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by dave4420 3y ago
Depends on the website, depends on their audience. Some people can’t get to grips with threaded comments, for example.
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by dave4420 3y ago
I thought pharmaceutical giants did their R&D these days by buying startups that had already done the hard work? And which in turn had been spun out of a university department that had done the basic research?
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No. But it’s easier not to have to. When I do need an exact time stamp, it’s easy enough to mouseover.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Sometimes if you mouseover the vague time stamp you’ll get an ISO time stamp pop up. Doesn’t help if you’re on your phone, of course. I gotta say though, personally I can never remember what day of the month it is, so having it say “X days
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by dave4420 3y ago
I am on mobile, yes, well deduced. So serving images themselves is free, but the API to control those images is not.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Doesn’t mention what the business model is, so presumably this has to do with tracking people for advertising?
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by dave4420 3y ago
Yes, I’m being sloppy because I’m on my phone and can’t be bothered editing.
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by dave4420 3y ago
Personally, if this was a coup, I’d say Wagner would have taken control of important infrastructure by now (e.g. the Kremlin, state tv, military depots, Putin / defence minister). Or been killed/arrested himself. This feels more l
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by dave4420 3y ago
No, the rate on your mortgage is fixed for two or five years — after that, you’ll go onto a floating rate. At which point you should remortgage into another fixed rate, but enough people suffer from inertia that they don’t. I hear people ge
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by dave4420 3y ago
Web browsers will take the IRI (Internationalised Resource Identifier; think of it as a URI but containing non-ascii characters), and turn it into a URI (containing a load of percent-encoded utf-8 bytes instead of non-ascii characters) and
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by dave4420 3y ago
Wrong link.
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by dave4420 3y ago
I’m in the UK. I wouldn’t say our central government is well run, but their forms are usually easy to fill in online. Local government forms are more variable. But I don’t have to fill in many government forms. Your solution seems geared to
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by dave4420 3y ago
I have to fill in a time sheet at work. This is because in the UK companies can claim tax back if they spent it on R&D. (Software engineering salaries are subsidised in the UK, yes.) The timesheets are to support that. My employer only
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by dave4420 3y ago
What’s the benefit of this? I don’t understand what problem it solves.
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by dave4420 3y ago
I’m pretty sure Google was like that from the very beginning. (Maybe the 40th or 50th page of the results instead of the 44th, but the same principle.) I don’t know why they have this behaviour… but it’s low cost: most people who can’t find
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by dave4420 3y ago
Broken link
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by dave4420 3y ago
Where did this 85% figure come from? Is 85% the new 80%?
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by dave4420 3y ago
If HN/Reddit/etc are any guide, drivers will get downvoted for reasons unrelated to their driving (e.g. their bumper stickers, car brand, merely being ahead of you on the road, being the wrong ethnicity)
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by dave4420 3y ago
Mobile phone companies have been pushing their customers to upgrade their phones every time their contract came up since forever.
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by dave4420 3y ago
I’ve not used Go. It seems to be built around mutable values though? That seems to argue against it being a functional programming language. (It’s going to turn out there are as many definitions of FP as there are of OOP, isn’t it?)
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by dave4420 3y ago
Link is broken
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by dave4420 3y ago
Why would people not phone instead? I’m struggling to understand the motivation. I think if trust in society had fallen enough that people wanted a service like this, then people would not trust the police to provide it, and the government
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by dave4420 3y ago
Just like any VPN.
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by dave4420 3y ago
The headline makes it seem like a UK thing, but > Institutions in Europe and the US also fell back, and the report’s authors said the UK’s rankings had held up better than French, German, Japanese and American universities. it feels more
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by dave4420 3y ago
No point in reporting on inflation — it’s happened before. No point in reporting on war — it’s happened before. No point in reporting on a corrupt or lying politician — it’s happened before.
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by dave4420 3y ago
This would make it harder for new frameworks to get adopted, because they would always have the disadvantage of being an extra download for the browser. If you think we can’t improve on React/Angular/Vue then great, but for everyo
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by dave4420 3y ago
I thought Stackoverflow Jobs had shut down!
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by dave4420 3y ago
I can’t comment on C++ — haven’t used it in like a decade, hope never to work with it again.
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by dave4420 3y ago
The irony at the heart of this essay is that it doesn’t give any examples. It doesn’t make it possible to make any solid criticisms. I wonder whether the author is really seeking the truth, or whether they are just an example of the twisted
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by dave4420 3y ago
This would give engineers an incentive to work on customer-facing works of software, and avoid working on internal tools.

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