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by azuriten 3y ago
> There was at least one year's Tour de France in which all but one participant were later found to have been doping. In other words, you didn't get to that level of that competitive activity, if you didn't cheat, because
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by azuriten 5y ago
> If they want to attract more tech workers they really need to up their salaries. Having a good salary is important but the work-life balance is just as important, if not more. I lived in Japan for a years (not as a dev, am now); I can
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by azuriten 5y ago
This is a great idea and I wish we had this in the UK. I was quoted £65 to replace my failing, right AirPod and £130 to replace both of them when RRP for new ones are £160. I'd much rather replace the batteries of my existing ones then
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by azuriten 5y ago
> In fact, many things at Lambda School are working very well, and we believe we're on the path to proving this model successful and sustainable. While that may be true (doubt it), I work at a startup with about 150 employees and if
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by azuriten 6y ago
The London Underground doesn't have 4G/Wifi in the tunnels. As with most things with the tube, the reason is that the infrastructure is very old and installing extra equipment inside those old, narrow and twisty tunnels is quite d
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by azuriten 6y ago
That's fair for law documents; in the same way I'd expect your peers to understand your SQL. I just wish privacy policies, which are supposed to be for consumers, were written in the plain English.
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by azuriten 6y ago
I don't think I've ever come across any legal document/lawsuit or otherwise, that was formatted in a way that made it easy to read. I know it's on purpose like with Privacy Policies/Terms of Service but I really wan
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by azuriten 6y ago
> Imagine: casual and coffee shop-style seating, private space for heads-down focusing, larger bookable resources and collaboration spaces for teams to strategically meet IRL, and no more fixed desks—we’ll have neighborhoods for teams to
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Don't Be Evil(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by azuriten 6y ago|0 comments
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Deciding What Not to Learn(mastery.games)
1 points by azuriten 6y ago|0 comments
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by azuriten 6y ago
Yes, it was an in-game event via their Party Royale game mode. Should be up on YouTube relatively soon - it was only a minute or so long.
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by azuriten 6y ago
Adding to this, Epic/Fortnite are planning a short which goes live in 10mins called Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite. Most likely to be a parody of the 1984 Apple ad. Yup, it's a marketing stunt. https://twitter.com/Fortni
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by azuriten 6y ago
Looks like this was the plan all long. Now to see whether or not the risk of implementing their own payments system for V-Bucks is worth the potential revenue loss they will incur with the app being removed from the store.
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by azuriten 6y ago
> When my PS4 Pro is playing stuff like TLOU2, it sounds like it's going to start hovering off my TV cabinet. I have the CUH-7200 PS4 Pro model which is apparently the quietest model and it's insane how loud that thing gets whe
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by azuriten 6y ago
If I could somehow guarantee a remote-work job for the foreesable future I'd love to move back and live somewhere more countryside but still with decent links to Tokyo such as the Shonan area or even somewhere a bit more east of Kichij
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by azuriten 6y ago
I'd probably go back to Japan; possibly Fukuoka, Hokkaido or somewhere relatively close from Greater Tokyo, possibly the Shonan area (Kamakura/Zushi). One of the reasons I came back to the UK was that work/life balance seems
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by azuriten 6y ago
Did they get rid of that feature or was it replaced by Public pastes on the right hand side? I've only ever used Pastebin for gaming leaks and I don't think the interface leads itself well for long form posts. Probably just me bei
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by azuriten 6y ago
If you're just writing some throwaway content then sure, I guess the low effort is worth it. But if you want to write more than a single post it's probably better to spin up either your own blog or somewhere else.
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by azuriten 6y ago
GitHub and Gists seems to alot of people's go to place for writing these days. I'll take it over Medium but still seems a bit odd.
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by azuriten 9y ago
It isn't mentioned in the podcast.
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by azuriten 9y ago
There was an episode NPR Planet Money where they had a former hiring manager explain Netflix's work culture. I recommend giving it a listen; it's only 20 mins. npr.org/sections/money/2017/09/13/550793