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by sjamaan 4y ago
Probably because a TVC that doesn't pull its weight will be let go right away. I suspect that the "economic downturn" is just an excuse to trim the fat. Also note the wording in OP: these are "non-billable corporate func
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by sjamaan 4y ago
> All of that said, the risk in the code is that it can introduce a bit of laziness in that code still needs to be very closely inspected and I suggest many won't bother. I think this is the crux of the problem for such "genera
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by sjamaan 4y ago
In my experience, a less complex but more thought-through solution often requires more time to implement. It's easy to just stick more layers onto a big ball of mud, but it takes excellence to change it such that these layers aren&#x
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by sjamaan 4y ago
FWIW, I work fulltime on a Clojure codebase. There are other companies who also use it (for a more well-known example Metabase). Somehow Clojure is a business-friendly Lisp, probably because of the JVM and all the enterprisey stuff that&#x2
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by sjamaan 4y ago
Isn't the "For Dummies" series some sort of trademark? I'm amazed they didn't get sued for using the name. Crap like this devalues the rest of the "for dummies" books.
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by sjamaan 4y ago
I don't understand how this is not enough to deter patent trolls. Aren't they afraid companies (who tend to have deeper pockets than individuals anyway) will just fight the law suit and, y'know, win?
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by sjamaan 4y ago
This puts into words a feeling I've had for a very long time, thank you!
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by sjamaan 4y ago
And Turkish Delight before that
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by sjamaan 4y ago
The Purism Librem 14 isn't half bad either. Currently using it. Love the build quality of the case, matte screen and kill switches. Quality of the built-in speakers is not that great. Keyboard is acceptable. The trackpad is nice and bi
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by sjamaan 4y ago
That was my point - OP said it "culls nulls", and the pitfall is that kind of thinking - if you think of it as removing nulls and you're not mindful, you might be deleting things from the list you don't want to be deleti
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by sjamaan 4y ago
Does that only cull nulls, or also zeroes, falses and empty strings?
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by sjamaan 4y ago
If you only care to "move fast and break things" with the sole goal of getting acquired, none of that matters.
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by sjamaan 4y ago
If self hosting is not an option, there are European mail providers, who must be GDPR compliant. The biggest one being ProtonMail.
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by sjamaan 4y ago
That's a technologist's typical reaction. However, this is not a technical problem. In reality, if Glassdoor did something like that it's just going to increase the likelyhood of getting targeted directly for libel. Even if s
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by sjamaan 4y ago
You can write a custom stemming algorithm and load it as an extension library into Postgres, then use that with `CREATE TEXT SEARCH DICTIONARY` to create a custom dictionary. It's not as difficult as it sounds - you can use the default
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by sjamaan 4y ago
AFAIK the "candid camera"-like TV shows would approach the people afterwards and ask for permission to use the footage. They probably did it only because otherwise they'd get sued into oblivion.
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by sjamaan 4y ago
> Meanwhile, there is a likely source of confusion you can often address in advance: tooling. Ask about what the team uses for: Version control; Testing; Deployment / continuous integration; Databases; and Log management and search;
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by sjamaan 4y ago
Sounds like a for-profit version of IRMA ( https://privacybydesign.foundation/irma-explanation/ )
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by sjamaan 4y ago
I wonder why most(?) editions of The Hobbit don't have them though. They're wonderful and arguably a part of the work. Omitting them seems like such a shame to me.
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by sjamaan 4y ago
On the linked subpage with tech stacks, I don't see a way to filter for country. This is relevant because even though it's 100% remote, there are different tax rules or even difficulties working in certain countries. Also, cool to
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by sjamaan 4y ago
> The point is, small frameworks are so easy to setup you start skipping the 'mildly dynamic website' part because it doesn't scale at all. Tell that to a non-developer who has a $1 a month shared hosting account who would
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by sjamaan 5y ago
Paying for the content is what Apple TV is doing, isn't it? You can "rent" (one-time view) a video for a lower price, or "buy" the video at a higher price (which isn't the same as owning it, of course. It just
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by sjamaan 5y ago
> But why would you want TV without speaker Many people hook up their TV (or media box) to their home audio system which often has much better sound quality. The built-in speakers of TVs are a bit pointless in that context.
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by sjamaan 5y ago
Number of forks, maybe? Or pull requests? Although those wouldn't disappear of course...
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by sjamaan 5y ago
A very nice use of direnv is automatically calling virtualenv's `activate` on directory entry, so you don't need to do that yourself.
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by sjamaan 5y ago
> My gut tells me that big names like SAP and Sales Force are easier to sell to executives. I've heard it said that SAP is sold on the golf course, not in the IT boardroom.
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by sjamaan 5y ago
Not having to think about how to use a certain tool or software application means you free up time to think about more important matters . It's not about not thinking, it's about not needing to think about needless trivialities.
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by sjamaan 5y ago
I've done the same (bought a house, kept the old one for rental) and used an agency as a middle man. They take care of collecting rent, and the day to day business if, say, a plumber needs to be called (I just have to sign off on it).
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by sjamaan 5y ago
The government of Lithuania actually did an investigation and found that Xiaomi phones spy on their users and contain a (disabled, probably intended for Chinese market) content filter system in their default browser. Edit: source (in Dutch)
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by sjamaan 5y ago
I think one problem is that the device that's cheaper isn't exactly advertising the fact that it will die in a year. In fact, when it is a brand new one that just hit the market, who even knows when it will die? This is the kind

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