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by fergie 4y ago
A few years ago I got a "pro rata" pay rise which meant working 4 days for the same pay as 5. I really loved the feeling of a 3 day weekend every week- it felt as if you were off work half of the time. Eventually, somebody in the
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by fergie 4y ago
I hardly ever use php, but when I do, I’m always surprised by how good it is. Its the only mainstream progamming language that is specifically designed to make backend web applications, and it really shows.
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by fergie 5y ago
"cryptocurrencies provide safer ways to donate and engage in finance for people in oppressive countries" Yet a bigger problem is that too much money is moved out of these countries by those in power and hamstered away in various g
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by fergie 5y ago
Whether or not you care about the stock market is basically a question of whether you run a functioning business or not. If you run a function business then you are have cash sitting on accounts. Even for a fairly modest business, a reasona
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by fergie 5y ago
Its all fun and games until somebody runs over a kid. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munkkivuori#Huopalahdentie_acc...
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by fergie 5y ago
Yes, but this rather assumes that your current "Box of Daily Experience" is ok, and not, say, violent, insecure, poverty-stricken, or abusive. Basically every immigrant ever has chosen to pick a new Box of Daily Experience, and of
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by fergie 5y ago
Average day rate for a big consultancy is well over £1500 a day ( https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/comparison-day-rates-between-... ). Basically anybody you know who works for a semi-legit consultancy is being billed out a
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by fergie 5y ago
You should put that in the article. Unintroduced acronyms really bring down a piece of writing.
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by fergie 5y ago
The business of leetcode depends on people thinking that they _have_ to use it. I have a feeling that some content marketeers have been posting questions like this here and also on https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquest
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by fergie 5y ago
Surely its more like £250k in London if you are in a full time contracting gig?
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New York City passes new protections for delivery workers(theverge.com)
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by fergie 5y ago
AR (augmented reality). Considering how good AR is _right now_, we have very few practical applications for it. It has been quite good for at least a couple of decades (I studied AR in the 90s and we had some pretty amazing demos even back
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by fergie 5y ago
"The Information suggests that Apple is heavily reliant on Cook for international negotiations and speculates that it could face difficulties dealing with government affairs when Cook stands down as the company's CEO." I wond
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by fergie 5y ago
It says a lot that these articles are always quantified in dollars.
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by fergie 5y ago
Yes but all too often the problem with capital is precisely that it is secretly owned and moved (see "Moneyland"). That cryptocurrencies make money more private and easier to move is not really a benefit at all.
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by fergie 5y ago
Since TypeScript is developed by Microsoft, its fair to say that support for TypeScript will always be best in Microsoft's Visual Studio.
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by fergie 5y ago
Its worth remembering that Visual Studio also used to be regarded as really good right up until it... wasn't, and then with VS code is sort of was again. Except right now it kind of isn't. The fate of VS code seems to be really cl
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by fergie 5y ago
> The editor tooling alone makes it easily worth the setup time. Lets be honest- this is probably like 90% of the reason that people make the switch.
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by fergie 5y ago
Head over Heels was a masterpiece. So far ahead of its time. Such an inventive approach to 3D.
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by fergie 5y ago
Strong typing doesn't fix the issue that invisible characters can be used as variable names.
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by fergie 5y ago
Running prettier on the code makes the "hidden" variables fairly obvious -> https://imgur.com/a/MhhRpwq That said, nothing on my buildchain actually throws an error or warning.
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by fergie 5y ago
Unintroduced acronyms should always be avoided.
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by fergie 5y ago
3rd party npm libs are a massive security breach waiting to happen. The recent trend towards compiled javascript has made the problem even worse, since code can no longer be manually checked for security issues. At the moment, the main advi
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by fergie 5y ago
Pretty sure that this is happening already- there are definitely fewer petrol stations than there were.
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by fergie 5y ago
Of course, and equally: don't absolve her of guilt because she is a privileged white woman.
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There is no way that this will ever be legal in the EU.
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by fergie 5y ago
How _could_ an NFT give me exclusive access to a Discord channel? I see how it could let me read some sort of access token that I could use, but I dont see how it would prevent others from seeing/using that same token, particularly tho
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by fergie 5y ago
As of 2018, membership of the global top 1% needed a net worth of $871,320 https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/01/how-much-money-you-need-to-b...
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by fergie 5y ago
"Before inerting became a commonplace safety measure, in the nineteen-seventies, tankers blew up surprisingly often, and with lethal consequences: in December, 1969, three of them exploded within seventeen days, killing four men"
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by fergie 5y ago
The author makes the mistake of associating cycling with head injuries. In fact, for young people the risk of head injury on a bike is significantly lower than the risk of contracting Covid on campus.

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