LukeB_UK

Beware of putting people on pedestals. Far better is to just follow people who do cool stuff. They don't have to be a "master" to do something cool that will inspire you.

> Why the downvote?

Probably because of this:

> Hmm. Seems on par with the security of pretty much every angularjs site i've seen. Moving on.

Also a self-taught web developer here. My advice would be to make sure you learn the languages, not the frameworks. Once you know the languages, you can pick up the frameworks far easier and you can actually dig in and see what's happening.

I work for a gambling company in the UK and at least here Apple allow our apps on their store. Google block them though.

I'm assuming the poster has something to do with this project because they've submitted links related to it 21 times in the past 26 days, many of them duplicates.

The words "self-made" have an implication that you did it all yourself.

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I believe that personal data in the context of the Data Protection Act means data about you, so it wouldn't.

I went to Bologna earlier this month and the only thing I had planned was a cooking course for one afternoon.

I loved wandering around and getting lost, stumbling upon museums, places to eat and other interesting places. My mobile provider lets me use my data in other countries, so I was happy knowing that if I felt I was too lost, I could just open Google maps and find my way somewhere.

Sites like tripadvisor add convenience and their rating system, which allows people to filter out the ones that may be a mistake going to. (Although these systems have biases)

I wish my first development job was like this place. Instead there was a blame culture and I'd get told off when I made mistakes, eventually getting fired for not progressing quick enough.

It's now 4 years since I was fired from that job and I'm still in development, despite that incident nearly causing me to decide it wasn't for me.

I was extremely happy to read this post, it gives me hope. I try and take a similar approach when working with newer developers, or those that are inexperienced in areas.

Microsoft's bot (Tay) learned as people talked with it. People took advantage of that and basically attacked it with racist things which meant it ended up learning to be a racist.

I prefer that HN doesn't say the score of other people's comments, it means you have more power to make your own mind up rather than the vote brigading or "piling on" that can happen on Reddit

They've been maintaining their own set of apps that mirror Google apps on Android for a long time.

Partially because some people don't want to spend that much money on something they'll rarely use (cheapest I found from a quick search on amazon UK for any of the Eco-Tank series was £185)

I believe the term for that is social introvert.

She also recorded the first computer bug, which was a moth stuck in a relay.

The updated title is incorrect. Those features have been part of twitter before this, they just don't count towards the character limit anymore.

When was the last time you had a load of people tell you to kill yourself in person?

I dislike it because they just seem to have read the title and not the actual post.

Previous discussion from 434 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9688383

From the post: "We’re beginning to roll out Duo for Android and iOS today, and it will be live worldwide in the next few days."

You're assuming that the site is still actively maintained.

> Conley has a response to this argument. Even if a microbe on Mars shares the same deep origins as us, a few thousand years down a separate evolutionary pathway would still make them pretty alien indeed. But ultimately, the best case for caution, and for planetary protection, may be simply to point to all the ways in which our knowledge of Mars has changed just in the past few years. Curiosity ended up almost on top of possible liquid water because we didn’t know what we didn’t know. In a way, Conley’s deepest arguments boil down to a quote from Haldane: “The universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose.”

HN capitalises the first letter of the title if I remember correctly

Switched jobs.

I was living and working in a town that's somewhat boring and not the most inspiring. I came to the decision I needed to leave when there was a restructure going on and I realised that I wasn't learning anything and didn't really have anyone to learn from as well as the fact that the company wasn't really investing in learning and progression.

I've been at my new job for just over a month now and have been learning loads. The company actively invests in learning and personal development, with one of the benefits being a fund to spend on that as well as them providing training needed for my role. We've also recently been allocated some time to spend on personal learning/development.

I now work in a city so it also got me to move out of that town and closer to the city which has been good for my social life.

Then create a widget for that.

UK here. I work 7.5 hour days with an hour unpaid for lunch. I usually work from 8am - 4:30pm.

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