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by watt 7y ago
Once the panic is over, there will be a slump in sales: everybody will be wiping from their own enormous hoard. They will not start going to toilet twice as often or start using twice as much paper. The real demand base line is 100% same.
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by watt 7y ago
There probably isn't a law against that, but there should. I feel that guy actually should go to jail.
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by watt 7y ago
No reason to look at Slack like that. It may be well worth the price. When company really starts using Slack it replaces the whole communication system of company, think at the level of replacing the complete Exchange/Outlook system, t
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by watt 7y ago
It also is designated as protected national park, is a unique ecosystem and a UNESCO World Heritage Site. So I wonder, why you look at all this, and think - "why don't we let the military-industrial complex pollute and abuse it&qu
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by watt 7y ago
Null safety is the one big win for Kotlin. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/null-safety.html
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by watt 7y ago
I think basically it means "cringe".
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by watt 7y ago
Your points are all valid, but I don't think it's the "unquestioned" way. It simply happens to be great way to scale, and also to isolate complexity etc. You can scale to monster loads this way, they way that in-process
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by watt 7y ago
There might be also a thing where we see how it plays out in Switzerland and Norway where salaries are very high indeed, but your money does not go nearly as far.
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by watt 7y ago
No, you expect bureaucracy to be helpful and resist when they are acting as harmful to the spirit of the law. Otherwise you get a nightmare state akin to Soviet Union.
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by watt 7y ago
The verb is "incorrectly" used only if you assume that "pelosi" implicitly refers to female politician "Nancy Pelosi". You might infer that if Nancy was recently in the news, but that's a hard leap.
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by watt 7y ago
I skimmed the article, but it seems the purpose of it would be better served as series of issue reports in the Google Translate bug tracking system than a full article. I think it's not really that interesting to diss the state of the
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by watt 7y ago
It's curious to be sure, but I think they will react positively to Tesla. 1) Berlin is suffering from pollution, especially the diesel. For city dwellers the switch to electric car can't happen fast enough, and German auto makers
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by watt 7y ago
What if the author decided to make the minimal testcase to make the camere lock up, and reported it as a vulnerability to the camera manufacturer. I think the camera vendor is obligated to fix the defect. It's really annoying to work a
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by watt 7y ago
At around 52:45 he mentioned top secret security clearance will get you paid ridiculous amounts of money.
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by watt 7y ago
Here's a great article why so many Chinese goods are printed with those ugly latin characters: https://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/183/
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by watt 7y ago
> it turned out for the best for me Survivorship bias. What could have happened is that you spend 12 months looking for another job, nothing, you lose your house, end up on street, take some minimum wage job, never comment on HN. We don&
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by watt 7y ago
Kotlin might become the default Java syntax, that's what the GP is saying. And I agree.
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by watt 7y ago
I think it's much easier to make your own electricity than to make your own petrol if it comes to that.
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by watt 7y ago
> I would say it's not necessarily bad to compliment smart people for being smart. Why? Why to do you think this? Could you provide your sources. Here's a source for the opposite: https://www.theatlantic.com/edu
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by watt 7y ago
Last time is when? In 2019 the median seems to be 65k-70k, and 70k-75k is possible.
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by watt 7y ago
Mental maturity AND solves overpopulation.
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by watt 7y ago
Wouldn't you actually be motivated to take the 6 hour assignment to get away from high-stress workplace that is taking also weekends and with long commute, to land a position that has proper work-life balance, higher salary and maybe c
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by watt 7y ago
Here's discussion from the time it was mentioned previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20312826
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by watt 7y ago
Usability-wise, isn't it kind of weird that the click target you use the most (upvote arrow) is the smallest of the three? And the ones that you use rarely or never, are so easy to hit by accident. Why must world be like this?
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by watt 7y ago
(2014) Fascinating stuff!
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by watt 7y ago
This is only a half step removed from being required to buy and use some specific brand.
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by watt 7y ago
The rich get richer and the poor only get poorer. It's the principle as old as the bible, and the Vimes part simply puts it into very accessible terms that everyone can identify with.
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by watt 7y ago
The essay does not support the summary (or conclusion). Markets are just as bottom-up as anything.
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by watt 7y ago
In Germany it seems you can not have a bank account and sign up for mobile service (have mobile phone contract) if you're under 18. This does not make sense, kids need to be able to manage money and have their own phone earlier.
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by watt 7y ago
I can see how running a bunch of fat jar services each in dedicated JVM can be competitor to running loads and loads of little OSGi components in one big huge JVM.

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