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by GFischer 10y ago
I had to look that up specifically, but I've heard about Red Cross stuff, and the UN also has a lot of waste :( https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/3nv0vh/e...
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by GFischer 10y ago
Unfortunately, the companies that DO have a better process maybe have better retention and thus don't need to hire so much? The same logic that states that bad candidates are always floating around applies to companies... companies tha
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by GFischer 10y ago
I guess it depends on the position, but it's not all of them - I know for a fact that at least a few large SF-based companies haven't adopted the algorithms/data structures bullshit. They do have tech interviews, but it wasn&
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by GFischer 10y ago
Developer salaries in Europe are ridiculously bad, not sure about Paris specifically, but one of my in-laws moved from Vienna to San Francisco and the salary boost was ridiculous (and housing in Vienna proper is extremely expensive too, so
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by GFischer 10y ago
We paid a local designer ( Alexis, http://www.retrieverfamily.com/#/ ) for our brand identity at https://keveo.tv/en/ (we were cheap and didn't pay him for the website, so he's not to bl
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by GFischer 10y ago
And Krux's website says they have been acquired by Salesforce. http://www.krux.com/blog/general/salesforce-krux/
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by GFischer 10y ago
Only half? Any South American over 18 has probably paid a bribe at some point (mostly traffic tickets or such here in Uruguay, and most elsewhere in Latin America). If you travel for any length of time in Latin America, chances are the pol
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by GFischer 10y ago
I don't think they're unaware. Frozen meals don't require preparation, when you're poor the mindset is very different, there were some really good articles on HN about that, I can't find them but for instance: http
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by GFischer 10y ago
The job I actually landed had the technical part of the job interview just like that - a laptop, a set of requirements (fixing an existing application), internet access, and some time. I did a lot better than I do on whiteboard style interv
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by GFischer 10y ago
At least one large company I interviewed at does structure their interviews kind of that way (minus the hour of research time, but they do have some take-home stuff to compensate), and it is much more pleasant having smaller chunks of sessi
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by GFischer 10y ago
Yep, it has ESPN, ESPN2 and 3 too. Some posters referred to the channel list: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/wZJuVdp0HaH4GQiB-XNVz76qkd... and the blog post https://youtube.googleblog.com/2017/02&#x2
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by GFischer 10y ago
This happened to me. Since I've had my Google account breached once (and my mother had an awful experience), I have 2FA enabled... but the text messages weren't arriving (I guess Google was swamped or something). I fortunately had
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by GFischer 10y ago
As others mentioned, this is plain wrong. I live in Uruguay and the best routes to Asia are from Santiago de Chile with LATAM, no need to go to the U.S. If you mean direct flights to Tokyo, yes there are no Santiago to Tokyo flights.
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by GFischer 10y ago
Has been proposed before, and it was the preferred and traditional Athenian method: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition Would definitely be very interesting, I wouldn't mind trying it.
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by GFischer 10y ago
And a third category: people that train specifically to pass the Amazon and Google exam. I know several people that did, taking several months off to prepare (and got in), and yes, you have to re-learn all the CS algorithms which will proba
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by GFischer 10y ago
You reminded me, mine has an anti-kids "feature", which is that it can't be turned on unless you set it up, press the start button, then open the door, close the door and press the start button again. I don't have kids a
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by GFischer 10y ago
Apple is the worst offender by being the only major vendor not to support WebRTC natively (and I guess that's why Zoom.us went with their own non-native solution). I know people prefer Macs, but they're enabling this behavior by A
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by GFischer 10y ago
Have you tried appear.in ? https://appear.in/ . It generates a link, and has pretty good resolution and no invites or anything, and I like their UI a lot. Most of the other problems (high resolution and immediacy) are a fu
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by GFischer 10y ago
I also got started on GW-BASIC (on DOS 3.3). Twenty years later, I'm still writing way too much Basic code (VB6 legacy apps and some VB.NET). I do appreciate a lot of things about the syntax and wish C# had picked them (no semicolons a
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by GFischer 10y ago
Only in the U.S./English. If you refer to "America" in Spanish it's assumed you're referring to the continent, the state is commonly referred to as the United States or the United States of America. We actually call
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by GFischer 10y ago
Ironically it's not the only United States in America (but it is the only one with America in the name I believe) Mexico is the United States of Mexico, there also were United States of Colombia, United States of Venezuela (now renamed
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by GFischer 10y ago
Doesn't seem like it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_Cruise_Line
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by GFischer 10y ago
Seeing some other comments, I think we're very close to a VB-like solution (maybe something with React + a GUI).
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by GFischer 10y ago
I've seen a few bootstrap-based ones and I have tried a few, like PineGrow and Bootply, and I think they help. I'm hoping for a React-friendly one. https://pinegrow.com/ http://www.bootply.com/ A
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by GFischer 10y ago
The bad thing is that it's much harder (IMO) to find freelance jobs for back-end development (especially for SQL-based stuff and not Node or Rails with Mongo or whatnot). On the other hand, yes, the SQL coursework I did a decade ago is
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by GFischer 10y ago
Indeed, I made some changes to a freelance contract once, and the business owner was extremely understanding. It ended up being the best freelance experience I've had and I would recommend working for them with no hesitation. OTOH, I&#
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by GFischer 10y ago
Chrome in English, from Uruguay, default was ºF
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by GFischer 10y ago
I actually tried starting a company based on that, but when I went to talk to the cell phone providers, one of them candidly explained to them that SMS was their cash cow and that it was essentially free for them, and calls were very cheap
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by GFischer 10y ago
Data costs per GB still sound extremely expensive. It's in line with what they've been doing previously: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2016/apr/30/end-bill-shock... One good thing in my cou
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by GFischer 10y ago
Yeah, I've heard that a lot, that the 1st gen VR stuff (Vive, Oculus, GearVR) is not yet quite there, that it has some compelling glimpses but that they need polishing. Maybe they need an "iPhone" moment, where a company take

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