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purple_ducks··on Is Ireland taking its role as Europe’s data watchdog seriously?
No, because the government is way too cosy with MNCs.

> He strongly believes Ireland is an obvious choice for a similar role in data protection

This is almost laughable.

purple_ducks··on Give Me Back My Monolith
> They need young devs with ideas and huge skill to bring them to life

More likely young devs with naivety and thus motivation.

purple_ducks··on Cookie Warning Shenanigans Have Got to Stop
(European)

Most sites have a simple 'Reject All' which I definitely use all the time.

Oath and it's sites are the devil incarnate when it comes to implementation and they deserve to be slapped down.

purple_ducks··on Uber Not Criminally Liable in Death of Woman Hit by Self-Driving Car
I thought it would have been a much simpler case of "Driving without due care and attention" of which both Uber and the human driver were guilty of.
purple_ducks··on The most important software dev skills aren’t technical
Your local pre-commit hooks are separate to your remote pre-commit hooks.
purple_ducks··on Kraken, an Open Source Peer-to-Peer Docker Registry
https://kraken.io/ - online image optimiser
purple_ducks··on Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base
- put a watch on the app dir filesystem

- put a watch on the network

purple_ducks··on A sold-out city? The fight to save Dublin’s nightlife
You left out the atrocious(in the few places it exists) cycling infrastructure.
purple_ducks··on A sold-out city? The fight to save Dublin’s nightlife
I lived in a "nice" apartment which had neighbours attached above, below, to the back & 2 to the same side(staggered, joined apt blocks).

There was 0 chance of being able to sit quietly in that apartment and just concentrate or listen to music at an ambient level.

It's great that your tolerance level for noise is that high - most peoples' aren't, thus the constant exodus to the surrounding counties to get a house(which itself is no longer doable with a sane commute (<1 hr))

Dublin's population is 1.3 million. It's not London. It's not San Francisco. It's not New York.

purple_ducks··on A sold-out city? The fight to save Dublin’s nightlife
> We just don't like apartments.

People have legitimate reasons for not liking apartments in Dublin of which noise is a major reason.

Lax planning & building regs. dictated to politicians by developers ensured that apartments were small and had neighbours on pretty much every side.

Most people who left apartments did so for valid reasons, not an obsession with land.

Living long term in 98% of apartments in Dublin would ruin your quality of life.

purple_ducks··on Nestle, Disney Pull YouTube Ads, Joining Furor Over Child Videos
> If you can't control your kids, you shouldn't have kids.

Where on Amazon can I buy whatever bubble you were raised in?

purple_ducks··on Red Hat Satellite to standardize on PostgreSQL backend
> A LOT of people want MySQL over Postgres because of ignorance

or you know, for multi master cluster pretty much out of the box. Gallera DB.

purple_ducks··on Silicon Valley Is Using Trade Secrets to Hide Its Race Problem
It's a series of opinions in tweets. no facts. no scientific anything.

From a person who (after looking at their LinkedIn bio) is in no way qualified to tell companies what they need _at all_

From what I see of the company & CEO, it's a self serving & self preserving job role & company.

purple_ducks··on Dating apps face questions over age checks after report exposes child abuse
You've never once seen something and felt something was a bit off?

You're never able to read a person?

You don't think people working in a restaurant can't put 2 & 2 together and come up with 4 more times than not?

So, you see a person come in with different children repeatedly and act above & beyond affectionate to them. Inappropriate caressing/touching?

You don't think that's gonna set off alarm bells in the staffs' heads?

purple_ducks··on None of my projects want to be SPAs
> I just think this is a smarmy attitude disguised as wisdom

> The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

I fear that this wasn't meant to be ironic.

purple_ducks··on Dating apps face questions over age checks after report exposes child abuse
You don't think an establishment has a legal duty to report child grooming that occurs on their premises?

I used the word 'dates' (plural) - a re-occurring thing, not a one off event.

purple_ducks··on Dating apps face questions over age checks after report exposes child abuse
> no rw to access to UK internet without age+ID

Fantastic. Everything attributable to a public pseudonym privately tied to a real person.

This sounds exactly how it should be.

If somebody tries to subvert the law, they can easily be arrested and tried in a court of law.

purple_ducks··on Dating apps face questions over age checks after report exposes child abuse
> The apps are tools, it's up to the humans to do or not do stuff.

"Guns don't mass murder people, humans do"

In the real world, if I saw a child go on dates with a grown adult, I'd alert the police and have the man arrested, then I'd do my damndest to have the restaurant shut down for facilitating the grooming of minors.

And most importantly, _in the real world_, we all have visibility of this and society as a whole acts in disgust and would (legal or otherwise) punish the offenders and people who facilitated and accommodated this.

> There could be a set of rules that the apps should make users agree with

A pinky promise maybe...

purple_ducks··on Dating apps face questions over age checks after report exposes child abuse
> where the heck are these kids' parents?

What about the internet suddenly absolves the company from being diligent and responsible?

If this was shops selling alcohol & cigarettes to 14 year olds, would your response be "where the hell are the parents?"

Parents aren't going to monitor their kids 24/7.

> If your child is searching for adult partners, complete strangers, over the Internet, you as a parent have a lot to answer for.

I don't have children yet I think this is a very uninformed comment. Sexuality and attraction (and even more-so perceived attraction) are complex and multi faceted things so I think jumping to blaming the parents is _very_ simple minded.

purple_ducks··on 38% of bugs at Airbnb could have been prevented by using types
You mean static-typing.

Both Java & Python are strongly typed..

e.g. in python, <3 + "2"> gives <TypeError: unsupported operand type(s) for +: 'int' and 'str'>

purple_ducks··on U.S. Steel wins tax breaks from one of America's poorest cities
> no one can seriously claim that any significant part of the work that produces Google Search goes on in Ireland

Hmm. Most of their European SREs who keep the service up and running are in Dublin, alongside most of their European customer support, European accountants, European legal team.

Arguably, they contribute quite a lot to the success of the service.

If they weren't there, would the service have made as much inroad compared to if they weren't.

So, arguably, their presence is _very_ material.

Also, you're missing the point of the single EU market.

Ultimately, it's a game of assignment and they chose to assign their sales(& IP?) to the country that was most attractive to them.

purple_ducks··on State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis
super. thanks
purple_ducks··on State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis
Is there anything to capture (dev-)runtime data & generate specs from that as a starting point?
purple_ducks··on State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis
> Dynamical languages focuses on solving problems of human beings

> Shoehorning a type system in there often serves to make solving human's problem harder.

For the first pass author maybe. Subsequent readings and modifications of the code by other authors are much, much harder without "annotated" code (be that types or schema like spec)

purple_ducks··on State of Clojure Survey 2019 Analysis
Given the huge uptake on Typescript, I don't think using JS as an example makes sense.

Static typing helps. It doesn't have to be Java-esque. F# & friends have really nice static type systems where you don't need to declare types for most things - they're automatically inferred.

purple_ducks··on With React 16.8, React Hooks are available in a stable release
> it actually schedules a state update to be performed later when React feels like it.

I thought it updates the state and the re-render is what is included in a scheduled function?

> it's best practice to provide an updated function rather than a plain object

I'm guessing you mean for a global store with shared state? Local components aren't singletons.

purple_ducks··on Office Space turns 20: How the film changed the way we work
> Accountants usually don’t have lavish perks or doctor-level paychecks though

Accountants absolutely have lavish perks bestowed upon them by the "Big 4" - annual week abroad in foreign destinations for team building.

> doctor-level paychecks though

Neither do devs. In Europe, accountants are paid better than devs. With better hours(except at quarter end) and a straightforward career path..and no-BS job interviews.

Chartered accountants (still talking about company employed- not sole practice) earn even more - like 30% more than a senior dev.

purple_ducks··on UltraViolet DRM will close on July 31, 2019
> The way I see it, i already pay huge property taxes that more than covers the few select movies i rip.

I can't comprehend how one would arrive at that reasoning.

purple_ducks··on The Man Who Invented Information Theory (2017)
Annoyingly, that book has never had a Kindle edition available in the UK Amazon.
purple_ducks··on An apartment on Central Park just sold for $238M
Same guy (Ken Griffin) just spent £95 million on a London "Georgian mansion within sight of Buckingham Palace": https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/21/us-hedge-fund-t...
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