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by smoe 6y ago
I agree that we should not declare it as without obstacles. But neither as useless because it doesn't meet the demand of "gamers" I used to be a gamer, playing hours competing online every day around the Diablo 2/Warcra
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by smoe 6y ago
I agree that in smaller places such interactions happen more organically. But you are still bound to who happens to live in the vicinity. In the big city I do have less interactions with neighbors, but on the other hand, whatever my interes
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by smoe 6y ago
What I started doing during the 5 month lockdown in Bogotá is going for extended walks every day and convinced friends/coworkers and some dates to join. Less risk than meeting indoors and free so it is easier for those who lost their j
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by smoe 6y ago
This is one of the main reasons why I prefer living in big cities. Compared to other places I've stayed, it makes it a whole lot easier to build and maintain human connections with people whose preferences and interests overlap with mi
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by smoe 6y ago
From my memory in the mid 2000 version control and automatized deploys weren't ubiquitous for the audience Coda mainly targeted: web site development. I started my career at around that time in a company using Python for web applicatio
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by smoe 6y ago
Since the raise of smartphones I have not turned on or not taking with me my phone for days or weeks at a time. Especially during traveling I find it a nicer experience to have to interact more with locals, stroll around and getting lost at
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by smoe 6y ago
I think age plays also a role. I have met various young people who have't entered the "working world" yet, that only have an email address because they needed one for registration and to recieve some school related informatio
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by smoe 6y ago
Sure but IE back then was also severely lacking in pretty much every regard and stopped any tangible development. At least every developer I know back then switched away from it primarly because of developer tooling available in other brows
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by smoe 6y ago
I agree. But I think the early adoptors mattered back in 2008.I reckon, with the dominance they now have, they are fine with some developers moving to firefox while still having time to react if they pull too many "normal" users w
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by smoe 6y ago
All the art teacher and professionals I interacted with encouraged experimentation but also stressed to not skip the fundamentals. The problem is that especially beginners are quick to jump to saying it is their "style" when being
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by smoe 6y ago
I think there was sort of a formalization of territory when the Colombian cartels controlled the entire chain from production in the jungle to the sale in US streets. The violence and territorial wars in Mexico since the early 2000s are as
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by smoe 6y ago
The first company in Switzerland I worked at in the mid 2000s as one of the first employees, did records and project managment platforms, intranets and CMS originally for civil engineering projects later for goverment agencies, cities, stat
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by smoe 6y ago
I think this is because, in the 2000s, when a lot of these companies were founded, Ruby and Python hit an pretty much empty sweetspot for web application development in between quickly thrown together scripts and the super heavy enterprisey
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by smoe 6y ago
I romanticised by implying that all the stores are like that. My experience is mostly from Switzerland where I grew up and Colombia where I have been living the last 5 years. In Switzerland pure 2nd hand, non antique shops in general are so
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by smoe 6y ago
For me, the most magical thing about the small local bookstores is the people working there. Just getting into one, chatting with people genuinely and deeply passionate about what it is that they are selling. Having a coffee, talking about
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by smoe 6y ago
It wasn't the US alone. The pressure increased from pretty much all the important trade partners in the west and a lot of the bank secrecy breaking a bit had to do with the Swiss banks really really wanting to do business in those coun
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by smoe 6y ago
> acquired founders need to stop making them and we need to stop believing them Not just acquired founders. In my opinion we should stop so readily believing in promises by founders, start ups, corporations, celebrities, politicians, et
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by smoe 6y ago
I'm by far not well versed enough i n legal matters to give a conclusive answer on this, but as I understand it, the trademark thing mostly becomes an issue when you want to advertise locally and especially for enterprise SaaS where
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by smoe 6y ago
I think in countries within the relevant WTO treaty even as a small business your mark can theoretically recieve a "well known" status and similar protection as if it were registered. But no idea how well this works, and in practi
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by smoe 6y ago
What helped me during the last couple months as well as in the past when I freelanced while traveling for a year, is to have some planned activity in between work and free time, basically creating a moat between the two. In my experience is
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by smoe 6y ago
There is a difference between being critical of something and hating it. And if you want to change a system, there are not many ways to do so without interacting with it. Say you happen to be born into a communist regime but dislike communi
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by smoe 6y ago
What I like about boring tech is, that in my experience it results in that these kind of decisions just becoming less important. It makes it harder to shoot yourself in the foot with when trying to predict the future. Especially in early st
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by smoe 6y ago
Besides resources, for companies that do not operate at an planetary scale like Google, Facebook et al., I'd argue we have reached a point where a lot of the common problems have been thoroughly solved in multiple ways for a while now
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by smoe 6y ago
If it is a spectrum, why keep insisting to put arbitrary labels on parts of it. Every job has a different combination of tasks that make sense to be externalized and those that don't. Even the most NIH people will draw a line somewhere
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by smoe 6y ago
I have never used Uber so I'm a bit ignorant. What is so bad about a driver not wanting to pick up? Wont it just keep searching for the next one. It is not really different than if there for one reason or another no drivers are availab
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by smoe 6y ago
I'm not saying one format is better than the other, or it having to do anything with the format. The word "Unfortunately" is there on purpose. I often have to sift trough PDFs were it doesn't make sense to have the infor
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by smoe 6y ago
In my first job we did project/information management systems. Initially for civil engineering projects, later more generally for governments and enterprises. In some cases we had to have contingency plans for the software and data in
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by smoe 6y ago
Wouldn't modernizing things here and there not also mean that at some point the entire airplane has to go trough the approval processes again because it is now no longer considered a 747 which in turn also means all personnel need to b
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by smoe 6y ago
Content is often written to a predefined length, no matter how it is going to be published. E.g. some news papers even if there is no print version anymore still decide how long a story is going to be upfront. And food bloggers, will fluff
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by smoe 6y ago
> 4. Stuffed with fluff. PDFs tend to lack real substance, compared to regular web pages. The exact opposite is the case in my experience. Unfortunately the actual substance is often in a PDF and all the web pages pointing to it are supe

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