GFischer

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by GFischer 8y ago
Well, I don't think it's terrible, it says so there: relative to other cities of 200.000 inhabitants (probably in other states). According to Google, it's below the U.S. average, and N.Y. cities spend 20.000 or more per stude
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by GFischer 8y ago
"demand from users to connect with businesses via WhatsApp" In South America it's HUGE. The insurance company I used to work for even started underwriting over WhatsApp, and it was all user-driven. In countries like Brazil or
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by GFischer 8y ago
Maybe for bad actors. I work for an U.S. company and we were explicitly required to get opt-in by the compliance officer. And it's messages users actually want to get (we have over 99.9% opt-in).
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by GFischer 8y ago
I hope. Some valuable historical artifacts have been sadly melted, like the original Jules Rimet trophy.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yes, CBT is probably the best therapy for this kind of thing - in fact, phobia of flying is THE case study (very much their version of the todo-app :) ).
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Blackmailers threaten to leak users’ masturbation vids unless they pay Bitcoin(thenextweb.com)
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by GFischer 8y ago
I thought I was bright carrying around my portable hard drive with my backups on my backpack. Until one day I got robbed and I lost both my laptop AND my backups... (and USB sticks, etc). That sucked.
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by GFischer 8y ago
The good news is, any moderately successful software company / startup is probably worth at least a million. So, while it looks crazy at this point in your career, it's not beyond your potential. If you're going the employee
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by GFischer 8y ago
I think it was a reasonable solution, the article's title is click-baitish in that the ruling was for a non-commercial use. Also, the infringer swiftly complied with the takedown notice. So, don't go around using non-attributed ph
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by GFischer 8y ago
If you get a journalist interested, you can tell your story to him (or her). They do sometimes highlight things that wouldn't be what you would have, or distort things a bit, but it would get out there.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Their marketing is failing, how come I didn't hear of it... I want something like that, I bought the old Xiaomi headset (basically a Google Cardboard) and I can't run Netflix on it (which was what I wanted them for :( ) The Standa
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by GFischer 8y ago
Have you tried five-a-side soccer? Great sport! But it does need a special pitch for sure - much smaller than an 11-a-side field but still a hindrance. Over here (Uruguay) there's a whole cottage industry of five-a-side soccer fields,
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by GFischer 8y ago
To be fair, it used to be called European Champions' Cup when those teams were playing.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Here in Uruguay we don´t have cheap energy but we do have a ridiculous number of both professional and amateur leagues and coaches (and a lot of grassland to convert into soccer fields) For a population of 3 million: - Pro league with 30 pr
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by GFischer 8y ago
Unions take a lot of (rightful) flak but this is one case where an union would possibly have been helpful.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Well, I've read that it's actually gone a bit down from it's peak (some sketchy estimates put the active player base at 12 million, down from a 20 million peak), as games such as Hearthstone and fatigue eroded the playerbase,
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by GFischer 8y ago
I mean, the name "United States of America" would also fall into that description, but nobody's up in arms about it. Many people in South America think it's a ridiculous, pretentious name. It's not even the only U
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by GFischer 8y ago
I learned Android but it hasn't served me much (I had no plans on how to use it !!!). I do recommend the Coursera course. It's a good question to ask.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I'm probably not a good example, I've usually been a "jack-of-all-trades" kind, but it's very often the very same way you did - you see jobs stop asking for a particular tech and start asking for others (and it&#x27
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by GFischer 8y ago
Maybe on what you got started on. I started with T-SQL, then PL/SQL and now back to T-SQL, so you can guess which I prefer.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Working as intended :) . Try the right-hand side menu...
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yeah, that's the current solution (and what, for instance, my father has - cameras, infrared barriers, etc.). But a movable webcam with some other capabilities (audio probably) might be a better deterrent.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Agreed. Somebody else mentioned it's more similar to Segway than to Theranos - overhyped to hell, but not a scam.
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by GFischer 8y ago
I've been repeatedly asked about a security robot - it'd be a killer app here in Latin America. The Misty seems like it could patrol the interiors, not good enough yet but we're getting there. Knightscope should start selling
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by GFischer 8y ago
Any tips you can share on how you improved your political game?
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by GFischer 8y ago
I can definitely remember writing some crappy GWBasic "programs" when I was 7 or 8 - basically PRINT and GOTOs, and they even had some logic! I was very, very bored (no TV for instance) and I only had the GWBASIC manual and access
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by GFischer 8y ago
Libertarians I know are horrified by the U.S. way of handling healthcare. It's not a "free" system by any conceivable metric. https://mises.org/wire/how-government-regulations-made-healt... My country (U
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by GFischer 8y ago
I'm a .NET fan but there's still some friction. There's Azure free tier to be sure, but I'm not sure about the backend - CosmosDB?.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Part of the problem is that such customers are not as valuable as U.S. customers :( You see it on the ads side as well, ads to U.S. or European customers can pay 10 times as much as an ad to a Latin American.
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by GFischer 8y ago
Yes, the custom APIs exist but are very hacky. I work for one of the largest travel groups, I'm actually working on flight notifications, and they don't want to go there - no idea how other airlines or travel groups do it.

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