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by dan-0 5y ago
> Americans from poor rural towns who enlist just for healthcare The rest of the point aside, you're trying to tug a heartstring based on a stereotype. This is much more condescending and out of touch than it is accurate with regar
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by dan-0 5y ago
> I am talking about experiences, relationships, and outlook-defining memories. And "pumping out kids" as you put it does this for many people. Sorry it doesn't for you, but saying that it isn't a "win" for
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by dan-0 5y ago
> There's so much more to life than pumping out kids I think it's pretty hard to argue this is true while literally making "life." Yeah you don't usually get a shiny new car and an unnecessarily large house havin
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by dan-0 6y ago
> I find #7 especially hollow I think there's some confusion here on what and how the USDS works. They embed into government organizations to improve services and systems, bringing expertise that doesn't normally exist in gover
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by dan-0 7y ago
> He is trying to survive like everyone else.. who the hell am I to sit in the comfy first world and judge? He doesn't know you from a senile person living in poverty. They'll steal your money regardless of who you are. There&#
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by dan-0 7y ago
This. I used to have long commutes. I really enjoyed getting scam calls during the commutes and seeing how long I could keep them on. It was completely a game. I look at it that the longer I can occupy them the less time they have to take a
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by dan-0 7y ago
This is fine in some environments, but not all. I worked on a code base once that had over 150 engineers. Teams were broken up mainly along feature and UX lines, but there were a few cases where some features were used in multiple user expe
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by dan-0 7y ago
Can't speak for OP, but I can tell you what mine is. If you have an intern or a Junior Engineer, they should have a more senior engineer to monitor and mentor them. In the situation where a Junior Engineer gets blamed for a screw up: 1
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by dan-0 7y ago
This seems to be getting a lot of attention, so as an Android Engineer with some security and framework experience let me try to explain. This is a side effect of Android's initial approach to it's open nature. Android allows a ma
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by dan-0 8y ago
This is pretty much it. I haven't lived in Chicago, but have a lot of friends from there and did some research while on my last jobs search. Putting affordability next to availability of public transportation, Chicago is probably the b
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by dan-0 8y ago
> For trips shorter than four miles, it is likely that travellers would opt for low-capacity autonomous taxis or shuttles rather than taking high-capacity mass transit options like buses or trains. This is the crux if the problem. Mass t
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by dan-0 8y ago
> If you back up a list of things to delete is that GDPR compliant? Ponder. There's little to ponder, that's why I mentioned "entities" rather than "user data." Use unique keys to reference the data rather t
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by dan-0 8y ago
> Not true. ... unless you plan to use the backups. Then you have to have another service that tracks entities to delete when a backup it's restored... and back that up separately.
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by dan-0 8y ago
> "Technology" for the company has been coming up with a mobile app to connect drivers and potential customers - something hardly groundbreaking. > And while their efforts to "disrupt" the taxi economy have been &q
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by dan-0 8y ago
Maybe I'm a little jaded on the hardware front, but everytime I see one of these articles it's comparing nominally different features the will almost always be beat by another phone within a few months. Maybe it comes down to bran
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by dan-0 8y ago
I really thought Flutter was going to just fade away, but it really seems to be picking up speed, in no small part due to Fuchsia as you mentioned. Looking at the line up for Google I/O, hearing the rumors as we're about to head
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by dan-0 8y ago
> The rich are only rich because they steal from the poor, either directly by scams or indirectly by theft of wages and labor productivity. Capitalism unfortunately enshrines this behavior in the law so it's seen as a good thing, wh
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by dan-0 9y ago
> But if there is a one-to-many pattern of information sharing (e.g. an organized attempt to share content) to unrelated parties, then that content should be vetted for veracity. Either FB does it, or they surface it for others to flag i
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by dan-0 9y ago
I see where your coming from here, and by all means 0 °C is more significant than say 0 °F. But water freezing at 0 °C is far less "special" than everything freezing at 0 K
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by dan-0 9y ago
Android can't easily do this. Each manufacturer and even carrier often bakes in their own custom features to the OS. Rather than just Google pushing an OS update, Google has to post the update, then the manufacturer updates, then the c