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by comprev 4y ago
When flying with Ryanair you're bombarded with ads - from car hire, to package holidays in hotels, to meal bundles and even scratch cards (!!) All the products/services are Ryanair branded mind but it's still quite full-on.
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by comprev 4y ago
NextDNS.io
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by comprev 4y ago
For many people outside of HN demographic $500 is a lot of money for "a computer" A macbook would be like buying a top spec Mercedes when all they need is a no frills base model Ford.
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by comprev 4y ago
A company I worked at introduced it and my productivity fell through the floor. I gave it 6 months before concluding that it wasn't an environment that suited me, and moved on. Some people thrive, some people tolerate it, and some peo
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by comprev 4y ago
Yes - I can install Chrome and Firefox via a remote install system because the client's laptop is locked down so tight I can't do it any other way. All software, including open source, technically needs to get approved by a securi
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by comprev 4y ago
Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook (and mbasic.facebook.com), LinkedIn, etc. are all user hostile. This gets amplified when using ad/tracker blockers at DNS level (NextDNS).
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by comprev 4y ago
With the abundance of material available for people to self-train as a developer, the pool of candidates has exploded - bootcamps, self-paced university courses (CS50), etc. all mean the bar has been raised for what is considered a junior.
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by comprev 4y ago
Did it involve a story about kids communicating at night with flashlights? Yup, that's the first edition.
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by comprev 4y ago
Digital exploitation is real and often forgotten about. I have a friend in Ghana who was offered - by a UK company who are a Google Cloud partner - £1/hour to do work for them as a junior DevOps engineer. Yes, £1/hour. Before he
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by comprev 4y ago
When a company builds their products with their own products, thereby demonstrating real world use cases and confidence in the product.
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by comprev 4y ago
Dogfooding is an excellent way to demonstrate a product. I wonder how many OSS (and commercial) projects actually do this?
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by comprev 4y ago
I had a client which ran a $300M/annum business off a handful of servers with zero redundancy. Their PII/GDPR data was unencrypted on a single spinning disk. Any advice about risk mitigation fell on deaf ears. It was the most ter
673.
by comprev 4y ago
Free/cheap to get in, expensive to get out. Your data is held at ransom to some degree.
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by comprev 4y ago
Wooooosh :-)
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by comprev 4y ago
The moment you decide to look for a new role that's exactly what you're doing. If things improve, you stay. If they don't, you leave.
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by comprev 4y ago
Questions like this, and also many of the suggestions provided, is yet another reason I consistently return to HN.
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by comprev 4y ago
The metaphor is SV has stacks of cash for revenue
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by comprev 4y ago
It hits pretty hard when you think about it. The "product distribution" cost is the same worldwide on the internet, vs a physical good like a soft drinks can.
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by comprev 4y ago
Gitlab ideally wants clients in Silicon Valley but staff in Lahore.
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by comprev 4y ago
I only ever use Chrome for websites which need translation into English - probably less than 1% of those I visit. Firefox for everything else.
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by comprev 4y ago
Upvote for NextDNS. Their platform has been a game changer for me on all devices/computers and really enjoy the granularity of filtering. Happy customer here!
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by comprev 4y ago
DJ Shadow's Entroducing [0] is an amazing body of work if you think about the effort required to crate dig for all the samples. Truly mind boggling! [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endtroducing .....
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by comprev 4y ago
A career in politics then?
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by comprev 4y ago
Which track? Silver Blade uses "Boymerang - Soul Beat Runna" as the source
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by comprev 4y ago
Dillinja produced a fantastic track by sampling the score - "The Angels Fell" [MET006, 1995] One of my all-time favourite jungle/drum&bass tracks :-) https://metalheadz.bandcamp.com/track/the-angels-f
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by comprev 4y ago
By good fortune the custom PC I had at the time was 100% compatible with 10.6 Snow Leopard, including WiFi and Bluetooth, by learning about tonymacx86. I've been on Apple ever since, both personal and professional.
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by comprev 4y ago
I'm similar with non-English hip-hop. For all I know, the MC could be calling me every name under the sub, but damn... Italian and Japanese hip-hop flows so well!
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by comprev 4y ago
I found the Dutch directness a breath of fresh air when working in NL.
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by comprev 4y ago
It never was part of it, like Ireland.
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by comprev 4y ago
They have a large problem of "hosts" being businesses, and not individual people. I booked an apartment in Dublin with "Johnny", but upon paying for the booking, discovered it was a company called "City Break Apartm

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