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I attended one of their events a few months ago in Amsterdam. You have to hand in your phone when entering the venue and get it back afterwards. I spent around 2 hours reading my kindle in silence. It was really nice being in a space where everyone had put their phones away, but paying 10 euros for the privilege of doing so means I'm unlikely to turn up regularly when I could just go to a cafe and put my phone on airplane mode for free.

> People are either completely taken in by the marketing and believe like it's a religion, or they have solid, sensible concerns about reliability.

The other issue is that the first group are labelled as innovative go-getters, while the second group are labelled as negative crusty curmudgeons and this has an impact on the careers of both groups.

We use Renovate to keep dependencies up-to-date across npm, Kotlin, Docker and GitHub Actions. It automatically monitors all the dependencies (including in our private repositories) and opens PRs (max 10 at a time) against those repos. This week I added grouping of related dependencies (e.g. all Spring boot dependencies or all ESLint dependencies).

Providing the pipeline is green, any minor, patch or image digest update can be merged automatically (with an approval coming from the renovate approve bot) and major updates need the approval of a developer.

> It's reasonable to guess that these devices were made to only explode after a very unique code is is received, and/or only when traffic came over a radio channel known to be used by Hezbollah.

Why is this a reasonable thing to guess?

> The complaint: "I train people just for them to leave" is stupid, ask yourself and them WHY they leave and then up your incentives.

Also worth considering: what if you don't train them and they stay?!

Because I'm lazy I normally get the P.A.N. brand from the Albert Heijn, which is really meant for arepas but it does an ok job. If I fancy a short bike ride to De Pijp in Amsterdam, then Tjin's Toko sells the Maseca brand.

If SPY dropped 40% I'd suggest that it's gone on sale.

I've had a similar experience. My team is using Vue 2 and, while the VueX store is almost entirely correctly typed, inside the Vue components everything was typed as 'any'. There was no value being added in the slightest, but attempting to upgrade packages resulted in many new TypeScript and ESLint errors.

I ended up opening a PR to strip out TypeScript from all the Vue components so I could get things up to date (and ease a possible transition to Vue 3, which behaves much better with TypeScript).

I'm starting a new job soon and really hope I can work with React and TypeScript again.

If you head in the opposite direction you get the benefit of the weather improving as your trip goes on!

What advice would you give to someone who already feels like they're on a Team B after 3/4 months?

The killer is definitely not wheelchair-bound – Sacramento County's DA's office released a video of him exercising in his cell and climbing all over the furniture on the same day as his sentence was handed to him. The use of a wheelchair was a cynical attempt to evoke sympathy.

He also has form for faking medical issues. He was caught shoplifting while still a police officer and tried to fake a heart attack in the hope that they would let him go/it would enable him to escape.

Regardless of whether 16GB is enough or not, I'm always wary of the first release of any Apple hardware or operating system and would rather wait for a hardware revision or point release.

The only conversation I've ever had when going through passport control in the EU was in Rome. I was around 25 with a full beard and my passport photo was taken when I was a clean-shaven 17/18 year old. The conversation went:

'Is this really you?'

'Yes'

'Okay, thanks.'

iTunes is terrible, but you don't have to use it – I got my MBP at Xmas 2014 and still haven't accepted the iTunes EULA.

I thought so too, but my school didn't make us at the time (I started Y10 in 2004). I was able to pick four options at GCSE, so I took French, Spanish, Drama and Music. My other subjects were 2x English, 3x Science, 2x Maths, German (I took the exam at the end of Y9 because I was dropping it anyway), 0.5x IT and 0.5x Religion.

I found both history and geography pretty lacking at school (partly why I dropped them both before GCSE-level).

My only real memory of Geography classes is how oxbow lakes are formed.

My memory of history in primary and secondary school involved Celts & Romans (one in primary, once in secondary), Tudors & Stuarts (likewise), some unit about the agricultural revolution(? secondary school) and a short time learning about the Second World War (secondary school).

I think it probably gets better during GCSEs and A-Levels, but I only started learning about history again after Civilization V inspired me to check out some history podcasts (mainly because I felt embarrassed about not knowing anything about these civilizations and their leaders).

I discovered Tinariwen on a CD in my university library about 10 years ago, I had all but forgotten about them until I got a notification they were playing in Amsterdam earlier this year.

They were absolutely incredible live, and I was really surprised at how young the audience were (especially for a band that have been going since the 70s).

Thanks for the recommendation for Bombino, it's heading straight into my Spotify queue.

You might already be familiar with it, but Robert Rodriguez pursued a very budget-conscious approach when filming El Mariachi.

Much of the approach is explained in the DVD extras to the film, but is summarised on the film's Wikipedia[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El_Mariachi#Production

I believe the biggest player is MindGeek and they have a lot of open positions in various locations [0]. Technologies include Go, PHP, .Net, JS (React) and there are lots of DevOps positions too.

[0] https://www.mindgeek.com/careers/

I've used it to transfer money between an account in the UK (GBP) and my account in the Netherlands (EUR). It took less than 24 hours from signing up to Transferwise to having the money in my Dutch bank account and I got a good rate on it. No complaints from me whatsoever.

But Rails is nice to work with and whispers 99% of websites will never need to reach Twitter-scale.

Did we know those elves were elves at the time?

Because they have had established entities in it and will continue to do so until March 2019?

After all, establishing an entity in the United Kingdom has, until now, been an equal level of 'betting' as establishing an entity anywhere else in the EU.

I'm afraid it is. I had to relinquish my copies of Butcher's Copy Editing and the New Hart's Rules when I left my editorial job, but I've found the rule of indefinite articles preceding vowels referenced on the Chicago Manual of Style site[0].

[0] http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/Us...

Cost of Living, I imagine.

Sorry, humour bypass on my end. But yes, this is a bad blog post.

I've done plenty of traveling to other countries, thank you very much.

According to my Trakt.tv account I've spent 58 days, 3 hours, 49 mins watching 760 movies and 110 days, 17 hours, 34 mins watching 4,521 television episodes.

I am completely okay with this.

The concept seems really interesting and I've signed up to try and improve on my Spanish. I currently live in Amsterdam though, and there's no option in the drop-down for learning Dutch. Is it likely to make it onto your list?

I hadn't heard of them until I moved to the Netherlands and only became aware of them because buying e.g. cinema tickets flashed up on my phone as a payment to Adyen rather than Pathe.