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by qw 7y ago
The fund is based on oil production, not just exports. The US has a lot of oil that is not exported compared to Norway
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by qw 7y ago
The article mentions that a Swedish architect also built one in 1974: http://bengtwarne.malwa.nu/natureH.html
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by qw 8y ago
If I got a job offer and they insisted on using Eclipse, I would most likely turn it down. Once you are used to Intellij, there's no going back. I even paid for a private license that I use for my own projects. I sometimes open VS Code
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by qw 8y ago
I work for a large company and the code base is full of streams and lambdas. Streams are almost used too much and could be replaced with a simple for-loop.
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by qw 8y ago
Norway also closed the airspace 40min ago
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by qw 8y ago
As far as I know, the 24 hour cancellation rule is not international. I think it is mostly applicable to North America. If this was an international flight, it is possible that the law did not apply. European airlines have different policie
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by qw 8y ago
Many of the sites allow you to read a number of articles for free. If you exceed that number, it means that you find the content interesting. I think you should probably pay for it in that case.
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by qw 8y ago
A fine is supposed to discourage people from breaking the law. Is it fair that wealthy people can ignore the laws because they do not feel any real consequenes? I have heard drivers who constantly break the rules, because they can easily af
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by qw 8y ago
You need to add social factors too. If you are born into poverty, it is not simply enough to work a bit harder than the average. The weight of all the factors against you will probably increase the workload by a magnitude compared to someon
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by qw 8y ago
I don’t think there is proof that a there is a connection between the salary level and how hard someone works. A person who works at minimum wage may work as hard as anyone else. Just look at all those who have to work two jobs to feed thei
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by qw 8y ago
I think many of these issues are caused by a "silo" mentality. Decisions often flow from the business end through product before finally ending up as a story in the developers backlog. How can the devs understand the business deci
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by qw 8y ago
Even if you manage to go through all that, you still need it to be accepted by the product owner and prioritized into a sprint. Good luck fighting for your feature, when account managers, designers and other "competitors" are doin
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by qw 8y ago
If the only restriction is the compatibility with the rest of the stack, perhaps Kotlin is an option? Kotlin can target JDK 6 and can integrate with old stacks
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by qw 8y ago
> and most don't pick up new technological skillsets after ~30 That is not my experience with people close to 40. There have been so many changes in the last 10 years, so if they hadn't kept up, they would be out of a job. In 2
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by qw 8y ago
I spent almost 3 hours in line at JFK, with an European passport. That is actually one of the main reasons why I probably won't come back anytime soon.
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by qw 8y ago
> What if a worker needs personalized space, like certain lighting, ergonomic chair & keyboard, works on a special desktop station not with a portable laptop, etc.? They could use rolling desks. https://gamebridgeu.wordpre
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by qw 8y ago
A Norwegian bank account number has it, so I guess it depends on the country
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by qw 8y ago
That would cause issues when deploying new versions. Even if the CDN or Varnish serves an updated etag, the browsers could potentially keep using an older version from its cache. Not what you want when you just fixed important bugs. This ha
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by qw 8y ago
The main advantage of a hash is that browsers will download the new version of your CSS/JS on the next page view, while still caching it «forever» If the url stays the same, you never know what version your visitors will get. You might
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by qw 8y ago
The original Norwegian version of SKAM cost less than a million (USD) to produce an entire season.
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by qw 8y ago
> only options are approve and permanently close You can also mark it as «Need work».
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by qw 8y ago
The corporations also organize themselves to influence politicians. Big companies even have their own lobbyists. In addition you get all the "retirement" packages where former politicians are hired by the companies they were supp
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by qw 8y ago
I think it is a reaction to the author using a gender specific pronoun («he») in the example
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by qw 8y ago
https://blog.github.com/2010-11-15-today-s-outage/ Seems that Github also destroyed a database. Accidents happen. Both companies seems to be open about their issues and are willing to improve. I do not hold it against
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by qw 8y ago
Some city crows have learned to drop nuts onto a pedestrian crossing and let the cars crush it. They then wait for the traffic light to change before safely retrieving the food.
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by qw 9y ago
For a business, everything has a cost. Let's say you need to a payment solution. Most will use something like Stripe instead of hiring new teams of developers to implement from scratch. The same can be said about smaller services too.
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by qw 9y ago
Depending on the type of company, it could have been blocked by the manager or PM. It is easy for them to reject "tech stuff", when your time could be spent adding a feature from the product owner. A proposal like this could easil
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by qw 9y ago
Why do they have to copy and paste? Why couldn’t they make a self service tool where they login and get all documentation that is required by law? The law says that you have the right to information, but does it say you have the right to a
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by qw 9y ago
I guess there is nothing that restricts the amount of information you can send. Why not just document everything and refer to that instead? Is there anything in GDPR that states you need to give a specific answer tailored to the individual
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by qw 9y ago
> Startups in the US won't have this hassle If I have a choice between an US startup that has no pressure to handle my data responsibly, and an EU startup that has a legal requirement to do so, I would choose the EU startup. The US

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