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by bobbles 13y ago
I read it and thought of it as 'several hits' ie. 'taking a beating', but now I'm not so sure.
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by bobbles 13y ago
It said I had a 15% increase. not too sure about that, but one thing i definitely did notice was that was I kept reading the beeline sentence my brain was 'remembering' what I had just read. I 'constantly' have to re-rea
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by bobbles 13y ago
Things that annoy me about buying android apps since I switched to a nexus 4 this week: No way to in-app upgrade to remove ads. what?? (you have to buy a separate app). Heaps of games / apps that dont even provide an option to remove t
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by bobbles 13y ago
>There wasn't even a warning in the release notes Do you think they would have released it if they knew about it?
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by bobbles 13y ago
Remember to keep things in perspective. If your only goal is to succeed at all costs, then what will you do with yourself when you finally obtain your goal?
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by bobbles 13y ago
PG could have said "only people with the required physical fitness and math skills will ever make it as an astronaut" and people will come out to complain that it was offensive to unfit people with poor math skills.
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by bobbles 13y ago
Fundamental UI issues are so irritating. For example, when I click on a subscription, it STILL shows either videos ive already watched or that users recommended viewing. Is it not bleedingly obvious that this should always have their '
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by bobbles 13y ago
In less than 7 days Australia will essentially be deciding if it gets a National Fibre-to-premesis Broadband Network.. or if it will continue pushing copper and outdated tech for the next 4 years. It terrifies me that the entire murdoch emp
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by bobbles 13y ago
They should really emphasise the date more in the name (like you would with a car). eg: Nexus 7 (2013). Some retailers do this but a lot of them dont
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by bobbles 13y ago
He did read it, but you singled out Australia, which has this available (and in stock)! He was just clarifying this.
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by bobbles 13y ago
Wowzers, this just dropped the N4 (8GB) directly into my impulse buy territory. I'm currently on the iPhone 4S so it'll be interesting to try this out while I wait for the latest iPhone announcements
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by bobbles 13y ago
How to be reassured I'm reading Hacker News. 1) See an interesting article. 2) Check the first comment to see how any interesting article can be struck down in a few lines
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by bobbles 13y ago
I had no idea it had more actual pictures on the page until I read about the sidescrolling.
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by bobbles 13y ago
Load the page... Do I click the button in the middle? (Nope.. just refreshes the background) Ok.. Click Explore Lots of images appear, still not sure what the sites all about ok then.. click join. you want me to make an account? I dont even
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by bobbles 13y ago
All mine has is name / address, etc followed by course studied and the relevant topics studied during that course. It's not a 300 word page filled with text. Leaving space is also a good way for people to take notes on the CV (I&#
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by bobbles 13y ago
If someone is on $15/hr and billed at $150/hr chances are they do not have the experience or portfolio of work to be able to go and work for themselves billing $150/hr
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by bobbles 13y ago
IMO CVs should be 3 pages. 1) Cover letter. Explain why you want the job and why you're a good person for that job. 2) Contact Details & Education. Most relevant and recent should be top of the list. 3) Previous Work experience. Li
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by bobbles 13y ago
Is there some kind of diagram that explains how this works? I can't really see how this works just by imagining it.
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by bobbles 13y ago
If I'm going to India for 5 weeks with my gf, do you think we'd honestly have anything to worry about? I would assume having the guy alongside would tame things down a bit right?
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by bobbles 13y ago
It's kind of like the common mistake people make just getting into saving and investing. This is where they are calculating everything on a 'per month' basis, not realising that the interest rate is done annually.
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by bobbles 13y ago
I used to live about 8 hours drive from where I'm currently working (rural australia to Sydney). When they found out where I was, they arranged the normal 4 interviews to be arranged back to back rather than spread out over a few days.
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by bobbles 13y ago
I was a member from the first day.. and then cancelled after about 6 months because after trying to force myself to 'get it' I still didn't know what I was meant to be doing with it
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by bobbles 13y ago
"He proposed on a Valentine's day, although he didn't do it face to face, he did it in one of the little Valentine bits in the paper. I think he had to pay for it by the word, because it just said 'Lee love Dawn, marriag
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by bobbles 13y ago
Couldn't you use a foot pedal as a mouse button? You could easily add multiple switches or triggers that way.
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by bobbles 13y ago
The problem with a system with no moderation is that the abusers of the system have more time and incentive to abuse than the community does to moderate.
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by bobbles 13y ago
How can that happen? It's not like your new employer will know what you were making at the last job, and even so why should that matter?
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by bobbles 13y ago
One of the things I do when writing emails (particularly important ones, or ones going to clients) is after I finish what I would normally write, go back through the whole email and remove as many words as possible. Things like 'we nee
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by bobbles 13y ago
But he does understand the process, he just doesnt understand how it's his fault, not the fault of the 'shysters'
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by bobbles 13y ago
His response to this doesnt surprise me at all, completely misses the point of the problem but still manages to blame someone else for it.
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by bobbles 13y ago
The article gives absolutely no context around what being a 'word champion' even means... this is useless

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