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by koyote 5y ago
> In fact, I would go as far as to suggest that the primary reason HN is slow to succumb to the Eternal September is because it doesn't allow for embedding media. I agree, I think your whole post basically highlights how social medi
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by koyote 5y ago
The "I BOUGHT A THING!" posts reek of astroturfing in my opinion; just browse /tea or /breadit and you'll see the same item posted every single week reach the top page. I do wonder how many of them are actually spon
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by koyote 5y ago
It's not always easy to achieve that unless you're willing to spend a lot of time and money. Europe to SE-Asia almost always involves flying over quite a few 'problematic' areas.
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by koyote 5y ago
I used to live 20 minutes walk from the closest non-convenience store. I carried a medium-sized rucksack and went shopping more regularly. Obviously not quite as easy for an old age pensioner or people that might also have issues walking wi
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by koyote 5y ago
> Western European salary is taxed for around 40% You'll only get that tax rate at very high salaries and it's also of course marginal. In the UK the first 12k (~$17k) is entirely tax free for example. After that it's 20
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by koyote 5y ago
I agree with other commenters that it might not be the best thing to say if you want to keep your friendships. It's a very true sentiment though. Another one that often comes to my mind when people brag about amount of hours work is so
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by koyote 5y ago
Coding is fun! But why not work on a fun personal project instead of giving your labour away for free? (I am assuming you are not the majority owner of your company)
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by koyote 5y ago
Fingerprint readers have been living under the screen in other phones for several years now.
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by koyote 6y ago
I assume this is for more junior roles? It's been a long time since I've needed to use SO for something in my day job. I mostly end up on the github/microsoft issues sites scrolling down to see whether the compiler/libra
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by koyote 6y ago
As someone who isn't a software developer by trade, how did you decide on the software stack? I hadn't even heard of Phoenix (I am not a web dev by trade, so maybe that's why!), so I am a bit surprised to see something less m
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by koyote 6y ago
Those salary numbers seem a bit wrong in general. The UK value translates to just above £29k as an average annual salary. That might just about be an average annual new graduate starting salary across the whole of the UK, but even there it
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by koyote 6y ago
> C++ has many language features that allow compilers to generate efficient code. It does, but it also has the ability of generating inefficient code. Sure, it's often the developers fault but I feel like it's much easier to sh
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by koyote 6y ago
I encounter this every 6-12 months when I go back to an old project that is 'working' and want to add something/update something and it all just looks foreign to me. The worst thing is that I have often gone through a lot of
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by koyote 6y ago
This is very similar to how code bases are 'edited' to fit the coding style of the team/project/company. I guess the main difference is that code editing is done in collaboration with the author (code review) as opposed
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by koyote 6y ago
This might just be my personal opinion but I feel like a lot of European shows avoid many of the common Hollywood tropes, which is another reason they feel 'fresh'. Most US shows are quite predictable if you've watched simila
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by koyote 6y ago
Wait, what part of London are you from? I lived there for a decade and only knew a single person who had a car (because they had to commute out west towards Slough). Driving in London does not make any sense, it's expensive (congestion
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by koyote 6y ago
As someone who writes both C++ and C# I disagree around writing C/C++ in this way. (I am talking specifically about the side effect to 'index', not the use of a tertiary operator which is fine here) I have seen far too many b
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by koyote 6y ago
Do you have a source on that? I was under impression that the UK manufactures their entire AZ stock and the only vaccine produced in the EU for the UK is Pfizer/BioNTech
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by koyote 6y ago
I have the same issue. If a personal project is fun, I might end up trying to 'just fix this one issue; just polish up this one feature' all the way up to bedtime. This will invariably affect my sleep with either no sleep at all f
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by koyote 6y ago
The original netgate blog post is about a slightly different event from arstechnica's follow-up (in this FreeBSD/WireGuard saga). Arstechnica's article is about the removal of the 'rushed' WireGuard implementation t
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by koyote 6y ago
I believe they are near-essential for properly learning a language. I can credit Resharper for a large part of my proficiency in C# for example.
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by koyote 6y ago
> Long hours are often the result of excessive bureaucracy and long meetings, and the expectation that you'll go out for dinner I don't think it matters what the work is. If you spend most of your awake hours either in the offi
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by koyote 6y ago
These static analysis tools are just not good enough to rely on in a completely automated way and I guess Google is just not willing to spend the money on having flagged apps go through a manual check before being removed. We use one of tho
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by koyote 6y ago
As a casual plane nerd I always checked which plane type I am on and have even made ticket decisions based on it (and have been disappointed when the airline changes the plane type last-minute!). That being said, in my experience, airlines
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by koyote 6y ago
> Why stop reading there? I said 'almost'. If you started reading a blog post on a topic and the very first example in the opening paragraph is a clear misinterpretation then it is quite natural to assume that the rest of the p
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by koyote 6y ago
I almost stopped reading there. That sentence, no matter how I try to interpret it, seems like very common and genuine advice to a new graduate starter.
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by koyote 6y ago
You can in Australia, they even gave us a Covid-bonus (deduction) last year. But that has always been the case. Anything you purchase that is used for work purposes can be deducted (at a pro-rata basis if need be).
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by koyote 6y ago
I'm in the same boat (same phone) but I don't really care anymore? Back in the days of Android 1.5 to ~5 a new update meant a ton of new features and fixes. Now all we get are slight cosmetic tweaks that are not even always for th
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by koyote 6y ago
They are mandatory here with heavy fines if the premises are found to not use them properly. It also helps that cases are so rare here that you can have a public list of places they visited while infectious for the public to monitor.
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by koyote 6y ago
> the state government is taking steps to reduce risks of outbreak from hotel quarantine. Stopping the system entirely is certainly a way to reduce the risk ;) > I also disagree with your statement about mental health not being taken

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