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by cwp 5y ago
Being dependent on imported gas seems like an inherent issue of the German energy system.
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by cwp 5y ago
Heh. I have 25 years experience and I fail phone screens too. :-D It's fine, though. TFA goes into ways to improve the hiring process such that this sort of thing doesn't happen. But I don't mind it at all. I want to fail f
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by cwp 5y ago
I think it's quite a good characterization. The FSF is pretty clear about their philosophy. They define four essential freedoms, two of which relate to redistributing software. By definition, someone who redistributes software is not
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by cwp 5y ago
I just started a Python project, using PDM. So far, I like it a lot. If I hit a show-stopper, no big deal, it's pretty easy to switch.
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by cwp 5y ago
It wouldn't be overnight, but Apple's business would no longer be sustainable. Samsung and a dozen Chinese companies would instantly start shipping iOS devices. Sure, the hardware wouldn't be quite as good as Apple's, bu
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by cwp 5y ago
Well, I manually install bash, but most people just use the shell that came with the system. If the FSF wants it to be some other shell than bash, well, ok, mission accomplished.
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by cwp 5y ago
No, that's not the goal of open source, obviously. In my case, the goal is to let as many people as possible benefit from my labour. I have no problem with businesses using my code to make money and not paying me a dime. It's happ
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by cwp 5y ago
Yeah, I'm familiar with the FSF's philosophy. Limiting freedom in order to protect it. No thanks. It leads to exactly the sort of problem pointed out by the GGGGP comment - Apple shipping an ancient version of bash because of lice
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by cwp 5y ago
Nah. That's probably MIT.
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by cwp 5y ago
It's such a shame that the coding system used by quipus was lost for so long. I bet a lot of quipus were just thrown away because nobody could read them anymore.
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by cwp 5y ago
The world was more stable 1990-2020 than it was 1950-1980, yes. I don't think it's a good bet to assume that stability will continue. The pandemic will peter out, sure. But the US is shifting toward isolationism, China is heading
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by cwp 5y ago
I really wish we could get past this idea that all the kids have to do the same thing at the same time, always. Teachers have individual relationships with their pupils, and can introduce them to ideas when they're ready. We don't
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by cwp 5y ago
Yeah. Cache invalidation and naming things.
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by cwp 5y ago
I think this is actually getting better. A while back there was a trend of choosing the most generic name possible. For example, who though "node" would be a good name for a Javascript runtime? Or that "parse" would obvi
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by cwp 5y ago
Damn, I had that exact same experience. Eventually, in exasperation I said something like "I don't want you to respect my wishes, I want you to act on them." And somehow that did the trick and the CSR cancelled immediately. O
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by cwp 5y ago
This essay seems to conflate skill with... oh, let's call it vision. Skill is the difference between Picasso's scribbles and the dribbles of a random 8-year-old. Or between pg and Bellini. It's the ability to convey what you
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by cwp 5y ago
This is me. I've been a Backblaze user for a long time, but I'm not sure how long, because I never think about it. I've never had to do a full recovery, but every few years I download a file.
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by cwp 5y ago
One of Apple's major projects for the next decade will have to be getting out of China. The antipathy between the US and China isn't too bad now, but it's only going to rise as time goes on, and China may have internal issues
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by cwp 5y ago
Well, to be fair, San Francisco Bay is one of the best natural harbors on the West Coast, and very close to some of the most productive agricultural land in the world. It's a great place for a port, or it was until the NIMBYs showed up
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by cwp 5y ago
Agreed. This is a lot of words saying "the solution is easy" by someone who doesn't understand the problem.
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by cwp 5y ago
Didn't drill into the details here, but I think there's one area where digital advertising is indisputably useful: the cold start. So many start ups have benefitted hugely from buying Facebook/Twitter/Google ads when the
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by cwp 5y ago
No, but I'd like to know about them too! I've worked at two companies that have embraced remote work, and are hiring "anywhere", though still obviously limited by language, jurisdiction etc. The changes I've seen ar
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by cwp 5y ago
Yes. One of the things I've learned over the years on HN is that I don't appreciate comments that are generic expressions of identity. That is, if somebody posts a comment that contains nothing specific to the subject at hand, tha
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by cwp 5y ago
What's different? I think that's obvious. Smoking kills people. Vaccines save them from disease and death.
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by cwp 5y ago
I had that groundhog-day effect for a while too, living in California. Then I moved to Montana. It's impossible not to notice time here. The leaves changed colour, it snowed, it rained, it was hot, and the leaves changed colour again.
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by cwp 5y ago
I suspect the problem is that Amazon doesn't want to change the way it works. So WFH is more or less the same as the office, but with Zoom (Chime?) instead of conference rooms. But of course that is awful. Companies that are embracin
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by cwp 5y ago
As others have noted, we're in a pandemic, so everything is off. Even in places that don't have lockdowns or mandates, people are going to be cautious about socializing. I'm convinced, though, that when the pandemic fades awa
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by cwp 5y ago
I sympathize; this sort of thing is very frustrating. However, it's better than it was. I was working on iOS apps 7-8 years ago and it was just like the story above, but each review took 2-3 weeks.
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by cwp 5y ago
I think the point of this is that if somebody steals your YubiKey, they also have to steal your finger to be able to use it.
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by cwp 5y ago
Uh, children? Non-citizens?

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