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by jamaicahest 5y ago
Indeed. As a professional freelance consultant, I use the laptop provided by the customer. Guess what? They're always running Windows.
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by jamaicahest 5y ago
I used to say, half jokingly, people need to learn to shut the **** up, myself included. Meaning just because you have an opinion you don't have an obligation to share it with everyone else. Me writing this comment illustrates that.
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by jamaicahest 5y ago
> Database systems have subtle bugs and oddities, and you can avoid a lot of bugs by avoiding database systems. This sounds like an offended developer. Avoiding database systems is not possible if you want to do a lot of programming task
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by jamaicahest 5y ago
I have worked with several banks as a devops consultant and have helped implement self-hosted proxy repositories for NPM, NuGet, etc. These proxies save a copy of every package downloaded and store it locally for as long as the bank wants.
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by jamaicahest 5y ago
> Architects, Technical Directors, and the like barely override any team decision if at all. I would be interested to see how the products turn out in the long run, when the team decides on architecture A but the company as a whole bets
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by jamaicahest 5y ago
A client of mine once told me "We are self-hosting our CI/CD servers because when problems occur, I can tell my employees to stay at work until it is fixed. I cannot tell GitHub to stay at work until they fix their issue."
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by jamaicahest 5y ago
This sounds similar to Amazon Athena, but without the Amazon part. Interesting!
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by jamaicahest 5y ago
You completely ignored the point of the article, which is that Blackberry created a unified inbox and no app has since been able to do that. Even on iPhone.
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Except it's not the government, or any politicians for that matter. It is the decision of medical professionals, basically the danish version of FDA decided to stop using Astra Zeneca vaccine. They have that level of power here in Denm
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
How is this relevant to the article?
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
> It's also a backup mechanism in case Signal fails (like it did when the exodus happened) I view SMS as a fallback solution. It has plenty of benefits, i.e. no app required, works on every mobile phone ever made.
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
> The only network services this won't become true of at some point in the future are those with decentralized clients and servers obeying a common documented protocol. You mean like SMS?
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
The rocks will amplify the echo though!
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Much like HN, unfortunately. And pretty much any online forum.
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Did anyone notice this article is from February 27th 2020?
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Did any of you replying actual read my comment or did you just auto-reply "buy a supported Linux laptop"? I said ". With Windows I can buy pretty much any laptop and expect it to work with", and you are saying "Just
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
> as long as you buy a system with known good Linux support And that is where the problem lies. With Windows I can buy pretty much any laptop and expect it to work with. With Linux I have a limited selection of laptops, if I want it to w
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Why should you, as a consumer, care about internal legal issues between the manufacturer of your phone and some other company? If the manufacturer decides, for whatever reason, to remove features from the phone after you purchased it, I thi
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
> Sadly, Linux hardware support is still hit and miss. My latest Lenovo Legion has a whole lot of issues, the biggest one being that the trackpad just doesn't work. Sound also dies sometimes when waking up from sleep. But other than
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Well you have now heard of a critical productive employee complaining about not being in an office. I am one of those guys who delivers faster than anyone and to a high quality standard, and I hate WFH permanently. While I enjoy no commute,
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Same in Denmark. Perhaps this is standard in a lot of western countries?
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
I read "No more Mr. Nice Guy" a few years ago and it completely changed my perspective on personal relationships, made me realise my own behaviour was part of the reason for my failed relationships in the past. I highly recommend
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
You recommend using the extension to circumvent your employer banning your use of Zoom, while at work?
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
After spending years learning on the job, I started reading the documentation books cover to cover, and I have never looked back. Colleagues are often amazed at my "deep knowledge" of the technologies I use, however I mostly know
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Wrong, it applies to EU citizens, regardless where the data is stored https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
Companies developing apps should be held accountable for their decisions, i.e. spying on the clipboard in this case. Don't excuse them with the reason "well it was easy to do, so it's ok" that's like saying "we
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
I agree, Google is not forcing anyone to use their browser, yet people are complaining that Google is evil and immediately after continue to use their products/services. I don't understand the human psychology behind this..
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by jamaicahest 6y ago
A duopoly is hardly better than a monopoly. In fact I argue it is worse, because it gives the illusion of choice, yet there is no real choice.
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by jamaicahest 7y ago
Visual Studio, not VS Code. All the way back to Visual Studio 2003. The debugging features in Visual Studio are brilliant and have saved me countless hours over many years of developing .NET applications.
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by jamaicahest 7y ago
Wrong. Read Microsoft's policy https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/security-com... "As a customer of Office 365, you own and control your data. Microsoft does not use your data for anything o

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