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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 AW…

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 …

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 …

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 wer…

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 m…

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 /…

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 sp…

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 exampl…

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 …

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 …

> 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. …

> 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…

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 no…

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 gf…

> 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 e…

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 - smoot…

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…

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