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by asjw 6y ago
They also do in the form of moderation, (secret) algorithms and suggestions based on (undisclosed) advertisers
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by asjw 6y ago
I wrote an extension to "unamp" the website of a popular Italian newspaper and as soon it reached a thousand users Google banned it and forced Firefox to do the same (shame on you Firefox) So I guess worse is better we are suppose
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by asjw 6y ago
> A child can correctly observe that an emperor is not wearing clothes Not wearing clothes is what CPP does by default And it's hardly an emperor, it's more the guy who makes copies
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by asjw 6y ago
The employer wants you to be there, if they want you to stay home, they save on the office bill and can pay for the difference in your bills It's a zero sum game for them No big deal, seems fair to me
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by asjw 6y ago
In Rome, where I was born and lived before I had to move for work But only if I can find a house in Rione Monti.
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by asjw 6y ago
WordPress Is written in PHP which is written in C
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by asjw 6y ago
In this context I believe that the rewrite benefitted Firefox more than Rust At Firefox they already knew the problem they were trying to solve using Rust, they already wrote that software, already discovered many of the overlooked complica
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by asjw 6y ago
How much do you pay for pasta? 5,000$ of pasta would last me and my family until the end of my days. At ~1-1.2 euros for half a kilo it's around 90 years worth of pasta (based on an average of 28 kilos per person per year in Italy)
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by asjw 6y ago
Before taxes. I think developers in Europe in general sell themselves short, they feel like outcasts who have to go through suffering for having a better job than the average. I used to be like that, I would accept lower rates to not feel o
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by asjw 6y ago
Hello fellow Meneghino! The usual advices apply here: - you solve problems, sell yourself as that. It's okay to fill a résumé with technical skills, but also add something that tells potential clients/employers what you really d
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by asjw 6y ago
But also Siemens, Bosch, Bayer, Lufthansa Systems Btw, even though I'm a huge Ferrari fan, the research being made at Daimler AG (Mercedes) is astonishing, not only in Formula 1, their self driving trucks are an incredible piece of tec
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by asjw 6y ago
Diesel gate has nothing to do with pure profit, it has to do with Germany keeping its market shares and the occupational figures (the stability I was talking about) Only 2% of the cars were sold in US Of course the fact that US was leading
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by asjw 6y ago
That's a completely fair question. I'm a senior developer who works on distributed systems for one of the largest Italian private held financial institutions. To be completely honest I know almost nothing about finance, I just kno
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by asjw 6y ago
> Salaries are off the charts Are they? I received few offers from them and their salaries where in par with what I earn in Italy (around 100k) which is very good for Europe but not as much as SV
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by asjw 6y ago
The other big difference is that German companies prefer stability over pure profit, because it creates a better working environment and a happier society overall, where your job doesn't depend from sheer luck, especially the lower inc
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by asjw 6y ago
I actually did When I was a kid Greek and Latin were taught at school since elementary schools (I think you call them primary schools) I'm sorry for you if you didn't They are pretty amazing
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by asjw 6y ago
I believe that Archimedes used Greek because it was the only language he knew...
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by asjw 6y ago
For what is worth being able to enforce conventions like present?(p) // return bool get!(g) // throw if not found a-la ruby/elixir could be good
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by asjw 6y ago
Probably it has to do with me being a non-native English speaker, but I meant tragic as "something really sad" and "end of an era". He died of cancer, a terrible way to go and even though he wasn't part of Kraftwerk
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by asjw 6y ago
This is tragic. Kraftwerk, in my opinion, invented modern music and will be the classical music of our times. There have been moments of my life where I would listen morgen spaziergang for hours in loop, it was the only thing that could get
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by asjw 6y ago
This is true, but bike market in US (for example) amounts to 47 billions with a prediction of 75 billions in 2025 Car market is much richer but most of it comes from second-hand retail, which is practically non existent for bikes. For compa
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by asjw 6y ago
According to the stats 48% of Belgians own a bike, but only 8% of the trips are by bike. In China 37% of the population owns a bike, but in Shanghai 60% of the daily trips are by bike. There are more people riding bikes everyday in northern
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by asjw 6y ago
Not using behavioural economics ideas
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by asjw 6y ago
Not to disrespect any country, but the fact that Tunisia ranks higher than Italy it's a bit ridiculous...
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by asjw 6y ago
I would if it made sense, but it doesn't, unfortunately Dogs are more dangerous than cats for humans, that's enough to justify why to own a cat you don't need a license while to own a 70 pounds dog you do. I live in a countr
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by asjw 6y ago
Dogs can kill humans and since they can they do, especially babies
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by asjw 6y ago
Yeah close doesn't mean neighbors I'm from Rome, Italy, and Stockholm is farther away from it than Cairo in Egypt
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by asjw 6y ago
Luxembourg has a population of 600 thousands people Lichtenstein has 38 thousands citizens There are 164 countries in the World with less than one million citizens and 159 with one million or more https://en.m.wikipedia.org/
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by asjw 7y ago
That's the definition of local.
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by asjw 7y ago
Not the only one People are also highly irrational, they'll live where water is contaminated but fear 5G wireless https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhopal_disaster

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