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fastbeefon Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year parental leaves

It’s per child, with a percentage ear marked for each parent and the rest is up to the parent to decide to gets them.

fastbeefon Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year parental leaves

I’m not surprised. This is so different to how workplaces are usually run in the US that organizations, or society even, has no institutional memory on how to deal with it.

In Sweden, where 400+ days of parental leave has been mandatory for years organization have adapted and learned patterns and ways to deal with people dissappearing for around a year.

It’s a shame the Gates Foundation didn’t research this better before diving in.

fastbeefon Ask HN: What service do you use to manage your domains?

Very interesting, I was just now eyeing Gandi. Care to give any details?

fastbeefon Microsoft’s Azure DevOps: An Unsatisfying Adventure

Look, developer tooling is always going to be hugely dividing. Some will love it, some will hate it, some will hate it because it's not like the Thing They Loved At Their Previous Job.

Now, can we talk about the real WTF, which is the name. "Azure Devops", really? Two extremely potent keywords each on their own? You didn't like people being able to google answers to their questions about your product?

fastbeefon WeWork’s CEO Makes Millions as Landlord to WeWork

Apparently this is McDonald’s modus operandi as well. They’re basically a real estate company who happens to specialize in fast food resturants.

fastbeefon Insect collapse

I find these articles terrifying, and yet unreal. Like it's not really happening. I guess this is what denial feels like.

fastbeefon Alibaba acquires Berlin-based data Artisans for $103M

"There's also the small detail of pension funds generally being forbidden from investing in stocks."

Could you provide more info? All my Swedish pensions savings, both private and goverment, are basically stocks-only funds.

fastbeefon Supporting open source with 3% of our revenue

You, uh, take a percentage of your paycheck and click “Donate” in the page for your software of choice?

fastbeefon Why I'm in Love with .Net Core

This poorly written article provides nothing of value. It’s mostly a laundry list of .Net facts and a whole bunch of ads.

fastbeefon Ten Years of Bitcoin

I recall mining a Bitcoin back in early 09 or so, staring at it for a few seconds and then deleting it with a chuckle. Oh well.

fastbeefon How to Use JSON Web Tokens

I keep hearing this. Is there a good writeup available?

fastbeefon Ask HN: What is the best way to add authentication to REST API (for mobile)?

An API Gateway is pretty Quick to set up, but the industry is moving away from it as a concept.

Keycloak is nice but requires some work.

fastbeefon Sex robots to “feel” human touch with new ‘smart skin’

Every day it seems more and more like were living in a Black Mirror episode. How do I get off?

fastbeefon Show HN: Pdftilecut – cut PDF pages into tiles

Cut my doc into pieces

This code is open souce

fastbeefon Ask HN: Why not more hiring of junior devs, then on-the-job-training?

Can you imagine how awkward it would be to discover it a week into their new job?

fastbeefon Ask HN: What's your favorite elegant/beautiful algorithm?

Not an algorithm per se but the proof to the Halting Problem blew my mind with it’s simplicity.

fastbeefon God helmet

Was that directed at me? I meant that this will be as hard to prove as electro-alergy.

fastbeefon God helmet

Doesn’t this fall under the same category as electro-allergy? Weak EM field causing sensory effects in people’s brains.

From what I undestand the keyword arguments against it are “non-ionizing radiation” and “nocebo effect”.

fastbeefon Ask HN: What are some of the best technical talks you've heard?

I’m by no means a gamer but have always admired Carmack for his sheer brilliance. I stumbled over one of his talks while doing something else and jumped to various points in the talk. _Every. Single. Time._ he was talking about something profound and the talk is friggin several hours long.

fastbeefon Solving Tech Addiction Is an Underappreciated Market Opportunity

I’ve noticed after doing bursts of healthy eating that most processed food is _extremly_ sweet. Even food we think of as “salty” or “savory” is dominanted by a sugary flavor. This is because sugar is such a cheap way of making something taste “good” and since everyone is doing it your brain filters it away

fastbeefon Hubble Space Telescope Is In Safe Mode After Gyro Failure

Slashdot is that way, buddy.

fastbeefon Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

Too true. I’ve been eyeing ditching my polish citizenship for a while now.

fastbeefon Ask HN: Cheap places to live with a good intellectual atmosphere?

The cost of housing / income ratio in Stockholm is so out of whack that it’s basically impossible to enter the housing market without at least €50k-75k in savings to have as a down payment for an apartment anywhere nice.

fastbeefon Honda-Waymo Talks Are Said to Have Faltered on Tech Access

>It's the difference between a handful of dudes in a speedboat with some explosives and an aircraft carrier.

That’s uh... one helluva metaphor you got there.

fastbeefon Ask HN: What did you learn the hard way?

Most of us will be extremely handsomely rewarded to carefully build something that will be torn down within a few years and replaced with something new. Usually because someone made a PowerPoint where a made up number was smaller than a different, slightly less, made up number.

fastbeefon How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems

I’m looking into hosting it on DigitalOcean, seems easy enough.

fastbeefon How we solved our office Wi-Fi problems

I have a full UniFi setup in my home office/house and it is glorious. It Just Works!

Well, with the one exception which is the Cloud Key. I’ve yet to see it run for more than 24 hours before soft rocking and requiring a total re-setup of the network.

fastbeefon App-Only Banks Rise in Europe and Aim at Traditional Lenders

While the apps look nice, I can’t say I see anything that major banks in Sweden haven’t offered already for the past 5 years or so. Are we so far ahead or is online banking in such a shitty state?

fastbeefon Ask HN: What made your favorite manager/supervisor/CEO so great?

What little management experience I have (3 years as team lead for 2 different teams) tells me most people are masochists deep down inside and crave a dictator to order them what to do.

fastbeefon Bullshit Job Notes

Uuuuuuh, so you really want to take (albeit small) risk of commiting fraud and getting on the bad side of a organization able to detain you for hours/days to prove a point over freaking mouth wash?

I sure as hell value my time and sanity higher than that.