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by vertis 4y ago
Is there a reason this is trending, I can't see any changes recently? I played with the RM1 at work and quite liked it, but the locked down experience is a deal breaker. I want to be able to work with Obsidian (Onyx Boox might do this)
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by vertis 4y ago
Was going to say the same thing. Worst case you buy it and it doesn't do what you need (itch) and in that case you can gift it to someone. I think the design decisions can be educational. I'm sure mindstorms is full of compromises
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by vertis 4y ago
I can trace my success as a software engineer to the 'too big' presents my parents bought me for xmas/birthday. I had a desktop computer of my own as 10 year old in 1992, and a laptop, a Powerbook 190 with a 16 grayscale scre
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by vertis 4y ago
No, I know. I should have just not qualified it as much. Would have been funnier. "I wake up at 4:59 am, 1 minute before my standup". Instead I felt the need to explain exactly what was going on (and that it was self-inflicted).
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by vertis 4y ago
I currently wake up at 4:55 am, 5 minutes before my daily standup -- this is self-inflicted. I was in Greece when I took the job (contract) and I'm now in the UK. Daylight savings has also gone against me. Client is in Australia where
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by vertis 4y ago
Yeah, we've stayed in accommodation like this as well. Often very shitty experiences in business aparthotels. Always good to have a list though.
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by vertis 4y ago
AirBnBs tend to employ people as well (cleaning, maintenannce, administration). With many hotels the money is actually flowing out of the local community as the business is owned by a big multi-national. It's not really so cut and drie
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by vertis 4y ago
It's always a complicated issue. Depending on the city/region, tourists can be the life blood. More than a few places that I've visited you're a welcome addition to the local ecosystem, bringing much needed revenue. Ther
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by vertis 4y ago
Artificially lowering prices? You mean basic supply and demand? The regulations aren't guests responsibility the hosts and airbnb should be compliant. AirBnB and competitors are very important despite their flaws. Standard rentals are
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by vertis 4y ago
The way most digital nomads (including myself) approach this is to not be an employee, but rather a contractor. I'm an Australian and run an Estonian company (it's far from the only option, but they make it very easy). I invoice m
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by vertis 4y ago
As much as Debian's prior policy is laudable it's caused it to have one hand tied behind it's back for the last 20+ years. The result has been distros existing that wouldn't exist otherwise. It turns out as a user I do n
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by vertis 4y ago
Or is it smarter than all of us and detecting some link between pulmonary hypertension and hemorrhoids.
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by vertis 4y ago
I've had some amazing pairing sessions and really really terrible sessions (FWIW I try to be a good pair). I accept everything you say about pairing, it has some really good team impacts. It gets abused though far too often not just as
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by vertis 4y ago
The problem that a lot of people get to with Agile/Lean is that the actual practices deviate from the original goals. The powers that be can't actually handle agile in it's truest chaotic form. So it gets bastardised from the
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by vertis 4y ago
GeForce NOW is really good. Good selection supported of games tied to your Steam/Epic/Origin purchases. They suport Ubisoft+ and EA Play (for at least some of the games). Played through a bunch of Ubisoft titles I'd missed th
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by vertis 4y ago
It should be a "more effluent" answer and then working up to less effluent :)
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by vertis 4y ago
It's an absolutely amazing read. Not really a useful comment, because I lack anything useful to say. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by vertis 4y ago
As much as the Daily Mail is trashy it usually has more details than the other papers. A month back there was a murder outside a Korean restaurant in London. The BBC and others had only passing details[0] (though they eventually got to same
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by vertis 4y ago
I've been gone for about 4 years, and admittedly don't read many company annual reports (and my super balance I get in a more digital upate). I haven't really seen it crop up in the online stuff I read (some of it Australian
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by vertis 4y ago
I remember that kind of thrill. For a while I ran a tool for Etsy before they had an API, circa 2007. What they did have was AMFPHP, powering their flash toys (treasury, etc). I used it to allow sellers to see their sales stats. Even went t
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by vertis 4y ago
Woosh!
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by vertis 4y ago
It's long past time for countries to embrace the digital id the way Estonia (and a few others) have. For comparison, visit https://www.telia.ee/en and you're prompted for your smart card or associated Smart ID (wh
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by vertis 4y ago
Is it? I lived in Australia for 80% of my life and never heard it. That's not impossible of course, but it's not like I was uninvolved in those topics. Either way it's still not an second language thing. It's a using acr
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by vertis 4y ago
Sure, and I have no problem with people that just want a bundle of goods. But the charity angle is just disingenuous given how much Humble takes for itself.
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by vertis 4y ago
Barely a day goes by without a story about how badly Amazon treats it's non-tech workers. Combine that with the stack ranking and, like you, I'm not convinced. I would argue you can't fix the tech employment without fixing th
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by vertis 4y ago
It seemed snarky to me to tell me to donate to EFF right after I had said that I would prefer to donate to EFF, like I didn't know it was possible do donate to a charity. Humble Bundles are not the right way to support a charity -- the
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by vertis 4y ago
I work with lots of companies that have different variations. I have to agree my favourite daily/standup is a walk the board style. Often it's the retro where I spend a lot of time trying to encourage the team to do it "prope
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by vertis 4y ago
> Would much prefer to just donate straight to EFF. Your response is either snark, in which case not useful, or a failure to read. FWIW I have a recurring donation.
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by vertis 4y ago
Indeed, big companies often do disaster prepareness exercises from a business continuity point of view. I remember doing one 15 years ago at a Big 4 accounting firm. Failing everything (including my little bit) across to secondary site in a
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by vertis 4y ago
Default Donation £21.67 to No Starch Press £1.97 to Charities £15.76 to Humble Extra to Charity £18.71 to No Starch Press £5.91 to Charities £14.77 to Humble Custom Amount minimum you can give to Humble £

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