jamesrr39

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by jamesrr39 5y ago
Hard to disagree, the amount of energy and CO2 emissions are staggering especially considering how little you can actually do with the end product. Their "We therefore call for" section seems reasonable as well. I like that the ar
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
Yes, you are right, and statically is what I meant, thanks for the correction.
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
You are kind of right, I don't write much bash, but I do write some simple scripts that I can call quickly and easily (e.g. start this program with these args, write the log file here with the filename as the current date, etc). Althou
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
While I understand the sentiment, I'm not sure how bash could ever be as maintainable as a something written in e.g. Python (or even better, a strongly-typed language). The thing with bash is, it's great for tying things together
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
I'm using duckdb for querying parquet files as well. It's an awesome tool, so nice to just "look into" parquet files with SQL.
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
To be fair, Go has quite successfully (IMO) not implemented features, waited for the community to come up with several different implementations, and then implemented that feature in a way that they like, without fracturing the ecosystem. E
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
I worked on a project using Revel, which uses Go templates. As the pages got more complex, we ran into the same problem. Eventually (most of) that app got replaced by a Go server and React front end. My takeaway was that it seems to me like
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
> no genuine software development companies in Europe. Software jobs there are mostly internal (enterprise) software development or customization, and not software product or service development There are plenty of companies who make sof
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
I always thought it was cool that MySQL has different table engines. Postgres doesn't have this (unless I missed something). Sure, there are products based on Postgres that have this, but vanilla Postgres itself doesn't have this
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
Also in Europe, but with a completely different experience; it is (well, was, pre-covid) easy to move between EU states. Within the Schengen Zone it's only the check at the gate to check your ID matches your boarding pass (so no check
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
I find even the larger businesses have much poorer shopping experiences than Amazon. I wanted to buy a book last year. I found it on a major, non-amazon bookseller's website. However, no "Look-inside", not even a description,
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
maybe, who knows. GDPR for example got more companies making "download my data" options, even for users outside the EU.
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
Really interesting project/product! It's really nice to see new ways of rendering OSM data, and alternative map services. I am developing another way to run your own map server (without mapnik!) from a low-end computer ( https:&#x
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
Upvoted, this is a great comment. Thanks for finding the words to sum it up so concisely.
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by jamesrr39 5y ago
> 25MB ad-filled app I really started noticing this since starting to use F-Droid, for a lot of simple apps in the Google Play Store, you can get the same functionality, with zero ads and a much smaller bundle size in F-Droid. For exampl
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
To be fair, Edge is also "pushed onto" people, being a default install in Windows. Not saying it's right how Chrome is pushed though. IMO, ideally there would be regulation requiring Windows to offer a fair choice of browser
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
This should be fun. Looking forward to seeing the size of the GDPR fine!
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Cycling is very popular for commuting here in Sweden...
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
FWIW, Visa and MasterCard have a pretty substantial market share in europe as well (in most EU countries, I think it would be fair to call it a duopoly). I'm not sure why europe switched to chip and pin so much earlier than the US, my
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
I'm not sure about this, if anything there seems to have been a few services recently (e.g. DuckDuckGo, Qwant) that are supported by ads (presumably with metrics on ad performance for advertisers) but without following you around the i
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
With regards to changing parts on a phone, ifixit made a comparison of different phones and how easy they are to change parts for. Something to consider taking a look at when buying a new phone. https://www.ifixit.com/smartp
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Could be. Maybe they learnt from Ubuntu Mobile, where they wanted app developers to write QT apps, instead of having support for e.g. apk files (the payoff for the time invested in writing a separate app for Ubuntu phones was never going to
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
> for allegedly being "undemocratic", Isn't the issue in Poland that the judiciary is becoming less independent from the government? Separation of powers between government, parliament & justice system seems to be maj
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
I found this really depends how "scrum" is implemented. Personally as a developer I like several features of scrum: - regular retrospectives, for improving the process - regular demos, for having a continuous process showing value
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
This reminds me of the original JSON parse/stringify license, which stated > The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil This sounds all good and well, and in theory is great, but in practice how does this work? Who defines what i
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Yes, I agree. But I'm not sure what you do about that though. Stronger "dictacts" from an international "scrum committee" putting out material telling you what is "correct" scrum and what is not?
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Upvoted (although I'm not sure I agree with the last point, but the top 2 are definitely spot-on) The agile manifesto is tiny and a scrum guide like this one: https://scrumguides.org/scrum-guide.html is readable in a c
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
I'm not sure if you read my comment? But like I said, on the national level (for example France in the link you posted) I remember hearing some negative comments, but on the EU commission level (the institution that sits in Brussels),
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to be offensive with the "weasel words" comment, simply that is the term for this kind of "much quoted figure" kind of text ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word ). Tha
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by jamesrr39 6y ago
This is the second 'EU blocks export of AstraZeneca vaccine' headline (the other being the UK). It's interesting how the EU ends up carrying the backlash on both occasions, and AstraZeneca, who are the ones who ultimately ove

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