ridethebike

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by ridethebike 1y ago
you can be very much liable if you publish something damaging and false on YouTube
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by ridethebike 5y ago
> After WWII Ukraine made a verbal agreement not to join NATO/EU Thanks for reminding why I try to stay away from [geo]politics/military opinions on hacker news.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I personally can't speak to SV tech company. However I worked in msft and difference is staggering, it's two completely different universes. >> ([..] most businesses these days) are driven by tech and would fall apart withou
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Worked in several banks. "We are not bank, we are tech company with bank department" - was mentioned occasionally in each of them. What was also common - red tape, outdated software (tools, libraries, frameworks), restricted acces
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by ridethebike 5y ago
So much this. Things I need my OS to do are: run my apps (office/browser/games), connect my devices (printers/game controllers/displays), basic file operations (copy/paste/delete) And while doing this be: secur
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I remember when Compiz was released. It was mind-blowing, its sheer awesomeness was something out of this world. "ok, Windows is done" me and my friends thought, "prepare for linux dominating the desktops". Yet ~15 years
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by ridethebike 5y ago
not sure how web3 would solve any of that
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by ridethebike 5y ago
In practice it's also very likely that customer mind boggling amount of bureaucracy, allocating extra penny might require approval from several committees.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
As a person who grew up in farmer's family (and who's parents are still farmers) I can attest that that kind of life is way tougher than being office worker in a city .
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Yeah, approximately 10 minutes for me to pass driving test (from second attempt). And then around a year of driving (effectively training myself) in city to get more or less comfortable with traffic.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Can't recall when it was the last time I played game with no internationalization support
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Async/await were officially added to c# 5 and .net framework 4.5 I think it was possible to have async/await in .net framework 4.0 via some workarounds when it was still in CTP mode but I don't recall the details.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Ok, good points
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Compared to lives lost $100 is not expensive at all. But sure, let's forget about morals for a second (lives lost and all that) and be very cold and cynical about the pricing. Still - reputational damage, political outcry, people suing
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Planes are not that expensive
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by ridethebike 5y ago
This probably eliminates this whole "bitcoin is privacy and independence from government" thing but I think for majority of bitcoin buyers it was not more than just a nice talking point anyway.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Nothing bad with creating fun stuff for profit. And over the last decade youtube creators has been providing content with quality way superior compared to what more traditional entertainment industry has been producing (mainly marvel junk f
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Hi, Hope you're doing well. Wanna grab a drink?
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by ridethebike 5y ago
oh yeah, IRS, they still owe me $3k. Thanks for the reminder :)
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I went to hospital and they assured me my procedure was covered by insurance and I wouldn't need to worry about that and in worst case scenario insurance would contact me. Couple of days later this hospital sent me $400 bill. It took m
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by ridethebike 5y ago
>> They said that instead of paying $500 upfront for heated seats, they will be available as an annual unlock for say $100/year. Since they know an average owner keeps a new BMW for only 3 years, this is a saving for new buyers -
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I'm not sure what the problem is. Isn't extracting more money the point of basically every company? Over the course of last 7 years living in NY I paid for rentals + uber + taxis way more than if I just bought a car in the beginn
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I actually do hugely appreciate and am amazed by technical side of Bitcoin. Yet what Bitcoin became as a whole appalls me. e.g. one can be amazed by nuclear physics yet dislike nuclear weapons. Or appreciate chemistry by hate meth cooks.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Am I correct to assume that this is Bargaining stage of grief?
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by ridethebike 5y ago
I for one drink two bottles of wine while playing some slowly paced video game every Sunday night in anticipation of great new week in my hellscape of a project.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Never smoked but always liked to get out of the office with my smoking friends for some (ironically) fresh air and a chat. There was a bit of zen in this. And hey, my lungs didn't have to pay price for it :)
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Tried hookah couple of times with friends. Still don't get it.
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Most of full stack web devs I know know everything but know it anywhere between poorly and ok-ish. It works more or less fine until there is some issue which requires deep knowledge of either of the stacks. Generally I'd prefer to have
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by ridethebike 5y ago
Not only in writing but also in plain English. I see situations like described below over and over. Example 1 - too much details. Morning stand up. Manager: what's the status of that new feature. Senior Engineer: well I tried to call t
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by ridethebike 5y ago
>> Third party recruiters are leeches Can confirm this and it was surprise for me when I discovered it. I assumed they would try to maximize $$ in my offer in order to maximize their profit. Yet most of them were trying to get offer a

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