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by namdnay 4y ago
I don’t think it’s specific to failing orgs. I doubt technical skill is what gets you to the top at Goldman Sachs, LVMH, VW, the US government, or any other incredibly successful organization. At a certain point of scale, any organization i
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by namdnay 4y ago
France is in trouble because due to the same misguided anti-nuclear public sentiment, they stopped building new plants. The good news is that Putin has woken people up, and the public is now decidedly pro-nuclear.
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by namdnay 4y ago
For anyone who likes steampunk, I strongly recommend the Witches of Chiswick!
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by namdnay 4y ago
I don't know when exactly "DevOps" became a new role equivalent in every way to the old "Ops"? My original understanding of the term was that developers did their own operations
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by namdnay 4y ago
Don’t you have onetime virtual CCs in the US?
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by namdnay 4y ago
"Universal" USB stick support came slightly earlier, with 2k. I distinctly remember it being a game-changer
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by namdnay 4y ago
Cashiers cheques, not personal ones. And for pro poker players, they can just wire the money to the casino Honestly I don’t see any moment in my life in a developed economy where I or anyone around me has needed more than a few hundred in c
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by namdnay 4y ago
> Have you ever bought a used car? A cashiers check costs what? 10, 20 euros? And we’re talking about how it can impact real people here, not the 0.1% who gamble 10 years’ minimum wage at the casino in one evening
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by namdnay 4y ago
> a non-directly elected entity Like most governments?
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by namdnay 4y ago
> They're giving you 2TB+ of space No they don’t. They sell it to you
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by namdnay 4y ago
Yes and no, I know “googler” and “noogler” appeared organically
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by namdnay 4y ago
It’s the silly cutsey name they give to themselves, like metamates or googlers. So it makes sense to consider them “part of the family” until the end
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by namdnay 4y ago
“Metamates” (I kid you not)
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by namdnay 4y ago
Maybe their pitch deck was “Zillow for cars”
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https://www.renault-trucks.com/en/electromobility
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by namdnay 4y ago
I don't understand the argument. 99% of UK banks don't allow customers to buy barrels of salted pork. But the state will ask you to pay your taxes if you make added-value selling barrels of salted pork > There are literally peo
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by namdnay 4y ago
This type of thing: https://www.amazon.com/NOCO-GB40-UltraSafe-Lithium-Starter/d...
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by namdnay 4y ago
If anyone is thinking of buying a power bank, I strongly recommend those ones that can also start a car. Way less hassle than jumper cables
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by namdnay 4y ago
When did you do the query for that screenshot? If it was today the delivery dates seem a bit short for dropshipping
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by namdnay 4y ago
My experience is that for internal documentation the time spent explaining things to a technical writer is bigger than the time spent writing the documentation This isn’t the case for external documentation, that has to be more polished, ne
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by namdnay 4y ago
looks like someone spamming links to all their personal projects over HN
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by namdnay 4y ago
The problem with having a lot of money sloshing around is that you can no longer say “no”. You estimate a new feature will take your team a year. But someone wants it in 6 months. “Why aren’t you hiring to meet the deadline?”
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by namdnay 4y ago
> CEOs buy other firms even though research shows the majority of takeovers fail I think you’re confusing takeovers with mergers/acquisitions
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by namdnay 4y ago
> wine quality is entirely subjective I wouldn’t go that far… there are many wines that everyone agrees are foul. La Villageoise for example? There’s a reason it’s 2E/L 6USD is what, 5.80E a bottle? That’s already a lot more comfort
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by namdnay 4y ago
Kind of off-topic: in what kind of weird organisation is a product manager dictating engineering decisions?!
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by namdnay 4y ago
Yeah, a git repo covers 99% of these pseudo-blockchain usecases
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by namdnay 4y ago
I thought the article was quite clear - it’s obvious the Koch brothers are doing this because of the covid angle but it’s still pretty shocking that the state thought it would be OK to force install an app
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by namdnay 4y ago
It’s kind of both? The fact that the previous litigation of this group was to allow landlords to evict tenants during lockdown is more than interesting. And the fact that the state thought it would be OK to force install the app is interest
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by namdnay 4y ago
Decathlon’s entry level escooter retails for about 450eur
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by namdnay 4y ago
if my memory serves me correctly, for "standard" users, tweets are push - it will be pushed to all your subscribers, so they get instant feeds. for "celebrities", tweets are pull - when you open your feed it will pull th

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