a smaller list of financial institutio
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by com 2y ago
My surprises: Generate weekly flash reports because self deception is a force as strong as gravity. Good sales people are game changers, but there are very few about, most seem to string you along and deliver hot air. Marketing is not fonts
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by com 2y ago
I think also, it’s not just “people”, but “people that you hypothesise have a problem that you’re aiming to solve”, and perhaps even “… and have money that they can and want to spend on solving it”
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by com 2y ago
But Africa/Ceuta time aligns with CE(S)T for longstanding national administrative reasons, I believe. That’s why those other cities are listed, since Africa/Ceuta time is not linked by policy, regulation or legislation with any A
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by com 2y ago
Eight years ago this was a hard sell to some regulators, no more. You still need to walk them through the outcomes but even in black letter jurisdictions it’s being accepted.
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by com 2y ago
I was quite taken by the elision of the formation of Adobe - that particular gap informed quite a bit of my understanding of how PostScript’s choices came to be and led to a bit of rabbit hole brurrowing around the departures from Xerox.
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PostScript and Interpress: A Comparison (1985)(mostlycolor.ch)
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by com 2y ago
Consider something like Mobilizon[0] - it's ActivityPub based, like Mastodon, but apart from the federation capability, might have the feature set you're looking for? [0] https://joinmobilizon.org/en/
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by com 2y ago
The sibling post gives a good account of the 90:90 challenge. The last part of any semi-difficult project nearly always takes much longer than the officially difficult “main problem” to solve. It leads to the last 10% of the deliverables co
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by com 2y ago
This thread has been a bit of an eye opener for me in terms of community management and engagement. Bravo!
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by com 2y ago
Excellent find, I’d never heard of Zipf’s law. GP was talking about something else though, the 90:90 rule is related to an extremely common planning optimism fallacy around work required to demo, and work required to productise.
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by com 2y ago
imore is really unreasonably difficult to read with intrusive cookie walls. I gave up one paragraph in.
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by com 2y ago
I wasn’t familiar with the terms “write everything twice” and “compression-oriented programming” although I’ve done it before.
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by com 2y ago
It’s a brave person who stakes their business on swimming against perceived common wisdom. I’ve seen it succeed, at least for a while, at some startups. The cognitive load of managing expectations of clients, investors, etc who are trained
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by com 2y ago
The interview is really a good read, profiling somebody who is fascinated and perhaps a little scientifically obsessed by exotic marine mammal teeth. It turns out that there is at least one person for every possible thing, I suppose.
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by com 2y ago
Amsterdammer here. Totally doable, helps if the hills aren’t too steep. Powered vehicles do come and go where I am (street cleaning etc) and it’s possible for planned things like house moves or demolitions. I imagine Paris will do similar s
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by com 2y ago
The old repo looks like it’s been renamed to https://github.com/porter-dev/porter-archive They've probably forked the cloud product, and are leaving the old OSS version up?
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by com 2y ago
This all sounds very good for open markets and capitalism. As a consumer I should benefit, and well-run hotels too, I suppose, if I were ever to stay in one.
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by com 2y ago
They’ve all changed massively in other ways during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries too as linguistic and cultural diversity began to significantly dwindle under “modern nation-state” style cultural policies, try finding young Oc spea
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by com 2y ago
I’ve had reports of Zoom interview where an earpiece has fallen out and my interviewers heard advice on how to answer the question audibly present. Kind of dumb, how hard is mixing the audio?
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by com 2y ago
We once detected a DDOS because all our office phones went down. Silly attackers didn’t realise that our (money-making) APIs weren’t colocated with our public website and phone system.
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by com 2y ago
Which rules do you think are missing and which shouldn’t be do e for tech presentations?
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by com 2y ago
Interestingly I’ve heard this observation about American managers in US multinational businesses in Europe, that they seem to performatively do the long hours, for the sake of their own managers view of them, but that little of it is actual
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by com 2y ago
It’s irrelevant if you get “value” for the “services rendered” - and that’s in the broad, so a little reputational negativity can be nicely countered by a more aggressive tax minimisation approach for example.

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