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jbb123··on Revolut staff claim they’ve been told to quit their jobs or be fired
All ways? They appear to have _literally_ no way to use any of their services except through a phone "app". No thank you. I don't want a toy bank.
jbb123··on Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
Most ETFs have returned about 7-8 % average long term (before allowing for inflation). Not a bad return, but very different over 20 years from 10-15%
jbb123··on Becoming a high performing software developer working from your bedroom
> low to medium risk areas and average 10 - 15% per year.

Where can I get this return reliably at "low risk"?

jbb123··on A Look at HS2's Old Oak Common Station
Except that it's more likely to have people saying why do we need a crewe office at all when people can be at the main office in an hour anyway.

It will just drag even more resources to london

jbb123··on He's 26 years old but still sees a pediatrician: Why some adults don't move on
Well for me in the UK they usually ask if I want to see my "usual" doctor or if I don't care. There is sometimes a longer wait to see my usual one. Usually I want to see the same doctor for an ongoing condition but don't much care if it's something new.
jbb123··on Why wealth and patience appear to go hand in hand
I think the correlation likely works both ways.

Being wealthy makes it more easier to be patient. But also being patient helps generate wealth.

jbb123··on Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages
Well graph coloring in a more general sense is used for things like register allocation in compilers. So any proofs or increase in theoretical knowledge in the area could lead to improvements in that area.
jbb123··on Ownership and Borrowing in D
I think this looks very good. The main thing though is that it is opt-in where you want it. If it became the default, or required then it would make the language difficult and unsuitable for many things, but as an option it's great :)
jbb123··on Oregon Just Voted to Legalize Duplexes on Almost Every City Lot
So what is a duplex? Nowhere does it say and it's not a term I've ever heard used in the UK? I guess "semi-detached" would be closest but not sure?
jbb123··on Regulatory Capture at ICANN
I imagine that once a majority of people are using the google dns servers that everyone seems to advise these days, that google will simply decide to ignore most of this and serve whatever domains they like. I don't know if this is better!
jbb123··on Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra
I can imagine few things i'm less likely to want than a currency in any way connected to facebook.
jbb123··on Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency Gets Big Backers
I can imagine few things I'd be less likely to do than use a currency backed by facebook.
jbb123··on Startup Serves Up Chicken Produced From Cells in Lab
You know what's a cheaper, better way to make chicken meat? A chicken....

This is a solution in need of problem

jbb123··on Principles for C programming
No, but your compiler MIGHT decide in a future release that it's a whole lot faster to ignore the header files for standards types and definitions and just copy a pre parsed version of the struct into the symbol table when the header is included. It might look at the _t and decide nope, I don't have a definition for this so it's an error, despite your own definitions.

This probably won't happen. But if it does you don't have any grounds for complaint really.

jbb123··on Ask HN: Have you created a programming language and why?
I've done some tiny domain specific interpreters for specialized use in products.

I think I'm going to have to though. I used to like C++ but I really am not a fan of the direction it's moving in. It used to be a simple "better C" that let you write abstactions over simple code that you could understand how