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ultim8k

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About ultim8k

Full stack software engineer, open standards and open source advocate, looking up to the stars and dreaming.

https://kostas.rocks

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #48620563

    Nobody wants to listen. Nobody. In 90% of the companies there are some so called senior devs that get ecstatic when they create a new abstraction. Overengineering, abstractions and…

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    Comment #47888343

    I bought a Sage (Breville) Barista Pro a month before the first lockdown. It was pricey but was one of the best purchases I've ever done. Still works exactly the same and it's what…

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    Comment #46709406

    This is really great news! We also need a paneuropean banking & tax system and ideally some paneuropean telephony (plus voip) and internet providers.

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    Comment #46479857

    EU is just headless chicken. They will just blindly agree to whatever Trump says

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    Comment #45845154

    Agreed. And I think European countries really need to start eating our own dog food and stop being 100% reliant on US software and hardware. It's not (only) about opposing certain …

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    Comment #45744509

    Are there still first world countries without public healthcare?

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    Comment #45682677

    [flagged]

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    Comment #45501151

    Most of the time gov, orgs and companies don't listen to their in-house engineers but will pay $$$ to some consulting firm, only to confirm the same thing or just to show that "the…

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    Comment #45331363

    They should effectively immediately freeze and potentially cancel any Korean investment in US and investigate all US companies based in their country. US behaving rogue should not …

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    Comment #45058125

    Why? Can someone block the sky? (I have 0 satellite knowledge)

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    Comment #43610744

    I'm waiting to see the effects of the brain drain

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    Comment #42880882

    It’s been 84 years… Jokes aside, congrats to the team! This is huge news for JS.

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    Comment #40946308

    It all depends on the country you live in and if you have a legal contract. In UK for example you can use a debt collection agency. Those guys will probably give you 50% of the amo…

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    Comment #40655896

    Take my money!

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    Comment #40099062

    Yeah, agreed cloud is bad. I have one question though. Who is going to keep updating bloody ubuntu or any other linux distro along with all the packages that may break? Who is goin…

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    Comment #39428143

    The only way this could work would be to force OS vendors to have "trusted" DNS servers and ban the use of any custom setting. Then again that would be a nightmare for large corpor…

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    Comment #37582450

    Only if the sender is The Proclaimers :P

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    Comment #37416651

    Oh those little mofos!

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    Comment #35752993

    Nothing special from me. Just a small app ( https://how-you-spell.in/ ) that translates a word to the phonetic alphabet. My full name is quite long and I’m always struggling to spe…

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    Comment #35424913

    That’s BS if I may. How would I know I have higher cholesterol if I didn’t do blood tests?

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    Comment #35240237

    If you count all the deliveroo electric bikes as bikes.

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    Comment #35235561

    It works but every single time I see it, I start swearing.

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    Comment #34923378

    They should allow accounts without phone number or with an nft number, the way telegram does.