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by kartan 9y ago
Thanks for the link. "Those supporting the move to Microsoft Office say staff using LibreOffice find it difficult to swap documents with external organizations, due to incompatibilities with Microsoft Office" This happens all arou
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by kartan 9y ago
> The only thing we know is that we won’t ever receive the truth. How do you know? If you never get the true. > Can you imagine how much worse it would be if the story were “US anti-missile defense destroys weapon headed for Hawaii”?
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> Libraries, too. Are we going to find ourselves writing our own custom dropdowns and datepickers in C++? You are talking about C++. If a library exists, already exists an implementation for it in C++. Comparing Elm with C++ doesn't
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For me the main point is WebAssembly. Javascript was the only option for the web (As the article notices you can compile/transpile to Javascript but this was adding more complexity for less gain). With more options developers will use
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> People who are properly motivated and who have what it takes should be able to go to college, but it needs to cost something... just not as much as it does now. In Spain there is a limited number of open position in different studies.
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So much people in this thread is talking about different domains and are not able to see that they need different rules. It is not the same creating a library that is going to be used to launch a multi-billion rocket to Mars than developing
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> What in the. serious. fuck. Of course tests test implementation details. Because _implementation details_ are where the goddamn bugs are. Testing is about testing inputs and outputs, not implementations details. Bad testing checks if y
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by kartan 9y ago
Maybe I'm too old school. But JMeter is just amazing at this job: http://jmeter.apache.org/ But I guess that it is as useful and complete, as it is ugly. If you don't care for the eye candy, this is the tool to us
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> The article also touched on the various housing ordinances that were racially charged, and were precisely implemented so that only PoC could not afford to move out of their designated neighborhoods. This is something that is very inter
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For an informed answer you can see: "Uncle" Bob Martin - "The Future of Programming" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecIWPzGEbFc Please, see the video. It is an awesome informative and it will give you a
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> First, because you might think the feedback is not justified. That is a clear signal that there is a misalignment between my expectations and company expectations. It is important to clarify the point. And to see how it can be resolved
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> As someone running a large organization, this is also a logistical nightmare since I usually have very good reasons to compensate X more than Y even if Y might think they should be paid the same amount. That's the key. I want to k
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by kartan 9y ago
A world without diversity is fragile. This is true for vegetables, cattle and even us. Genetic diversity is a barrier to the spread of virus, bacteria and other parasites that cause diseases. '"Another danger of a more homogeneous
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by kartan 9y ago
> that's your responsibility as a reader I live in Sweden. How do I fact check what happens in a neighborhood in the USA? How do I know that a result of a clinical test is reliable? Do I check it on another on-line source? Do I spen
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by kartan 9y ago
The more you sit and the less exercise you do, the less energy do you have to improve. At least make sure that weekends you have hobby that requires to go outside. If you find yourself walking all the weekend is going to be easier to stand
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by kartan 9y ago
> A year or two after a new, more intrusive format became ubiquitous, its performance would fall back to the old format's When Sweden changed driving side, that is exactly what happened. "The relatively smooth changeover saw a
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by kartan 9y ago
> The same just isn't true of product development, sales and marketing. Any one of those three teams, staffed well, will account for well more than the value of the entire engineering organization. Why is it not true for them? Sales
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> it is more efficient to optimise for conversion rate than to deny valid but incompetent or "unable to provide all the details" consumers. And that's not a big problem even that it is not nice. The problem is when your co
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by kartan 9y ago
The main problem with Facebook is "too much tailored advertisements". You can even use this advertisements to deanonymize data. And that's extremely-dangerous. If you want a list of people from an ideology, or minority, or wh
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by kartan 9y ago
The internet is not isolated from the physical world. Some times "the cloud" seems like an ethereal place, but in the end there are servers somewhere with hardware that can break, that needs maintenance and that can be confiscated
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by kartan 9y ago
> You are short-sighted. 1. I'm for automating driving, as it will save lives and it is a job that usually requires people to be away from their families for long periods of time (long distance trucks). 2. The industrial revolution,
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by kartan 9y ago
If they and other companies succed the number of jobs disappearing is going to be massive. Technologically we are almost there, but socially just a few see this coming, and we are not prepared.
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by kartan 9y ago
> It's the assholes who think I'm gonna put up with their crap for free that most chap my hide, and I suspect OSS is unique in just how entitled people can be for something they got for free. Some people is entitled. Period. Th
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An Example: https://www.aclu.org/other/5-problems-national-id-cards And some arguments are laughable. > What happens when an ID card is stolen? What proof is used to decide who gets a card? Mine has a picture on it.
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I will like to know what's the ethical standards of the people that are trying to push for this legislations. Do they realize that they can be victims themselves of this kind of abuse? I guess that it's the tragedy of the commons.
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by kartan 9y ago
> Forgive my ignorance but what purpose does WebAssembly have in this context? Suppose a future web that is language agnostic. Your browser doesn't understand ECMAScript 2015, nor 2016, nor VBScript. It has an extremely optimized an
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by kartan 9y ago
> Why should an employee have the right to store sensitive personal data on my computer. Because your employees are human beings and not machines. They have a life, they have needs, etc. > Are you suggesting a framework where I could
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by kartan 9y ago
No. It is not how law works: An employer “cannot reduce private social life in the workplace to zero. Respect for private life and for the privacy of correspondence continues to exist, even if these may be restricted in so far as necessary,
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by kartan 9y ago
There was this year that my friend sold her apartment... It was a lot more money than she originally paid for it. She got an awesome income that year. For the article: > Using data from the Internal Revenue Service, Mr. Carroll showed th
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by kartan 9y ago
> If Apple didn’t build a data center in Iowa they would also collect $0 in taxes from them. Iowa can't do that. But the USA can. If another state (instead of Iowa because of the tax break) has gotten the revenue of that taxes and t

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