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by mercer 6y ago
See, to me 'spelt' just feels wrong, but 'ise' does too. I've found that I generally lean toward US English, but then they're the weird interactions with my own language (Dutch) that make me uncomfortable with
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by mercer 6y ago
> I think a lot of people don’t understand science and are intimidated by it and turn to conapiracies because they are easily digestable and worded on their understanding. That's what makes it so difficult to 'package' tru
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by mercer 6y ago
A few days ago our PM (Netherlands) did the first 'covid press conference' in a few weeks. I watched it on YouTube with live comments turned on, and it was off-putting. Obviously YouTube comments are generally quite shit, but this
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by mercer 6y ago
You're right; my apologies.
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by mercer 6y ago
> The racists on the left think that we need to pump minorities full of welfare and government services in order to better subjugate them for their own benefit. I have never once in my life encountered this hypothetical racist leftist, a
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd love to hear more elaboration on that, or a link to an article. As someone way out of my depth it seems almost silly that they wouldn't be able to figure that out through a combination of throwing expertise and money at it and
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by mercer 6y ago
Why yes, a history of overt racism in the republican party probably just suddenly disappeared! This stuff by no means lasts a full lifetime or propagates through generations!
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by mercer 6y ago
Most landlords are not retired teachers who rent out their garage apartment.
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm happy to read this comment! I have leaned libertarian (and still do to an extent) when it comes to many things, but I've never quite identified with the more right-wing 'individual responsibility' / 'poor p
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by mercer 6y ago
I thought it was common knowledge that poor and/or uneducated people, at least in the West, tend to be more obese, and overall tend to live a less healthy lifestyle. But I'm happy to be wrong. What has usually been the topic of di
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by mercer 6y ago
I imagine financially he probably could've retired a while ago, no?
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by mercer 6y ago
As others have mentioned, it definitely does have downsides when it comes to writing queries and especially when using frameworks/libraries to interface with the db. But for the right job, JSONB columns are awesome!
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by mercer 6y ago
They are in the database and need to be added as users the regular way. It's just 'marking' them as superadmins that is done through a config file.
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by mercer 6y ago
> I'm still confused about how this could have happened. Did anybody ever ask how his work was going? Did he just lie and say it was great? Yes and yes. I suppose he also lied to get his previous job as a 'programmer', or
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by mercer 6y ago
This guy truly just didn't know about keyboard shortcuts in general!
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by mercer 6y ago
How so?
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by mercer 6y ago
Good point. I do actually have it in a config file, so hard-coded was the wrong word to use.
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by mercer 6y ago
Hmm. I have hard-coded superusers for an app that are based on email address (where email is the login username). I'd love to hear from the HN experts if that is a very bad idea and how to do it better. (initially I had a 'superus
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by mercer 6y ago
I disagree. Authentication and authorization are central to many areas in which programmers work. And while there are plenty of gotchas (especially in webdev perhaps), at it's core it can be learned, understood, and implemented right a
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by mercer 6y ago
Do you mean stuff like Medium's 'magic link' approach? enter email address, get a link via email, click on link: magically logged in! If so, that's exactly what I've discussed with various clients to implement for t
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by mercer 6y ago
We had a guy who, after a month of sitting smack-dab in the center of the IT department being busy on his new MacBook, got caught with his pants down because he finally asked for help, and me and a bunch of other devs stood behind him watch
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by mercer 6y ago
Any Dutchie correct me if I'm wrong, but some degree of this concept has already arrived here as well. We have two types of health insurance, and the cheaper kind gives you less freedom to choose your care unless you're willing to
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by mercer 6y ago
As is Elixir (Brazil).
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by mercer 6y ago
Fascinating. Over here (NL) whenever any group orders pizza's, the default is to just order one for yourself. At 'best' we might make a deal with another person to swap a quarter or half of the pizza. It's definitely not
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by mercer 6y ago
I've only experienced the southern part of the US (mostly Texas), and I was shocked to see how many more overweight people I saw, in general. But honestly I'd say the same about specifically the UK compared to most of the EU. So m
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by mercer 6y ago
It depends. I'm not a big eater but I've at times ordered a 45 cm pizza. While I wouldn't finish it all at once, I'd probably finish it in half a day or so. Usually this was after not eating for at least 24 hours, or aft
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by mercer 6y ago
Both your comment and the article sound a bit like the inverse of the problem addressed by "Domain Driven Design". In the case of the book/approach, the problem is that the IT side doesn't match the business side (in ter
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by mercer 6y ago
> I have a feeling grass is greener on the other side and people in either case. That's a bit reductive, perhaps. The way I see it, different styles of 'forums' or 'communities' can foster different types of inte
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by mercer 6y ago
If you do a search from the browser search/url bar, my experience is that with Google as the default search engine, the first page will still show me what I want, on the first page, better than any past tools. There's a ton I don&
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by mercer 6y ago
> In some ways Mark Zuckerberg was cut from the old cloth. The original Facebook was in many ways amazing, quickly evolving, and so open. Everything took a turn for the worse with advertising. At the same time, for me, Facebook was the f

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