kylemuir

Thank you! Paywalls be damned.

I imagine Microsoft announcing a data centre here played a significant role - AWS wouldn't want to be the cloud service with _less_ regions than Microsoft.

There are significant AWS customers in New Zealand (Xero jumps to mind) that I imagine Microsoft would love to target with that differentiator of a local data centre.

Depends how much you care about the equality and how strict. by default == will do type coercion so you can get weird results where things like [] == 0 are true.

More equality fun in JS can be seen here: https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/

I'm not suggesting it's a good fit for everyone or non-techies but I do think it would work well for the average HN reader

I've been using Linux Mint for years now and really enjoy it. It looks good, works with most things out of the box and I've had minimal issues with it.

It's a bloated distro since it tries to cater to most set ups and ships with drivers, etc that you might not need which will annoy the purists but for me the compatibility and things just working is more valuable.

I only use it on a desktop PC so YMMV.

These days I only use Windows for work as that's what my company uses and for games that don't work with Proton.

This is true now but it wasn't when I started doing dot net development ~10 years ago. If it wasn't for my employer covering the costs I wouldn't have been able to do it.

There were free editions but they were crippled versions of the paid ones with no extensions, etc. The free versions were generally unloved and had annoying quirks.

At the time you needed to add a Resharper license in there too to be decently productive which was yet another overhead.

You're replying to Tobi the CEO and founder of Shopify who recently and very publically posted about 40 hour work weeks and how Shopify lives and breathes work life balance which multiple employees confirmed.

I don't know him from a bar of soap outside of what's shared publically but a cold, calculating executive is about as far from the mark as you could possibly be.

Also a kiwi. Everyone is hesitant and it's natural to be. By locking down we are guaranteeing that people's businesses will fold and a large number of people will lose their jobs / livelihoods. No leader wants to do that unless absolutely necessary.

We've had self isolation for people coming in from overseas in place for a few weeks and as soon as that progressed to community transmission we've locked down. We had 50 cases where 2 could not be traced back to international travel. We're now at 200 cases (as of yesterday) and still no deaths.

I think hindsight is always 20/20 and I think NZ has done the right thing in appropriate timelines given what we knew at the time.

We are fortunate that we are a remote island in the south pacific that makes it easier for us to close borders and contain this much easier than other countries can.

When I was big into running I wanted a smart watch that could play my music and connect to my headphones without needing to take my bulky phone with me

Other reasons for wanting spotify is a remote control. When I had my pebble and my phone was in my pocket I'd often use it to skip songs, drop the volume a bit, etc without having to pull out my phone each time

This was a bit jarring to me: Apple takes a big stance on privacy as a fundamental human right but feel free to spy on what your kids are up to?

When those fixed rates end and they have to refix a ton of overleveraged people will force mortgagee sales.

In Auckland there's been talk of that for at least 5-6 years. For example, people I personally know only earn $80-90k/yr and yet own a $500k house (absolute entry level livable house in Auckland). They also got in under our old rules which meant they only needed 5% deposit instead of the 20% required now.

They're only being propped up by their record low interest rates. If those interest rates went up 2-3% they'd be in serious trouble.

EDIT: for more context the average fixed period for any home loan in NZ is roughly 2-3 yrs. The term is a 30 year term typically.

Speaking from a city (Auckland) where house prices have sky rocketed this hasn't happened yet.

Prices in the area I live in use to be $100k-ish for a 3 bdrm home 10 years ago. Now they're $760k and I live >30 miles from the CBD.

Teachers salaries have continued to get "cost of living" increases and we have news stories like this popping up all the time: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/102707618

Maybe but in some cases I find it extremely difficult to separate the art from the artists.

An example is the lostprophets. I use to like a couple of their songs but after finding out what the lead singer did I'll likely never listen to a lostprophets song again.

Our first action, which began immediately after the incident concluded, was to implement a 24-hour cooldown on republication of any deleted package name

I don't understand this. Why hard delete packages at all? Soft deleting feels like it would be easier and would stop people republishing with the same name.

They could also bake their warning process for dependent libraries (i.e. "this package is gone!") into the soft delete process.

The penalties for driving drunk and killing someone are harsher than a simple DUI.

Even in this example, drunk drivers who kill aren't executed. I definitely agree the punishment on this particular individual should be stronger but executing him? That's taking it a bit far.

A long jail stint (and some growing up) would likely stop this particular individual from ever repeating their actions again. Executions should be reserved for those who are truly beyond rehabilitation IMO.

Strongly echo this sentiment. Last time I used TFS was probably in 2011 so things might have changed significantly since then but off the top of my head things I use to hate but now don't need to worry about since using git over TFS:

- Offline? Looks like you'll have to wait to make that change or any other change for that matter since you can't check out files if you're offline. When doing remote work this use to do my head in.

- TFS On Premise putting readonly locks on every file you have. Why? Great question. Made writing build scripts and their ilk much harder to accomplish.

- Want to make a branch? That'll be an entire copy of the source code times however many branches you want

Really? What driver support on a desktop were you experiencing?

I've run Linux mint on my desktop at home for a few years now and have had zero problems at all (Intel i5, Nvidia gfx, wired connection).

The last time I had driver issues with Linux was ~10 years ago and it was for a laptop running Ubuntu.

A furlong is the distance one can sprint before running out of breath

That doesn't seem very logical at all, that's entirely subjective. I'm fairly certain a top sprinter would easily be able to sprint much further than my (admittedly) unfit self before running out of breath.

Good luck with the wedding! :)

I'm currently running Linux Mint on my home PC and I installed it and then tweaked from there (granted, I use English so no need to tweak the inputs). It's been very smooth - smoothest experience so far and I'd definitely recommend it to others.

However, last time I installed Ubuntu it booted to a black screen of death and then googling told me it didn't come with nvidia drivers out of the box, etc.

If you dont mind me asking: how old were you when she was born?

Still wouldn't stop Wesley Snipes in Demolition Man :)

Definitely agree - my pet peeve (although I haven't seen it for a while) is introducting circular references by adding compiled dlls from /bin/debug as references instead of adding a project reference.

I use to see it a lot a few years ago, maybe I just got a little better at my job?

Thankfully, it also has the same "Alt-Enter" to revert said LINQ query :)

Had this very conversation today - I still like jQuery as previously it was extremely useful for projects (circa 2011).

I haven't really used it in the last 4 years as most of my projects have had frameworks in place.

I definitely think it still has it's place - it is more concise and reads a lot nicer in many cases than vanilla JS for DOM manipulation and AJAX requests.

I dunno. I've tried mocking frameworks and found that when the interface they were mocking changed I spent more time trying to fix for the arrange step of the test than adding tests that added huge value.

Rolling my own might take fractionally more effort to initially set up but the transparency of what happens and ability to debug through to me is of more value.

What are peoples thoughts on handrolling mocks\stubs? I tend to do that the most and would love a compelling reason as to why I should switch my behaviour.

That particular flag wasn't released until version 1.3 so by opting in rather than out it wasn't released as a breaking change.

When it was released and we tried to use it, it broke our site entirely due to third-party libraries we were using.

Honestly, I feel that everything in moderation is a good rule to follow. I spend a more than I perhaps should but I enjoy my life.

As long as I am putting money away into savings each month and not going backwards I see it as a win. Going to extremes where you're worried about whether or not you put pieces of plain pizza in with mushroom pizza I feel is a bit too far for my liking.