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by woutr_be 7y ago
Most of my friends in China are still very reluctant to go out, even though most lockdowns have been lifted. People were much more concerned about it than in Europe / US, and that fear is not going to go away with the lockdowns lifted.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
How does one go about improving this in a big corporate company? Our development team is focussed on shipping, but most of our delays come from the business changing their mind and changing requirements constantly. The people who act as the
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> Something will be the breaking point for this level of restriction/overreach in the name of surveillance. If anything, I believe this will be used to create more anger towards the democracy movement in Hong Kong. Blaming these res
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by woutr_be 7y ago
The main advantage of jQuery these days is all the plugins it provides, most (if not all) things you need on a website exist in jQuery. And I also found it really has messed up search results, search for anything javascript related, and alm
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> Viewing the source shows an html page without a closing body nor html tag It's actually not required to close those tags, the browser will interpret them correctly. (You can see this when inspecting the elements on the page, not j
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Is it open-source? Otherwise it just looks like any other website, the code would be a lot more useful.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
To me the difference is that Svelte is a lot more pure JavaScript than Vue. I haven't had the chance to use it in any larger project, but in my small playgrounds, I've definitely enjoyed it more than Vue.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I don’t really understand your reasoning, what are your arguments as to why it would be a good idea to give the choice?
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> After SARS, the TW government had a plan for this epidemic and a healthy skepticism for both official news and the WHO. That's not surprising, since the WHO doesn't recognise Taiwan as an independent country and refuses to he
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Almost every other data source lists Macau, Taiwan and Hong Kong as separate countries, and for good reason. China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan all publish their own individual statistics, why would the WHO aggregate them into one. > ht
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Not to start a political conversation, but why are Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau not listed as separate countries? All 3 have their own measurements and cases, surely that shouldn't be included with data from China... Not only that, it g
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I would say the same, and I personally think having proper hygiene is far more important. Unfortunately here in Hong Kong, it’s almost mandatory to wear a face mask. That said, it’s known that you can be infected without showing symptoms. S
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I imagine they'll be hard to come by these days, personally I doubt wearing a face mask will make a real difference. From what I've seen here, most of the cases are from people who had close contact with someone who was already in
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Having lived through it for the past month here in Hong Kong, please do not panic. I've seen what panicking does, and it really doesn't help anyone. A simple rumour triggered a run on toilet paper, we even had a toilet paper heist
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> If you are building a web app, use React or similar. I disagree with this, there's no reason to use React/Vue/Angular for a web app by default. And I would urge people to try and avoid it for as long as possible and see
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I thought you could only use the earned BAT to pay creators? Or has it changed?
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by woutr_be 7y ago
> these folks have trouble with even basic questions, like, "is this the change you intended to make on this branch?" when shown a diff. I've seen people like this too, when reviewing PRs, I often see unwanted code being c
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Speaking from personal experience, our team originally made our own wallboard, and it was put on a big monitor in our space. Originally all was fine, the board would stop updating numbers once in a while, but nobody really cared. Just ssh i
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by woutr_be 7y ago
What's going on with this comment? Why did someone else post the exact same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ChibaCity_ ( https://imgur.com/a/XgSpxie )
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I'll give that a try later, although I think mine is hardware limited. It's probably because it's a cheap knockoff one tho, but it works for terminal use, or anything that has a high contrast.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I bought one of those as well, although it was a knockoff brand, it's great when travelling since it's about the same size as my MacBook. I wish I invested slightly more, the brightness on mine is terrible.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Two weeks paid time-off, mandatory once a year.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I don't think it "just" means that people are not that critical, it's a much deeper issue. All the way from individual engineers to managers to product owners to the company in general. At least in my team, is see: - Man
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I work as a software engineer in finance and have to take two weeks of mandatory vacation, but this doesn't deter our team from not writing proper documentation, or writing down domain specific knowledge. When someone is on leave who h
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Possible, although I've only given them my first name. And this is not just on one occasions, it has happened multiple times. My best guess has always been that Facebook uses some geo targeting to see who was at the same location at th
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Not a doctor, but from what I've read, it's mostly transmitted through droplets, from coughing or sneezing. Especially when you use public transport, someone already infected might have sneezed or coughed, and then it's trans
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by woutr_be 7y ago
I've been living through it in Hong Kong for the past month, and this is just my personal view. Time to panic? Absolutely not, but do take proper precautions. Wash your hands more often, try to avoid touching your face after you'
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Happened to me a few times, some people I randomly met in a bar where recommended to me the next day, super creepy.
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by woutr_be 7y ago
For some reason, that rubs me the wrong way. I had a manager who acted the same way, told us all his flaws and then expected us to cater towards him, without him making much effort. If anything went wrong, and we somehow didn't cater t
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by woutr_be 7y ago
Rescheduling upfront is fine, but just not showing up and rescheduling later is a huge red flag for me.

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