dingallero

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   by dingallero 7y ago

   And this is a problem. Lowest-bidder-wins always creates a race to the bottom. At least in the province of Venice, there was a complicated set of rules to pick between bidders of public contractors - so the law is certainly not universal in
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   by dingallero 7y ago

   In several places where I lived the public transport road service was subcontracted to the lowest-bidding private company of the region. This in turn creates this shitty illusion of "public" service that nobody wants to use, becau
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   by dingallero 7y ago

   Pretty much any city in EU has now some forms of traffic restriction policies. The same is true for where I live as well. The issue is not really the restriction, but the lack of alternatives. Very few cities have a decent metro zone: these
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   by dingallero 7y ago

   I do use noto for this, but absolutely hate the use of color in glyphs such as the emojis.
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   by dingallero 7y ago

   In my limited experience, I'm not sure it's an advantage. You do get to break the ice faster during interviews and contacting new clients. But it can easily backfire as well: people will ask why "project X" is not up to
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   by dingallero 7y ago

   This has been discussed before and it has been true for me as well. I don't have a large, super-popular package I maintain, but several lesser known ones, some of which I wrote, and several of which I just adopted and passively became