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by dakna 6y ago
I'd think that most ISP's terms and conditions don't specify the amount of bandwidth used for hosting public websites. They just don't allow server use in general, so it's a grey area and it could be enforced if nee
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by dakna 6y ago
> What's the point of a college degree if we're going to be in debt while working after getting the degree? Might as well skip the whole college part. A bachelor's degree serves as a barrier of entry for many roles outside
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Germany Taps SAP, Deutsche Telekom for Contact Tracing App(bloomberg.com)
3 points by dakna 6y ago|0 comments
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by dakna 6y ago
Did you check the actual challenges this hackathon wants to address? https://euvsvirus.org/challenges In my experience this is a solid, well thought-out list, much more than just health related. It covers a lot of ground lo
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by dakna 6y ago
> I don't know much about 3rd world countries other than my recent trip to Africa Thank you for stepping out of your comfort zone and actually visiting a non-touristy place. It is unclear what the definition of a 3rd world country i
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by dakna 6y ago
You probably already know that, but sometimes it helps to hear it again: The world is a competitive place, and a lot of success factors are outside of your control. (timing, pre-existing resources, sheer luck) What you can control is exactl
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by dakna 7y ago
I would love to use http4k, but last time I checked it lacked support for coroutines, which Ktor makes heavy use of.
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by dakna 7y ago
>Hot air that will crash eventually. If the Fed stops buying junk bonds, yes. Until then it looks like the current market prices this bailout in. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WALCL
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by dakna 7y ago
I still have 2 post-it notes on my second monitor from when I decided to finally deep dive into the Android Framework. One says "1988 Pascal", the other one "2018 Kotlin". I wrote those after noticing how similar the syn
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by dakna 7y ago
Given the efforts behind https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blazor I would say it is the WebAssembly based .NET runtime that counts in the long run.
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by dakna 7y ago
One of the requirements for unemployment benefits is that you are actually looking for work and can proof a certain number of applications per week. It makes sense to just randomly apply as long as the applications count towards the minimum
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by dakna 7y ago
I agree that this might catalyze awareness. But the people in power know they need the mass acceptance to stay in power. Which is why every new medium that reaches a big enough audience is infiltrated with agenda pushing content. It is abs
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Germans divided over plans for Tesla electric car factory(theguardian.com)
2 points by dakna 7y ago|0 comments
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by dakna 7y ago
I think there is more to privacy than just disabling personalized ads, which is the reason I'm not bothered by them. I'm more concerned about personalized search results and filter bubbles. But I also think it is totally fine that
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by dakna 7y ago
Good points, actually very interesting, especially the budget part. But I wasn't talking about just the ads, I was talking about the tracking to optimize those ads. I don't care about the ads. Show me ads, I ignore them anyway. I
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by dakna 7y ago
> I'm a software developer. I think that is why it is too generic for you. You already understand the underlying concepts of a spreadsheet, a database etc. Their target audience doesn't, but they know they need something _like_
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by dakna 7y ago
They understand that you are part of the cohort that doesn't want to be monetized. Which is the reason they don't change it for you, because the efforts required to remove this cohort from tracking and still serve useful search re
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by dakna 7y ago
I recommend working through the beginner and advanced programming for Android tutorials on Udacity, both are free: https://www.udacity.com/course/developing-android-apps-with-... https://www.udacity.com&#x2F
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by dakna 7y ago
> All of these things are complicated questions. I typically go with hourly based rates but I'm also transparent with my clients when it comes to implementing things I already have code for How do you deal with the inevitable questi
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by dakna 7y ago
Even today, on every OS, I still manage files using a two-pane window and the keyboard unless I'm using a terminal.
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by dakna 7y ago
The fact that millions of people were able to read this message almost instantly after it was written, without knowing anything about the device it was written or the location it is coming from, shows it is possible to decouple specifics an
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by dakna 7y ago
So let me get this straight: Amazon packages open source software (Linux, Postgres etc) in a way that is an abstracted service (RDS, EBS, Elastic Load Balancer). They add so many abstracted building blocks that you need a special skill set
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by dakna 7y ago
If you enjoy engineering marbles like that, I recommend checking out this boat lift: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niederfinow_Boat_Lift
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Penn State Li-ion battery design could charge an EV in 10 minutes(greencarcongress.com)
1 points by dakna 7y ago|0 comments
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Coder deletes open source add-on for Chef in protest over ICE contract(arstechnica.com)
7 points by dakna 7y ago|0 comments
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by dakna 7y ago
As someone who tries to build things myself, I think of it as a valid way to monetize what you have learned as passive income to make up for the time it took you to do it. Another well done example is https://faroutride.com/
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by dakna 7y ago
You mean the fiberglass-in-a-bag solution? Yeah, I can't see how you would get that airtight enough to not trap moisture inside.
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by dakna 7y ago
I bought a wood framed house that is probably 150 years old. Nobody really knows when it was built. The framing and the fieldstone foundation are in perfect order. It was built on the highest point in the farm field. Water flows away from t
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by dakna 7y ago
What's holding potential customers back the most? The quality of the work, implying you are already exhausted after your current job? Or the fact that 20hrs is often not enough time for a meaningful contribution in a development team a
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by dakna 7y ago
>Your biggest competitor is your internal non-business efforts that distract from experimenting with what gets people to pay in a repeatable way >Unfortunately, shiny engineering won't solve drastic product market fit iterations,

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