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exactly. UK has fierce banking competition and you have so many digital banks that compete with the brick and mortar and beat them on pretty much everything except for not having actual branches. It's the closest you can be to being happy with..banks :)

Then you go to Greece and you pay exorbitant transaction fees for everything. 3E for any incoming transfer, regardless of amount. 10-15E to transfer 10k between banks in the country. Sky high interest rates for lending, unreasonable guarantee requirements and it's still really hard to get a loan. And then you get 0.25% for saving accounts. e-banking that may be pretty looking but a shame functionality wise. And you only have 4 banks (+1 zombie bank). The bankers are still making bonuses like it's 2007 and the public is funding them with transaction fees. The traditional banking business model of making money from the spread between lending and savings rate is pretty much dead.

I can't believe there can be any other country worse than Greece in the EU. Change my mind =)

As I grow older I witness that the people that built the computing industry are slowly but surely fading out. The next generation now stands on their shoulders and keeps on building the next generations of computing. Thank you Gordon Moore. RIP.

IME BigQuery is one of the very few reasons to recommend GCP over AWS.

agreed. You are under huge distress and don't have a viable alternative and your life is in danger and you sign what is really, a contract to pay with the amount to be paid being blank. So essentially and legally speaking, how is this different than blackmail?

not only there are options, but there is excellent transportation in London, especially compared to the driving hell because of the all day traffic all around Bay Area. Another parameter I don't see people mentioning (not surprisingly, since its HN after all) is the monoculture in Bay Area, versus living in one of the few global metropolis. In the Bay all you see and live is tech, in London tech is only a part of the overall life experience.

But yeah, overall it's highly personal depending on personal circumstances than anything else.

Admittedly, all of these are real issues. The thing is that for a company with 1.816 trillion (1816 billion!) market cap as of today, all of these issues are easily solvable. But it's not a matter of "we can't solve it" or even "we don't have the resources to do it, there is some higher priority problem to tackle first".

It's not an engineering problem at all at its heart.

It's a marketing/business problem that someone somewhere is thinking that Amazon can provide a free service to X users, knowing that Y (X, Y positive, Y << X) users will go over their "free tier" usage and pay for all X's costs, maybe even more, making the free tier a profitable business on its own.

RIP John, the world will miss you. You surely lived a full life.

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McK will bill $3 million, the 23 year old may get at best same as your $100k salary. Which makes everyone feel sour, esp the youngster for getting 3% of what their boss charged the client...!

same here. Admittedly it supports just a few language pairs but the translation quality is consistently and considerably better than Google Translate and other major offerings.

Copenhagen is bike friendly. Amsterdam is bike friendly. NYC and especially hilly SF are neither bike friendly. At best they are bike tolerant :)

we all remember and respect 15-213 :)

Being in a similar position, I wanted to post but your post is spot on. ML and DS have basically lifted Python and by association Django quite a lot...

from a comment from tfa: 'Now if you’re really tired of seventies tech you should try fish.' Really, that's pretty much it.

That exactly. Which is probably the same thing that several others have pointed out.. A 100$ shirt will have huge logos all over the place because the market segment it targets are people who can "just" afford it and want to signal other people who can't. A 1000$ shirt will have little to no logos and will be distinguished only by "others" who can spend as much, because if you wear 1000$ shirts why would you care signalling to the person who can "just" afford 100$ shirts that you have so much more? You may care to signal this to other 1000$ shirt owners but then maybe you just don't care about signalling via clothing ;)

this is just a generalisation... made in's perceived value is different in high end clothing, to manufacturing, to fine perfumes, to high tech.

seriously, FFS these are guidelines that we use for not-remotely-that-sensitive-data and equifax that literally... "You had one job to do, protect our data" Can't follow?

This is just business being a) ignorant b) incompetent c) careless one or more of the above applied for a hack like this to happen. It's really sad that even ycombinator crowd doesn't get it, given that the crowd here is significantly more technical and sensitive to these issues than the average Equifax Joe..

it is possible, but most of the times it's not anonymous. I.e. after an anonymous survey for some ridiculous "company of the year" award (by a third party mind you..) it was identified that some women didn't vote the place as meritocratic or equal opportunities. They were dragged into a meeting room to "discuss" about their views. This served as a lesson to all these women and all of their colleagues to never trust "anonymous surveys" in the workplace, ever.

GDS is doing an exemplary job on gov.uk websites. There are actual user groups with accessibility challenges that will evaluate web services in the UX labs before release.

Service designers, UX people and developers will take this user group into account at all stages of design, or else GDS won't let them GA the service.

Contrast it with the unicorn/more money than you can spend .com tech companies that view accessibility as a "necessity we wish would get away with" or small startups that view it as "why are you wasting your time with <1% of our users" and you see the challenges and design decisions being drastically different between different entities... :(

Bear in mind, accessibility concerns a huge array of people one way or another, from straight out being blind/deaf to dyschromatopsia and related issues, people unable to use a mouse etc... It's not an easy problem to tackle and it is a problem that I wish everyone developing for mobile/web would take into account every day...:/

SuperChat sounds like Jackass coming to Youtube, can't wait ! Parker/Stone satirised it 17 years ago in Fat Camp episode, it's gonna be so awesome :)

but who cares when 99% of people at work, in conferences and cafes have Apple Macbook (Pro)?

Greece is building a space program, so why not Ethiopia too? :)

reddit may be valued at 600 million (orl?) but steve huffman's net worth is in the millions/tens of millions at most. you wouldn't call him super rich when he can barely afford a nice house in Palo Alto :)

can't you sell a future security on your shares though? This is a "promise" to sell at some point in the future, can't see how can this be prohibited.

erasmus (or orgasmus by some accounts) is indeed the most powerful tool for europeans to unite and figure out that as people we have more that unite us than divide us among nations and different language, manners, you name it...

yeah seriously, #2 is spot on. The moment you start brute forcing your way, network traffic gives you in and the security team will start blocking you. By the time they find out you may have found out 1,2,3.. few accounts.. This is no way worth lots of $$ in bounty, let alone the 100k job offer, that's a joke.

A quarter of a down payment for a condo came from not drinking over 2 years. And he lost 75 pounds. He must had been one heavy heavy drinker to be wasting so much calories and money on it!! Good for him to quit on it.

I don't agree. As an example: Bootstrap, by Twitter - http://bootstrapdocs.com/v2.0.2/docs/

Canada, meet Greece, the King of Capital Controls in European Union :)

can't upvote enough... short attention span is the productivity killer of our times.