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by donretag 10y ago
If I wanted to freelance, I can simply do that in the US and solve the work/life/vacation balance myself. I will be exploring freelancing in the near future. I might be too down the tech stack, since I will not find exactly what I
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by donretag 10y ago
I would love to live and work in Italy (or any other Mediterranean climate country), but there are simply no [tech] jobs. And what few software jobs there are are not interesting at all and pay very little. I value my time and I am willing
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by donretag 10y ago
Yahoo is simply the first company that we publicly know of that scans incoming emails. If the government can force Yahoo, they will force all of them. Yahoo has more disgruntled former employees to reveal secrets than Google, Microsoft, etc
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by donretag 10y ago
You can no longer set up mail forwarding with Yahoo. When Yahoo released a ton of unused accounts, I grabbed my last name (which I use on every service). I occasionally get mail for that email address. My Yahoo email is several years older
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by donretag 10y ago
How many B&W movies have made it to the public domain? Why are companies not streaming public domain movies? There are many classics available for free.
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by donretag 10y ago
Sense requires Kibana, which is another app to download and run. The original version of Sense, which I still use, was a simple Chrome extension.
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by donretag 10y ago
I used my first computer (8088) for years. Now what do I do with my Zork disks? ;)
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by donretag 10y ago
Out of curiosity, do you work remotely, locally or travel? I have considered consulting, but the local market outside of the Bay Area would be limiting.
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by donretag 10y ago
I once was searching for a file locally (Windows) and my search ended up searching the shared drive of my company, which contained a zip file. Inside this zip file were excel spreadsheets containing the salaries of all employees (around 50
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by donretag 10y ago
I was going to post the same thing. As far as I can tell, there are no term or document frequencies in postgres. Then again, I have seen several Lucene implementations with either or both are disabled. Can you even get an explain back from
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by donretag 10y ago
I lived in Atlanta for two years while I attended Georgia Tech. Never again. They still have a monument for the Confederacy. I'm sorry, but you lost.
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by donretag 10y ago
I took a train from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Slow and decrepit. No first class even if you wanted to. However, they sold beer on board at prices that were cheaper than even a supermarket. We finished their entire supply. Opte
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by donretag 10y ago
I was not worried about the mugger himself, but of any possible friends nearby. I could have floored him easily (martial arts), but I did not want to start a rumble.
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by donretag 10y ago
Perhaps I should do a Ask HN, but are there any fellow geeks that would want to do the Mongol Rally in 2017/2018? Would love to do it, but none of my friend are that type of person (or cannot quit their job).
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by donretag 10y ago
You want crazy? Try going around Africa via public transportation. I would not recommend it. ;) No matter what kind of bus ticket you get promising a luxury bus, it will be anything but that. Try getting a small group together and do like t
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by donretag 10y ago
I once had a mugger in a chokehold in Las Ramblas after he tried to get my friend's wallet.
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by donretag 10y ago
It could very well be. Americans (or better yet, foodies) tend to care about minute details regarding food. In Italy, you go to a cafe/bar and order wine. No wine list, just red or white. You order a blonde/red/dark beer. No
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by donretag 10y ago
Does an espresso really need the crema? In Italy, espresso is simply called caffe. When you order coffee, you get an espresso. At home, many still use a caffettiera (sorry, do not know the word in English). A caffettiera will not produce an
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by donretag 10y ago
I know I will be in the minority and say that I hated Macs before OSX. Good riddance. Most importantly the lack of true multi-tasking as highlighted in the article. Even Windows 95 performed before. Doing software development was a chore. N
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by donretag 10y ago
Luc Sante is a great author. Best known for "Low Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York" about the gangs of New York era.
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by donretag 10y ago
You must have missed that class, because his name is Reagan. :)
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by donretag 10y ago
Nudity is far easier to be identified algorithmically than violence.
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by donretag 10y ago
My company is undergoing a big diversity initiative. Although the company is 75% female, the first task to is increase the number of women in tech. Race is also a factor. When asked about what is being done about age discrimination, there w
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by donretag 10y ago
I keep on thinking that surely this hops fad will die out soon, but it keeps on increasing. The West coast is especially big on hops. Even lagers from breweries like Lagunitas are extremely hoppy. No thank you. Hops are a cheap and easy way
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by donretag 10y ago
I was under the assumption that VMWare owned Pivotal after it was spun off. I would assume at the least that VMware owns a large share.
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by donretag 10y ago
And VMWare owns SpringSource. So basically the Spring framework is owned by Dell.
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by donretag 10y ago
I turned down a job offer with Amazon, partly because of their on-call rotation. They do not have a devops team, or even a unified tech stack. Each team is responsible for the creation, deployment and maintenance of their own code. I have d
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by donretag 10y ago
"There was someone called Rolex" That comment made me hungry http://globaltableadventure.com/recipe/ugandan-rolex-breakfa...
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by donretag 10y ago
You are forgetting the hundreds of thousands that have a rent controlled/stabilized apartment.
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by donretag 10y ago
Many governments (state and local) are required to publish the salaries of THEIR employees. They cannot pass laws (here in the US) to require the same from employees in the private sector, but they can for public employees.

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