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811.
by qwerta 13y ago
Here in Ireland there are no postal/zip codes. I always have to enter 00000 on websites.
812.
by qwerta 13y ago
Microsoft just become irrelevant :-)
813.
by qwerta 13y ago
The problem is that locked ARM is becoming defacto standard. Soon most main-stream laptops will be ARM based and locked down. Compared to that current issues such as "should I accept EULA?" looks very small.
814.
by qwerta 13y ago
This is how it works in Ireland. You pay GP, dentist and other small items out of your pocket and send your bill to insurance company. Hospitals and other large stuff is passed automatically and you will not even see the bill. Prices are f
815.
by qwerta 13y ago
There will always be an option to install Linux on x86 somehow. But I found really disturbing growing number of locked ARM systems. Perhaps we could start 'green' campaign; freely installing Linux on such devices expands their moral life-ti
816.
by qwerta 13y ago
Age discrimination is sometimes even publicly announced. For example European Space Agency has age limit for recruitment 55 years. This applies even to desk based jobs such as administrative or software developement. Extract from job descr
817.
by qwerta 13y ago
Writing word processor is simple with proper components. Not everything is written in JS.
818.
by qwerta 13y ago
I wonder what is the next evolutionary step in sequence: private office -> cubicle farm -> open plan office. I think it will be empty tank inside retired oil tanker. It could dock a few miles of the coast, so no problems with proper
819.
Do Developers Need Free Perks to Thrive?(datamation.com)
4 points by qwerta 13y ago|0 comments
820.
by qwerta 13y ago
Other EU countries would have language barrier. Also IT salaries in UK, France and Germany are actually higher compared to Ireland.
821.
by qwerta 13y ago
Hilarious. After 3 years and 2M$ spend they will reinvent the bread. Now we only need similar startup to reinvent the water and maybe air :-)
822.
by qwerta 13y ago
Other explanation is that Linus is a racist and most linux developers are Irish :-) Honestly I lived in Ireland for 7 years but I never heard of this word. I wander if they included other offensive words such as 'root' (in australia) or 'bu
823.
by qwerta 13y ago
Law in Czech Republic says you can refuse to testify against yourself or family member. Sorry for confusion, I though laws are similar in US.
824.
by qwerta 13y ago
It is basic human right to refuse testify against yourself or family member.
825.
by qwerta 13y ago
I think it boils down how Yahoo manages to integrate it into its portfolio. I really hope they succeed somehow. Internet could use some more competition.
826.
by qwerta 13y ago
Shortage of capital is very real if there is no reliable way to measure 'human capital' or 'social capital'. Typically new markets or new technology.
827.
by qwerta 13y ago
Hilarious, change names and this could be a story from soviet union 50 years ago.
828.
by qwerta 13y ago
I am talking about languages which can crosscompile with Java source-code level. So class in Scala can be extended by Java class and again extended by Scala class and so on... By my knowledge this is AspectJ, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy and proba
829.
by qwerta 13y ago
Have you tried Idea? :-) Anyway as IDE developer for alternative languages (Scala, Kotlin) I dont like Eclipse because they refuse to integrate any sort of support for third party languages. This has been going on for nearly a decade. Vmwa
830.
by qwerta 13y ago
http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/
831.
by qwerta 13y ago
With internet you can run your startup anywhere on planet. Why would you choose the most expensive area on planet? You could be on tropical island for fraction of the cost. Also smaller costs gives you longer runway, it is big difference to
832.
by qwerta 13y ago
Amazing. What is the cost of renting such cluster?
833.
by qwerta 13y ago
"crippled operating system" is far from reality. It is proper Linux on x86 with GUI layer. It is very easy to install proper desktop environment (such as KDE or Gnome) and use it as normal laptop. Intellij Idea runs just fine on Chromebook.
834.
by qwerta 13y ago
Many great open-source projects were build over evenings with just 2 or 3 hours per day. Also it depends on type of work. Most people could work on CRUD websites for 16 hours a day. But some work require laser sharp concentration and drain
835.
by qwerta 13y ago
> An automatically assembled VM image I can distribute means much less time supporting our less technical members of the dev team Absolutely. At my previous work we had 'standard' VM with all necessary tools such as Visual Studio 97. I
836.
by qwerta 13y ago
In that case I just find it better to wipe MacOS and replace it with Linux.
837.
by qwerta 13y ago
>If you love automation why is your development environment manual? Because I usually do it once in 5 years :-) My setup: Linux, Kubuntu LTS. Entire system is backed-up with rsync, so I have daily snapshots for last 6 months. There is a
838.
by qwerta 14y ago
Even getting logs is luxury in many cases. I found it better to write 'fail fast' code. Module in that example should fail with reasonable error message, if it was used incorrectly.
839.
by qwerta 14y ago
Similar book is "Computing Mechanisms and Linkages" by Antonín Svoboda from 1948. He worked on anti aircraft artillery sights which would track moving aircraft. This is probably first book dedicated to practical construction of computers.
840.
by qwerta 14y ago
I had seen something similar 10 years ago. Java was just catching up. Wow 3D shooter in pure Java. Wow pure Java can play video. Wow 3d desktop in pure java.... Get over it. JS is slow, takes ages to load and drains battery in minutes. Just

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