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www.theguardian.com 11mo ago

Hotels in Europe to sue Booking.com over 'abusive' practices

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twitter.com 1y ago

We hired this guy a week ago. Fired this morning. He did interviews incredibly

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www.gov.uk 5y ago

Vaping better than nicotine replacement therapy for stopping smoking

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github.com 6y ago

RuboCop: Is it time to change the name?

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sivers.org 6y ago

When in Doubt, Try the Difference

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www.calvertjournal.com 7y ago

Tech sector has a big problem with women. Bulgaria has the answer

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bigthink.com 8y ago

Study confirms lifting weights reduces depression

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mobile.reuters.com 8y ago

Resistance exercise linked to reduced anxiety

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www.independent.co.uk 9y ago

WPP, world's biggest ad agency hit by new ransomware cyber attack

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mobile.nytimes.com 9y ago

Losing Fat, Gaining Brain Power, on the Playground

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mobile.nytimes.com 9y ago

Hacking in Qatar Highlights a Shift Toward Espionage-For-Hire

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journal.stuffwithstuff.com 9y ago

JavaScript Isn't Scheme (2013)

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www.vanderbilt.edu 9y ago

Probing the Mind of Richard Feynman (1998)

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en.wikipedia.org 9y ago

Greater fool theory

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news.ycombinator.com 10y ago

Ask HN: Math from square one, after ~11 years of programming

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www.morgenkommichspaeterrein.de 10y ago

Would You Be Happier If You Were Richer? (2006) [pdf]

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dojotoolkit.org 11y ago

Dojo Toolkit re-designed

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en.wikipedia.org 12y ago

Kaizen – Continuous improvement philosophy

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startupvalidator.co 12y ago

Startup Validator

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shouldilearnjavascript.com 12y ago

Should I learn JavaScript?

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www.bbc.co.uk 12y ago

Do cognitive-enhancing drugs work?

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qz.com 12y ago

Hannibal Lecter isn’t a psychopath, but you might be

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en.wikibooks.org 12y ago

Seven Habits Study Guide

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torrentfreak.com 12y ago

VPN Provider Shuts Down After Lavabit Case Undermines Security

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news.ycombinator.com 12y ago

Ask HN: What could go wrong using Somalia domain (.so)?

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More precisely, it’s the poorest country in EU and ~80% of households (highest share in EU) have _at least_ one unit (mini splits). Most households use them for heating also during the cold season.

There are no subsidies and/or regulations around this at all. The downside is that it doesn’t look pretty most of the time (unless it’s a new build with infra for multi-split traces).

In that context, this whole “europoors” narrative feels like some weird psyop to me.

I assume you’re targeting western audiences with all this BS, because you sound really out of depth to anyone from the Balkans/EE.

AirPods Max 2 4 months ago

Bowers & Wilkins PX8 S2 can be included also as top tier general + audiophile sound quality (‘musical’) + premium build and materials.

If you’re open about it, maybe you can take a look into Phenibut — it’s somewhere between alcohol and lightweight MDMA in terms of disinhibition effects. It can help tremendously in the context of aiding progressive exposure. Do you own research, though: it can get into slippery slope fairly quickly.

Bulgaria pegging to the DM in 1997 meant anchoring to a much harder currency than what the euro has become.

Look, it seems you have beef with Bulgaria adopting the euro based on your other comments, but matter of fact is that many people remember the hyperinflation and the Videnov winter — especially older people that were queuing for bread with all of their lifetime savings disappearing overnight. Hence, the board staying almost 30 years. What’s scary for many is that the board in its current form is just a law that can be removed with simple majority, e.g. the current stable state could be made obsolete in a matter of a weekend — with devastating consequences for the economy. Adopting the euro means tighter integration with EU only and it’s mostly irrevocable … sadly for Russia and its proxies over here.

I agree. Honestly, I’m proficient with vim/emacs, but I’ve been using JetBrains for ~13 years and don’t want to sound boastful, but I’m pretty sure I’ll run circles around non-trivial amount of vim users in terms of productivity/efficiency/raw text editing. The amount of time I’ve put in customizing my workflow is stupid. The false dichotomy that if you use IDE you must be point-clicking around menus is often repeated. I guess … know your tool of choice inside-out is what’s more important.

OTOH, this is how you grow. Every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence. If you haven't yet, the following book by Gerry Weinberg may resonate with you, as it has lots of insight in this context -- "Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach".

"It identifies which leadership skills are most effective in a technical environment and why technical people have characteristic trouble in making the transition to a leadership role. For anyone who is a leader, hopes to be one, or would like to avoid being one."

I was heavy user of Fireworks back in the day. Looking back — it had enormous influence over where I’m now today. I still can’t get over what Adobe did to it. It’s like Microsoft or some other behemoth buying JetBrains and then slowly killing it in favor of its own IDEs.

Conversely I doubt that Asta would be considered road worthy anywhere in the EU. Actually I think EU countries like Bulgaria and Romania would benefit from some of these super-cheap vehicles.

Bulgaria and Romania are EU countries — that is, under the same regulations that Germany has. Even if Asta was road worthy there, people from lower GDP EU countries would still prefer continue buying high-mileage, but somewhat well-maintained vehicles from Germany.

Great work!

How is the panel? Do you have any uniformity issues? In total, I've tried 7 units of LG 5K UltraFine (27MD5KA-B and 27MD5KL-B). All had [1] uneven brightness (visible on white background) and backlight bleed. Some of the units also exhibited tinting and/or faint vertical lines. I couldn't swallow these issues for the price that I've paid. Now I'm with Dell U2720Q, but I miss the high PPI of the 5K.

[1] https://imgur.com/a/oVN3kTc#FGOzspK

I'm wondering how much context plays role in this perception — for example, I'm from Europe and find it somewhat confusing when people from USA talk about BMW/VW as utterly unreliable; here, it's the reverse — people equate VW cars as reliable and unpretentious, while BMW reliable and having great driving dynamics. Many people do consider BMW/VW as well-engineered/well-built quality cars that provide relatively good residuals.