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by smoe 7y ago
> I think part of it is there is no scene for music any more? There are plenty of music scenes, but I do think they are not as big and influential on overall youth culture anymore. What subcultures revolve around changes over time and we
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by smoe 7y ago
I have seen it being referred various times that musical interest and emotional connection to it really develops and peaks around the age 14 E.g.: https://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/is-14-a-magic-.
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by smoe 7y ago
Is it that odd though? I'm not a native english speaker, but I would say "shirt without patterns", not solid. Or for example "without visible logo"
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by smoe 7y ago
When I was freelancing (mostly Swiss companies) in the end 180$/hour was my starting point for negotations. For bigger multi month projects i would come down quite a bit, but for small ones i wouldn't budge. Its not something you
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by smoe 7y ago
While I agree that pieces are missing for a full conversation, I disagree with the simplification that minimalism is mainly about wanting to be less reliant on things or just having less for the sake of having less. Minimalism is about havi
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by smoe 7y ago
Its not about whether to have a pile of junk or not, but its utility. My fathers side of the family is all farmers for generations. They piled up a lot of junk and reused continously around the properties. But those weren't just random
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by smoe 7y ago
It is hard to avoid no true Scotsman territory for a term that in not very well defined and used slightly differently depending on context (what medium, which aspect of life, geographically). Also I haven't read any of the linked books
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by smoe 7y ago
> The reality is, if you wish to combine self reliance and minimalism, you essentially must embrace a life of poverty. Why? If you take minimalism to the extreme, and keep stripping away until reaching the bare essentials of living, then
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by smoe 7y ago
I guess I'd fall in the category of being minimalist[1]. A good part of the few things I own, are actually tools to fix the other things with or build them in the first place. Also buying fewer things, means I can optimize more easily
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by smoe 7y ago
Once you have an identified case, you trace who they have been in close contact with recently and start contacting/testing/isolating them and trace it further from there E.g. In Switzerland this was done manually (by medical staff
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by smoe 7y ago
We are currently rewriting out frontend app, so can't talk about long term experience. I don't see much of a benefit of having everything in a single file vs. many. We are going to split them up, as soon as they become unwieldy an
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by smoe 7y ago
Yes, that is what we do and what I like about SQLAlchemy for Python. We use the ORM for like 90% of cases and drop down to its SQL abstraction underneath the ORM. The last time I used Django a couple of years ago that was one of the bigger
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by smoe 7y ago
I think as soon you use "values" it is no longer the ActiveRecord pattern since the result is not an object instance representing a single row in the table. I never read a proper specification of ActiveRecord, but it could be that
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by smoe 7y ago
I'm metropolis-dwelling primarily because of the cultural offering and diversity. I don't have to adjust my life to what are the popular views of just 1000 people. For me it is the small places that are the perpetual cocktail part
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Ask HN: How do you handle internal tech support in a lock down scenario
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Open for Business Hub(openforbusiness.org)
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by smoe 7y ago
Agreed. Also one can get over-eager with abstractions over things that are not real duplicates. They just happen to look similar at this moment in time. In this category, I would also put premature automation before learning what it actuall
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by smoe 7y ago
My maybe cynical view on this is twofold: 1. For software, open source or not, that is driven by a commercial company, it is often not in their best interest to tell people what it actually is, that they are selling. They care more about co
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by smoe 7y ago
Teaching tech concepts to non-technical people and visa versa. I think a lot of the tensions that often exists between people from different backgrounds, especially when deadlines and budgets are tight, is lack of understanding what the oth
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by smoe 7y ago
> It can be done wrong, but when executed correctly [...] Quite the self-fulfilling prophecy there. > Yes, it's easier to get your data, but in the long run [...] Systems can and should be evolved and adapted over time. E.g. depl
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by smoe 7y ago
In my opinion a lot of the problems i have seen people having with micro-services, is because they jump into it way too naively without a proper assessment, understanding of the tools and planning. As well as basically expecting magic to so
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by smoe 7y ago
I worked for the largest online news site of Switzerland. We were nowhere near the scale where such tools would provide significant benefit over the "boring", "outdated" technology we we using. We also had a fraction of
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by smoe 7y ago
I have a backed up digital and a print version of a "bureaucracy-folder" where those kind of documents go. There is a section for things that I reasonably often need access to (e.g. certificate of employment, copy of working visa,
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by smoe 7y ago
How often do you set up a new laptop? And you still need to keep the dependencies of the project itself updated and tested which is the bulk of the work. Don't get me wrong I think docker adds a lot a value once a system / team go
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by smoe 7y ago
Question is, if it is worth the hassle to setup for e.g. a small team with maybe 1-2 apps/services. I think docker is great (although I'm more exited about the future prospects of WASM+WASI), but as a default choice for every sing
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by smoe 7y ago
I know of a team that spent significant time getting their front-end to run in docker. Because they were having regular problems getting the app to run on the developers machines due to extremely outdated versions it depended on. Oh no, we
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by smoe 7y ago
Did they? I honestly don't know since I don't use them. To my knowledge the ruling to stop was mid December and the decision of the higher instance is expected within weeks.
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by smoe 7y ago
How many taxis have you actually taken in those cities? How much of it is hearsay? I take multiple taxi rides per week in Bogota since years. In almost all cases the drivers ask me which route I'd prefer for longer distances. The only
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by smoe 7y ago
We will see. To me what Uber is currently doing smells a bit like a PR stunt. Especially with all the appeal to emotion in their communication to the users and trying to get them riled up on social media. e.g. https://twitter.com
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by smoe 7y ago
Bogota alone has ~50'000 registered taxis. That's one per 160 people living here. Still during rush hour it is quite hard to get one without waiting tens of minutes. Doesn't seem to me like something the majority is completel

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