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You don’t even need to do that. Once you have Residency (distinct from Permanent Residency and Citizenship - the one with the passport) you are allowed to start your own company which you can use to contract yourself out to Australian companies for annual amounts double those of a lot of NZ roles.

(My last role paid 240-250K NZD depending on exchange rate; the local role prior to that: 120K NZD)

Didn’t know about E3 visa route. Very interesting, thank you

I’m very happy with SimpleWall: https://github.com/henrypp/simplewall

This used to happen to me constantly. I fixed it accidentally in switching to Ripgrep [0] which defaults to recursively searching the current directory. Bonus: it parallelises too!

Honourable mention also to FZF [1] which not only makes it trivial to locate a file in a directory tree, but has revolutionised my history use with its fuzzy matching.

[0] https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep

[1] https://github.com/junegunn/fzf

Same. How hard is it to make it optional?

I tried that but that just makes you set a PIN which I don't want to do! I appreciate the help though, thank you.

Long-time Signal user but I'm on the verge of moving I think. There are several UX shortcomings but the new PIN nag is a bridge too far. What are my options for alternatives? I imagine Telegram is the next best bet but very open to suggestions.

You can inline the JS to achieve this. ublock will allow you to prevent inline JS execution but NoScript didn't last I checked

A lot of positive comments about Pluralsight here so I thought I'd offer a slightly different perspective:

I had a subscription through work and was excited to jump in and learn as much as I could but I found the talks to be quite information-sparse when compared to say, destoryallsoftware.com [0] videos. As a result, I was apt to watch lessons at 1.5x speed in order to cover ground more quickly, which took a little getting used to.

I looked into why this might be, and discovered (at least back in 2015) that authors are paid in part, per minute of engagement [1], which might account in part for the length of the courses.

Judging from what I've read subsequently, I may just have been unlucky in the courses I selected (I didn't watch any Microsoft ones for example) so if anyone has any recommendations on particularly good courses, I'd be interested to give it a second try.

[0] https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

[1] https://www.troyhunt.com/on-being-pluralsight-author/ (germane text under 'Royalties' heading)

Yep! This is how I started out (I run it one a VPS now so I'm not tied to my home network) and it works fine. The only limit you're likely to run into is your blocklists filling RAM. I have a 5M+ long blocklist and it won't fit into 1GB, so you might want to spec up a little bit in that area, depending on how block-happy you are.

Glad to see it finally officially accepted. I've been using it on all my devices for over a year now and it's been rock solid. The ease of setup and initial connection speed alone blow any of the alternatives (that I'm aware of, at least) out of the water. Long may it continue!

Looks like he sold his medal [0] to ameliorate his loss of earnings; perhaps that's to what GP was referring.

[0] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/11261872/James-Wats...

I don't have one. I did use the web interface for Spotify though and it did some JS stuff when I left it for a bit; that's how I noticed.

A genuinely enjoyable long-form post I read a while back involved Casper [0]. Not sure how germane it is but perhaps someone will enjoy it.

[0] https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...

Not sure if this has changed but I ditched noscript when I discovered it doesn't block inline script execution. These days I use Ublock Origin:

Settings -> check 'I am an advanced user'. You should now be able to block 1st party, third party and inline JS from executing and save on a per-site basis. Hope this helps someone!

Yep! I have this and it works perfectly.

- about:config

- dom.webnotifications.enabled = false

That's it. Haven't seen one in months.

One thing I notice often gets glossed over when Cambridge Analytica comes up is that they didn't really shut down at all. While CA ceased trading, a company called Emerdata was created around that time by the same directors [0]. Their Company's House filing documents can be seen here: [1].

I'm not yelling 'conspiracy!' or anything, but it's notable that this isn't more widely reported. I'll be watching them with interest.

[0] https://www.newsweek.com/what-emerdata-scl-group-executives-...

[1] https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/10911848/officers

There's a semi-secret, invite-only, HN Slack channel.

[Edit: I don't think I mean channel but the terminology for what I'm saying eludes me]

I don't mean to be glib but this is a surprise to who exactly? I only know Niantic from Pokemon Go (which requires your GPS to be enabled, presumably) and they're owned by a company whose entire business model is data collection for targeted advertising. I'm not sure this is a particularly surprising outcome for a 'free' game if I'm totally honest.

This isn't strictly true. The final cPython release (2.7.18) is slated for April next year [0], and PyPy has no such plans to drop support [1].

I don't honestly think Python 2 is going anywhere for a while yet (judging from some of the commercial codebases I've seen at least). I sometimes wonder if this mess would have dragged on quite so long if there'd been better features in Python 3.

[0] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0373/#maintenance-releas...

[1] https://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/faq.html#how-long-will-pypy-s...

I'm coming at this from the other side, but as you note, it'll be very interesting to see how it plays out. As a consumer, I don't care what the original poster thinks I should see - they may not even be someone I follow if I click a retweet for example, and if anything, seeing what someone wants to hide is much more interesting. It's a net negative from my end because now I have to click more to see the actual content but I am far to cynical to assume that's anything more than an attempt to drive engagement metrics!

I use CoC.vim [0] with whatever Python plugin they recommend and it's easily been the most painless autocompletion I've ever used in over a decade of Vim. I wrote some (admittedly pretty basic) Python with it last week with no complaints!

[0] https://github.com/neoclide/coc.nvim

I think you're right to explore something else and I'm not aware of anything better than Elixir/Phoenix in the Web Framework world currently. It's incredibly well thought out and an absolute joy to use once you get through the initial learning curve.

I spent many years doing Python before getting talked into learning Clojure and it was incredibly eye-opening and made me a much better developer, so there is no bigger partisan than me for trying something completely different to your current skill-set. Give it a go!

In the same way that ublock is a must-have extension for many people, I won't browse without cookieAutoDelete [0]. Mostly I don't bother authenticating with websites anymore, and (I think about 3 maybe? And I just reauthenticate when I want to use those) and for mobile browsing I mostly use Firefox Focus [1]. The ad networks are down to browser fingerprinting now, which will be devastatingly accurate but realistically be the next frontier in the privacy war. I habitually roll IP addresses from different VPS service providers but I'm not sure there's much more an end user can do currently. Fascinated to see how this front will develop - if things like GDPR are coming into effect, then it's only a matter of time before a gratuitous misuse of data is closed in on, though I suspect it's too late for the current generation.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode...

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/focus

Brit here who has lived in NZ for a few years. Polled some Kiwis in the vicinity with your example and "yeah nah" is very much negative, even in that instance. I agree that on paper it's a double negative but I suppose we have to be descriptivist!

As far as I can tell, a sibling comment has it right: the last word signals the intent (modulo tone, sarcasm, etc).

+1 on this. It's pretty easy to ignore ethics when you're being paid orders of magnitude above the median national salary (I would imagine, anyway!). A course is unlikely to change that.

I'm not sure this is typical but at a UK University a few years back, a mandatory course was Social, Legal and Ethical Aspects of Computing. Make of that what you will!

I would be reticent to praise them quite so effusively, though I do think they're the best of of the big tech companies currently. I'll be watching the development of this suit with great interest: https://time.com/5596033/lawsuit-apple-selling-itunes-listen...

That's it. You can get to a terminal and play Maniac Mansion pretty early on in Day of the Tentacle.

It is! At least on the version I played from Steam :)

I moved over to Poetry recently. Pipenv traded on Reitz's cache as the Reqeusts author and got a lot of adopters, perhaps a little before the software was ready for the primetime. I only tangentially keep my finger on the pulse of the Python community but it certainly appears that they're souring on him [0], [1].

I wouldn't say more popular, but it's certainly gaining traction in a relatively short time and I prefer it. I haven't used it in anger but it certainly seems faster that Pipenv.

[0] https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kennet...

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/8kjv8x/a_letter_to_...

That's amazing! Thank you so much for making it!