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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It's interesting how this is described as a potential "bureaucratic nightmare". Having to follow the law of the country your doing business in has been standard operating procedure for, well, basically all of human history. S
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I personally think it's gorgeous, but it stands and falls with the people who live there. It's just like I sometimes see pictures of what in the US are ghetto suburbs and I think: this could actually be a lovely neighbourhood. (As
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Well, if you have a weak mind and someone with authority has a strong opinion...
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> But the usage of "===" is fairly uncommon in most PHP programs. I don't code PHP anymore, but the use of "===" has been standard practice for ages, and checking for it fully automated. It's one of the many
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I just visited Ars Technica without the usual self-protection. I get greeted by a salvo of dozens of third part trackers from the likes of Doubleclick & co. Ars Technica operates as maliciously as any other publisher. There's no
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Just because you're okay with the exploitation of information by making access artificially scarce doesn't mean that those who aren't are "entitled". Since the arrival of the internet, that business model stopped wo
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Because he doesn't say anything . There's nothing in the entire post to believe or not to believe, it's all extremely evasive. It pretty much screams "something happened I don't want to or can't talk about&quo
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I would have been a lot more understanding if he bothered to explain how protecting people's privacy against malicious exploitation hurts people that "don't deserve to be hit". Without any reason other than vague hints,
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Except terrorism doesn't instill terror, as proven by the terrorism in the previous century, when we just defiantly went about our business the same as before. And I say "defiantly", but it doesn't take much bravery if y
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Hence, it's not a stylus, but an actual active pencil-like device for drawing. But yeah, lets not let the facts get in the way.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
(Wow, even an attempt to engage by asking a question gets downvoted by HN's pro-Google brigade...) Anyway, assuming you believe Google effectively has a monopoly (as the EU commission does), this is yet another example where Google abu
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> "Google used it to identify me before I had even applied anywhere else" Add another item to the list of anti-trust charges Google is facing around the world. > "they respected my privacy" No they didn't.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Still doesn't support OpenTherm, and therefor useless (or at least of limited use) for much of Europe.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Being a cyclist in Amsterdam, the lack of driver eye contact and understanding of body language is what worries me about the application of self driving cars. Amsterdam traffic is a chaos in which pedestrians and cyclists mix with cars, and
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Either that, or eat the rich.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I resent the implicit conclusion that people who choose to focus their efforts on building a safe and stable life for themselves and their families, especially their children, are cowards and people who fail simply aren't trying hard e
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
OTOH, excellent work by SentinalOne's marketing department. Probably cost them no more than a decent lunch while they dictated it to the hack who's name is in the byline.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It's interesting how libertarians keep confusing their ideology with the law in a democracy.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
You can get locked up for lots of irrelevant things in every developed country. Except in most countries that is seen as a last resort, so cops aren't particularly inclined to arrest people if there is another way, and judges aren&#x27
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
In general, I would strongly recommend starting with doing Scrum strictly by-the-book, even though it may hurt initially. Don't try to tweak the process too early, or you are likely to fall back into bad habits. (You will very much nee
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I'll try not to put this in a way that may be interpreted as "gratuitous negativity", but I stopped caring about Google branded hardware a long time ago, since the odds of it being available in many countries outside the US s
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
If those are your options, you shouldn't have employees, you should outsource the work. And I'm not one usually in favor of outsourcing, but having employees is a whole different ballgame. If you can't let them fail, you&#x27
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Do not mistake Amsterdam city center with the rest of the Netherlands. In the overcrowded center of Amsterdam, the locals know and understand "the dance" (the last thing a cyclist wants to do is come to a full stop every 20 meters
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Yes, customizability and security (including privacy) are my top concerns. Which is why I first and foremost want my ideal browser to not be owned or beholden to a major corporation that will abuse it for it's own purposes, like Google
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
Some nuance should be applied here: this is usually said in the context of startups. In the first few years of a startup, there's no such thing as a mundane support role. The first person you hire for support is your future "VP Cu
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> Today’s full-stack engineers have replaced yesterday’s sysadmins, DBAs, and webdevs altogether. Seriously, when is this "full-stack" nonsense going to stop? With the exception of a few geniuses, "full-stack" is just
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
> Calling someone an employee doesn't suddenly create new money. But not calling them employees somehow magically creates money out of thin air to be labelled "profit" for Uber, without any detrimental effects to the rest
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
It doesn't differ. And it is the norm in most Western countries outside the US.
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
How is that "ironic"? Contrary to all anti-government rhetoric, most government agencies are by their nature more transparant than the average startup. However, it's easy to be transparant about salaries when you deal with co
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by makeitsuckless 11y ago
I have found the #1 source of architecture/reality mismatches over time being that "business" has deliberately kept developers only partially informed on a "need to know" basis. To be clear, there was nothing malici

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