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At the point now where basically any photo that isn't shared by someone I trust or a reputable news organisation is essentially unverifiable as being real or not The positive aspec…

It wouldn't really make sense as a question on a Joel test seeing as its a design style. A Joel test is more about ways of working.

Maybe this inspired The Pogues' classic "streams of whiskey" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPpGp_J3z2A

The Joel score is 22 years old now and fairly significantly outdated. It predates unit-testing, ci/cd concepts, cloud computing, microservices etc etc. Scoring 12 was perfect in 20…

Secret unbeatable boss. Michael Chabon wrote an excellent essay about his efforts to read Finnegans wake in the NYbook review

Its funny because once you read enough of it to properly grok the working of the stream of consciousness style it becomes a joy to read, as easy to comprehend as your own internal …

on one hand, free travel for millions of citizens, on the other, higher profitability for a handful private bus operators. Its surprising to me that someone would even consider bri…

That has to be one of the most entertaining, bizarre and depressing accounts of local politics I have ever read. Thanks.

But your risk profile for death is extremely high.

maybe this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEz5GfZUnBU went viral in ireland for the accent and the novelty of seeing a city centre addict being interviewed about football on tv. …

I'm skeptical 800 million dollar projects would pass through local government at that level in 5 minutes, unless everyone who voted in favor had already been canvassed or taken par…

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Two men stood at the verge of the cliff, watching: businessman, boatman. — She's making for Bullock harbour. The boatman nodded towards the north of the bay with some disdain. — Th…

Seems likely to be shit, fuck or stupid

> That's basically fulfilling the prophecy that men are just in for the sex. How in god's name did you reach that conclusion?

"I wanted edgy. I wanted mobile. I wanted hip. I wanted cool." "Actually I continue to fight with myself not to expose two individuals in particular who have been completely toxic …

Define "dynamic fast-paced IT industry" sounds like a meaningless platitude to me. From my experience most companies have huge difficulties finding good irish candidates because th…

> China is, simply put, orders of magnitude bigger Ah China, Like religion, a topic about which people who have no idea about are comfortable making grand, utterly wrong statements…

Agree, worrying to see what is basically a buzzfeed list on the frontpage of HN

I keep hearing this on HN and reddit, but I think this is a mainly an echo-chamber effect. I'd say its far more likely that the vast majority of people don't actually care or reali…

Still happening, except they wouldn't last 2 hours like OP's story. I took an american colleague to a rave (in dublin) about a year ago and he was freaking out at the fact that you…

completely uninformed here, but wouldn't having the servers wiped be better for the defense? no evidence for him, but none for the prosecutor either.

It seems like you have a lot of misconceptions about cities and there health and environmental impacts, which have been proven multiple times to be lower in per capita then suburba…

Not everything is a software problem, I think you are hugely underestimating how much more power is required for an elevator to self propel vertically upwards compared to a counter…