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by gutnor 11y ago
Also plain legal implication. Our code could contain some protected information (transient debugging code mostly) and it is illegal to transmit it to a third party first because of DNA our company has signed, and then with regards to data p
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by gutnor 11y ago
The problem is that it is not his code to begin with. So somebody cares: the employer, the owner of the code.
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That's actually the use case for Safari Read mode, right ? Just the article to read, not "next page", ads, popup or anything.
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by gutnor 11y ago
Home Automation is still niche. They probably hope to make up on the volume. It does not matter how badly they treat their current customer: if they find the iPhone of home automation, they will have hundred of millions of customers to make
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by gutnor 11y ago
You don't really need gauge at all, autonomous car or not. Seriously, in every day driving you need the speed and that's it. (even on a clutch ICE car, the RPM is really unnecessary unless you have a racing driving style) They hav
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by gutnor 11y ago
Hopefully. That is IMO what's taking them so long to get the Model 3 out, pretty sure it would be on the market today if not for their production capacity. You can do alright as a brand with limited availability of luxury car like the
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by gutnor 11y ago
He sounds genuine, and he probably is, but he chose to keep it that way, he is not a poor nerd crumbling under pressure. Think of it: he has over 20 year experience as an entrepreneur. Actually his whole career after school was being a busi
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Well, they need to deliver them. Right now, 170K car is also 3 years of production for Tesla. Also it means if you want you Tesla Model 3 you have to wait until 2021 (time for Tesla to deliver the 115K one already booked) which is a long ti
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by gutnor 11y ago
Windows used to provide Interix which was a subsystem that allowed use to use quite a bunch of posix utilities and offered quite a very good integration with Windows. You could do quite a lot of things with it (we used it to convert a unix
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> Less experienced developers are cheaper What are we talking about here ? Comparing a developer with 10 year experience vs with 20 years ? Or one fresh out of school, with a senior developer ? Because around here, your salary will be de
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by gutnor 11y ago
In large companies, OSX is also a more readily available option than linux. For example you can have a regular Mac setup with Office, the proper VPN software, ... In my company for example, you will get assigned a Windows machine, unless yo
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by gutnor 11y ago
The main problem is not the emotional aspect. After all the majority of the people affected had left their country only 1 generation before. The real problem is that you don't know what is the rational decision at the time you need to
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> but the outcome often results in a lot more lucrative and fulfilling career than they had before Not sure about that, that's not at all my experience coming from a poor area which has gone through several mass-scale outsourcing. (
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by gutnor 11y ago
But that's basically every rule or guideline in the software world. You should do X always, unless it does not make sense. How do you know the difference ? With enough experience or enough ignorance. Knowing when you are in one categor
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by gutnor 11y ago
The article covers how it started. If you are in currency-less barter only hunter gatherer society, it is not yet a medium of exchange. You would have better luck trading with food than anything else in those societies, as covered in the ar
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by gutnor 11y ago
I think quite a few people would not mind being a martyr. The problem is that the most likely reality is that you will go to jail, your business will be shut down, you will never find another job again, your whole family will be added on al
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by gutnor 11y ago
Or you know, you do it like Apple. You make no comment whatsoever, keep the software and let the rumor machine keep you on top of tech news sites.
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by gutnor 11y ago
Powershell is very powerful and for windows it beats cygwin/mingw. Not quite sure how it measure against Linux shells running on Linux, but Microsoft has really made a proper shell for windows, too bad it looks so different. Obviously
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by gutnor 11y ago
There was a link on HN(?) a few days back about a guy that was testing some LED Light Bulb. Those light bulb are a bit clever as they need to plug into your wifi for remote control. He discovered that the plug was creating a new wifi networ
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by gutnor 11y ago
That actually reinforced my point: the green movement in the western world is disproportionally strong compared to the actual consequences perceived today, and the expected consequences from the optimistic projections people believe in.
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Most of the western nations are nicely isolated from the consequences of climate and environmental changes. If you look at the map of the region that are expected to suffer from the consequences of Global Warming, you will notice that the w
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The situation has become extra-bad only in the last 2-3 years, but there are plenty of people that bought before 2012 across a wide variety of occupation. Especially zone 3 and up: 3 year ago a 3 bed house could be acquired for 180K GBP in
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by gutnor 11y ago
I know a few people that use the teletext almost exclusively instead of watching TV. Teletext is a surprisingly good internet substitute for basic information consumption: you get the top news, the sport result, recipes, meteo, ... Until re
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by gutnor 11y ago
A huge network for a recruiter is not weak. That is his bread and butter. Often, a valuable interaction with a recruiter is very brief: he found you a job. Similar for people in Sales, Business development, Consultant, ... The problem is th
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Translation also requires you to produce a style that is consistent with the source material. Professional translation is used to produce a similar quality document as the source material. If you translate english legalese into Spanish, you
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by gutnor 11y ago
I'm puzzled by this, as a French speaker. But strangely, I have heard it being said quite often by people from a variety of native languages. ( never by people that have had to live in a French speaking country ) It could be the struct
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It makes sense if it is bilateral ( US giving money to France for French people working there ) and common enough that both countries don't want to deal with the hassle. The real problem is that the US is the odd one here. Every other
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Of course, it is good to have realistic expectation and not bite the hand that literally feed you. But were comes this above reproach that the food industry enjoy ? > Convenience, High Quality, Cheapness you can't have all three. Wh
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Really even with the article, those pictures are mind boggling for a European and some of the captions are indeed disturbing. One of the captions resonate as I have heard it used about seat belts when I was a kid: there are cases were weari
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> it's going to be much harder for startups to recruit employees with equity compensation, Ageism in the valley is probably caused in part by that. Older developers have already been burnt in 2000 and are less willing to try another

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