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by vmlinuz 7y ago
There are 4 official retailers in Japan listed here: https://www.farnell.com/raspberrypi-consumer/approved-retail...
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by vmlinuz 7y ago
Haven't read all of these yet, but a couple stood out as matching recent experiences... "Future thinking is future trashing": we had a good engineer with a bad tendency to write complex generic code when simpler specific code
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by vmlinuz 7y ago
Just to be clear, the people cannot vote for the CE - from a limited pool, or otherwise. That was the proposed change in 2014, breaking the previous promise of universal suffrage, but the changes were shelved as a result of the protests,
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by vmlinuz 7y ago
One interesting - and HN-relevant! - point is that the current member of HK's parliament representing 'Information Technology' is one of the leaders of the pro-democracy camp, and there was a semi-viral video this week of him
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by vmlinuz 7y ago
Just to be clear, this is a story of a person who has been traumatised by a combination of the worse parts of US and Chinese poverty. It's not a nice story, at all... Also, the two websites she runs, as linked at the bottom of the page
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by vmlinuz 7y ago
Technically, there was at least one device updated to Honeycomb - the HTC Flyer was originally released with Gingerbread and was later upgraded. I know, because I've still got mine, as handed out by Google at workshops where they tried
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by vmlinuz 7y ago
Interesting contention - who are they mouthpieces for?
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by vmlinuz 7y ago
I've been into these shops a couple of times when traveling in Japan, and while I mostly didn't end up buying much, they're definitely a lot of fun to browse. I like Muji, I like Daiso (branded as Living Plaza here, and which
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
This seems an odd comment to make, given that Slackware is still active :)
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Since my main use for a VPN is to access things in the UK from the UK, I use a Raspberry Pi which I left hidden behind the TV in my parents' living room, running things including OpenVPN. Their upload bandwidth isn't great, so I
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Ah, you can live like a king in Asia for $20 a day! Which is very much not true in Hong Kong (where I live), or Singapore (where I have friends), or a bunch of other places in 'Asia'...
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
I don't have an answer, but I appear to be accidentally (and for now, hopefully only partially) making that transition right now... I am an 'older' engineer (in my 40s) who just came off a decade-long stint doing solo freelan
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Fun fact: This is not supported by historical evidence, and was likely simply anti-Semitic fake news which got out of hand... https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/the-rothschi...
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Been using a Logitech M705 for a good few years now and I'm pretty happy with it - has a couple of unnecessary buttons, but on the other hand, not only has it lasted more than a year, but it typically lasts at least a couple of years o
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
One big screen. Proper full-sized good quality keyboard. Fairly chunky wireless mouse. If you spend most of your time working at a desk, why are you hobbling yourself with inferior kit which exists to be portable, not productive? Yes, I&#x2
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
See headline... Think "hmm, I knew a guy in London ages ago who had famously served on a sub in the Norwegian Navy"... Check blog. Yup, same guy. Guess there aren't that many former Norwegian submariners in the tech world!
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Not the greatest example, to be honest, since: a) the very article you linked states "...no publicised cases of blasphemy have been brought before the courts since the law was introduced in 2009 and a source said it was "highly un
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
The official line here in Hong Kong is that the mains water is clean and drinkable, but the plumbing between the mains and your tap may not be clean. The Water Supplies Department maintains a list[0] of residential and commercial buildings
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
I once wrote a Logo interpreter in BASIC... For my Computer Studies GCSE (UK national exams at 16) final project. It never actually worked , but it was a heroic effort!
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
We used Ingres on HP-UX for our database class when I was at university in the late 90's - and now the vast majority of my current colleagues are quite a lot younger than I am, and they don't know why I keep doing double-takes whe
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Common question here - standard Economist policy is never to name their writers and correspondents, except very very rarely. Their content is published under the name of the newspaper, not the individual author.
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Came here to say this... had various family members using it, clients, etc. Backblaze's "we don't support Linux desktops because they'll abuse it" policy is pretty annoying, in context.
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Maybe I am just too old, but I'm quite surprised to see no mention here of the Burns Omni-net from the Simpsons episode The Old Man and the Lisa[1] - "It sweeps the sea clean" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Unless you are in academia/research, your job is not to produce software - it is to solve customer problems, add customer value, and help your team-mates and wider colleagues. You should be able to trust your colleagues on the marketin
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
This could have been made clear in a few simple sentences: We have created a new software license which we are calling the 'Redis Labs License' (RLL), by adding the Commons Clause terms as extra restrictions on top of the Apache 2
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
I did this, back in the depths of history... Changed job involuntarily in early 2000, had verbally accepted an offer from one company, another company came along and said they couldn't offer me any more 'salary', but they cou
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
Presumably this is Project Fi (fi.google.com) rather than Google Fiber...
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
There's a couple of interesting things here... Firstly, Naomi is a person with a certain style - in both a personal and physical sense. She is not one to back down from a fight, but she clearly lost this one and still feels the loss pr
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
I have direct personal experience of Hong Kong's points-based scheme, the Quality Migrant Admission Scheme - which, it should be noted, is a very niche scheme, largely unknown even amongst expats. The vast majority of skilled immigrati
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by vmlinuz 8y ago
I've heard that a lot of financial companies require staff to take at least 1 block of leave per year, during which they are forcibly offline and their work is covered by a colleague. If someone is hiding something in their numbers, ha

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