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by jorams 9y ago
Being from Europe, this article was rather confusing to read, because it named a number of soda brands that I was sure belonged to The Coca-Cola Company and PepsiCo. So I looked Dr Pepper Snapple up on Wikipedia: - The rights to Dr Pepper a
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by jorams 9y ago
> It’s a phenomenally good deal for them at the moment The problem here is in the at the moment. MoviePass trains consumers to see the experience of going to the movies as effectively worth nothing. That is very bad for theaters, bec
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by jorams 9y ago
Relatedly, there's a typo in their HN profile: "We're hiring remove developers". Sometimes it's the little things that leave a good impression, no matter how seemingly insignificant.
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by jorams 9y ago
I used both, and in my experience gitea/gogs starts out much faster than gitlab, but becomes slower and slower as repository sizes increase. At some point it became practically unusable, despite the repository not being particularly la
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by jorams 9y ago
As mentioned in the post: > the main goal is to keep Bazaar usable going forward. If you don't need to run Bazaar, you don't need to use Breezy, and it has no real use for you.
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by jorams 9y ago
I really wonder why the author didn't just leave off the first two, and call it "Eight Things I...". Starting off with "backslash escapes can be confusing" and "/* doesn't just match things consisting
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by jorams 9y ago
Thank you, that's the kind of answer I was looking for. Those are indeed not things I've worked with. > I've heard that pgAdmin 4 is awful. I've heard the same. I wasn't a fan of pgAdmin 3 either, so I've st
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by jorams 9y ago
> My rule of thumb is that Postgres gets you 50% of Oracle for 0% of the price. Most of what most people need is somewhere in that 50%. SQL Server gets you 90% for 25% of the cost. Can you elaborate on what kinds of things fill the 40% d
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by jorams 9y ago
The problem with that approach is that in Europe (at least parts of it, I'm from the Netherlands and this probably doesn't apply to every single country), "text messaging" was largely replaced by WhatsApp. Getting some
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by jorams 9y ago
The post says the following: > Maximum 10-minute time window during which the attacker temporarily rerouted and intercepted Fox-IT email for the specific purpose of proving that they owned our domain in the process of fraudulently regist
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by jorams 9y ago
> The average salary for a developer in the top cities in Romania is around EUR 1,000 or $1,100 after taxes (that is about $2,500 in US before tax - yes, taxes are that high, actually a bit higher). Can you explain that ratio? €1000--€11
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by jorams 9y ago
The situation is annoying. Up until recently, when you wanted high performance drivers for Linux you needed an AMD or NVIDIA card with proprietary drivers. The NVIDIA driver was a bit annoying in some ways, but those issues could be worked
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by jorams 9y ago
It doesn't. Support for that large category of video cards depends on the manufacturer of those video cards.
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by jorams 9y ago
I really don't understand how you're trying to compare those languages. The first language you name in your "single implementation"-list is Java, which is standardized and has multiple implementations. Maybe it's
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by jorams 9y ago
> The British East India Company was actually much larger. Do you have any sources for that? Most things I can find mention the opposite. For example, from Wikipedia[1]: > Between 1602 and 1796 the VOC sent almost a million Europeans
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by jorams 9y ago
While it is never mentioned explicitly, this article is about the British East India Company. While that appears to be the most generally accepted interpretation of the name without further specification, making it explicit would've be
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by jorams 9y ago
Regarding your last sentence: Spotify may still be alive, but it's losing massive amounts of money. One example article about this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-15/spotify-l...
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by jorams 9y ago
You are talking about different things. What spiderfarmer is talking about is a scandal in a Belgian slaughterhouse, where animals were being abused. This was filmed[1] by an animal rights organization, sparking outrage. What you are talkin
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by jorams 9y ago
Do you have more information on this geothermal energy? Clicking around here[1] suggests the Netherlands doesn't actually use much geothermal energy at all. [1]: https://www.geothermal-energy.org/direct_uses/nether
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by jorams 9y ago
> The approach of generating source code and exec()ing it, is a cool demonstration of Python's expressive power This sentence is very surprising to me. If the best way to implement something is to literally build a string of source
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by jorams 9y ago
I'm a bit confused by the benchmark. I looked through the benchmark code and, without really understanding what I'm looking at, the result of the nom parser looks much closer to the "pest (custom AST)" benchmark than t
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by jorams 9y ago
I wanted to give you a brief explanation, but I ended up summarising the entire Dutch school system. I also just found out there's a comprehensive-looking Wikipedia article [10] on the matter, so perhaps this wall of text is unnecessar
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by jorams 9y ago
> if a city could make as much money off housing as they could retail The article points out concerns about the size of the expansion relative to the current city, which makes sense, but why is tax income a concern for a city ? Surely i
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by jorams 9y ago
I really wonder why, because alignment is one of the core things in lisp code style. Take this trivial snippet: (let ((foo 1) (bar 2)) (print foo) (print bar)) The (print ...) statements should just be indente
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by jorams 9y ago
> It's now only a matter of time before app-to-user SMS goes away entirely. Was this ever a thing? The only SMS messages from "apps" I ever get are for 2FA codes. Maybe it's regional? I know sending SMS to US numbers
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by jorams 9y ago
Alright, so the non-database definition of atomicity combines the Atomicity and Isolation of ACID. Thanks for helping clear that up. I don't think that makes it a "TOTALLY DIFFERENT THING", but it's definitely important
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by jorams 9y ago
> I seriously thought atomicity in databases was the same idea as atomicity in concurrent programs like an “atomic instruction” and it’s a TOTALLY DIFFERENT THING I don't see how it's a totally different thing. When a change to
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by jorams 9y ago
It's not possible in Chrome on Android, but it is in Firefox.
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by jorams 9y ago
You are not asking the same questions. The question is how would , not would . While I'll admit writing an operating system in Java is non-trivial (thinking of kernel-level programming here), writing a command-line tool or a video ga
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by jorams 9y ago
In my experience yes, most people do touch type, and no, most people don't use right control much, if at all. The right control key on many keyboards is already so uncomfortable to reach that even single-hand chording with the left han

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