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by lfxyz 1y ago
I attended one of their events a few months ago in Amsterdam. You have to hand in your phone when entering the venue and get it back afterwards. I spent around 2 hours reading my kindle in silence. It was really nice being in a space where
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by lfxyz 2y ago
> People are either completely taken in by the marketing and believe like it's a religion, or they have solid, sensible concerns about reliability. The other issue is that the first group are labelled as innovative go-getters, while
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by lfxyz 2y ago
We use Renovate to keep dependencies up-to-date across npm, Kotlin, Docker and GitHub Actions. It automatically monitors all the dependencies (including in our private repositories) and opens PRs (max 10 at a time) against those repos. This
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by lfxyz 2y ago
> It's reasonable to guess that these devices were made to only explode after a very unique code is is received, and/or only when traffic came over a radio channel known to be used by Hezbollah. Why is this a reasonable thing t
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by lfxyz 5y ago
> The complaint: "I train people just for them to leave" is stupid, ask yourself and them WHY they leave and then up your incentives. Also worth considering: what if you don't train them and they stay?!
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by lfxyz 5y ago
Because I'm lazy I normally get the P.A.N. brand from the Albert Heijn, which is really meant for arepas but it does an ok job. If I fancy a short bike ride to De Pijp in Amsterdam, then Tjin's Toko sells the Maseca brand.
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by lfxyz 5y ago
If SPY dropped 40% I'd suggest that it's gone on sale.
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by lfxyz 6y ago
I've had a similar experience. My team is using Vue 2 and, while the VueX store is almost entirely correctly typed, inside the Vue components everything was typed as 'any'. There was no value being added in the slightest, but
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by lfxyz 6y ago
If you head in the opposite direction you get the benefit of the weather improving as your trip goes on!
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by lfxyz 6y ago
What advice would you give to someone who already feels like they're on a Team B after 3/4 months?
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by lfxyz 6y ago
The killer is definitely not wheelchair-bound – Sacramento County's DA's office released a video of him exercising in his cell and climbing all over the furniture on the same day as his sentence was handed to him. The use of a whe
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by lfxyz 6y ago
Regardless of whether 16GB is enough or not, I'm always wary of the first release of any Apple hardware or operating system and would rather wait for a hardware revision or point release.
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by lfxyz 7y ago
The only conversation I've ever had when going through passport control in the EU was in Rome. I was around 25 with a full beard and my passport photo was taken when I was a clean-shaven 17/18 year old. The conversation went: &#x2
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by lfxyz 8y ago
iTunes is terrible, but you don't have to use it – I got my MBP at Xmas 2014 and still haven't accepted the iTunes EULA.
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by lfxyz 8y ago
I thought so too, but my school didn't make us at the time (I started Y10 in 2004). I was able to pick four options at GCSE, so I took French, Spanish, Drama and Music. My other subjects were 2x English, 3x Science, 2x Maths, German (I
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by lfxyz 8y ago
I found both history and geography pretty lacking at school (partly why I dropped them both before GCSE-level). My only real memory of Geography classes is how oxbow lakes are formed. My memory of history in primary and secondary school inv
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by lfxyz 8y ago
I discovered Tinariwen on a CD in my university library about 10 years ago, I had all but forgotten about them until I got a notification they were playing in Amsterdam earlier this year. They were absolutely incredible live, and I was real
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by lfxyz 8y ago
You might already be familiar with it, but Robert Rodriguez pursued a very budget-conscious approach when filming El Mariachi. Much of the approach is explained in the DVD extras to the film, but is summarised on the film's Wikipedia[0
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by lfxyz 8y ago
I believe the biggest player is MindGeek and they have a lot of open positions in various locations [0]. Technologies include Go, PHP, .Net, JS (React) and there are lots of DevOps positions too. [0] https://www.mindgeek.com&#x2F
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by lfxyz 8y ago
I've used it to transfer money between an account in the UK (GBP) and my account in the Netherlands (EUR). It took less than 24 hours from signing up to Transferwise to having the money in my Dutch bank account and I got a good rate on
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by lfxyz 8y ago
But Rails is nice to work with and whispers 99% of websites will never need to reach Twitter-scale.
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by lfxyz 8y ago
Did we know those elves were elves at the time?
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by lfxyz 8y ago
Because they have had established entities in it and will continue to do so until March 2019? After all, establishing an entity in the United Kingdom has, until now, been an equal level of 'betting' as establishing an entity anywh
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by lfxyz 8y ago
I'm afraid it is. I had to relinquish my copies of Butcher's Copy Editing and the New Hart's Rules when I left my editorial job, but I've found the rule of indefinite articles preceding vowels referenced on the Chicago M
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by lfxyz 8y ago
Cost of Living, I imagine.
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by lfxyz 9y ago
Sorry, humour bypass on my end. But yes, this is a bad blog post.
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by lfxyz 9y ago
I've done plenty of traveling to other countries, thank you very much.
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by lfxyz 9y ago
According to my Trakt.tv account I've spent 58 days, 3 hours, 49 mins watching 760 movies and 110 days, 17 hours, 34 mins watching 4,521 television episodes. I am completely okay with this.
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by lfxyz 9y ago
The concept seems really interesting and I've signed up to try and improve on my Spanish. I currently live in Amsterdam though, and there's no option in the drop-down for learning Dutch. Is it likely to make it onto your list?
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by lfxyz 9y ago
I hadn't heard of them until I moved to the Netherlands and only became aware of them because buying e.g. cinema tickets flashed up on my phone as a payment to Adyen rather than Pathe.

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