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cynicalreasonon Why I Don't Sign Non-Competes

Is that even legal ? I think in Europe they can't be part of the employment contract but as additional papers ( i may be wrong )

cynicalreasonon Show HN: Gnomecast – A Linux Chromecast GUI with transcoding and subtitles

haven't checked the latest version but 1 month ago there was no chromecast support in the stable release channel

cynicalreasonon Netflix: Removing client-side React.js improved performance by 50%

'premature optimization', build it first, optimize later, react helps a lot with the first part

cynicalreasonon The Netherlands has become an agricultural giant

I lived for 2 years in the UK - I didn't understand how they could eat that stuff ... it literally has no taste. Moved back home for 3 years and now I'm living in the Netherlands for the past year .. it tastes like nothing, the tomatoes, the cabbage, the carrots .. the parsley .. they all are so bland.

We found some actual farms around that we got some actually tasty stuff during season .. but the stuff in the supermarkets tastes like grass.

cynicalreasonon Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global

it's not, my previous company took everything offline - they got infected via connections to their offices in Ukraine. lots of companies in the Ukraine are infected.

company I work for disabled all working from home VPN accounts for the time being until we do a security audit