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by vosper 5y ago
Likewise - we switched from Gotomeeting to Google Meet (which is the same as hangouts, right?) mostly because the experience for staff in Latin America was so much better. That said, Gotomeeting is the worst of the bunch. They haven't
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by vosper 5y ago
Is the government required here [0]? Could commercial operators not improve their own security through their own investment and taking it seriously? If ransomware hits them in the chequebook where stolen customer data didn't, then they
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by vosper 5y ago
They don't seem to mention the thing I most remember TA for: the soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljDyp__ejco
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by vosper 5y ago
> My current favorite is OpusModus https://www.opusmodus.com . It is a commercial app, which will dissapoint some, but is worth the price to me for the level of quality and capabilities. Personally I love seeing this kind of n
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by vosper 5y ago
And Qatar. And Iran. And Russia. And (to a lesser extent - mostly just keen on extracting the minerals) China. BBC’s The Briefing Room had a good podcast about this “Who’s Supporting the Taliban” https://www.bbc.co.uk/progra
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by vosper 5y ago
> Starliner was never about space, it was never intended to actually leave the ground Funneling money to Boeing is one thing, but that claim’s a stretch, surely?
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by vosper 5y ago
Everyone[0] has a car, is sedentary, and has cheap, fast, and easy access to a huge variety of high-calorie foods? [0] not literally
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by vosper 5y ago
And young people, oftn the most screwed over by housing and employment conditions, still don't vote https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/08/upshot/youth-voting-2020-... (probably that's part of why
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by vosper 5y ago
> I see no benefit in running stuff on local OS. A database on localhost is the fastest way to run your tests that need to talk to a DB.
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by vosper 5y ago
I meant “way to go” in ending up a situation where a grant from the government can’t be delivered in time, so a more expensive and damaging alternative becomes likely. It’s just poor organisation or coordination. I didn’t mean anything abou
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by vosper 5y ago
There's some mindblowing stuff in this story >[...] the end of the federal moratorium means evictions could begin Monday, leading to a years' worth of evictions over several weeks ... > More than 15 million people live in ho
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by vosper 5y ago
Who said they were against PHP? I'm just said there are probably more React developers around these days than PHP ones, thus it's probably easier to hire from that pool.
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by vosper 5y ago
Those aren't the only two options - there are loads of contracting agencies. You can deal with (and pay) their US office, and that money goes to their in-country subsidiary. You can get a modest-size team in Latin America this way. Thi
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by vosper 5y ago
> then Meridian or the government offers them some sweetener to stick around with a new termination date NZ government owns 51% of Meridian, so really in either case it's the government offering them a sweetener :)
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by vosper 5y ago
If the argument is that clients don't care (the comment I was replying to) then why would it matter to them that their develoeprs struggle with things that aren't React-flavored? Especially in 2021, when you can build just about a
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by vosper 5y ago
I think if you're starting up today you may find easier to find someone who can build you a site with React than with PHP. Or if not today, then give it a few years. Likewise I think someone starting up for themselves is more likely to
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by vosper 5y ago
No, sadly I think we're going to get the endless "remote did/didn't work for me and that's why it's good/bad" posts every single time this is discussed here, forever.
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by vosper 5y ago
> I do hope for their own sake that Bubble looks at migrating away. At scale an untyped de facto abandoned 'language' is going to catch up to them sooner or later and limit their ability to iterate safely at scale. Looks like t
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by vosper 5y ago
I'm right there with ya cries in not even Coffee version 2 . One day maybe it'll be a lucrative niche for contractor legacy-maintenance warriors. That'll happen before I convince senior management that startups with React an
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by vosper 5y ago
When bad things happen in the metaverse you can pretend it doesn't matter, because everyone knows that stuff isn't really real; nothing serious happens in the metaverse. Just like how it took 20 years for (some?) people to realise
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by vosper 5y ago
Not only is this a really cool idea, that sensor is awesome! I love that you can get something like that for $30.
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by vosper 5y ago
So it needs power to move the weight of the human, plus 75-200lb? I’m wondering if an exoskeleton that’s only for moving a person about might have a lower power requirement or longer battery life?
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by vosper 5y ago
When Facebook tried to launch their own coin with Libra (now Diem) it went really badly, and they had lots of big names on-board, too: PayPal, eBay, Mastercard, Stripe, Visa. Diem seems to be battling on (maybe they want to make it the curr
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by vosper 5y ago
I think yoga might be an alternative for people wanting to maintain their bodies well into the future. I’ve done weightlifting and yoga, I like them both, I think if I was picking one for effectiveness and longevity of practice it’d be yoga
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by vosper 5y ago
Interesting, thanks for the insights
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by vosper 5y ago
> the painful "shove everything in a huge singular AWS Aurora instance" approach :) I haven't used Aurora - what's painful about this approach (apart from potentially being locked-in to AWS / Aurora)?
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by vosper 5y ago
Yeah "new Jira" is a big improvement. I recently had to setup a project and workflow for a new team, and was steeling myself for a configuration nightmare. But then I saw there's a new way to create projects. It is so much
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by vosper 5y ago
> Generating DOM fragments on update is possible, but naively done it will quickly get out of sync with the DOM view function. Curious about 'really cool work' in this space! This is what Svelte's doing, as I understand it
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by vosper 5y ago
Twitter is actually under-rated, IMO. It’s public, popular, and all the data is for sale for custom analytics. So journalists are in there amplifying tweets into other media. Companies (many/most of the medium and big ones) are despera
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by vosper 5y ago
> In social situations I struggle to let go and have to put enormous amounts of energy to act ‘normal’, yet most people don’t even pick up on it. Have you tried having a couple of drinks? There’s a reason they call alcohol a “social lubr

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