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Did you talk about pricing as well? Care to share details? :)

I have an Asus Zen Book Flip, which is super light. Also, I use xmonad and a vim-style editor, which allows me to work w/o relying on a mouse.

I use my notebook and put it on my lap, which allows me to write code quite comfortably. I listen to music in order not to be distracted by other passengers. Tethering via my phone, having a reliable connection and an unlimited data plan means I can do pretty much anything. If I'm on a train for a longer period of time, we also have power plugs to recharge.

However more recently, I have switched to reading books. My nearly two-hour commute every day is the time where I can read w/o anything else going on.

Nezasa | Full-Stack Software Engineer | Full-Time | Lisbon | On-Site

Nezasa is a travel technology startup with offices in Zurich and Lisbon. We are creating a product that lets the user fully customize their individual travel packages and eventually book them -- all on one platform.

Our stack: Scala (play, akka), EmberJS, Memcached, MongoDB, Elasticsearch

More info about the positions can be found on our website: https://www.nezasa.com/jobs/

So when I said "work on something not work related", I didn't necessarily mean "creating a side-business". It could also be studying or something. In my specific case, I try to study a specific subject each week, for which I invest 4h per week. In fact, it doesn't even have to be technical, I just try to focus on something rather than reading bits and pieces about everything on HN, Twitter, etc.

I think what specifically you need to know about largely depends on the field you are working in.

A colleague once told me it is important that you are constantly working on something in your free time that is not something you do at work (eg. different technologies, different programming languages paradigm, different database type, etc).

This simple advice does two things: You are constantly learning, and you are making sure you're looking beyond whatever it is you are doing for money. You are widening your horizon. Maybe you discover something that you can eventually use at work, maybe it will never be useful.. Who knows in which direction we're heading?

If facebook disappeared (tomorrow or whenever) people will find alternative ways to keep in touch. That is, you will probably have less people of which see the occasional holiday pictures, but in my experience (by quitting facebook), the number of core friends has not changed. Because let's face it, as Sherry Turkle wrote[1], with facebook, we have moved from friendship to a "sense of frienship".

I don't doubt that facebook provides some value, but I don't think that value is a sane relation to what we sacrifice as humans.

1. http://www.reclaimingconversationbook.com/

Doesn't putting "Proof" in quotes immediately disqualify it from being a proof?

Assuming that the repo was this big in the beginning, I wonder why the ever migrated to git (I'm assuming they did, because they can tell how long it takes to checkout). At least when somebody "tries" do the migration, wouldn't they realize that maybe git is not the right tool for them? Or did they actually migrate and then work with "git status" that take 10 minutes for some time until they realize they may need to change something?

Also, it would have been interesting if the article mentioned whether they tried other approaches taken by facebook (mercurial afaik) or google.

Who would have guessed..

No, these are not from protonmail. It's more like p-enlargements, pills etc.. As far as general marketing mails are concerned, no, I never saw an unsubscribe link.

Yeah, but it's planned. They also mentioned the calendar coming in a recent blog post.

In general, I should say I am pretty happy with protonmail. I've been using it for over a year now, however, in general I'm still pretty dependent on google for calendar, android, etc.

When it comes to spam, my feeling is that I do get more now. But as long as it is properly categorized -- which it is -- I don't really mind getting it.

Maybe they could use WhatsApp to reach out to us -- ie. what used to be an ad on facebook will be a private message via WhatsApp telling you about the latest and greatest from your favourite fast food restaurant.

On a different note, they keep saying that nobody except the parties directly involved are able to read the e2e encrypted messages. They could be lying, couldn't they? Who knows that they (or somebody else) doesn't have a master key?

See, the point is that you're saying 'in the UK'. We've been struggling to find a payment solution that works globally and sadly PayPal is the best we have found that covers a lot of countries.

Let's see how long it takes for people to realize how good an idea it is to rely on this single point of failure for potentially critical systems..

Mac and Windows means 'universal compatibility'? :(

Institutions that don't like code that is hosted on / distributed via Github.

Chapter 26 of 'Real World Haskell' shows how to design a library by implementing a bloom filter: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/advanced-library-desig...