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by wlll 9y ago
The last time someone tried to get me "passionate" about the mission of the company it was so I'd take less than market compensation. Apparently because I would be "helping people" I should be willing to take a pay
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by wlll 9y ago
I have two 27" Apple monitors, one in portrait and one in landscape orientation. The portrait orientation monitor I use for code. They look identical, there is no degradation (that I can see) from looking at the monitor rotated 90°. If
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by wlll 9y ago
PHP is crap. It's actively hard to write good code in it. Not good code like SOLID or pretty code that's self documenting, it's hard to write code that's not going to break in unique and interesting ways. Sure, you can k
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by wlll 9y ago
http://gandi.net
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by wlll 9y ago
Because MySQL is the PHP of databases. Much like PHP is designed to just carry on truckin' whatever problem it encounters ( https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ ), MySQL wa
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by wlll 9y ago
Yes, the parent commenters did skip public transport and focus on the other modes. But focussing on public transport, I use it. I go to Manchester on the train. It's about the same time as driving (once you've got to the station),
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by wlll 9y ago
> Also they are struggling to make money Isn't this largely their own choosing? They're deliberately undercutting the competition to at best gain a foothold, or worst eliminate the competition entirely so they can put prices up
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by wlll 9y ago
I would have thought that they know enough to make a decently accurate guess. Not that I know what they do of course, but without much thought I can think of a model that would allow me to predict income. - They're using Uber, that cut
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by wlll 9y ago
"Uber involved in $shady_business_practice, news at 10!" Seriously, they're scum, this isn't surprising at all. I deleted my account a while back and although sometimes it's less convenient, I've managed. I d
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by wlll 9y ago
I'm not the OP, but I associate with everything they said, so here's my take if you're interested: > I'm curious about your "mask" statement. I have that same feeling, and experience with alcohol. Same, but
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by wlll 9y ago
> …statistically self-driving cars have killed less people than human drivers? I realise that the point you're making is about emotional turmoil and not really statistics, but it looks like so far Uber aren't doing so well in t
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by wlll 9y ago
I just don't trust Uber and its engineers enough to trust them as a self-driving car company. Even before this incident. Their organisation has been shown to be deceitful, their CEO to be devious. I can completely believe they would cu
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by wlll 9y ago
I suspect that this was linked to people seeing Trump as different to the status quo. Yeah, he was rude, made incoherent outbursts, etc. etc. but that set him apart from the career politicians that had gone before. I'm pretty sure that
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by wlll 9y ago
Is that because in LA you have time to scrutinise in depth a great deal of tarmac? ;)
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by wlll 9y ago
I find the following helps: - Changing my routine seems to kick off my ability to focus - I have a sit-stand desk. Using it standing seems to help my focus, but changing between sitting and standing can bump my motivation. - For clients sta
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by wlll 9y ago
I feel like this is a better way of putting it: "If you are in the business of collecting data without users' explicit permission you shoudln't be in business."
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by wlll 9y ago
Is it just me, or are those both the same landing pad but with different cameras?
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by wlll 9y ago
For what it's worth this is my limited understanding of the way the US stock market works from my observations over 17 years in the UK :) Personally I'm a big fan of the "middle ground" European model that seems to be, &
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by wlll 9y ago
> Activism has been a big problem for drug companies Forgive me if I'm wrong, but isn't it kinda up to the shareholders? If shareholders value something other than the "long term value" you speak of (I guess share pri
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by wlll 9y ago
I'd like to see Linux support, but it wouldn't surprise me if it didn't happen unfortunately. > The Mac line may not be Apple’s biggest seller, but it’s not like it’s losing them money. It’s a huge revenue stream. Totally,
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by wlll 9y ago
It's plugged into the mains, but regardless, Apple replaced the battery a couple of months ago, currently has only 19 charge cycles.
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by wlll 9y ago
I wrote this in another comment, but it's relevant here: It wouldn't surprise me if in the next few years Apple slowly winds down all things Mac. Marketing, updates, upgrades etc. and while doing that makes XCode Windows compatibl
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by wlll 9y ago
I have a mid 2014 Macbook Pro (top of the line, discrete GPU and all) and some recent update has made it really slow (not the Meltdown updates, something before that). It now takes an age to switch workspaces, to load the task switcher, to
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by wlll 9y ago
As a resident of Europe (now looking rather shaky unfortunately) I'm happy about regulations that force companies to be more responsible with my data. As a programmer who has to make sure my code and business conform to these regulatio
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by wlll 9y ago
That's an awful lot more informative than "This reads like a scaremongering article.". Is there more information on the likely timescales?
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by wlll 9y ago
Is it not true? If it is true then it seems like a good idea to let people know, I myself didn't know about this phenomenon before and feel better informed. If it's not true, or the danger is being far overblown then speak up here
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by wlll 9y ago
My understanding of this situation is this: Meltdown: Easier to exploit, fixable in software but perhaps up to a 30% performance hit for some operations. Spectre: Harder to exploit, not fixable in software, needs new hardware. See these two
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by wlll 9y ago
Thanks for the reply. Personally I've travelled to the US many times over the last 9 years from the UK (I don't want to move there, but have been happy to travel), but have done so less frequently since Trump was elected. No parti
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by wlll 9y ago
Has Trump being elected affected the rate of applications from people wanting to go to the US? Are there any other factors that affect the rate?
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by wlll 9y ago
> You still haven't convinced me why I should move everything to TLS. I don't need to, you can head off into the world believing what you want. You are however very wrong on this. Wether you decide you are going to continue to

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