misja111

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by misja111 6y ago
> Imagine if the real Superbowl wasn't held in 24 years due to global warming and may never happen again, perhaps then it would be more of a priority. I don't think that is a good comparison. The Superbowl is held every year, b
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by misja111 6y ago
I've never heard this in any client meeting and suspect most clients wouldn't take this very well. Clients are interested in a working product, as quickly as possible and as cheaply as possible. It's hard enough already to co
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by misja111 6y ago
+1. SBT is a lot like Gradle but worse. Funny anecdote: SBT originally stood for 'simple build tool'. At some point this was changed to 'Scala build tool' and I can fully understand why ..
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by misja111 6y ago
I'm not so sure that other intelligent life could have evolved without having the same way of reducing complexity as we do. It is the essence of modelling: when you are interested only in certain aspects of an environment you try to ca
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by misja111 6y ago
> I don't believe in free speech without limits. This. I have started to believe that although free speech is very important, it is only possible to have full free speech in a society where there is not too much hostility between gr
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by misja111 6y ago
> Without caffeine I was felt distracted by little things I was noticing or thinking of, made worse by the WFH situation. Same here. I only drink coffee to make me focus, I don't care much about the taste. If there wouldn't be
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by misja111 6y ago
> .. I won't say the whole budget will be wasted away, but I hold no hope of something useful coming out of it. The ECB has been buying trillions of euro's worth of dubious government bonds and bank debts for the last couple of
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by misja111 6y ago
Most of the features that you point out are IO bound. E.g. indexing dependencies, navigating/ searching files. Are you sure that the speed up is because of the new IDE release and not because of a new laptop?
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by misja111 6y ago
I find it amazing how much effort and economic sacrifices we are willing to take to fight COVID, while at the same time, even now, the death toll because of unhealthy lifestyles is far greater. Why don't we put a similar effort into ba
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by misja111 6y ago
I'm 51 and I don't think I have ever experienced ageism in IT. I just switched to a new area (big data) one year ago for instance and had no problem finding a job. Maybe it's because I live in Europe and in the USA things are
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by misja111 6y ago
If we, here on Earth, want to survive the next couple of centuries we need to find a way to keep our population growth under control. Either we succeed or we most likely will destroy ourselves and/or the Earth. But if we succeed, we al
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by misja111 6y ago
I think it will clear up this discussion if everybody knows how exactly Newt Gingrich was quoting Camus. This is what he said: > So as the Polish people were struggling with the Soviet empire, they came up with a slogan: "Two plus t
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by misja111 6y ago
@deadmilk3 and others > Come on, really? Drug consumption is a victimless crime. It is common practice to penalise the selling of drugs much heavier than the possession or usage. There you have the victim: the buyer and user of the drugs
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by misja111 6y ago
I think the problem with the prohibition was that alcohol was widely used already and regarded as ok by most of the general public. Governments always meet a lot of resistance when they try to take away some given right. As a counter exampl
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by misja111 6y ago
The Dutch government makes a difference between soft drugs (e.g. Cannabis) and hard drugs (e.g. Cocaine), and for good reason. While most people don't get into trouble from using Cannabis, cocaine usage can wreck people's life. Un
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by misja111 6y ago
You even forgot one major system that controls what we are seeing: Google search. Just give some other search engine (e.g. DuckDuckGo or SwissCows) a try for a few days and you'll see what I mean.
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by misja111 6y ago
TL;DR ;) One tip for communicating at work: keep your message brief and concise. Add too many details and your mail won't be read or just half of it.
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by misja111 6y ago
The flexibility is perfectly fine when you're programming something on your own. But when you're in a team, or worse, in a large company, it starts to be a problem that everyone can use their own style. It's much easier to re
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by misja111 6y ago
Except that children are becoming equally ill from flue infections as adults, while from Corona children hardly ever show symptoms.
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by misja111 6y ago
Pre-2000 it was also plumbing, the difference was that you were mostly plumbing someone else's homegrown cruft. Occasionally you got the chance of building some framework by yourself, probably to the dismay of the developer who had to
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by misja111 6y ago
I love this syntax, it's elegant and a big improvement! When/ how can I use this? Do I have to wait for a new GHC release?
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by misja111 6y ago
Let's say you were working as a lifeguard at a swimming pool. Would you also unintentionally pull out your phone after a couple of hours? If you did and someone drowned in the mean while, there would be no debate about who was liable.
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by misja111 6y ago
The driver wouldn't be prosecuted if she just had a lapse of attention. She had taken her phone and was watching a TV show. That's a deliberate act.
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by misja111 6y ago
Yes Nassim Taleb said the same. When you want to read unbiased news, stick to financial newspapers, because business people don't want somebody's coloured opinion but simply the facts.
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by misja111 6y ago
I'm from Europe and I'm confused about the cause of these recent big fires. Some news articles say it's because climate change, some other say it's due to bad forest maintenance. Why are there so many of these fires late
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by misja111 6y ago
> Chess beauty now is less about flashy combinations and more about qualities of a position No it's the opposite. Since the advent of strong computer programs it has become clear that there are tactical intricacies in lots of positi
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by misja111 6y ago
No, the improvements started in the 70's and 80's already due to more strict regulations for companies. Although maybe this helped the industry in Asia get a competitive advantage. Also a lot of the water pollution was due to was
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by misja111 6y ago
I guess it's a 1st World vs 3rd World thing. Also although larger animals seem to be doing better nowadays, insects are not. But those are much less visible.
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by misja111 6y ago
No I remember the opposite. I'm over 50 and when I was young in the 70's the water in ditches and canals was so polluted that nothing lived in it anymore but algae. In Amsterdam, where I moved to after leaving home, you had to be
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by misja111 6y ago
Comets are mostly clumps of rocks and dust held together by ice. In the middle of those clumps the germs would be pretty safe.

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