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by moksly 5y ago
The thing about that is that you don’t have an “your” own. The discrimination simply chooses the next target, which is why the faroes islands of Denmark is some of the most homophobic climate in Europe despite Denmark as a whole being one o
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by moksly 5y ago
I get a lot of positive experiences an connections out of both Instagram and Facebook. I use them solely for hobby purposes though. I’m part or the largest Danish Blood Bowl 2 league and it’s all organised through Facebook. So is almost all
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by moksly 5y ago
I prefer cooperative ownership. It’s a nice mix of public sector and private sector benefits, keeping the competition without extracting as much of the profit as possible for investors. For things like waterworks, internet, power and trains
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by moksly 5y ago
> That, sadly, won't scale. We never really need it to. That’s one of the few benefits of writing software in the public sector. We don’t need to expect an explosive growth in users. We’ve seen 10.000 additional citizens move to our
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by moksly 5y ago
That’s the most interesting find of the book isn’t it? We’ve taken a sort of controversial approach to software development in the public sector of Denmark because we don’t have enough resources. Small projects are build to run their own li
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by moksly 5y ago
Because they are limiting. I’m personally in the iOS boat, and it’s great until you try programming on your iPad instead of your non-closed MacBook. Phones, consoles, tablets are closed because the companies that build them didn’t have comp
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by moksly 5y ago
The reason why distributed trust is never going to work is because authority doesn’t exist without the threat of violence. We’ve done a lot of interesting things in terms of POCs in the public sector over the last decade, and we’ve yet to f
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by moksly 5y ago
> So the solution is to force majority of the population to use Apple store, to protect minority of the population who aren't tech savvy? You could always get an android. I realise that this can come off as silly, but what, id not t
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by moksly 5y ago
Go to bed at 21-23 and get up at 08 every day. Eat breakfast when you get up, lunch around noon and dinner at 18:00, even if the meals are just small ones. Healthy food is better, but it’s the schedule that’s important. Try to do the house
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by moksly 5y ago
Global capitalism has been terrible since its inception. It’s a political and we’ve only liked it because we were on the benefitting end. Now that the west is moving into the economic shadow of China, we’re seeing more and more of the explo
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by moksly 5y ago
I’m not sure I agree, I think things like GitHub issues are actually replacing Jira for a lot of companies who either aren’t yet, or not too heavily invested in the atlassian approach. We did a comparison program with a sister city who uses
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by moksly 5y ago
Enterprise doesn’t worry too much about changes or shutdowns. We worry about them when they happen quickly, surprisingly or without plans for how we move forward. I’d be pretty happy if our legacy Mainframe systems got shut down, with a dec
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by moksly 5y ago
Aren’t the first 3 or 4 chapters basically what you can find in Google’s own cloud toturials? Why does the domain-driven-design chapter come after you’ve tied the reader into GCP? I can’t think of a single enterprise business domain where t
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by moksly 5y ago
I have a somewhat funny anecdote on this. One of our sister cities had a tool for handling city-water or something along those lines, that was build in ASP Web-forms. All the city engineers were perfectly happy with it, but the developers b
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by moksly 5y ago
Good for you! I think one of the more important lessons is to realise that the programming community can be very disconnected from reality. This is especially true for HN with its heavy focus on “interesting”. Judging by HN, things like Erl
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by moksly 5y ago
If you’re working to achieve a goal you’re not really working for free are you? I’d question the merits of your method if it means working a lot of overtime to make other people rich. Mostly because “experience” extremely rarely has any rea
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by moksly 5y ago
I think your advice is only solid as far as pay goes. Nobody should work overtime for free. If you want to throw 80 hours a week on game development, at least make sure you own part of the company. But for anyone working normal hours with n
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by moksly 5y ago
$75k a year will put you in the top 25-20% in “Western Europe”. In Denmark where education and healthcare is paid for collectively and our tax is 38%, you would need to earn $125k to be in the top 5%, and we’re pretty similar to countries l
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by moksly 5y ago
PSD2 is an EU directive that changed how online payments can take place within the EU. The key points are basically these: Strong customer identification is required. In Denmark we handle this with our national identity system NemID (soon t
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by moksly 5y ago
I don’t think you have to approach creative endeavours as hobbies at all. If you chose to approach them as a job, however, then I think you should do exactly that. If your writing is your business, then how can you justify spending 2-3 year
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by moksly 5y ago
I’m not sure where the author got the whole “people don’t read books” either, unless it is meant to be taken literal, this excluding audiobooks. I’m on 20+ books read in my good reads challenge for 2021, all paid for, many through audible b
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by moksly 5y ago
If you wan my personal opinion I think HR exists solely to come up with reasons for HR to exist. Well minus the administrative part of handling employees payments (including stuff like maternity/sick leave) and the lawyers. But both of
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by moksly 5y ago
> HR never test anyone. They handle the proces. Maybe we have different ways of defining things, or maybe my English isn’t good enough to convey the meaning. But isn’t HR handling the process of personality testing, HR testing people? Wh
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by moksly 5y ago
Because you don’t really need the full personality profile show when you are interviewing people who aren’t going to be managers. It’s not an insignificant amount of resources you put into the process. Not only do you take up HR resources,
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by moksly 5y ago
I think it’s perfectly ethical to game the tests, but it can be hard to tell what’s actually being tested. One or ours was deliberately set up so that prospect hires applying for a leadership position would end up with very, very, little i
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by moksly 5y ago
Unless a HR department is doing something wrong, the test results aren’t the point of the tests. It’s the conversation following, where possible employees are confronted with their answers and results that’s the point. It’s just easier to g
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by moksly 5y ago
I abandoned having a free (as in beer) mail account around the time google started doing their own advertising in gmail. At first I went for the ideology approach of fastmail, then tutanota/proton mail and finally runbox (or whatever t
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by moksly 5y ago
Maybe the reason they aren’t cracking down on it is exactly because of their analytical genius? I’m not sure how Amazon operates in the US, but in Northern Europe it’s main target very clearly isn’t the informed customer, but the people who
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by moksly 5y ago
Do doctors prescribe brands in America? Here they’ll prescribe you with the working substance, and unless it’s still patented (which most of them aren’t) then you’ll just get offered the cheapest brand at the pharmacy by default. I guess co
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by moksly 5y ago
Well I’ve had a friendly hemorrhoid for a few years that I frequently see a lovely anal surgeon for and I probably have some “this might be cancer” search entries from a few years back, but it’s been so long that I should’ve died by now if

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