mvindahl

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by mvindahl 9y ago
My wife works as a teacher, 30 hours a week. It's not lavishly paid, and taxes are kind of heavy here (.dk). If she were to become a housewife, we'd be able to cut down to one car and we could even pull our youngest son out of kin
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Maybe some kind of inverse life insurance. Give pile of cash to insurance company and receive monthly paycheck for the remainder of your life. Essentially you are betting on a long life and they are betting on you driving your golf cart off
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Thanks for the tip :) .. got it and it's slick
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by mvindahl 9y ago
> I think the more interesting question is, if you could live even if society didn't value what you were doing, and you could do anything (even nothing) and still be provided with everything you need to survive - what would happen t
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Agreed. Also, apart from mowing, a lawn can really be as easy or hard to maintain as you choose. Mine it kinda bumpy, has several patches of moss and has plenty of dandelions; I don't think "fixing" these problems will ever b
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Apple Music was never much of a problem for me, probably because I just dumped my curated MP3 collection on my phone to make it play in the car. Only piece of the UI that I interact with is the play button. But the Podcast app, oh boy! This
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I played a ridiculous amount of Civ1 back in the day, and later Civ2 and Civ3. I deleted Civ3 around 2003 because I felt that it was sucking too much time away from my real life. Haven't played any of the more recent versions but I&#x2
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by mvindahl 9y ago
'Getting a car to drive this way was an impressive feat. But it’s also a bit unsettling, since it isn’t completely clear how the car makes its decisions.'.replace(/car/g, 'human')
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by mvindahl 9y ago
> if negative externalities of energy and resource use were priced in, most people couldn't afford to live in the suburbs Depending upon the definition of "negative externalities", this may be true for most of the develope
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by mvindahl 9y ago
> You must be able to get a job if your company collapses On the bright side, with lower cost of housing the mortgage will cost you less and will be easier to pay off. I'm in my early 40s, have three kids, and we actually own ou
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by mvindahl 9y ago
I thought the same thing. Maybe because it's the only definition that makes sense. If you measure everyone against the department Wally (the lazy guy from Dilbert), you'll probably find plenty of 10x programmers. Not that it would
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Milk & honey
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by mvindahl 9y ago
"The median U.S. worker is 42. However, StackOverflow’s survey on age shows that there are just about 13% of developers after 40. Where are the others?" I think most of this is due to the simple fact that software development has
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Excellent point. I, too, had been wondering about Uber's priorities. Realizing that the stock valuation at the time of IPO is their only guiding metric has made the pieces fall into place for me.
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Whoever dumped these on imgur should show a little respect for the original artists and attach proper credits.
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by mvindahl 9y ago
Dane here. According to the article he is from the Danish People's Party. Although pretty right wing on issues like immigration, they're not exactly a fringe party these days but also they have never been a governing party. As for
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by mvindahl 10y ago
This is a discussion that I've occasionally tried to raise with colleagues. I usually find myself in a pretty isolated position, but anyway.. My viewpoint is, roughly: 1) DI, as described in the GoF book is a great pattern. You compo
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by mvindahl 10y ago
The idea that the Greenland Vikings would assemble to hunt down sea mammals and that they would rely upon a partial diet of seafood is a compelling idea. After all, fish has always been an important staple of food along the Norwegian coast.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
An alternate explanation was that when it was reached for the first time, in the summer, during a period of warm climate, it really was a green and lush land. Sure, there was some ice going uphill and inland but I don't think the Vikin
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by mvindahl 10y ago
In the future, our enemies will distract our drones by dressing up as blue ghosts and throwing fruits.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
> If the person is properly compensated 100%, but keeps talking, it can be argued that their material damage has been fully restored, while they continue to inflict material damage against the other party. Which they could handle in the
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by mvindahl 10y ago
"Guns, Germs, and Steel" by Jared Diamond. When I read it in the late 90s, I had already read complete accounts of world history and thought myself well-informed on the topic, yet virtually every chapter blew my mind. The book is
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by mvindahl 10y ago
A favourite of mine as well. I read it when I was about 20 and it blew my mind. I later read other books by Joseph Heller but I really shouldn't have bothered. Catch 22 was really his main opus.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
VSCode runs nicely on my MacBook. It doesn't feel like a web application to me, in the same way that IntelliJ IDEA doesn't feel like it's written in Java. I'm sure that both VSCode and IDEA could run even faster if they
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by mvindahl 10y ago
It's kind of a crazy concept, especially if you are old enough to remember the days where RAM was counted in kilobytes and you would optimize assembler code to save clockcycles. On the other hand, this is 2017, and people apparently do
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Typically in Javascript, you would use npm's package.json for building, or you would use npm to install some well defined version of some build system, like you do for other packages. Like Maven builds, it works smoothly and predictabl
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by mvindahl 10y ago
I think that as a beginner you can get far with async/await without truly understanding it. I also think that at some time the abstractions will leak and your head will spin madly.
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Pros: - it's a lot like XML but with less red tape. Looks nicer to humans. Also allows expressing the semantic difference between an (ordered) array and a map. - it maps extremely well to Javascript, and a lot of APIs are consumed by w
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by mvindahl 10y ago
Dunno. I think for a startup it makes good sense to have a dynamic language with a good package manager. For someone writing something which needs to be performant, and the requirements don't change too much, C is probably a superior c
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by mvindahl 10y ago
"Beating the Averages" is also a good read. I read these essays for the first time a some years ago at a time when I was being assigned to a Javascript project and, much to my own surprise, had gone from ridiculing the language to

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