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by harryf 7y ago
Having been lucky enough to grow up in Western Europe, in a “socialist” democracy, I’ve read a lot about the state of poverty in the US and been shocked by visits to San Francisco and Washington to see so many homeless people. I’d thought t
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by harryf 8y ago
From the paper... > 7. GET THE FORK OUT OF MY OS! Someone couldn't resist...
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Based on personal impressions, I think Switzerland is a good example of distributism. Much attention is given to the Swiss banks and the "gold" but in reality, IMO, the strength of the Swiss economy lies in the small & medium
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by harryf 8y ago
In other news YouTube released Stories (Snapchat / Instagram feature) to make help users be "more engaged" ... https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/29/18117670/youtube-stories... ... give user
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by harryf 8y ago
> You're suggesting they knew the premises were false at the time. They very likely did not know that at the time; nor did any of the major media outlets. There I have to disagree. Strongly. At the outset of of the Iraq war it was a
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by harryf 8y ago
For me their support for the Iraq war was where we parted ways permanently. Anyone with half a brain could see what was going on in the build up to Iraq. The Economist was for _intelligent_ analysis. They could have chosen to be honest “The
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by harryf 8y ago
Would tend to say the salaries on the jobs listed there are a little on the low side compared to what you could probably get for those jobs. As it’s targeting developers outside of Switzerland, perhaps that’s led to a bias downwards. It’s c
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by harryf 8y ago
I _believe_ the issue here is some app developers were invited to visit Apple and (perhaps) get access to certain APIs that weren't going to be made available to normal app developers. - If you're deep into iOS development you kno
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by harryf 8y ago
Facebook also has giant open plan offices where to "encourage collaboration and creativity" (at the cost of concentration) - https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/313034
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by harryf 8y ago
Two books well worth reading in this context are; - Getting More by Stuart Diamond - https://www.amazon.com/Getting-More-Negotiate-Succeed-Work/d... . On the cover it’s about negotiation but most of what a leader does
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by harryf 8y ago
Also sites with some kind of 2FA / oauth happening. This _looks_ like it would be possible to login manually then start scraping.
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by harryf 8y ago
Thanks for posting this - great talk!
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by harryf 8y ago
Cool would be if this app had some basic git(hub) support - currently seems only to support storing files locally or sharing to anything with a registered Sharing Extension (not aware of app that registers github sharing extension)
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by harryf 8y ago
Think it’s more a by-product than by-design. At the risk of making a blanket statement, think it’s fair to say most software engineers have average-to-poor people skills, leading them to the fallacy that “logic tests” are a good way to eval
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by harryf 8y ago
Worth reading http://open-zfs.org/wiki/Performance_tuning about the Adaptive Replacement Cache algorithm ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_replacement_cache ) which is less vulnerable to
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by harryf 8y ago
Especially when you can deliver insults without the threat of receiving a smack in the face back
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by harryf 8y ago
I think it's cool they make a public call for people to attempt to hack the system they built, even if I don't think e-voting is a good idea.
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by harryf 8y ago
Yes... but most people are aware that those elections are a farce. I doubt there's many people that would agree to the statement "Putin was legitimately elected".
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by harryf 8y ago
Cool that they do this although fundamentally subscribe to the point of view advocated by Tom Scott in "Why Electronic Voting is a BAD Idea" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3_0x6oaDmI which argues that it's
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by harryf 8y ago
As a single father of two teenagers who is - according to my kids - doing a good job, it’s almost like I’m societies worst nightmare. The idea that men could bring up children alone seems to terrify people, I assume because it puts a bunch
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by harryf 8y ago
So to me it made some sense. Putting it in my own terms, he argues knowledge workers are _by default_ overloaded and they use distractions as a necessary form of relief from the pressure - the distractions aren't the problem, they&#x27
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by harryf 8y ago
Interesting - wasn't aware of Swiss Media Panel. Reading their FAQ they nicely pack what's going on in flowery language e.g. "Is the Swiss Media Software a Virus or Spyware?" The Swiss Media Software is not a Virus and a
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by harryf 8y ago
Cool stuff! But what about AWS SNS ( https://aws.amazon.com/sns/ ) or Firebase Cloud Messaging ( https://firebase.google.com/docs/cloud-messaging/ )?
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by harryf 8y ago
> Spending those ten minutes in the morning reduces my ability to do my day job because I've used up a significant fraction of my day's useful thinking budget. Like the term “useful thinking budget” - will steal that if I may.
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by harryf 8y ago
The correct answer is we don’t know. In other words we rolled out a technology and now we’re conducting a giant science experiment on ourselves where it’s possible that the consequences are extremely harmful, such as producing a generation
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You could anonymously print it and stick it on the wall next to the coffee machine
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by harryf 8y ago
This is a great document, especially with the DoD name on it to give it weight. > Key flags that a project is not really agile: Nobody on the software development team is talking with and observing the users of the software in action; we
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by harryf 8y ago
Simple. Keep it to three things max. Always. Having N things you want to do is a sure fire way get nothing done. Edit: and I say that as a 45 year old that’s done a “lot” of things
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Watched stranger things with my teenage kids which led me to show them DND. They found a nice break from playing fantasy related computer games
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by harryf 8y ago
Threema is “big” in German speaking countries - they’re usually high up the paid app charts in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and may have reached a level where (social) network effects are working in their favor. They got a significant b

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