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by NearAP 6y ago
>>because I'm sure your programmed knee-jerk reaction<<< You don't have to be rude. I have engaged in a polite conversation with you. >>And then comes the double standards <<< Yes, you can argue that
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by NearAP 6y ago
That is false. The suppression on Twitter was based on the argument that the data was allegedly hacked, was not verified and they were being cautious. You are also ignoring the fact that even conservative leanings sites like Wall Street jou
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by NearAP 6y ago
The argument was never about whether a story like that was news worthy or not. The argument was - if your article is saying/implying that the then former VP was complicit in a financial scheme to benefit him after publicly saying he wa
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by NearAP 6y ago
While I understand the points being raised, I disagree with the proffered solution 1) Some folks build a small SaaS product to sharpen their skills, learn new things and as a strategy to position themselves for a higher paying job (they can
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by NearAP 6y ago
>>> Oops, thought this was a Show HN. <<< If you don't mind, can you explain the difference between this type of Post and a 'Show HN'? Is it that this one was not submitted by the person who built it whereas
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by NearAP 6y ago
I held on to my Q10 for a long time. That feeling of being able to type text with one hand because of the physical keyboard was so awesome. Alas, I finally had to drop it when an application I basically couldn't live without stopped su
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by NearAP 6y ago
You're right. It is still not clear to me what/how this will be used (I think I have an idea but not sure; the front page should have made it quite clear). It would have been great if they had described a target use-case right the
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by NearAP 6y ago
>>> with engineers directing the process This is usually not the solution. You have to understand the requirements/know your actual users. Engineers don’t necessarily do this well. They build with the latest tech but as you se
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by NearAP 6y ago
Probably not true. It means blocking them from using the site because they only have 1 or 2 devices and those are running IE. The article talks about the fact that a lot of the seniors get help with their online stuff from the libraries (wh
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by NearAP 6y ago
>>Internet Explorer has less than a 2% market share in the US, so under normal circumstances (given the sacrifices you’d have to make everywhere else) not bothering to support is is often a sensible decision. When it’s an access to he
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by NearAP 6y ago
After reading the article, I think it boils down to a) Poor/lack of understanding of who the actual users are e.g. these are systems that will be used by both the young and old people, especially older people in the early stages since
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by NearAP 6y ago
This is not a 'software engineering' thing. If you look at it from a software development POV, then the issue is more of not having 'product managers' whose job it is to - understand the requirements, write the specs, ba
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by NearAP 6y ago
...Gordon was happy to settle as being 'just an engineer' hacking away on circuit boards and such whereas... hmm, not exactly. Much earlier, Gordon had 'followed' his dream and done something which ended up not working o
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by NearAP 6y ago
....Seventy gigabytes' worth of customer data stolen from the website of U.S. men's clothing retailer Bonobos has been posted in a hacker forum, reports Bleeping Computer.... ....Bonobos confirmed to Bleeping Computer that the dat
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Data breach at Bonobos hits 7M customers(tomsguide.com)
1 points by NearAP 6y ago|1 comments
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by NearAP 6y ago
A 'key' line for me in his speech was - ...They didn’t stop anyone from charging her 169% interest on a loan either... I thought you could only get charged like this if you went to loan sharks or some 'underground' or in
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Don’t confuse 5k rioters with 74M voters(hotair.com)
7 points by NearAP 6y ago|3 comments
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by NearAP 6y ago
From the piece. ...In a memo to the Department’s Solicitor, she wrote that Oracle’s “real vulnerability” was that the trial would be public and detail how “Oracle and pretty much all tech companies are discriminating against women and Asian
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The Oracle Prosecution(wsj.com)
3 points by NearAP 6y ago|1 comments
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by NearAP 6y ago
>>> Do you think there are many people here that would support a breakdown of the democratic process, a coup?<<< 1) Have you taken a look at Parler? 2) The Chair of Texas state GOP has called for the state to secede in the
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by NearAP 6y ago
A) >>>Specific examples are pennsylvania allowing absentee ballot 3 days after the election even though by law any ballots arriving by mail after election day are void.<<<< That is incorrect. PA Supreme Court ruled that
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by NearAP 6y ago
The key here is that you were venting to 'managers you could trust about feeling burnt out'. If you were talking to a manager who didn't see this as just 'venting', nothing stops them from accepting your resignation
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by NearAP 6y ago
Technically speaking, how is that a problem? If your theory is right that Google was looking for a reason to fire her, then she shouldn't have given them a 'legal' one. At the end of the day, it boiled down to - she gave them
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by NearAP 6y ago
Note: This is for US residents only Personally, I like these types of interactive journalism (simple interactive tools). Another one from NYTimes that I liked was the tool for figuring out whether it was better to buy or rent (can't fi
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Find Your Place in the Vaccine Line(nytimes.com)
2 points by NearAP 6y ago|1 comments
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For democrats who chose him during his primaries, his #1 quality was that he was a moderate/centrist. The democrat party isn't only made up of leftists/progressives. There were a considerable number of democrats who were scar
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by NearAP 6y ago
They did pick someone - him. Let's not forget he was the nominee because he won the primaries meaning he was considered the best of the contestants. Not everybody is as progressive as Sanders and not everybody liked Sanders tone
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by NearAP 6y ago
His campaign was 'not vigorous' as you called it because of the pandemic
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by NearAP 6y ago
>>>nobody I have talked to seriously voted for Joe Biden on his own merits.<<< On the other hand, I know lots of people who voted him on his own merits which and they listed them as - he is centrist, he was a senator/
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by NearAP 6y ago
The key bit in the article ....To help drive the idea home (pun intended), we’ve reimagined our approach to compensation in the US. To support employees to live where they want to and do their best work, we are eliminating geographic compen

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