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by ido 1y ago
It's a parliamentary democracy with free elections and independent media. It's also chaotic, corrupt, and violent. It's much worse than Sweden or Switzerland but better than many other Arab countries.
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by ido 1y ago
Iraq's current government is still siginficantly better than Saddam's regime, depsite being currupt and somewhat dysfunctional (and things have improved over the years in case you dig up an article from a decade ago about ISIS).
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by ido 1y ago
> When we do trunk-based development, the WIP we commit gets used, before any actual user sees it, by our whole team. And of course internal teams love also doing QA on the side of their existing jobs ;) I think that’s fair enough to a
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by ido 1y ago
They arguably fixed it at 3.0, the first truly popular version of windows.
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by ido 1y ago
I've seen "Paris of the X" and "Venice of the X" applied to many (often not particularly attractive) cities worldwide...
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by ido 1y ago
I thought at first it meant stuff like bookkeeping and taxes and got excited…the most boringly mind numbing work that’s still not quite that easy to automate. I’m guessing that too will come soon enough.
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by ido 1y ago
Simple apps are the majority of use-cases though - to me this feels like what programming/using a computer should have been all along: if I want to do something I’m curious about I just try with Claude whereas in the past I’d mostly be
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by ido 1y ago
Or yahoo- they were the premier sellers of ad space online (like google today) and made a lot of money from over-funded tech companies overpaying for online advertising during the boom years.
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by ido 1y ago
This was also the case with indie games around roughly 2008-2012. Didn't last for long though!
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by ido 1y ago
Wouldn’t a sufficient amount of sand (eventually) put out the fire?
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by ido 1y ago
I keep macbooks longer, but PC laptops I've had would often start breaking in ways that were too expensive to be worth repairing around that time. I had a Dell XPS whose screen had issues and replacing it (some custom touch screen that
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by ido 1y ago
I worked with and known a bunch of Polish devs (in Poland), certainly a very high quality talent pool. There are also great devs in Romania and a lot of the countries that were part of former-Yugoslavia. I never understood how there can be
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by ido 1y ago
Us lazies need tools too!
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by ido 1y ago
It doesn't undermine your point, but if you mean gross yearly wage $25k is not an amazing salary for senior software developers in Poland (I guess it depends where in Poland).
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by ido 1y ago
I made a somewhat similar blunder to the original poster at a job some years ago. I got a dressing down from the CEO and that's it, went back to work and never heard of it again. As far as I can tell it had no effect on my career at th
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by ido 1y ago
a developer-focused startup I'm sorry to tell you it doesn't just apply to developer-focused startups!
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by ido 1y ago
It was not - 68000 and 68020 (and 68030 of course) based systems were still sold later than that. The highest end mac in 1990 was 68030 based ( https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_ii/specs/mac_iifx.htm.
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by ido 1y ago
We’re in an LLM bubble and their money is cheap as they’re drowning in investor money and have to spend it + show growth. If it doesn’t make economic sense you probably can’t count on it to last once the bubble bursts.
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by ido 1y ago
I found all recent models to be "good enough" for my use (coding assistance). I've settled on just using Claude 4. At the same time the experience also makes me less worried about this tech making programmers obsolete...
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by ido 1y ago
Assuming there remains more than one vendor, where the lock-in? I use Claude 4 via an IDE plug-in and both Claude and the plug-in (and the IDE!) are replaceable.
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by ido 1y ago
The internet ended up just as big as predicted in 1995 (or bigger) - it just took a bit longer. What do we not have online today that was predicted in 1995?
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by ido 1y ago
I don’t know about Japan, but housing costs in Germany (at least in the big cities) have increased massively (a lot more than wages) in the last 15 years.
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by ido 1y ago
Pretty sure these aren’t available to me (in Germany), I will have to get an actual prescription.
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by ido 1y ago
> if I were, I do think I'd try a GLP-1 agonist to get my weight down. Don't they only prescribe these for the morbidly obese? As someone "merely" overweight (BMI ~27) I'd like to try but I don't think I&#x2
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by ido 1y ago
The answer to that depends on when the VC bubble bursts- if it lasts long enough costs will eventually drop far enough. Pets.com was a .com-boom era joke but today I actually buy my pet-food online and I'm pretty sure nobody is subsidi
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by ido 1y ago
Even at 100x the cost (currently $20/month for most of these via subscriptions) it’s still cheaper than an intern, let alone a senior dev.
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by ido 1y ago
> Don't apologize for what was none of your doing. This is veering on off topic, but when people say they are "sorry" for something that happened to you they're not apologizing - it's an expression of empathy, no
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by ido 1y ago
Did any conflict driven by a lack of employment ever lead to the end of a new technology?
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by ido 1y ago
It’s more a dishwasher level of automation than 3CPO- when you order they enter your table number and the kitchen staff puts the prepared dishes in the shelves in the robot, which the drives to your table. Once it gets there you take the di
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by ido 1y ago
You're right! I was thinking of the Timex Sinclair 2068. It was preceded by the 1000 and 1500 (ZX80 & ZX81 respectively as you say).

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