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by abawany 10y ago
I recently discovered Ecosia (ecosia.org). Seems to use results from Bing, maps from Google, and has an easy 'out' to show results from Google. Nice 'hook' as well. From their About Us page: 'Ecosia is a social busi
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by abawany 10y ago
There is an additional side effect of the missing directory browser: every sync cycle results in it rebuilding its (apparently sql-lite) DB. This is particularly a problem if you happen to have a large number of books - one ends up waiting
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by abawany 10y ago
My response to the 'why not GUI' question would have been different: 'console applications are more versatile, easier to run across multiple platforms, and can be invoked by build and automation tools. I also feel that they m
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by abawany 10y ago
I worked at a place where the CEO/founder would openly talk about 'young guys' as a hiring practice to enable him to pay as low as possible. This same place also expressed a significant preference for hiring H1B workers becau
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by abawany 10y ago
Warning: has autoplaying video. Story describes a 10-year old N Texas inventor who built a device to save lives of children inadvertently left locked in cars; this is a fatal and unfortunately-frequent mistake in the hotter states so I sinc
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“Things that work, here on earth we like things that work”(kvue.com)
1 points by abawany 10y ago|1 comments
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by abawany 10y ago
That is insane. $400/year for sitting on that mess is $400 more than what I will pay for that privilege. My $120 futon bought from Kmart in the 90s has accompanied me on many moves and still works just fine.
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by abawany 10y ago
In Austin, TX (USA), one of the few progressive cities in Texas, a plastic bag ban was passed four years ago to much grumbling. AFAICT, the residents have adapted to it and the prices for reusable bags are quite reasonable. Unfortunately, t
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Step Toward Change (backstory at Fortune Https://goo.gl/7ZBJ4S)(civ.works)
1 points by abawany 10y ago|0 comments
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by abawany 10y ago
I based my comment on my personal experiences and also from reading Ramsay's biography. I have also read some anecdotes from people who worked with Jobs. Ramsay's temper and abusiveness are legendary but people who work for him te
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by abawany 10y ago
I skimmed the comments and didn't see the following perspective so thought I would add it: one thing that makes it great for me to work with people with deep expertise is the ability to learn amazing things. I am willing to put up with
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by abawany 10y ago
Thank you. This has been going on for a while (as I recall, a Maps update last year first committed this crime - wish I had an apk backup of the prior version). I now use HERE WeGo or OsmAnd (on non-GAPPS devices, from f-droid). While the e
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by abawany 10y ago
Agreed, I was merely describing my experience in response to your description of yours. I want to add that the way I currently handle syncing of calendar/contact is via a desktop application - I had been a Windows phone user before And
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by abawany 10y ago
Used to work at Siemens. Their open-source policies were onerous from a consumption point-of-view. Every revision of every approved open-source product had to be reviewed by their open-source legal hawks to ensure that nothing had changed.
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by abawany 10y ago
I recently tried an iPhone 5s with iOS 10.x just to see how it would work for me. I quickly ran back to Android. Here are some reasons why: * browser choice: while I could install 'Firefox', none of the plugins worked since it app
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by abawany 10y ago
I have seen quite a few Fujitsu machines on sale at eBay via their refurbished store. Plenty have 2160p displays; I recently got a Q555 made-in-Japan tablet for reading that has a 1920x1200 10.1" screen. My 3+ year old T902 (1600x900)
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by abawany 10y ago
The Magic Servlet pattern in action: a 4000+ line function implemented in a jsp file; took a while to refactor that dumpster fire. I have never put much stock in 'licensing' for software developers but the aforesaid monstrosity re
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by abawany 10y ago
After a particularly terrible period at a large e-commerce company that comprised of endless and useless meetings, stupid product plans to nowhere, psychpaths galore, brutal waste of shareholder vale, and enough process to make Hell seem de
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by abawany 10y ago
<spoiler>That book lost me when it started going on about how the executives of Marlboro were great because they were so passionate about their 'mission' vs. other tobacco companies.</spoiler> The book was not tot
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by abawany 10y ago
I saw this come up in the Thiel-related thread yesterday but didn't say anything but I will say it now: the right time for the release of the sexual assault reports for Trump was during the repub primaries. Releasing it now has not see
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by abawany 10y ago
Their beef grounds are quite convincing and good, IMO though their extreme leanness gives them away. I have tried the chicken strips product as well and was not impressed. The burgers did well in the toaster oven but when I tried on a grill
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by abawany 10y ago
Not the OP but I have tried it. In the toaster oven and microwave, it was the best meat substitute burger that I had tried. Proud, I bought it to a cook-off with some carnist friends and there it met its nemesis: the open flame. I am not su
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by abawany 10y ago
Exactly. I tend to filter by critical reviews (with the default sort of recent) and that often gets the noise down to a manageable level.
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by abawany 10y ago
I am not referring to mysterious binary blobs retrieved from torrents or such but open source projects such as https://github.com/thermatk/FakeGApps ( http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.thermatk.and
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by abawany 10y ago
There are fake GApps that I have tried on experimental devices and they fooled the apps enough to enable them to run. I haven't run these long-term or tried on more than 3 apps relevant to me to say if that would be a good approach.
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by abawany 10y ago
From a quick read, it seems that this article does not talk about Pharmacy Benefits Managers such as Express Scripts. The latter are certainly not a full-fledged solution but another country-specific attempt to privatize for the sake of pri
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by abawany 10y ago
I understand. However, I do encourage you to read and at least consider rooting the phone (without triggering the flash counter if the phone is under warranty): this will enable you to remove/disable a lot of the 'system' app
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by abawany 10y ago
It looks like there are quite a few options for your device: http://forum.xda-developers.com/s7-edge/development . On further investigation, there is a wrinkle - if your device has the Exynos chip, then your options ar
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by abawany 10y ago
Get a phone that has an unlockable bootloader and install Cyanogenmod and Google Play (if you must :) ).
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by abawany 10y ago
I fully agree: most rational nations have invested in public transportation to solve this problem. The US has a myriad of problems that has made public transportation an afterthought and not viable for most of the country. I also agree that

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