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by stefano 7y ago
It's a paid leave, so you'd be losing money by paying someone to keep your kids so that you can work and earn the exact same money you'd earn by staying home.
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by stefano 7y ago
There's always helicopter money, but yeah, the ECB is pretty much near the end of what they can do.
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by stefano 7y ago
These are not normal teething problems, it's straight up poor poor software and the claims about the supported features are quite simply lies right now. Last time I looked at the compiler, it was basically doing search and replace to g
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by stefano 7y ago
With React Native, you're betting on a framework. With Flutter, you're betting on both a framework and a new language. Flutter also works on a much lower level than RN, which means it would be harder for them to pick up the develo
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by stefano 7y ago
I interpret that as: - If you only have social logins, you must implement apple sign in. - If you only have your own login, you don't need to implement apple sign in. - If you have both apple sign and your own login, you must implement
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by stefano 7y ago
Can't be so bad for innovation if they're ranking first in this classification: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-01-18/germany-b...
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by stefano 7y ago
That point also ignores the fact that spanish workers are indeed cheaper than german workers. You can't focus on the unit of measure (the currency) while ignoring the accompanying number...
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by stefano 7y ago
I think Ada, in its SPARK dialect, should be able to do this.
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by stefano 7y ago
What does he spend his days doing? I wrote a configuration file years ago and I still use it for multiple projects. I only had to update it when upgrading between major versions of webpack.
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by stefano 7y ago
> 1. The prior and new behavior is neither good nor bad. That depends from which point of view you're looking at it. Technically according to the law? All good. Ethically? Different people will have different opinions, but many woul
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by stefano 7y ago
> The criticism towards Google, Apple etc. for minimizing their tax burdens has always been misplaced. It's a valid criticism if you don't think that "Corporations are supposed to maximize profits" should be true. Whe
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by stefano 7y ago
The same argument can be made for Python (or for most non-trivial jobs, for that matter). You always need a good technical person to hire another one.
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by stefano 7y ago
Python has some fundamental language semantics that make it really hard, if not impossible, to create an implementation that can match Java. Pypy is probably the best you can do to optimize python, and it shines in tight numerical loops, bu
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by stefano 7y ago
You still need to go call into Javascript to do any kind of DOM manipulation. The solution I used for wasm-forth (a forth implementation targeting wasm), is to have a js "interpreter", implemented as a single function, that execut
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by stefano 7y ago
When a company drops out of the index, the fund sells all its shares in it and buys shares of the new company that took its place.
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by stefano 7y ago
Depending on your application, you can go a long way with integration tests alone.
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by stefano 7y ago
Can you just remove newlines from files? In most languages they're optional.
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by stefano 7y ago
When I tried them a year ago, they used "Any" a lot, especially around the ORM code (Django) and the serializers (DRF). Since those are also the parts where type checking would be the most interesting, I didn't find a lot of
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by stefano 7y ago
I recently upgraded from 1.11 to 2.2 in one go. I didn't have any issue at all, besides a problem with mysql drivers. I had to switch from using PyMySQL, which is not the one recommended by Django anyway, to mysqlclient, and that cause
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by stefano 7y ago
Django (and DRF if you use it), uses too much reflection, which doesn't play nice with type annotations. The strategy that works for me is to annotate my application code, and keep using dynamic typing when interacting with the framewo
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by stefano 7y ago
Imagine if Jurgen held cash through the Weimar republic.
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by stefano 7y ago
A data corruption might be also impossible to recover from. You could even only notice it after months of it happening, e.g. if your users spend months collecting data which is only analysed at the end of the year.
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by stefano 7y ago
Is that still true after tuning the JVM GC for a low memory footprint? I'm genuinely asking, I'd like to see an article on the subject. I've read in the past that the default settings are geared towards long-running processes
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by stefano 7y ago
But your bank will have humans making sure it's not a false positive. With google, you can appeal so a bot can tell you that your appeal was rejected.
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by stefano 7y ago
Good luck with that if you have a non-technical user base. Gaining trust when the first thing they see is a big warning telling them this software shouldn't be trusted will also be really tough.
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by stefano 7y ago
Should the user click on "Cancel" or "Move to trash" to tell Apple that they trust a developer?
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by stefano 7y ago
The article mentions a "quality control process", so it's not only about the author being authorized. I view this as a first step to turn desktop computers into locked down iOS devices.
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by stefano 7y ago
Don't overgeneralize. I don't agree, for instance. I want to run whatever I want in the computer I bought.
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by stefano 7y ago
What I find funny in these discussions on HN is how most people seem to be completely oblivious to the obvious solution, proven to work in many developed countries around the world: have the state directly fund universities and don't c
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by stefano 7y ago
A german company did a similar experiment with positive results: https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-5-hour-workday-gets-put-to-...

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