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by mavdi 11y ago
Short sighted for protecting the income of the vulnerable taxi drivers and small time taxi companies? Since the introduction in London, waves of Minicab offices have closed down. Hats off to them to resist this. Not everything in life is au
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by mavdi 11y ago
Yup. I have this principle of never investing in or building on a closed ecosystem. This means I miss on a lot, but ultimately all of these services go down with no regard to your business.
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by mavdi 11y ago
It's such a shame the licensing of Wolfram Mathematica is so strict and pricing is high. I get it, it's the fruit of a lot of hard work but sadly it won't get the traction it deserves.
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by mavdi 12y ago
Mate my two cents: move on. I see a lot of comments urging you to fight this tooth and nail but it really isn't worth it. It's a losing battle, the job is lost and whatever you do to try to win it back will not work unless some mi
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by mavdi 12y ago
Shame some of us are more concerned with providing a living for our families than winning an ideological war right?
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by mavdi 12y ago
Erm... Wouldn't that be similar to Google rejecting the trademark "Apple" from their search results? You're making it sound like Apple owns Pebble trademark and aren't happy for it to be used.
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by mavdi 12y ago
Not an operating system in traditional terms. but it certainly is operating a system, on a higher level. Plus, life is too short to be offended by what people call their product.
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by mavdi 12y ago
I found this particular one from LinkedIn of all places but some great websites for remote work: http://careers.stackoverflow.com http://www.remoteworking.io https://weworkremotely.com
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by mavdi 12y ago
Well this is true but ultimately the end result of my work is code and people tend to pay attention to that when you work remote. PS ping me if you need a new dev, my current contract is coming to an end :D
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by mavdi 12y ago
I see how this could be a problem. Luckily where I work, everyone is a remote. And I think this is something to watch out for, make sure remote working is embedded in company culture before accepting the role.
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by mavdi 12y ago
Been working from home for a year now and I will never go back. My productivity has gone up 2X, mainly because I'm not physically present in an office pretending to work by just being there. I need to push code in to prove I've do
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by mavdi 12y ago
Why stop here then? Why not donate 90% of your income to charity and live in a shanty town?
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by mavdi 12y ago
This is bad advice. This is living life on hard mode. I wouldn't testify. You don't have anything to gain other than morality points, but you'll have everything real to lose.
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by mavdi 12y ago
18 years for running such a disgusting website and then blackmailing victims for cash to have the images removed is insane? Do you stop and think about the victims of this asshole? People that have their lives irreversibly ruined because of
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by mavdi 12y ago
Well said. I made the mistake of investing in a closed ecosystem once with Adobe and Flash. They pulled the rug out from under their developers (Flash was dying, they said it wasn't and then it died anyway and they dropped it like a sa
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by mavdi 12y ago
I've played around with both languages and to my limited knowledge Go just seems like a more modern C language with a GC and easy multithreading. Rust on the other hand is a completely different animal to anything I've used before
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by mavdi 12y ago
20 minutes? We have a technical architect who alone babbles nonsense for half hour in each standup. Some people confuse stand ups with their counselling sessions.
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by mavdi 12y ago
Yeah after witchcraft had failed.
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by mavdi 12y ago
Yep and it's awesome to have that but I personally hardly ever use for loops.
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by mavdi 12y ago
No.
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by mavdi 12y ago
I mean people will widely use for, while, switch statements instead of maps, hashes, weak maps etc. They will be setting variables in parent scope, procedural step by step thinking, rather than passing functions, chaining things etc. I pers
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by mavdi 12y ago
This presentation makes me want to punch the next person I see https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1v38H64XQBNT1p2XzFGWWhCR1k... "let is the new var". No it's fucking not! "let" promotes pro
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by mavdi 12y ago
I know what the leading ; is for. I was merely answering the points. Turns out my assumption was right yet again.
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by mavdi 12y ago
This is a good example! It will try to run 'bletch' as a function. awesome.
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by mavdi 12y ago
don't use a leading ; always var foo = 'bar'; If you do comma first, I will automatically assume you're an idiot.
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by mavdi 12y ago
This is exactly the point of having such a system. They should be so proud it's working so well. When we were told the aim was to silence the dissatisfied citizens, we had doubts. But just think about it now, you're a dissatisfied
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by mavdi 12y ago
Last thing I want is for GCHQ to know that I'm worried about them spying on me. Then I will properly be spied on.
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by mavdi 12y ago
Mostly the case, but remember that you might end up working during odd hours. I live in Europe and remote for a US company. I pretty much get up/work/eat/sleep PST time.
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by mavdi 12y ago
Work for these guys! they created my favourite web app of all time.
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by mavdi 12y ago
What what a load of drivel... You're killing the messenger here. None of what you said here justifies what Google is doing for instance with .dev. How can you compare a restricted .gov TLD to the exclusive use of TLDs by Google?

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