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There are significant AWS customers in New Zealand (Xero jumps to mind) that I imagine Microsoft would love to target with that differentiator of a local data centre.
More equality fun in JS can be seen here: https://dorey.github.io/JavaScript-Equality-Table/
It's a bloated distro since it tries to cater to most set ups and ships with drivers, etc that you might not need which will annoy the purists but for me the compatibility and things just working is more valuable.
I only use it on a desktop PC so YMMV.
These days I only use Windows for work as that's what my company uses and for games that don't work with Proton.
There were free editions but they were crippled versions of the paid ones with no extensions, etc. The free versions were generally unloved and had annoying quirks.
At the time you needed to add a Resharper license in there too to be decently productive which was yet another overhead.
I don't know him from a bar of soap outside of what's shared publically but a cold, calculating executive is about as far from the mark as you could possibly be.
We've had self isolation for people coming in from overseas in place for a few weeks and as soon as that progressed to community transmission we've locked down. We had 50 cases where 2 could not be traced back to international travel. We're now at 200 cases (as of yesterday) and still no deaths.
I think hindsight is always 20/20 and I think NZ has done the right thing in appropriate timelines given what we knew at the time.
We are fortunate that we are a remote island in the south pacific that makes it easier for us to close borders and contain this much easier than other countries can.
Other reasons for wanting spotify is a remote control. When I had my pebble and my phone was in my pocket I'd often use it to skip songs, drop the volume a bit, etc without having to pull out my phone each time
In Auckland there's been talk of that for at least 5-6 years. For example, people I personally know only earn $80-90k/yr and yet own a $500k house (absolute entry level livable house in Auckland). They also got in under our old rules which meant they only needed 5% deposit instead of the 20% required now.
They're only being propped up by their record low interest rates. If those interest rates went up 2-3% they'd be in serious trouble.
EDIT: for more context the average fixed period for any home loan in NZ is roughly 2-3 yrs. The term is a 30 year term typically.
Prices in the area I live in use to be $100k-ish for a 3 bdrm home 10 years ago. Now they're $760k and I live >30 miles from the CBD.
Teachers salaries have continued to get "cost of living" increases and we have news stories like this popping up all the time: https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/education/102707618
An example is the lostprophets. I use to like a couple of their songs but after finding out what the lead singer did I'll likely never listen to a lostprophets song again.
I don't understand this. Why hard delete packages at all? Soft deleting feels like it would be easier and would stop people republishing with the same name.
They could also bake their warning process for dependent libraries (i.e. "this package is gone!") into the soft delete process.
Even in this example, drunk drivers who kill aren't executed. I definitely agree the punishment on this particular individual should be stronger but executing him? That's taking it a bit far.
A long jail stint (and some growing up) would likely stop this particular individual from ever repeating their actions again. Executions should be reserved for those who are truly beyond rehabilitation IMO.
- Offline? Looks like you'll have to wait to make that change or any other change for that matter since you can't check out files if you're offline. When doing remote work this use to do my head in.
- TFS On Premise putting readonly locks on every file you have. Why? Great question. Made writing build scripts and their ilk much harder to accomplish.
- Want to make a branch? That'll be an entire copy of the source code times however many branches you want
I've run Linux mint on my desktop at home for a few years now and have had zero problems at all (Intel i5, Nvidia gfx, wired connection).
The last time I had driver issues with Linux was ~10 years ago and it was for a laptop running Ubuntu.
That doesn't seem very logical at all, that's entirely subjective. I'm fairly certain a top sprinter would easily be able to sprint much further than my (admittedly) unfit self before running out of breath.
However, last time I installed Ubuntu it booted to a black screen of death and then googling told me it didn't come with nvidia drivers out of the box, etc.
I use to see it a lot a few years ago, maybe I just got a little better at my job?
I haven't really used it in the last 4 years as most of my projects have had frameworks in place.
I definitely think it still has it's place - it is more concise and reads a lot nicer in many cases than vanilla JS for DOM manipulation and AJAX requests.
Rolling my own might take fractionally more effort to initially set up but the transparency of what happens and ability to debug through to me is of more value.
When it was released and we tried to use it, it broke our site entirely due to third-party libraries we were using.
As long as I am putting money away into savings each month and not going backwards I see it as a win. Going to extremes where you're worried about whether or not you put pieces of plain pizza in with mushroom pizza I feel is a bit too far for my liking.