kylemuir

Thank you! Paywalls be damned.

I imagine Microsoft announcing a data centre here played a significant role - AWS wouldn't want to be the cloud service with _less_ regions than Microsoft.

There are significant AWS customers in New Zealand (Xero jumps to mind) that I imagine Microsoft would love to target with that differentiator of a local data centre.

I'm not suggesting it's a good fit for everyone or non-techies but I do think it would work well for the average HN reader

I've been using Linux Mint for years now and really enjoy it. It looks good, works with most things out of the box and I've had minimal issues with it.

It's a bloated distro since it tries to cater to most set ups and ships with drivers, etc that you might not need which will annoy the purists but for me the compatibility and things just working is more valuable.

I only use it on a desktop PC so YMMV.

These days I only use Windows for work as that's what my company uses and for games that don't work with Proton.

This is true now but it wasn't when I started doing dot net development ~10 years ago. If it wasn't for my employer covering the costs I wouldn't have been able to do it.

There were free editions but they were crippled versions of the paid ones with no extensions, etc. The free versions were generally unloved and had annoying quirks.

At the time you needed to add a Resharper license in there too to be decently productive which was yet another overhead.

You're replying to Tobi the CEO and founder of Shopify who recently and very publically posted about 40 hour work weeks and how Shopify lives and breathes work life balance which multiple employees confirmed.

I don't know him from a bar of soap outside of what's shared publically but a cold, calculating executive is about as far from the mark as you could possibly be.

Also a kiwi. Everyone is hesitant and it's natural to be. By locking down we are guaranteeing that people's businesses will fold and a large number of people will lose their jobs / livelihoods. No leader wants to do that unless absolutely necessary.

We've had self isolation for people coming in from overseas in place for a few weeks and as soon as that progressed to community transmission we've locked down. We had 50 cases where 2 could not be traced back to international travel. We're now at 200 cases (as of yesterday) and still no deaths.

I think hindsight is always 20/20 and I think NZ has done the right thing in appropriate timelines given what we knew at the time.

We are fortunate that we are a remote island in the south pacific that makes it easier for us to close borders and contain this much easier than other countries can.

When I was big into running I wanted a smart watch that could play my music and connect to my headphones without needing to take my bulky phone with me

Other reasons for wanting spotify is a remote control. When I had my pebble and my phone was in my pocket I'd often use it to skip songs, drop the volume a bit, etc without having to pull out my phone each time

This was a bit jarring to me: Apple takes a big stance on privacy as a fundamental human right but feel free to spy on what your kids are up to?

When those fixed rates end and they have to refix a ton of overleveraged people will force mortgagee sales.

In Auckland there's been talk of that for at least 5-6 years. For example, people I personally know only earn $80-90k/yr and yet own a $500k house (absolute entry level livable house in Auckland). They also got in under our old rules which meant they only needed 5% deposit instead of the 20% required now.

They're only being propped up by their record low interest rates. If those interest rates went up 2-3% they'd be in serious trouble.

EDIT: for more context the average fixed period for any home loan in NZ is roughly 2-3 yrs. The term is a 30 year term typically.

Maybe but in some cases I find it extremely difficult to separate the art from the artists.

An example is the lostprophets. I use to like a couple of their songs but after finding out what the lead singer did I'll likely never listen to a lostprophets song again.

> Our first action, which began immediately after the incident concluded, was to implement a 24-hour cooldown on republication of any deleted package name

I don't understand this. Why hard delete packages at all? Soft deleting feels like it would be easier and would stop people republishing with the same name.

They could also bake their warning process for dependent libraries (i.e. "this package is gone!") into the soft delete process.

> The penalties for driving drunk and killing someone are harsher than a simple DUI.

Even in this example, drunk drivers who kill aren't executed. I definitely agree the punishment on this particular individual should be stronger but executing him? That's taking it a bit far.

A long jail stint (and some growing up) would likely stop this particular individual from ever repeating their actions again. Executions should be reserved for those who are truly beyond rehabilitation IMO.