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by donkeyd 8y ago
I remember the first time I used Skype. I think this wasn't too long after the release in '03. Me and my friend called his dad, who was in Canada, from the Netherlands. We could see him and there was hardly a delay, we were super
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> Most users are extremely "inefficient" by geek standards. How is that inefficient? I use both interchangeably and I don't see how it's any less efficient than opening a new tab and then having to close it if it&#x27
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Slightly off-topic, but what's the reason that Americans all tend to line-up at the drive thru? I was in LA, there was a huge line at the drive thru, so we parked, went inside and got our orders really quickly.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
I can't say that I fully agree with that. The Amazon store and AWS have made a lot of stuff possible that otherwise might not have been possible. AWS for example gives out free services to startups, some of which might have major impac
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by donkeyd 8y ago
It's interesting how this sort of means that the cost of Amazon is in a way socialized (including all the tax breaks for building a new office somewhere), while it's impossible to socialize healthcare in the US.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Didn't Google just start to 'build a better search engine'? It wouldn't have seemed like a crazy moonshot at the start.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
That's a pretty good tip actually, thanks!
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Was approached by a recruiter for an interesting position. They sent me the job description and I had a sort of pre-selection interview. Then another recruiter was supposed to call me for another interview, but after making two or three app
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Sensors in the tunnel and the skates, that communicate with each other? It's not rocket science, that's how it's worked for years with trains and subways and even car tunnels have continuous monitoring and signage to alert ot
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by donkeyd 8y ago
They're all over Amsterdam. There's an app for people who are boating that shows every urinal next to the canals. It's very convenient! Edit: There's even ones that come up out of the ground at night!
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by donkeyd 8y ago
That was pretty much my teacher's reaction when I pitched 'free toilet paper for students by printing ads on them', in business school.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Man, the first part of the article hits close to home. Ik currently in a project where there's a combination of scope creep and inexperienced developers causing the work to take longer than expected. Business however is unwilling to mo
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by donkeyd 8y ago
People tend to pick an ugly city over hours of traffic jams in a pretty city.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
I did some assignments for what I believe was ACNielsen when I was in college. I'd get paid about €10 an hour to stand outside an Aldi store asking every customer that came out for their receipt. (Aldi also doesn't share its sales
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by donkeyd 8y ago
There's at least one Black Mirror episode about this premise. If I remember correctly, some others also touch this. It's worth while to watch a couple episodes. They're not all great, but many are good food for thought if you
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> makes me realise how easy it is to steal things still I just found this through Reddit and had to think of your comment: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colton_Harris_Moore
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> But nowhere do they suggest playing opaque games My point was that it doesn't have to be an opaque game, the story just makes it seem that way. That's why I mentioned people reading too much into the story and not getting the
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Commenters here seem to read too much into the actual orange juice story and don't seem to get the actual point. I've worked in consultancy for a couple of years now and I've worked with sales people that say: "sure, we
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by donkeyd 8y ago
I asked about it at a later time, but after a certain time, the car ownership officially gets transferred to the insurance company, so any updates from the police would go to them unfortunately. From what I heard, however, police wasn'
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> the types of crimes they deal with are much more severe. Not just that, because of tourists misbehaving everywhere, there are also just way more crimes/disturbances than in normal city/town.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> So I would hope that when presented with an automated report that the car was involved in an accident along with the exact coordinates, that they would come investigate to see if the driver was injured in the accident and unable to cal
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> unless it’s been going on for a while but executed perfectly so nobody would find a trace My boss's car was stolen in broad daylight in front of a client's warehouse. This isn't a busy area, but it isn't extremely q
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> If they hadn't agreed and the issue had been brought to court, the $400 million number almost certainly would have been enforced. In the Netherlands, I wouldn't be so sure about that. Law says that the person signing the cont
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Maybe a small drone could be useful in this situation. It would allow you to scout the road ahead before venturing in too deep.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
For me, the hardest part was convincing my brain that it wasn't CGI. I think I got so used to seeing stuff like this in movies that my brain didn't process it as real for a while.
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by donkeyd 8y ago
I'm both asking a question and showing that I differ in opinion. There's no trying to hide it, it's pretty obvious. Ethiscs is a personal thing, so it's hard to argue in. Your argument though, is not in resonable. Tesla
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by donkeyd 8y ago
> please spare me the "if they can lower the number of car fatalities overall, they have every right to actively kill a few people here and there" spiel Why? Instead of telling people not to make arguments, please make an argum
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by donkeyd 8y ago
I get that part, but in what scenario will user input actually be provided to this package? It feels like this is highly unlikely and that there probably won't be any cases where this will actually be an issue. I may be wrong though, I
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by donkeyd 8y ago
In what scenarios could this be abused?
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by donkeyd 8y ago
Most of these aren't an issue if you're self-hosting in the cloud though. You can cheap VPS for a couple of $ a month.

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