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by dejv 5y ago
Back in early 2000s I worked at company doing pharma CRM for emerging markets in rural places like central Africa, Mongolia and east Russia. We used Nokia commnicators as a client nodes for field representives. The platform was really limit
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by dejv 5y ago
I did pick an area where customers don't want to adopt new tech. Software for farmers anyone? And it was not just my error in picking this exact field, there are struggling competitors with millions and millions of VC money and YC stri
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by dejv 5y ago
I read Spelunky book from this series and found it extremely well written and very insightful in areas of game design. I've actually play the game after I've read the book.
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by dejv 5y ago
I actually do, after years of being indie developer I joined fintech company as a tech lead and am working 4 days a week for 80% of pay and spend extra day working on my farm. I do have flexible schedule, but usually take either Wed or Thu
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by dejv 5y ago
Haiku is lacking full featured web browser like Chromium or Firefox. They do have some basic browser available, but its capability is very limited.
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by dejv 5y ago
Meanwhile in many countries in Europe there is bark beetle epidemic that is destroying our spruce forrests and lumber is currently cheapest and most abundant ever.
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by dejv 5y ago
We have two functional paternosters in my hometown and you can easily drive around the clock in them. There are warning signs, but once you miss the last stop there are another signs that tell you not to panic.
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by dejv 6y ago
I guess I would date myself, but: - syntax highlighting in text editor - tabs in browsers (in my case that was Firefox before it was called Firefox) - DVCS, I've started with Bazaar then moved to Git (of course). Used VCS (painful) and
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by dejv 6y ago
I am not familiar with US legislative, but in EU the organic certification describe viticulture part only. Secret to cheap organic winemaking is having fruit from some places like Chile or Argentina that have harsh climate for diseases
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by dejv 6y ago
It is very hard to create luxury wine in the middle of nowhere so the price of land is big factor in cost of wines in premium and luxury segment. 1 hectare of good plot in top regions like Barolo, Bordeaux, Champagne or Burgundy starts arou
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by dejv 6y ago
It depends. I am not that familiar with US, but in most of Europe you do have layered system. Basic table wine rules are quite relaxed, but then you have higher levels with more or less strict rules for farming practices, yield and vinifica
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by dejv 6y ago
Like two-buch Chuck, right?
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by dejv 6y ago
I also found: https://www.kalw.org/post/evaluating-taste-and-cost-two-buck... But I haven't read it yet, so I am not sure if it is worth it.
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by dejv 6y ago
"Contains sulfites" is awesome label as it is impossible to make wine without it: small amount of sulfites are created as by-product of fermentation.
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by dejv 6y ago
The problem is calling those highly procesed products as being wine. I would call those wine-like drinks in the same way McD burger is burger-like product. Personally I would be worry of pesticide residues in wines. Not just those bottom ch
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by dejv 6y ago
Almost anything you find on shelves of your local supermarket is going to be heavily procesed industrial wine. The price itself will determine use of more expensive/time consuming proceses, but at the end they are all just drink produc
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by dejv 6y ago
There will be a lot of comments on how $2 wine taste good. Burger from McD taste pretty good as well, right? The problem with those cheap wines is not the taste itself, but the way they are made. The price of wine is determined by price of
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by dejv 6y ago
It reminds me group of Slovak tourist that booked flights to Niš, Serbia instead of Nice, France as is pronounced a same. They really looked forward to nice beach vacation and were disappointed a bit.
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by dejv 6y ago
I am not really sentimental person and I refuse to take photos or even think about past much, so it is not bleak at all I just forget things very easily. I was driven by curiosity and after few years I was saturated. I still like to travel,
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by dejv 6y ago
It taught me that it is ok to not be high on career/income ladder and there many niches outside tech that are worth to be living in and you can easily carve some for yourself.
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by dejv 6y ago
I traveled for five years or so. I was having great time, but I've probably overdid it for year or two. What worked well for me was quiting mixing backpacker circus with less known destination. It was fun to sleep at hostels, party wit
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by dejv 6y ago
For anyone interested in small fusion reactors there is another startup called Tokamak Energy with great Youtube channel: https://youtube.com/channel/UCuSlFJbBUIj1zfJLRnGXSow
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by dejv 6y ago
I don't know how this thing goes outside of EU, but here as a farmer I have to go throgh state multiday exams every few years that makes me personally liable for all harm to other crops, population of bees and people who actually opera
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by dejv 6y ago
I spent two decades as a Delphi contractor. Not doing it anymore, but I still see a lot of control software for industrial machinery and lab equipment (at least those made in EU), POS and kiosk software as well as custom ERP and ERP style s
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by dejv 6y ago
Oh yeah, the amount of reports are insane. There were more than 200 different reports implemented in the tool and most of them have been customized for each separate customer. It was spaghetti bowl of half baked custom DSL, config files and
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by dejv 6y ago
I am not writing Delphi code anymore (but did that for close to 20 years professionally), but there are many artifacts still up and running and would probably run for next few decades if not longer. 1) I've started my programming caree
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by dejv 6y ago
My two cents as a remote dev for past two decades I think we are not going back as the landscape changed a lot: the scene used to consist of code me a facebook clone for 200USD to getting rich iOS apps towards seeing more bootstrapped high
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by dejv 6y ago
This is highly related to location based compensation. Sure companies are still able to pay there most senior devs less than their out of coding bootcamp just because they are not sitting in their SF office and I am ok with this, but as a r
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by dejv 6y ago
Few years ago I was traveling High Atlas mountains in Morocco and happen to spend week or so hanging out in Berber village and became friendly with interesting bunch of local people that meet every evening to talk in their local dialect. In
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by dejv 6y ago
It is definitely a niche varietal, planted area is still shrinking, especially in my home of Czech republic where it was most planted red grape varietal, but there is growing interest among high end growers in Austria so I think the varieta

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