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by GFischer 9y ago
Depends on the modern smartphone, I have a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 and it has amazingly good battery life (much better than my company-supplied Samsung Galaxy S8), I can sometimes go two days without charging. They do cheat with ridiculous back
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by GFischer 9y ago
Title should say that the information was for 2015 (and was already covered in Fortune).
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by GFischer 9y ago
Delivery people... I've had my laptop stolen by a fake delivery worker who cleaned up the building. An UPS or DHL uniform will get you most everywhere, and you have an excuse for carrying bulky stuff. Edit: Kevin Mitnick's The Art
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by GFischer 9y ago
In many countries judge and jury is one job - it does have downsides of course, but the way juries are selected in the U.S., I think I prefer it.
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by GFischer 9y ago
As a Uruguayan I can tell you that unfortunately, ignoring treatises has had consequences - the U.S. banking system has issued some dire threats for us. American banks, including Bank of America, said that they would stop doing business wi
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by GFischer 9y ago
You do know there are other countries that can produce wheat, a lot more wheat than Kansas, for instance Argentina (currently produces twice as much wheat as Kansas and that's after they went way down because they switched to soybeans)
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by GFischer 9y ago
Basically no, and it definitely baffles people. That's not to say there isn't corruption and cronyism when appointing judges in other places :( . No system is perfect. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/25&#x
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by GFischer 9y ago
There's something called Bare Ownership sale that's popular among widows with no children here in Uruguay, that retain the right to use the property until death : bare-ownership is a right of virtual ownership. For example, the b
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by GFischer 9y ago
Sounds interesting, we might look into this (I'm building a messaging platform for my employer, and I have my own videochat attempt - this complements both). I see it's only Facebook and Telegram ATM, we're using another plat
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by GFischer 9y ago
Probably some awful CGI VB6 or C app. I've had to maintain some of those. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gateway_Interface
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by GFischer 9y ago
It's extremely frustrating. Rapidly changing technologies suffer a lot from this. And the worst is, asking a question will get marked as "duplicate" or something.
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by GFischer 9y ago
I think having the option for separate accounts would have been best. I try not to post anything on Youtube or favourite videos or anything because it's tied to my "real" Google identity which is very traceable to me. For the
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by GFischer 9y ago
Googled salaries and advice from the people on the ground are very different. Happens with Glassdoor salaries - they don't necessarily accurately reflect compensation (they're a good baseline I guess).
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NET Introducing Support for Brotli Compression(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
2 points by GFischer 9y ago|0 comments
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by GFischer 9y ago
Be careful, those symptoms are also for a lot of other things including depression and burnout which are far more common amongst programmers. Do get diagnosed and get a second opinion, but it might or might not be CFS.
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by GFischer 9y ago
More information here: http://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/aviation/sky-talk...
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Sabre lays off 15% of its workforce
4 points by GFischer 9y ago|3 comments
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by GFischer 9y ago
Clickbait title, but the issue of reproducibility on social science studies is well worth investigating. What the article wants is something that I'd say couldn't and shouldn't be done (in terrible writing: "some sort o
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by GFischer 9y ago
Honestly, I've seen so many truly awful managers that I'd trust that the engineers "know better about how a business should be run"... from an operational standpoint. However, there's the magical "sales" a
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by GFischer 9y ago
I think those are a great idea, I hope they come to my country sometime.
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by GFischer 9y ago
.NET MVC. I know it well, it has a lot of stuff built in and I absolutely love the ecosystem. Coupled with Azure, I expect we'll have a production grade system in months. The one thing I haven't nailed down is how to handle busine
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by GFischer 9y ago
I was told that verbally by someone that lives in Dubai and sells to ultra high net worth individuals. Here are some attempt at explanations: https://www.quora.com/Why-arent-the-Arab-sheikhs-among-the-m... The Forbes metho
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by GFischer 9y ago
There's a LOT of people that are richer than Gates or Bezos, but many don't have their fortunes personally tied or traceable to them. I've been told that Arab sheiks in Saudi Arabia and the UAE laugh at the claims of Gates o
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by GFischer 9y ago
The emissions on a Kwid are far lower than those on an American car. And the Kwid would probably injure yourself and anyone driving with you... but, there's a version with ABS and Airbags, so the GP has a point. https://auto
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by GFischer 9y ago
Only for Android for now, because of the Apple versions being forced to use WebKit. It'll be supported on iOS with iOS 11 later this year.
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by GFischer 9y ago
Depends on the government of course. A friend was tasked with studying some supposedly more eco-friendly fuels (biodiesel) the government had invested a lot in, and he disclosed his initial findings that they weren't eco-friendly at al
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by GFischer 9y ago
You need to NOT be competing on price, add some other differential (in my case I tried competing on very good English and being on the same time zone as most of the U.S.). Competing on price or selling yourself to the lowest bidder is a los
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by GFischer 9y ago
You do get quite a bit of serendipity through following hyperlinks though :) .
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by GFischer 9y ago
If you're looking for B2B ideas, one way is to talk to businessmen :) (it helps to know the basics of their business). Several times, I've tried offering a certain solution, and during the conversation you learn they don't ha
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by GFischer 9y ago
So the mere existence of Redfin has lowered their fees. Good for you :) and an example of the market at work.

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