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by habosa 5y ago
Actually I do personally offset my personal carbon footprint by taxing myself, via Klima: https://klima.com/ However that's not an efficient way for 8 billion people to get out of this problem.
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by habosa 5y ago
Just. Tax. It. We have warmed the earth because we love comfort and money. We will never stop loving those things. So instead let's use the same systems to fix this (or at least slow things down). As an individual my largest carbon imp
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by habosa 5y ago
Sometimes I think Americans don’t know how badly they want this. Americans will tell you how wonderful European cities are with their small streets and their public squares filled with great restaurants. They think we don’t have cities like
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by habosa 5y ago
There should be a law that states for any subscription product I should be allowed to buy a fixed-term version with no auto-renewal. In the past two days I've had the following experiences: * Wanted to buy a Font Awesome "Pro&
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by habosa 5y ago
It's also the same for new teams or even new large projects. I have worked at {Big Tech Company} for 7 years and WFH has barely been a speed bump for me. Last week I decided to switch teams. My onboarding rate is glacial so far. Natura
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by habosa 5y ago
Inspiring post! I am sitting here right now working on my side project, which I try to do for an hour or two before work every day. It really is amazing how much I get done in this tiny block of time vs. the 8 hours I spend at my full-time
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by habosa 5y ago
I'd assume the tax would be proportional to salary, sort of like social security. Some conservative napkin math: let's say that people have about a 30-year working career and have on average 2 children. Let's say we want to g
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by habosa 5y ago
It's great that so many companies (including mine) are offering more leave for parents but I don't think the incentives can ever be correct as long as this is a private company benefit. Companies will want to appear generous by gi
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by habosa 5y ago
Uber is a great service for the customer. It made getting places within cities convenient and reliable. I don't think there's anyone who misses calling cab companies late at night. However their pricing was never real. They took b
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by habosa 5y ago
I am not a lawyer but I am sure that any legal standard for ML has to be different than "isn't it just doing what humans do, but faster?" GitHub scanning billions of code files to build commercial software is different than y
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by habosa 5y ago
I can't tell why this is on the front page of HN. Is the implication that Google would spy on Apple customer's data stored on Google Cloud? Google is evil/dumb/both at times but that's completely outlandish. I do fi
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by habosa 5y ago
Most other tech companies that were 6 years old in 2004 are probably long gone today, so in that way they'd have 100% attrition.
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by habosa 5y ago
Just want to say that I love Newsblur have I have been using it for free for many years. Reading this today made me stop and think about how hard you must work on it, so today I will donate/subscribe!
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by habosa 5y ago
This seems like a good place to recommend one of the best books I've ever read: "Impro" by Keith Johnstone https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/306940.Impro It's a book about improv but it'
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by habosa 5y ago
Your website mentions Pull Request analytics which to me is more interesting than the Slack integration but it's light on the details. Could you share a demo or screenshot of what kind of analytics a team gets from Axolo?
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by habosa 5y ago
Having to come in on Wednesdays and Fridays means you can't even divide up your week into two blocks. If it was Monday/Friday WFH then you'd be at home for 4 days (Fri-Mon) and then in for 3 days (Tue-Thur). That would open u
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by habosa 5y ago
Owning both GitHub and StackOverflow would be one hell of a combo for Microsoft. They'd really have almost the entire worldwide developer community in their hands.
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by habosa 5y ago
NFTs are dumb however some of the NFT markets have one cool thing that I hope sticks around: the artist gets a cut of all future sales. If you sell your NFT art for $10 and then someone resells it for $1M, you will get some percentage of th
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by habosa 5y ago
Agreed! The beauty-per-effort-unit on Flutter is so high. There's a reason that Android's new UI framework looks a lot like Flutter widgets!
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by habosa 5y ago
+100. I did Android dev for like ~7 years and recently have been doing more Web dev. Yes CSS is a tricky language but I always get where I am going. On Android I frequently have to give up and settle for a more vanilla style because what I
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by habosa 5y ago
Off topic fun fact: that novel is by Iain Banks, not Iain M Banks. He only uses the "M" for his Science Fiction novels.
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by habosa 5y ago
I am in the market for a new laptop. The new M1 MacBook Air appeals to me so much but the lack of any ability to repair/upgrade it over time is just no longer acceptable to me. Instead I'll be going with the Framework laptop: htt
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by habosa 5y ago
(Googler here, but speaking just for myself) I agree with you but I will say that most of my non-tech-savvy family members think that the big companies are selling their data and that’s what they need to worry about. It’s important that the
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by habosa 5y ago
Clearly these should be banned because they violate Google's policy, so I don't argue that. But on a more general level, I don't really have a problem with companies offering to fill out government forms for me in exchange fo
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by habosa 5y ago
This is so much fun! The mixer effects sound great and I love the workflow, I've never seen this sort of nested-grid drum machine setup (instead of horizontal parallel tracks) but I find it really fun and intuitive.
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by habosa 5y ago
100%, something about supply and demand fundamentally broke during this pandemic and may never return to normal.
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by habosa 6y ago
IMO the audience for Mighty ($30/month + BYO crappy computer) over something like an M1 MacBook Pro ($1200) is very small. Yes your Chrome will be faster when you have a fast internet but at all other times (other apps, slow internet)
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by habosa 6y ago
Can anyone estimate the environmental impact of running your daily browsing this way as compared to locally on a laptop? I can see factors in both directions, curious how others would estimate it. Also if you have a MacBook and you hate the
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by habosa 6y ago
I haven't been coding as long as most (about 10 years) but I've had phases of Java, Ruby, Python, JS, TS, ObjC, etc. If I go onto my GitHub and try to get any of my old projects running I am extremely confident that the non-Androi
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by habosa 6y ago
In my experience it's normally an L4 or L5 software engineer working on a project with a lot of tech debt and no major upcoming launches. So maybe it's some random little-used Cloud product or a piece of internal infrastructure. O

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