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by sime2009 5y ago
The whole Netherlands is a hotspot. Something like a 20% increase in house prices in the last 12 months.
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by sime2009 5y ago
Figures based on blood donors were also circulating in the Netherlands earlier this year. But you have to be very careful what you conclude from blood donors because they are not a good representation of the general population. They tende
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by sime2009 5y ago
I can second this suggestion. I've been doing these GCP and GKE related courses the last few months as an experienced full-stack developer who is expanding their skill set be to fullerer-stack(?). The hands-on "labs" might fe
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by sime2009 5y ago
In my house in the Netherlands, we feed a family of four each day and buy food an hour or two before we cook it precisely because we can't handle the mental overhead of planning food more than 24 hours in advance. ;-) We don't rea
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by sime2009 5y ago
I live in the Netherlands. Being able to walk to the supermarket in 10mins is very common. What you call privilege, we just call urban planning.
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by sime2009 5y ago
Man oh man, so many people here doing the worse version of standups, the status update meeting. I understand the bile in these threads. It is a shit format. Stop doing it. Instead try this: Standups are time for a team to plan their day and
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by sime2009 5y ago
You are misunderstanding my point here. I'm not saying that IT work isn't real work. We're discussing flexible working times for all of society, and what I'm reading is people who somehow assume that most of society is i
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by sime2009 5y ago
Good grief. It really is time for some of you people to step away from the computer, get out of the tech bubble for a while and have a look at what most people in society are doing for a living.
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by sime2009 5y ago
What's the gravity like on your planet? /s Very few jobs in society are compatible with flexible time where people can work when it suits them. Any job which requires some kind of real time coordination with others will conflict,
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by sime2009 5y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that society could operate on system where people just work at any time of the day whenever they felt like it?
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by sime2009 5y ago
But but but... I read about it on Medium!
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by sime2009 5y ago
Which part of the world is "this" part of the world you are talking about?
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by sime2009 5y ago
You are aware that millions of people use web browsers each day to do their banking, purchase products, and generally run businesses?
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by sime2009 5y ago
> Which employees? Tech companies known damn well which employees they should retain and which ones they are happy to have leave.
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by sime2009 5y ago
Companies are happy to compete with each other in the market for people when hiring, but they forget that they are still competing with the market to retain their existing employees. The situation is even dumber when you consider the costs
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by sime2009 5y ago
In a way there are standards for software but those standards are not expressed in software terms. Firstly, most software is harmless. If it goes wrong people may be annoyed, but no one is harmed. But if I write software to control an aircr
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by sime2009 5y ago
> it's just a function of the primitive state of the industry at that time I'll expand on that idea. Basically, very little on a C64 or similar machine of the time was standardised and interchangeable or "insulated" f
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by sime2009 5y ago
> JavaScript has more of a culture of many many small hyper focused packages. > This has two benefits. One - you have less dead code in your final build. Two - if one of your dependencies is already using leftpad you essentially get t
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by sime2009 5y ago
If you want the power to make your creations disappear whenever you want, then the last thing you should do is publish them under an Open Source software license. An important aspect of OSS and Free Software is that other people can use t
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by sime2009 5y ago
It looks cool. thanks
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by sime2009 5y ago
On a related topic: Are there any good bitmaps fonts out there that have decent Unicode coverage?
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by sime2009 5y ago
No, Scala does.
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by sime2009 5y ago
> I think you’ve misunderstood the purpose of a side project for engineers. They’re supposed to be hobby projects that demonstrate the developer’s abilities as well as their commitment to following through on projects. I don't agree
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by sime2009 5y ago
> it needs to scale with your position. Does it? really? > A VP's side project would scale up to a viable business of its own Why? I don't follow your logic here, or we are using different definitions of side-project.
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by sime2009 5y ago
According to wikipedia, the number of mistaken identity murders is very low. Less than 1 per year. https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lijst_van_criminele_liquidatie... For perspective, the number of people who die from ligh
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by sime2009 5y ago
That is more of an issue where you have high drug usage. Drug traffickers generally aren't in the robbery and petty crime business. Most of the drugs in the Netherlands are passing through to elsewhere in Europe.
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by sime2009 5y ago
Thanks for the map. That is interesting. > the amount of crime that seems to accompany it is frightening Do you have some kind of source that last statement? Do you mean frightening as in "big" or frightening as in "it sca
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by sime2009 5y ago
If you want to play with the idea of having command output divided into blocks, you can go try it in my terminal Extraterm ( https://extraterm.org/ ) which has had it for years. Or just have a look at the gifs on the features
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by sime2009 5y ago
(Disclaimer: My knowledge of Rust very limited, but I have quite a bit of experience with getting Qt/KDE classes to work with other languages.) You are absolutely right. The effort to be acceptable bindings for Qt would be a tiny fract
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by sime2009 5y ago
Not really. PRs have become the new commits. I only pay attention to the changed files tab in GH. I encourage other people to commit early and often and share their progress with the rest of the team.

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