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anthonybsd
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I would recommend trying this one first to see how you like it. In general coding fonts are sort of a very personal thing - everyone is different. I started a new job 1.5 months ago which facilitated a jump from IntelliJ to Visual Studio. I
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Wow. Thank you! 4+ years of using slack and this is one of a genuinely useful things I just learned.
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I think your experience is a complete outlier. I literally only go the ATM when I need to give cash to a friend or something weird like that. I spend most of my life in NYC / Financial District. I can't recall the last time I even
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7y ago
For literature? Historically non-fiction titles that won Nobel prizes had a degree of artistic merit to them. Chomsky works are highly analytical, and it's hard to classify them as "literature" in a traditional sense.
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7y ago
Pretty far. Iranian pistachios are identical to Californian pistachios, just red in color. Commenter above probably is influenced by the red dye and in a blind taste would fail to distinguish between the two. Turkish/Armenian pistachio
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7y ago
>The whole test was designed to take 6 hours. Pre-Screening to get to an onsite interview taking 6 hours? I'm sorry, but this is the exact toxic interview culture that is poisoning the job hiring process in tech startups. >Some o
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I understand that when OnePlus One was launched it was in the "Phablet" category. My point is I don't recall anyone using that label on mine (or on my IPhone 6+) because larger phones were becoming a lot more mainstream at th
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>Galaxy Note series is original phablet line and the OnePlus One was bigger than the contemporary iteration of that line. No it wasn't, check the specs. My point is at the point when majority of phones were released in "phablet
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7y ago
>Oneplus One which is quite old by todays standards; and I distinctly remember it being called a "Phablet" due to it's obtuse stature in comparison to its contemporaries Wait what? This doesn't make sense. I remember
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7y ago
Bypass Paywalls extension
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> The Corporate Amex cards don't require a personal guarantee. I have Amex corporate and it absolutely required a personal guarantee. Social Security number and all.
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7y ago
Ughh, almost every card for individuals with good credit is better than that [1]. Unless you mean strictly among corporate cards? [1] https://www.nerdwallet.com/best/credit-cards/cash-back
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7y ago
I do not enjoy Perl, but I have a positive opinion of it :) I launched my career in the late 90s as a Perl/XS/CGI (later mod_perl) developer and have many fond memories of it. I also have seen enough cases of Perl codebase deterio
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This one goes into a bit more detail regarding how she managed to survive the fall: https://allthatsinteresting.com/vesna-vulovic "While many other passengers were sucked out of the plane after the explosion, Vulović b
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The article is somewhat scarce on details but it sounds like both of her pilot chutes opened while failing to deploy main/reserve chutes. Pilot chutes alone will push your terminal velocity way down. If she fell in wooded area those ch
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>There's even a /leftypol/ devoted to leftist politics that contains no white supremicists. Leftypol is not devoted to "leftist politics", it's a counterpart to /pol which stands for "politically i
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https://www.nbim.no/contentassets/d3a372eb9d234e57a07caaf0f3... Updated: 1.3% Edit: Oops, I misunderstood a question. Actually further in PDF they specify that US specifically is 39%, which is roughly 400 billion. If w
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It seems to me this entire piece is solely based around the idea that because something a picture of sold for a lot of money can't be ordinary and mundane. I'm sorry, but it is. It's a cookie cutter of which there are thousan
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Same here. I've been using 1Password for over 11 years. Paid for multiple licenses, family subscriptions, upgrades, etc. Their recent behavior which indicates direct hostility to their long time users and obvious money grabs. Since it
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If they came in 15 inch sizes I'd be sold. :(
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Hah. I have dozens of horror stories like that. Listening to Spotify at work, headphone jack plugged in to the Macbook. Get a phone call from the wife, need to run to meet her in the restaurant in the city. Close macbook, pull out headphone
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7y ago
I'm Ukrainian. Recent history has taught me to not trust any Russian citizen for any reason whatsoever.
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>Revolut's CFO recently 'resigned' from the company in light of claims that Revolut switched off an anti-money laundering system that flags suspect transactions. Revolut's CEO[1] is the son of the top bureaucrat of Ru
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7y ago
You have? Care to share with the rest of us?
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I miss Photoshop Phridays. I mean they still exist but somehow the spark is gone. Back in 2000-2001 we used to wait for them religiously.
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Don't forget coverage issues. IPhones have been worldphones (i.e. works on every carrier) for the past 6+ years. Contracts and termination fees have been phased out for most people for 4 and all people for 2 years. Yet in my case despi
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>Tesla actually just won the "Most Loved Brand" rating from Auto Trader I suspect this rating will probably do a 180 soon. Tesla cars (all of them) aren't that old. Just wait until a lot of owners are thoroughly in the use
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I honestly fail to see the appeal of this as opposed to say Solowheel Glide 3 for last mile commuters. Doesn't fold, so forget folding it under the seat of the bus/train/etc. What's the point?
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The thing with Spring drive is that Quartz oscillation in it while used for the same purpose (time keeping) is used in an entirely different fashion. Being a mechanical watch admirer I consider it more in the realm of automatics than in the
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It looks horribly crafted to me. Look at the close-up of the finishing on the hands here: https://assets.bwbx.io/images/users/iqjWHBFdfxIU/ibkZQA68NpX... . Look at the uneven thickness of the hour hand, the r
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