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by flukus 7y ago
Yes, it's much easier to write and maintain (up to a point) than an object hierarchy and potentially multiple levels of virtual functions because all the logic is in one place and obvious instead of distributed through x number of file
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by flukus 7y ago
The mozilla suite in 1998 included a browser, an email/newsgroup client, an IRC client, an address book and an html editor. Modern browsers for all their bloat actually have less features.
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by flukus 7y ago
So they're tracking people and using them as guinea pigs, the lack of respect for users is astounding.
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by flukus 7y ago
Everyone here seems to assume that salaries are the biggest factor and ignoring that for many the goal is to gain citizenship in a developed country. For them getting paid well and Canada and becoming a citizen in ? (how many years does it
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by flukus 7y ago
It sounds like your taking your existing workflow and trying to virtualize it, this always fails. Remote work (especially with timezone differences) requires text based asynchronous communications, just look at large successful and internat
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by flukus 7y ago
Mozilla suite, the original before it was "slimmed" to just firefox: It featured a working popup blocker (unlike the current firefox one), had tabs and a unified search/location bar. Konqueror: Handled a lot of tabs well, cou
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by flukus 7y ago
The question should probably be what you gain from the header files? If you just want the simplicity you can "#include \"some_file.c\"" instead. Functionally it's no different, but it's less surprising to other
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by flukus 7y ago
Here's a page putting it into perspective against other recent outbreaks: https://ncov.r6.no/ On day 23: Swine Flu: 27 deaths 8541 infected, SARS: 119 deaths 2160 infected, Coronavirus: 361 deaths 16768 It's not q
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by flukus 7y ago
Illicit substance distribution is a massive, fault tolerant, self correcting and self routing network of individuals, you just have to know some people near the edge nodes. This is also why the war on drugs is such an abject failure. As for
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by flukus 7y ago
> Growing up in communist Poland I remember having to bring to the store empty milk glass bottles to swap them for filed ones. We were similar in Australia and I thought most of the first world (original definition). The milkman used to
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by flukus 7y ago
> because the price of any good or service that profits rent seekers will be inflated almost instantly to maintain differentials. Only if there is insufficient competition to keep prices down and the market is already broken, which is th
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by flukus 7y ago
The new world, post smallpox that wiped out up to 90% of the population. That's setting quite a low bar though, it would still be about on par with the black death.
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by flukus 7y ago
> if you're doing serious work, use a serious computer A dual core laptop with 2GB of RAM is a very serious computer, it's a supercomputer compared to what I had 20 years ago for doing essentially the same tasks. Slow software
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by flukus 7y ago
> I've never seen a smoker throw their butts anywhere but the ground. This is one of those areas where you get much better (far from perfect but better) results if you make the right thing to do the easy thing to do. It doesn't
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by flukus 7y ago
Splitting code into libraries works better, it's simpler and faster. The only thing micro services bring to the table is being to deploy updates independently (although this is also possible with libraries). If you don't need to d
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by flukus 7y ago
> I don't know why you're getting down-voted. It seems HN has stopped the usual astro-turfing these posts attract and it's been replaced by down votes and flagging. Normally a comment or two is enough to kill the thread.
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by flukus 7y ago
The effects of quitting have been part of the quit smoking campaigns here ( https://www.quit.org.au/articles/the-health-benefits-of-quit... ), so the news that your body recovers somewhat is hardly new. Also these positi
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by flukus 7y ago
For those that prefer their stories in a Swedish power metal music video format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuJk6MDUZFM
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by flukus 7y ago
> In the late 1980s Australian interest rates were 17% so the repayments required were much higher on the same level of debt. Inflation was also in the >10% range ( https://www.abs.gov.au/websitedbs/D3310114.nsf&#x
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by flukus 7y ago
It's not a basic necessity, but it does give you a lot of financial security, physical security and a sense of permanence in your community, especially when paired with other trends like gentrification. I've got retired friends th
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by flukus 7y ago
Mine did the same in the early 80's on a cleaners salary, granted the money was better for cleaners back then (no several levels of contractors) and in a less desirable location (Gold Coast), but on my top decile for the country salary
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by flukus 7y ago
I do wish the main documentation site would focus more on Tk and less on Tcl/Tk, you get the impression that the two are joined at the hip. For those of us that don't like Tcl it seems like Tk is still quite usable but working out
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by flukus 7y ago
Any credible sources? In the first link, that's not a quote from Jim Hansen, that's a quote from Bob Reiss said that Hansen said 12 years earlier. I don't know how credible Reiss is supposed to be but there's no context
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by flukus 7y ago
Just because we avoided some disasters (WW3) and acted globally to prevent others (ozone hole) doesn't mean they weren't real issues with potentially disastrous consequences. In fact we should be looking at how we avoided some of
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by flukus 7y ago
I'm not sure it counts as positive progress, it's a positive regression to what was normal 20 years ago and as such requires little to no problem solving. The bigger challenge is making people care, they don't understand how
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by flukus 7y ago
It's not just about someone seeing your information, it's that it's being weaponized against you, usually to make you spend more money than you otherwise would have. Advertisers aren't charities, they expect a return on
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by flukus 7y ago
I wonder if they're feeling the pinch from docker/ansible and other automation tools. Their customer base is probably more likely to jump to these sort of platforms and the rest of the .net world seems to have no concept of automa
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by flukus 7y ago
> JIRA is great but only in an enterprise where there's a team to manage it If you have a team to manage it then you may as well use that team to write your own, then you truly get the flexibility with none of the performance downsi
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by flukus 7y ago
It's more like different subsets of HN will complain about each and there's no one size fits all solution. What interviewers should do is take that into account. Github resumes are great for some people who like working on OSS stu
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by flukus 7y ago
Well we have pair programming now, but unfortunately that has all the problems of two surgeons with none of the benefits of complimentary skills. For a while I was paring with someone where we did take on more of a surgical team model that

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