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by fergie 7y ago
Makes sense. Paris is currently not quite as cycle friendly as you might think, given its early adoption of bike sharing and close association with cyclesport.
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by fergie 7y ago
I have worked at universities in the UK and Norway, and believe me, this stuff matters. A lot. Its great that students can make an informed choice about where to start, particularly if they do not come from an academic household. Its not a
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by fergie 7y ago
If you want a deep dive into modern Scots as its spoken today check out https://www.reddit.com/r/ScottishPeopleTwitter/ if you haven't already done so
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by fergie 7y ago
Does anybody get hired for SWE positions at Google _without_ an internal referral? When I was interviewing there 6 or so years ago I was under the impression that you, in practice, had to have an insider vouch for you.
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by fergie 7y ago
Agreed. In terms of form the iPhone 5 was best. The last iphone that could be used one-handed.
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by fergie 7y ago
Some guy writes an article where he says he is thinking about learning Spring with Kotlin and this is worthy of the front page of Hacker News??
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by fergie 7y ago
"Those with nefarious purposes find them extremely useful too" Whilst I don't disagree with this point, it has all to often been used as an argument against open software, and ultimately leads to more closed and less secure s
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by fergie 7y ago
Slightly alarming that github has allowed username:password on api calls up to now- they have definitely kept quiet about it
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by fergie 7y ago
Once students finally graduate they might be unlucky enough to land a job as a Java developer. Here they will live and breathe continuous integration where its essential to write build scripts that can be exported to other environments, and
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by fergie 7y ago
Strapline: "A full economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic is unlikely, and the new version of normal for work and organizations is further off than we think" 2nd paragraph: "...it is likely that full recovery of economi
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by fergie 7y ago
Thats the whole point of creating a precariat: rich peoples lives get safer and easier, poor peoples lives become less secure and harder. The system is working as intended. Three cheers for the gig-economy!!
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by fergie 7y ago
Pretty obvious answer, but for those who are new to C, the C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie is a good place to start
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by fergie 7y ago
Its weird because it used to be full of really high quality content, and then all of a sudden it got really spammy.
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by fergie 7y ago
I remember everybody at my work (Software Engineering) setting this up in 2002. The idea was kind of obvious, but at the same time so far ahead of its time. It would be great if a similar project was set up to provide everyday, real world s
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by fergie 7y ago
I miss him, and I miss people like him. At one point he embodied "web" culture. Seems like a long time ago now.
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by fergie 7y ago
I feel like Google is not really competing to make killer products anymore. Its more like managers in Google are competing to move up in the organization, and whether or not products and services actually succeed is fairly incidental.
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by fergie 7y ago
PSA: if you are not already using it, and you care about the future of humanity, then give Firefox a(nother) go. Its actually quite good these days.
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by fergie 7y ago
Yup- dont like this open source code? Pull request or GTFO.
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by fergie 7y ago
This article makes no sense. Quality non-fiction books have always cited other quality non-fiction books and this is a Very Good Thing.
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by fergie 7y ago
A disproportionate number of immigrants to North America from the British Isles came from Scotland and Ireland. You can still hear that mild Canadian/Scottish/US/Irish accents can under some circumstances be really close.
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by fergie 7y ago
It looks OK. But: teachyourselfcs.com has actually quite a lot of advanced reading and practical work buried in it. For the many thousands of hours that you would have to invest to do teachyourselfcs.com justice, you could quite easily comp
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by fergie 7y ago
I dallied with VSCode when work forced me to deal with a gigantic lump of Typescripted React, but in the end I found that emacs with tide/prettier was a nicer experience, so I ended up going back, as I always do, to emacs.
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by fergie 7y ago
Its striking how clean a lot of the js code is for these projects. They do so much with so little
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by fergie 7y ago
Came here to ask why this project was at the top of HN with 15k stars on github yet I had never heard of it. Was also wondering just why- the scope, claims and goals of the project make no sense.
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by fergie 7y ago
And bash is also perfectly OK. It doesnt have all the bells and whistles of, say, zsh- but the things that it does do, it does better (especially autocomplete). If you want to write scripts, bash is often a pretty good choice for anything i
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by fergie 7y ago
The world is beginning to rely more and more on Scandinavia to defend human rights and democracy.
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by fergie 7y ago
Internet search was regarded as a feature right up until about 2000.
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by fergie 7y ago
"SAP Concur refused the offer. It intends to shutter both the Hipmunk consumer brand and the Concur Hipmunk business travel incarnation on January 23." Do Sap Concur stand to gain by closing Hipmunk down? Why would they not take m
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by fergie 7y ago
Funny the way that he included "Decentralizing Opportunity", and then followed up by envisioning a scarily centralized future for e-commerce. Thats a shame because a re-decentralization of the web is one of the things that really
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by fergie 7y ago
As somebody who spends most of their time on the Celtic and Nordic fringes, Im a big fan of non-breathable PU (fishermans) waterproofs. I think breathability is an overrated quality for waterproof fabrics. Zips and vents combined with water

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