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by fergie 6y ago
Mirror: https://archive.md/TTZ1H
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by fergie 6y ago
So everybody needs two phones? Stupid.
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by fergie 6y ago
Fair enough, but from a utalitarian point of view the grandfather comment is the most effective way to achieve your aims. Lots of middle management types _want_ to dickride employees- pointing this out only makes them more eager to (ab)use
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by fergie 6y ago
For me, abstract thought comes best when doing abstract things. Particularly reading, camping, cycling, playing/listening to music. As somebody who spends way to much time in front of a computer monitor, I find that anything that takes
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by fergie 6y ago
"using a less "powerful" (non-IDE) editor helps you write better code" When you see what influential programmers use, its clear that a disproportionate number of them are on vim/emacs.
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by fergie 6y ago
(The linked article is a piece of content marketing and not the reflections of an individual expert in the field.) Typically for this type of article the merits of "Scrum" are debated without Scrum first being defined, thereby mak
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by fergie 6y ago
This article contradicts itself by simultaneously claiming that H-1B visas _dont_ affect pay and conditions...: "The misconception is that there is a fixed amount of work — a lump of labor. According to this view, jobs are a scarce res
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by fergie 6y ago
Looks nice, but I just want an iphone 5 sized iphone with a decent battery.
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by fergie 6y ago
"Not a lot is written about being a female founder and CEO" Maybe this is just a Scandinavian perspective, but I feel like there is in fact quite a lot written about this.
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by fergie 6y ago
How do we get around the Economist’s paywall these days?
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by fergie 6y ago
Yes. Me. Very.
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by fergie 6y ago
I feel like this is just softening us up for the inevitable vscode (online edition)
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by fergie 6y ago
I like it.
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by fergie 6y ago
Stupid question: Can't you do all of this in Google Analytics? What are the advantages of Posthog/Mixpanel/Amplitude/Heap over GA?
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by fergie 6y ago
You can compare the nordic countries here -> https://www.vg.no/spesial/2020/corona/norden/
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by fergie 6y ago
On HN there should be an expectation that people actually read the articles before commenting.
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by fergie 6y ago
Totally agree, even under COVID circumstances. If it wasnt for the weekly shopping trip I would never have realised that for a lot of people life was carrying on nearly as normal. Online shopping feels too much like work (as in it feels lik
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by fergie 6y ago
My memory might be a bit shaky on this, but I am pretty sure that Facebook was running "one solr instance per user" in the early days and that (Apache) Cassandra was developed from this idea. Generally any large social network wil
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by fergie 6y ago
Solid state batteries. The tech is tantalizingly close, although not perfected yet. If and when they become available, these batteries will have a far higher energy density and degrade at a far lower rate than existing batteries.
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by fergie 6y ago
> Self-driving cars. Now that the hype is over and the fake-it-til-you-make-it crowd has tanked, there's progress. Slowly, the LIDARs get cheaper, the radars get more resolution, and the software improves. Still don't see full
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by fergie 6y ago
Maybe a stupid question, but does this mean that the podcast will be audio-only from the 1st september or will the videos still be published somewhere?
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by fergie 6y ago
Given the state of r/The_Donald at the time what spez did was kind of funny, and I would like to think that any self respecting HNer would do something similar in that situation.
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by fergie 6y ago
Is this necessarily a problem? Reddit is social media- just as there are popular youtubers, twitterers, and twitchers, there are popular redditors. You could argue that popular redditors are actually more benign since the monetization oppor
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by fergie 6y ago
There's definitely more of an opportunity in EU cloud services than you might think. I work for a pretty big EU university (~50000 users) and there is very little AWS/Azure/Google we can actually legally use. And this isn&#x2
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by fergie 6y ago
Its a peculiarity of the traditional British media that they need to constantly portray rural business owners (particularly farmers) as fighting extreme poverty. Not entirely sure why this should be so, just that it is.
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by fergie 6y ago
> I think the reason so many web devs put up with the “all-react” (and similar) development experience is basically cargo culting. Yes. And its important to remember that React is heavily marketed to developers by Facebook, just as MS do
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by fergie 6y ago
Whats the advantage of Lite over Vi or Emacs?
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by fergie 6y ago
PHP -> much better that people often give it credit for I've hardly ever used PHP over the course of my 20 year career, being mostly on C, Java and JavaScript, but on the few times that I have, I have always been really impressed wi
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by fergie 6y ago
University of Oslo | Software Engineers | ONSITE (Oslo, Norway) | Full-time | 741300NOK Norway's leading university is looking for 2 graduate and/or experienced software engineers to help with development of web related services i
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by fergie 7y ago
Not sure if its region dependent, but my Netflix shows a warning about product placement at the beginning of the show. I have to say that it was a bit of an eye-opener- a lot of these ads are not obviously product-placement at all. The one

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