slap | 2 years ago | on: Downtown SF has 18.4M square feet of empty office space. We mapped every vacancy
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slap | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you avoid video game addiction?
Which game is it?
slap | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
For reference, Dan Abramov's tweet regarding his salary in London :
slap | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How to increase SWE salaries in Europe?
The whole IT contractor bonanza at £650/day is being killed off by the government in April 2021.
Also perm developer jobs in London are at around £100k at the 90th percentile, nowhere near £160k
slap | 5 years ago | on: 3-D Printed Statues in Central Park Shine a Light on Women Scientists
It seems that none of the 6 scientists passed the notability criteria of Wikipedia?
I can't seem to find their Wikipedia page.
I would have made more sense to pick famous female scientists maybe?
slap | 5 years ago | on: Mozilla Fires Servo Devs and Security Response Teams
Carly Fiorina (HP)
slap | 5 years ago | on: Mozilla sending political ads via Firefox push notification
Today I learned that Mozilla was pro-censorship, and using their install base to promote this message.
We're living in an intesting time.
slap | 5 years ago | on: Lego Helicopter Kit Cancelled 10 Days Before Release
The mob makes the rules, not LEGO's internal policies. That's cancel culture.
slap | 5 years ago | on: Lego Helicopter Kit Cancelled 10 Days Before Release
The "cancel culture"'s new victim : LEGO helicopters. Well done everyone.
slap | 5 years ago | on: How CFEngine stays ahead of the pack
hibbelig, you're exactly right.
Chef/Puppet/Ansible are all enforcing a state which is usually defined by a package being installed, a file present, a service/process running.
Nothing groundbreaking.
slap | 5 years ago | on: How CFEngine stays ahead of the pack
>> I will go over a few of the items that lead to CFEngine’s excellence, longevity in the market, and current strong position.
CFEngine isn't in a strong position, it has been completely replaced by Chef/Ansible everywhere. It's barely used with some legacy systems.
slap | 5 years ago | on: We’ve decided to rename Riot
The change has nothing to do with BLM, or the US police.
slap | 5 years ago | on: FreeBSD Renames “Master Boot Record” to “Main Boot Record”
The MBR isn't racist, nor your Master's Degree or your master bedroom.
Keep your "woke" attitude outside of IT please
slap | 5 years ago | on: A step-by-step guide for your company's Git master to main migration
I'm so glad that US police brutality is now sorted out.
Thanks Adam.
slap | 5 years ago | on: ‘Hey Siri, I’m getting pulled over’: Records police interaction, sends location
8 years of Obama didn't do much for police brutality.
slap | 5 years ago | on: GitHub to Remove 'Master' Terminology
That's the point of view of the silent majority, but the mob makes the rules at the moment.
slap | 5 years ago | on: GitHub wil change default branch name from 'master' to 'main'
Masterdegrees and master bedrooms are next on the list.
The virtue signalling can't stop right now.
slap | 5 years ago | on: A Canadian runs 21 pages dedicated to African countries on Reddit
All these subreddits are more or less dead.
800 subscribers for the most popular one? Barely a blip on Reddit.
slap | 5 years ago | on: RuboCop: Is it time to change the name?
There's a very strong feeling of virtue signalling in these github comments.
"Woke" developers which have never heard of RuboCop before.
slap | 5 years ago | on: My First Year as a Freelance AI Engineer
Definitely not in London
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Not the case in the US, poverty is a bad indicator, race is a good one.
Poorest white crime rates are lower than the richest blacks.