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by pyrale 2y ago
> Given the large number of people in this thread who got the same impression from the article as me People count doesn't make sound logic. You will find large numbers of people believing the weirdest things, if you're so incli
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by pyrale 2y ago
> for which the OPs summary is an acceptable paraphrase. So someone writing their opinion on their personal blog is equivalent to some authority making a ruling about what you're allowed to? Freedom of speech has always come with ot
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by pyrale 2y ago
> "you are wrong, you should feel bad, you're not allowed to use the thing you were wrong about anymore". I didn't remember reading that in the article. Just as a second-check, I've re-read and none of what you s
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by pyrale 2y ago
Nothing teaches you to swim like being thrown in the middle of the atlantic.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> I don't even know who the CEO is. In 2025, this has to be a praise.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> My son bristles at "healthcare" as a word consistently used for abortion and transgender medicine In terms of cost, the items you cite are vanishingly small, and to conflate the two, one must have no experience of the medical
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by pyrale 2y ago
"Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them... well, I have others"
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by pyrale 2y ago
> If somebody does to desktops like what Google did for smartphones, [...] Somebody does to desktops what Google did for smartphone. The company is called Microsoft, and the behaviour is called blatant monopoly abuse.
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by pyrale 2y ago
The one thing that fucks up games for linux is some specific anticheat software, and seeing how e.g. Valorant anticheat works, I'm glad it doesn't.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Always fun to learn that what I've been doing for a while now isn't working.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> There is neither a climate crisis… There is also an education crisis apparently.
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by pyrale 2y ago
The same is true of every interesting concept in dev, unfortunately: design patterns being made into a pokedex, agile into an inflexible process, hexagonal arch into a guideline for project directories’ names and layout, metrics into goals,
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by pyrale 2y ago
It is the very first point because I didn’t feel like debugging the whole article in a hn comment. The rest of the article is criticizable too, the recurrent issue being that it is making non-technical recommendations into technical guideli
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by pyrale 2y ago
That’s not good news, because this article is dead wrong about many ddd concepts. For instance, the very first list item: > DDD is against the idea of having a single unified model Is wrong: DDD is not against the idea of an application
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by pyrale 2y ago
There are more and more successful experiments with nvim and java recently. Considering the amount of black magic happens in idea, and seeing how it fails sometimes, it’s probably tome for me to try migrating again.
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by pyrale 2y ago
You're saying the average person from the XVIth and XXth district are the same? The VIIth and the XIIIth? From what I've seen from these large cities, the only reason people think that is that they remain in their small subset,
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by pyrale 2y ago
The key issue of Petes is when they don't stay and make sure management knows that it's a prototype that needs more love. They milk the credit and move on, leaving the next engineer explain to management that what they have is not
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by pyrale 2y ago
You could get from Paris to Berlin by train with one change, and it was about the same train time, plus maybe 1/2h of wait at frankfurt. This title is extremely misleading.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> I.e. How do you correct something that you know to be wrong, when you can't point to something public? Shake my head, and accept that it's enough hn/reddit for today.
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by pyrale 2y ago
"We’re the search company. We don’t care ; we don’t have to".
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by pyrale 2y ago
> I got a call from a very professional sounding woman assuring me she was with Google A customer support person from google? Scamers really tell the craziest stories.
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by pyrale 2y ago
Of course I have, but I also don’t have much choice. I mitigated it by having my first smartphone last 12 years, and I am now using the company-provided one in order to avoid a second buy. Not ideal, I’ll admit. I hope that, by the time I n
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by pyrale 2y ago
> employee tax There is no such thing as "employee tax". Usually, what exists is a scheme for some of the employee's salary to be paid in the form of retirement schemes, health care, etc. It's not a tax to subsidize u
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by pyrale 2y ago
> you just don't like someone doing it more efficiently For some value of "more efficiently". I mean if the most efficient way to work is to have delivery drivers pee in a bottle and warehouse workers develop RSIs, who am
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by pyrale 2y ago
Monkeys using a typewriter were also proven to be 83% more productive than the average developer. Study suggests that their edge likely came from not understanding and ignoring the certified scrum master™.
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by pyrale 2y ago
> He absolutely was not pre-WWII. How do you suggest he suddenly appeared in a government in 1940? De Gaulle had been in contact with Paul Reynaud since 1936. He was also in contact with several other high-ranking politicians, and active
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by pyrale 2y ago
I think the issue with this common misconception stems from governments falling being seen as a sign of unstability nowadays. Actually, it is just a sign of a fail-fast political culture. Sure, some governments failed in a week, but that wa
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by pyrale 2y ago
> If you're the President and Parliament is against you and you don't want to quit you have to step aside as happened in 1986, 1993, and 1997 and the system does become essentially parliamentary. For a cohabitation to happen, y
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by pyrale 2y ago
> Alternatively, looking back at the disasters of the 3rd and 4th republics The 3rd republic was interrupted when the nazis invaded, and was replaced by an undemocratic collaboration government. I don't see what the 5th constitution
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by pyrale 2y ago
> That's how it is in France unless the terms somehow align The terms always "somehow" align, because the president can reset the term of MPs, which is extremely beneficial just after winning the presidential election. Bec

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