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by room271 8y ago
If your business cannot handle possible parental leave then it is not really profitable in the first place. This 'cost' is not different from any other (taxes, transport costs, rent, etc.).
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by room271 8y ago
The pay-as-you-go reductions give you more flexibility about when you make optimisations to your code though and help you handle uncertainty around this. For example, if I have a new workload that won't fit on existing hardware wit
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by room271 8y ago
Ah thanks. I'll take a look. I'm definitely most interested in the JS side (although I agree static site generators can be great). To give some more context, I work for a big media company on the main website team. We have a lot o
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Examples of AMP-like JavaScript approaches?
1 points by room271 8y ago|2 comments
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In China they’re closing churches, jailing pastors, and even rewriting scripture(theguardian.com)
44 points by room271 8y ago|8 comments
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by room271 8y ago
I remember reading the original article and discussing with colleagues at work. The premise just seems wrong to me: * CSS-in JS isn't gatekeeping; there are huge benefits to breaking the global CSS model, which these articles seem to i
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by room271 8y ago
The NHS is gigantic - it is the umbrella term for publicly funded (universal) healthcare in the UK. There are lots of agencies within this that will have a web presence who can now (if they like) use this UI library for accessible and usabl
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by room271 8y ago
Going further back Mill is probably the better starting point for the negative view of freedom: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill . So it's really not a US/Europe thing at all - both very much val
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by room271 8y ago
Yeah just ignore. His initial tweet ('precious white dudes...') is borderline racist even. Reading the github issue, you handled things well even if others didn't, regardless of the merits of renaming the library or not.
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by room271 8y ago
While I agree it probably never ends well, this is hardly off topic in this case.
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Why is San Francisco covered in human feces?(theguardian.com)
1 points by room271 8y ago|1 comments
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by room271 8y ago
Wow they have 45k projects? I imagine a lot are dead/outdated modules, but even so it's a fair amount.
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Arizona Uber crash driver was 'watching TV'(bbc.co.uk)
131 points by room271 8y ago|193 comments
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by room271 8y ago
I think you could be clearer in what precisely you are disagreeing with in the article. From my reading, the author is trying to describe the state of the US today and struggling to find parallels in history because, while the US is product
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by room271 8y ago
We've had a fair bit of work around cyber-security - being a bit sharper on checking project dependencies, encrypting all data (including things like access logs) restricting firewalls even further, better audit trails, and also things
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by room271 8y ago
That's great news! Thanks for the reply.
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by room271 8y ago
As a heavy Scala user I'm excited by this. But really I don't think it will improve Scala adoption because the blockers there are all around developer experience (tooling is terrible - sbt, and feedback cycles are very slow). Pers
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by room271 9y ago
Yes, Rich Hickey (amongst others I am sure) has talked about precisely this model of backwards compatibility - i.e. if you break the contract you have to rename the thing. This feels far better than the current model used in most languages.
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by room271 9y ago
Agree, prefer non AMP versions please.
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by room271 9y ago
I have a feeling people are being a bit short-termist here. We can judge whether all roads lead to democracy/liberalism in 30-50 years but not yet. In the meantime, my personal opinion is that China is heading for disaster somewhere al
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by room271 9y ago
Which 'average' people in the UK are you talking about? The vast majority of the people I know don't think of China in those terms. And they may call China communist but what they really mean is non-democratic rather than a c
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How the Guardian improbably put itself on the path to profits(digiday.com)
61 points by room271 9y ago|69 comments
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by room271 9y ago
Youtube?
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by room271 9y ago
'The rest of it was spent creating one of the most impactful companies that the world has ever seen.' I don't think Uber is this, even if 'impact' is purely taken as a morally neutral statement. It's just clear
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by room271 9y ago
This is a very strange and unconvincing article. Greenland is massive; and, while it's very hard to give 'worth' to part of a country (and potentially misguided to attempt to do so in most cases), $2bn is pocket change for a
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by room271 9y ago
Is Mr Steele being paid himself during this period?
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by room271 9y ago
The first sentence reads: 'We didn’t think hard enough about how our actions would affect the community, and we’re sorry for letting you down.' So yes, they have apologised.
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Scientists grow replacement skin for boy suffering devastating genetic disorder(theguardian.com)
1 points by room271 9y ago|0 comments
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by room271 9y ago
I switched to containers almost two weeks ago and they are great, the kind of thing that makes you think how did I browse without this before? I've separate containers for: work, home, facebook, shopping. It's particularly useful
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by room271 9y ago
One of the things that interests me about client-side approaches like this is performance as perceived by the user. Even though I suspect the times taken between real hacker news and the clone to load comments are similar, real HN feels a l

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