ivanhoe

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811.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
I'd guess older...
812.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Funny, I've noticed the same sentence, only my reaction to it was to feel intrigued to learn more about ESR... generation differences in sensibility, I guess...
813.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Or, in case there isn't anything "after this life", you could be wasting your last days in unnecessary solitude, facing the fear and pain all alone in the name of tormenting yourself about past and, by that moment, completely
814.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
But you still need that "anyone" doing their job in order for superstars to function. So, you need a team in place in order to produce some value. Admittedly some members of the team are easier to replace and paid accordingly, but
815.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
nope, it's meant for micro-service architecture where you have a lot of different api end-points spread across different servers, databases, technologies, shards, etc. So you need to get user profile from one side, and a list of news
816.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Only in creative fields, but most of the office work is not that. And nothing of that creative work could be done without someone taking care of infrastructure, electricity, food, cleaning the offices, taking out garbage, etc. Don't un
817.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Actually, you need around $34K a year to be in the top 1% globally.
818.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Those 10% wouldn't deliver anything without work and skills of the other 90%, so it's very hard to say who delivers the real value to the economy, it's a product of a group effort usually.
819.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
> If you already have a computer in your house, then you've > already got a much, much more powerful version of a > raspberry pi. > If you have a friend or family member who is interested in > an introduction to softwa
820.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Have no particular recommendation as that would very much depend on your own set of interests, but pick something relaxing and completely unrelated to your work/everyday life. Our brains need a vacation here and there, too.
821.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
I still use my iPhone5 as a 2nd phone, and it's still totally usable after 10 years with the original battery and updates from Apple available until recently. I totally see myself buying 2nd hand iphones to my kids as a cheap solution
822.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
It's always a combination of genetic predisposition and external effects working together (except, of course, in very rare cases of lethal-dose exposures to carcinogens). Usually external effects just increase the chances of mutations,
823.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
One really annoying thing about using an English-based UTF8-capable programming language with some types of non-English content (e.g. if it's in Serbian) is that you have to switch between keyboard layouts constantly. Sooner or later y
824.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
> This seems to be proof that the GDPR is being weaponized against people and organizations one doesn't like. Well, against people who publicly share private info of 150 other people who trusted them those emails. 2K euros is not th
825.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Having a central place for logic is a HUGE pro, while both those cons apply to a very narrow class of situations: having a super simple condition logic on one side vs. not very smartly named indirection. In real life (at least mine) you&#x2
826.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Good, IMHO if using phones while driving is dangerous, then it makes zero sense to use touchscreens all over the place in cars. However some features could still benefit from it, like navigation and settings screens - all those things that
827.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Why is Yasmina so hard to pronounce to Americans? Where's the problem, in a leading Y, or because it finishes with A?
828.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Perhaps it could read the location from exif data?
829.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
IMHO author is missing the point here, lines are not just arbitrary decoration, they've got an important purpose to guide the eye. If line is removed, it needs to be replaced by enough white space that will separate the content visuall
830.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
There's one thing I've learned from white water rafting: On slow parts democracy works fine - everyone discussing about the best path - but when things start happening fast you need a single captain to make the calls, otherwise yo
831.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
We used bots to do that, but in todays world it's so easy to just stay logged in all the time, just leave a screen or tmux session running as a background process on a server
832.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
The stuff used in woodworking is a resin, just heavily diluted, so I guess it's the same thing just with additives. I once forgot to close the bottle of it properly, and next time I tried to use it (months later) it was all dried down
833.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Not that I dispute it, but that sentence is marked with [citation needed] so it should be taken with a grain of salt...
834.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Dunno about US experience, but for someone coming from Europe like me favelas that I've visited in Rio surely left impression of very dangerous places - and I grew up in Serbia in 90s, been through wars and all that shit and anarchy, a
835.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
> Then I had kids, and that distinction became much harder. The solution is to rent an office for yourself, or you can work from co-working hubs if you're more on the extrovert side. Even without kids having a separate work space he
836.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
Sounds very similar to Sealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
I built a transformer once, for some high-school project, and while it wasn't anywhere near the quality of the commercial ones, it worked. It's actually not that hard if you have the right tools and a basic design that you can cop
838.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
The problem with being gifted is that you get used to doing everything effortlessly in school, and then with a little luck you end up on a top-notch University - and all of the sudden you're surrounded by people just as smart or smarte
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by ivanhoe 7y ago
You certainly would. I had very good results on clients' sites using a combination of varnish, cdn for images, and firewall to block any external probing - basically allowing only clean url GET requests to predefined set of urls, and b
840.
by ivanhoe 7y ago
It will eventually, but public perception on what jobs are "cool" has a lot of inertia - especially since students are under a huge influence and pressure from their parents whose perspective is usually lagging 10+ years behind th

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