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clearly··on Montreal Moving Day: what happens when a whole city moves house at once
We will queue for anything. However we won’t generally complain openly if someone jumps the line... just mutter under our breath.
clearly··on Top Mistakes and Learnings from My Startup: Postmortem Samsamia
I guess you should ask yourself is business success worth the risk of your relationship failing?
clearly··on Co-living in London: Friendship, fines and frustration
Indeed, this should not be portrayed as a competitive rate really, it's just the price of super convenience.
clearly··on Co-living in London: Friendship, fines and frustration
It's good there are different options, but this would be very unpalatable for me. The "anonymity" of these big spaces leads to very anti social behaviour in my experience. Luckily in 10 years in London I never shared with more than 1 other person and now own my flat.
clearly··on Ask HN: For those who don't have children, what do you do during your free time?
Climbing, running, playing guitar, reading, hanging out.
clearly··on Who Is Winning the Food Delivery War?
In the US can you not order food for delivery directly from supermarket, same for restaurants?

I would have thought in the UK Tesco, Sainsburys etc do as well as any delivery only services (Ocado, Amazon Fresh etc).

I would have guessed direct restaurant orders are as large as justeat/uber eats style services. They would certainly deserve a place on the pie chart...

I also dont believe the average US consumer spends $105/month on meal kits...

clearly··on UK Prime Minister Theresa May announces intention to hold general election
Do we?
clearly··on Remote Work Terminology – what you should know
Absolute megafail
clearly··on Remote Work Terminology – what you should know
Ah crap - a popup!

I'm writing a personal guidebook to working from home - if this sounds interesting please fill out the form over the right.

If it doesn't, hit Escape, close this window, restart your computer, and flee to Mexico.

clearly··on Fake girlfriend, revisited
Dating isnt simply a matching problem... maybe these people don't want to connect with a real person?
clearly··on Algorithms and computers won’t stop terrorism
The conclusion is classic Telegraph- where conservative values trump research or real life. A lot of their content is written to keep their readers happy- "I know my kids".
clearly··on Data maps that sum up London
Ha yes we all just avoid eye contact with each other! More seriously though, I actually find I interact with a less diverse range of people here than when I lived in more provincial towns, because you can always find very specific groups of people (ie developer events, climbers, guitarists who are into blues etc) rather than settling for more generic groups.
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http://jheusser.github.io/2013/02/03/satcoin.html is an article giving an example of using this approach (using a SAT solver) to bitcoin mining- how you would specify the problem etc.
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I'm genuinely interested to hear you say that, why do you cringe? Because it doesn't affect you and you don't perceive there to be a problem?

This is clearly a technology story, and I'm interested to hear more from anyone at Twitter how their release process works in this regard. I saw Kent Beck talk at facebook a while back and he spoke about how when working on a site like FB, you literally do have peoples lives in your hands. Releasing that software is a very hard problem. The example he gave was if they accidentally allowed public access to someones private mail- it could literally lead to deaths.

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Nice way of putting it. In some sense Twitter is only really exposing how crazy people in the world actually are. Being able to ignore/block/report offensive tweets is part of their responsibility, but more generally getting people to act in a civil manner to each other is probably not really.

"Germaine Greer once wrote that women have no idea how much men hate them. Thanks to the internet, now we do." https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/361043650970529792

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I could imagine a designer at twitter not being aware of why this feature is so important and removing it, but not why they don't make a public response of some kind.

Does anyone know anything about the change control for the UI features at twitter?

clearly··on How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
I guess, but it's more typical to do something like cap the total trading volume, position, risk limits etc. It's a more fundamental check on what you are doing.
clearly··on How to lose $172,222 a second for 45 minutes
Yes- latency is a big issue for this type of trading system.
clearly··on I Always Respond To and Thank Recuiters
I do this whenever a recruiter uses a code word from my linked in profile. It states at the bottom "If you are a recruiter and contacting me about an opportunity, please use the word 'crabs' so I know you have actually read my profile. Thanks"
clearly··on Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?
Gliffy. It's not perfect but it is quick and easy to get something decent looking. It also has reasonable integration with Confluence if you're using that internally.
clearly··on Why I have left Samsung
So what the previous poster should have said is "managers and my (or our) interests and priorities do not align" rather than being condescending. I couldn't agree more that it's not ideal for a software engineer.
clearly··on Why I have left Samsung
> Companies like Samsung, others and etc are managed by idiots

Samsung shareholders may disagree with you there....

clearly··on Ask HN: How do you have time for dates and gym when working for a startup?
I can't speak for SF since I'm in London, but at the beginning of this year I decided to kick the habit of staying late and got back into regular muay thai training. I have a class 4 times a week at 7pm, so I have to leave the office at about 6 to make it.

At first I felt like I was letting the team down or whatever, because I was used to a) spending a lot more time physically in the office and b) judging other people by how early they left. However, I'm in a much better place now- I realised your brain doesn't just stop when you leave the office anyway, so you are still "working" on things really when you are not there, and you will feel better when you are there. 8-10 hours (I do 8-6) is still plenty of time to get a lot of work done! Personally I also felt a lot better letting my team lead know that I have a class every day at 7pm, and that I feel it has a reasonable priority in my life. Though sometimes things like production issues or late calls do come up, this made it easier for me to be out the door when I need to be.

clearly··on The //* /*/ //*/ comment toggle trick
This is terrifying!