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I attended one of their events a few months ago in Amsterdam. You have to hand in your phone when entering the venue and get it back afterwards. I spent around 2 hours reading my k…

> People are either completely taken in by the marketing and believe like it's a religion, or they have solid, sensible concerns about reliability. The other issue is that the firs…

We use Renovate to keep dependencies up-to-date across npm, Kotlin, Docker and GitHub Actions. It automatically monitors all the dependencies (including in our private repositories…

> It's reasonable to guess that these devices were made to only explode after a very unique code is is received, and/or only when traffic came over a radio channel known to be used…

> The complaint: "I train people just for them to leave" is stupid, ask yourself and them WHY they leave and then up your incentives. Also worth considering: what if you don't trai…

Because I'm lazy I normally get the P.A.N. brand from the Albert Heijn, which is really meant for arepas but it does an ok job. If I fancy a short bike ride to De Pijp in Amsterdam…

If SPY dropped 40% I'd suggest that it's gone on sale.

I've had a similar experience. My team is using Vue 2 and, while the VueX store is almost entirely correctly typed, inside the Vue components everything was typed as 'any'. There w…

If you head in the opposite direction you get the benefit of the weather improving as your trip goes on!

What advice would you give to someone who already feels like they're on a Team B after 3/4 months?

The killer is definitely not wheelchair-bound – Sacramento County's DA's office released a video of him exercising in his cell and climbing all over the furniture on the same day a…

Regardless of whether 16GB is enough or not, I'm always wary of the first release of any Apple hardware or operating system and would rather wait for a hardware revision or point r…

The only conversation I've ever had when going through passport control in the EU was in Rome. I was around 25 with a full beard and my passport photo was taken when I was a clean-…

iTunes is terrible, but you don't have to use it – I got my MBP at Xmas 2014 and still haven't accepted the iTunes EULA.

I thought so too, but my school didn't make us at the time (I started Y10 in 2004). I was able to pick four options at GCSE, so I took French, Spanish, Drama and Music. My other su…

I found both history and geography pretty lacking at school (partly why I dropped them both before GCSE-level). My only real memory of Geography classes is how oxbow lakes are form…

I discovered Tinariwen on a CD in my university library about 10 years ago, I had all but forgotten about them until I got a notification they were playing in Amsterdam earlier thi…

You might already be familiar with it, but Robert Rodriguez pursued a very budget-conscious approach when filming El Mariachi. Much of the approach is explained in the DVD extras t…

I believe the biggest player is MindGeek and they have a lot of open positions in various locations [0]. Technologies include Go, PHP, .Net, JS (React) and there are lots of DevOps…

I've used it to transfer money between an account in the UK (GBP) and my account in the Netherlands (EUR). It took less than 24 hours from signing up to Transferwise to having the …

But Rails is nice to work with and whispers 99% of websites will never need to reach Twitter-scale.

Did we know those elves were elves at the time?

Because they have had established entities in it and will continue to do so until March 2019? After all, establishing an entity in the United Kingdom has, until now, been an equal …

I'm afraid it is. I had to relinquish my copies of Butcher's Copy Editing and the New Hart's Rules when I left my editorial job, but I've found the rule of indefinite articles prec…

Cost of Living, I imagine.