pbalau

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   by pbalau 7y ago

   Sorry, but it seems you don't understand how the knot actually works, because if you are arguing that the choking part of the knot might get loose, then I can counter argue that regardless of how big your stopper is, still has "th
2. 392.▲
   by pbalau 7y ago

   Sorry, but what? Sailors shunning the bowline? RYA Level 4 Dinghy Sailing is even teaching you how to tie a bowline around yourself with one hand. I never used a stopper on a bowline, if done correctly you don't need a stopper, is not
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   by pbalau 7y ago

   Not sure how hard this would be, instead of running "flake8 blabla", one can run "docker run bla bla". Or even docker exec bla bla if you have the container already running. And by "you run" I mean vscode does
4. 394.▲
   by pbalau 8y ago

   FB shareholders are bloody pleased with how the stock rebounded after last year. I am, not only 60+percent over, but I also have a crapload of tax credits.
5. 395.▲
   by pbalau 8y ago

   But that's exactly the point, if no surviving population gets to speak it's native language as the default, it means nobody gets an advantage simply because they grew up with that language
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   by pbalau 8y ago

   If eu becomes an union without any native English speakers, then we should adopt English as a neutral, all across Europe speaking language.
7. 397.▲
   by pbalau 8y ago

   As a Romanian, I didn't learn English because I wanted a higher status, but because of necessity. All the things I wanted to learn about were written in English.
8. 398.▲
   by pbalau 8y ago

   https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19647524
9. 399.▲
   by pbalau 8y ago

   Can you do kubernetes without docker? Does it support other container engines?
10. 400.▲
    by pbalau 8y ago

    So does the other one.
11. 401.▲
    by pbalau 8y ago

    My bad, I was not clear enough, I'm talking about the npm layoffs.
12. 402.▲
    by pbalau 8y ago

    My bad, I was not clear enough, I'm talking about the npm layoffs.
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    One has to wonder if in this case, there was something else than a layoff... /edit: more info here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19501227 /edit-2-since-i-already-got-downvoted: Facebook used to have a 1 ye
14. 404.▲
    by pbalau 8y ago

    My only ops code is a thin wrapper over the secrets manager API, that converts from a secret to something Django orm or sqlalchemy can use to connect. My pain point is db migrations, from version X to version Y. My bad to pick Django for ou
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    There are 0 people that make a living making art (and music, as a subset of art). All the people you think of are selling art. They are doing things that they believe they can sell, either for money or for status.
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    Look at this, for the non Romanians, Romania is the fish looking country in the SE quadrant of the map: https://i.redd.it/5wyzzv7kbfb01.jpg Some years ago, before I left, using the Transilvania Highway to get anywhere, it t
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    > the mobile telephony system only works in the first place if the system knows how to route incoming calls and SMS messages to a person's telephone Like every other messaging system. Because you know, in order to send a message you
18. 408.▲
    by pbalau 8y ago

    Amazon might have a say in this, both their ECS and EKS solutions are based on docker.
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    Talking about Revolut (and I have the Metal package): 1) good fx rate, I think it's google exchange rate with no fees for converting from/to various currencies 2) really easy transactions between friends (makes it really easy to s
20. 410.▲
    by pbalau 8y ago

    And? What's your point?
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    Considering flagging this, I definitely do not need this in my life. Works beautifully on Android/chrome, you really nailed the user interface. Maybe add a way to mark some lines as the only possibility... Going to ruin some of my frie
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    What if I want to use makefiles on a mac? Make of macs is not gnu make. /edit: bugger, after a make --version on a mac, i've got: GNU Make 3.81 Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Back to the begining, why is this b
23. 413.▲
    by pbalau 8y ago

    How could you miss Tintin?
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    The legal team at FB, at least back when I was there, was meant to prevent us from doing illegal things. So, this means that either Apple is wrong, or FB is wrong - as in their legal team is wrong, so they need a better one
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    To my understanding, FB is using the enterprise cert to sign internal apps (which pointed me to my last replies on this thread) and another cert to sign things for general population. I think Google does the same.
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    I'm wondering if either Apple is in the wrong, or FB needs a better legal team. By FB legal team I mean those people that should point out when things are not legal.
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    Did they? Please think of this: is there a minimum age for internships?
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    jQuery foundation, nobody thinks about how much they might know about you...
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    Well, if you finish, you beat all the people that didn't
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    by pbalau 8y ago

    I think golf is a sport where you can compete against yourself. Anecdotally, my 2 friends that play golf are middle lower class, by no means wealthy. Obviously, any sport can be played against opponents, but some don't have to. And I b