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by smoe 6y ago
It depends where you are in the world. When I was working in Switzerland, most SaaS pricing were no-brainers for us. But since I work in Latin America for small companies with local costumers, all the different services and tools you might
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by smoe 6y ago
I haven't read the whole article, but in the beginning the author describes his first sessions as nothing more complicated than breathing slowly. "The voice instructed us to inhale slowly through our noses, then to exhale slowly.
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by smoe 6y ago
Although it might be done for pure marketing purposes in this case, I think sometimes calling something differently can help losing some "spiritual baggage", and open the topic up to people that would otherwise not engage with it.
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by smoe 6y ago
I think it is not that work necessarily ruins everything. The problem is turning your hobby into a job means turning your hobby into a business, which is were in my opinion most of the friction comes in. For programming the difference betwe
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by smoe 6y ago
I don't think the USs influence in Latin America had/has much to do with US citizens interests as such but US corporations interests.
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by smoe 6y ago
I don't know how untouchable US citizen ever were, but there has been a change in perception over the last couple of decades. Some of it has to do with political actions or inactions, but I think big part is just due to information bec
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by smoe 6y ago
I think you might have to be privileged to never work full time, but I know plenty of people of different backgrounds in Europe who in their late 20s early 30s started reducing how much they work for one reason or another and were able to d
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by smoe 6y ago
I'm in a similar situation, while all my family is in Europe I live alone in Bogotá, Colombia which has been in varying degrees of lockdown for 18 weeks and will be for at least another month. So both my usual midweek as well as weeken
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by smoe 6y ago
This is why for hobby projects I try to stay away from pay per use services when possible even tough they would be cheaper. Just the peace of mind of having predictable fixed cost is worth the couple bucks I might be paying more. That said
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by smoe 6y ago
I think traditional banks, which apparently used to have much better rates even with all the expenses, have found that people are perfectly willing to give them their money practically for free. The newer online competeritors need something
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by smoe 6y ago
I'd certainly believe sqlite can be taken very far. Never done it so far. But what does "properly architect your sqlite system" mean and how does this compare to just spinning up a postgres service (nothing sharded or fancy o
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by smoe 6y ago
15 minutes drive seems quite far away to get to anything. The residential area where I grew up in had all the basics within 10-15 minutes walk. From kindergarten age to finishing secondary school I could do almost everything on my own by wa
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by smoe 6y ago
Some of the suburbs described here really baffle me, because of how unpractical it seems for a country that is otherwise quite focused on optimizing things for the "lazy" and businesses supposedly popping up and flourishing wherev
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by smoe 6y ago
Maybe sausage is the wrong analogy, since I love them and I find nothing wrong with the ingredients. I'd say it is closer to a fast food meal. Yes they can be very tasty and satiating for a moment but the nutritional value is extremely
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by smoe 6y ago
I stopped reading news, including tech news, in 2012, while working at a large news site. Seeing how the sausage is made, helped a lot realizing of just how little value reading news to a normal person is. (Note that that this is very diff
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by smoe 6y ago
Never been to an US residential area and only "know" them from tv shows. Are they really pretty much completely devoid of businesses as this article indicates? No grocery / mom and pop stores, bars, restaurants, hair dressers
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by smoe 6y ago
I keep most not directly work related talk out of work. Not because I think they must not be crossed, or because I'm afraid of someone disagreeing (I'm also fairly far left, so plenty of my views are en vouge at the moment), but b
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by smoe 6y ago
Solo I don't think there are many virtual instruments that get even close to the real ones. But grouped together, mixed with real instruments, it gets a lot harder for the untrained ear. Especially in a context like a movie where the m
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by smoe 6y ago
I don't know nothing about all this. How much of work that involves models has an actual creative process behind it vs. having someone pose in front of a white background with a product for a catalog? The latter seems to be bound to be
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by smoe 6y ago
I think because of low poverty and expansive social nets, crimes out of desperation are rare. E.g. Reducing crime is explicitly one of the main reasons why Switzerland mantains its heroin programme, providing the drug for free to people who
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by smoe 6y ago
I don't have numbers, but I don't think there is much home burglary as a crime of opportunity in Switzerland. The places worth entering, usually have good enough security measures, that you need to come prepared and it is going to
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by smoe 6y ago
Agreed I like the view i picked up somewhere but don't remember from whom: Tests are not there to prove something is working, but to prove something is not working. They are a fairly cheap way to tell me during development that this
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by smoe 6y ago
A couple of the things, why this just doesn't make much sense to do: - Except on specific topics, the different parties don't actually agree on much. E.g. during the last cycle the center-right to right parties had the majority in
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by smoe 6y ago
There is more nuance and ambivalence. A lot more. But I don't think it has much to do with being woke or not. We always had and will always have people that challenge the status quo of society and those that oppose a change. Change is
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by smoe 6y ago
From the about page https://www.unwoke.hr/about "The modern workplace has become a hotpot for unchallenged radical thinking and left wing ideology. Our mission is to advance society based on a culture of enlightenment,
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by smoe 6y ago
I have never heard anyone associate Silicon Valley with integrity and decency (pursuing startup endeavors). Not saying they aren't, I just never really heard it explicitly said so. Is this a common self perception within that region? W
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by smoe 6y ago
Oh wow, when working with government and enterprises I only ever saw list of technologies explicitly allowed, never prohibited.
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by smoe 6y ago
I'm also wondering about the initial point, but ... Is there ever a best tool for _everyone_? I have only ever been convinced that something is the best tool for a job, when taking into a account a lot of context, exact requirements, a
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by smoe 6y ago
Is PHP still hated on a lot these days? Isn't it just not that popular an option anymore to start new projects with? Most people are aware of the language having changed a lot since its heydays. And honestly, from the article I'm
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by smoe 6y ago
I'm not against JavaScript (or any other languages running in the browser for that matter). Ironically, when I started doing this I was a full time frontend dev. For me this was just a "hack" to significantly improve my brows

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