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by alexee 9y ago
Suggestion to make it with lesser scope, but with verifiable contracts, so you can automatically verify that it was done. I'd actually use that service myself :) For example: 1) Run 10K on Strava. 2) Solve programming challenge on Cod
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by alexee 9y ago
Online accredited bachelor degree in CS, it seems there is a lot of resistance in this area too, why it takes so long for Coursera/Udacity to implemented this?
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by alexee 9y ago
On a related topic, I was looking for a rental car and was googling related keywords, and then 30 minutes later chat bot from some car company messaged me on Facebook. Can someone explain how it is possible, how did they know my Facebook ac
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by alexee 9y ago
to your account yes, but not if you want to send money to your friend or employee.
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by alexee 9y ago
I wish they would issue credit cards soon. Every time I pay with credit card while travelling, my bank charges 1.5% for each transaction, in addition to bad conversion rate.
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TransferWise announces $280M investment(techcrunch.com)
151 points by alexee 9y ago|172 comments
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by alexee 9y ago
If you google stem cells + <disease name> you can find <promising> research for almost any disease, can anyone explain in simple terms, what is so magical in stem cells therapy?
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by alexee 9y ago
I was asked something like this in Amazon SE interview - find something without using loops, the answer was to use recursion. Sigh.
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by alexee 9y ago
Why do you think it isn't there? Actually I bought Apple watch series 2 for exactly this reason, running without a phone. It has everything you need (GPS+heart rate monitor+music), and you can even have podcasts with third-party apps.
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by alexee 9y ago
at least "What is the European Union?" when voting for brexit would be enough.
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by alexee 9y ago
My father is 59 and started to learn programming half a year ago. So far I was giving him algorithmic tasks to learn basic language constructs, he is now comfortable with basic Java and is able to solve most of easy problems from programmin
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FDA Approves Radicava, First New ALS1 Therapy in 22 Years(alsnewstoday.com)
53 points by alexee 9y ago|29 comments
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by alexee 9y ago
There is also https://e-maxx-eng.appspot.com/ (translated from russian, original: https://e-maxx.ru/algo/ )
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by alexee 10y ago
You can order Free Style Libre (online), starter package for $200 or so (check their website). They probably don't ship to the US, as they're not approved there, so you'd have to use some mail forwarder.
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by alexee 10y ago
Sadly this article doesn't say if he can eat cakes or cookies without dangerously high blood sugars. This test could say quite definitively if he is cured or not. Usually term "reversed" is used in context of Type 2 diabetes,
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British man with type 1 diabetes to receive tests after coming off insulin(diabetes.co.uk)
47 points by alexee 10y ago|44 comments
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by alexee 10y ago
Is there similar service in AWS?
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by alexee 10y ago
I'm not sure if it's only me, but I started to see a lot of 1/10x programmers in startups. They can know all newest "cool" technologies, go to various conferences, have a lot of followers on twitter and reputation o
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by alexee 10y ago
It's indeed very sad, but it's not just a view. Russian paid internet trolls are probably another prominent example of multipolar trap. Each individual don't even care about politics, probably just earning some money for livi
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by alexee 10y ago
Petr http://petr-mitrichev.blogspot.com/
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by alexee 10y ago
Is there anyone here who sold pre-IPO equity using companies like https://equityzen.com ? Can you describe your experience?
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by alexee 10y ago
Yes, solely via UpWork. I got a bit better hourly rate since then, and I usually work around 60h per week.
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by alexee 10y ago
Here is what I did: I applied to 10 jobs at UpWork everyday. After 2 weeks or so, I thought it is impossible to get a job with empty profile. (Even though I had LinkedIn with 8 years of Java experience, I think it does not matter when your