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dwild
8y ago
Yeah, but it's only the case up until you graduate, at that point you are forced to pay or move out. I'm one of them that moved to Gitlab afterward and right now I currently hesitate to go back to Github, even if its free.
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dwild
8y ago
> Your assertion can only make sense if you also believe that a 12% paycut is irrelevant to your income. You only see the short term. I was on Github during my university, all my projects were there, my team mate were on there too, it wa
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dwild
8y ago
It's a choice to become happy. It sadly won't happen by itself and if you do nothing to become happy, you'll most likely never be. The path to become happy isn't instant though, it's much more complex than flipping
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dwild
8y ago
Sure but they have plenty of R&D cash to spend and I feel like their goal isn't to sell a single device but to become the technology leader in that field. They didn't put Alexa into a microwave for no reason, they want it ever
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dwild
8y ago
> If you blame the company for doing this then I expect that you also make 0 deductions on your personal taxes and pay as much as possible. Yeah not the same thing. The same thing would be for us to open a shell company in Bermuda, ask o
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dwild
8y ago
> Further ethical constraints and clarifications are forever up for debate. Like pretty much any debate about ethics I would say. When I do my deduction, you don't see me trying to make it look like going to the restaurant with my k
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dwild
8y ago
> in a non-financial dispute with your landlord, for instance, your credit score can be affected easily How?
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dwild
8y ago
> it's often buried in a bunch of other discussion and dead ends If your "why" doesn't contains this, I have an hard time understanding why you want it in the first place. The "why" is important to not make
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dwild
8y ago
Personally I consider that if the code don't speak for itself, then it's most probably bad code, if it's not, add a comments explaining why it's not. > spilling a few sentences as a minimal kind of pseudocode before w
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dwild
8y ago
> We have no idea of whether we are writing code that will be thrown away in a week, a month, a year or whether it will last two decades. Sometime also a code is meant to be temporary but is later deems to useful not to be used but no re
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dwild
8y ago
> I don't think it's a story of over-regulation, as I doubt Bangladesh has regulations in place only allowing the $6K version. Well it still could be. It's not because there's no over regulation there that there'
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dwild
8y ago
> So here's an idea - how about they run subway trains in these tunnels instead like they do in the rest of the world? So here's an idea, why is there no subway trains there? Easy answers, not enough money/value into them.
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dwild
8y ago
> difficult but real situation His first argument is that it's currently too expensive to have any innovation. This tunnel cost 10 millions $. Sure it's usage is still hypothetical, but you can't say this won't be muc
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dwild
8y ago
> Maintenance will be impossible. How so? Maintenance happens all the times in subways. In Montreal they do it during 4 hours each nights. In ours, they close everything down, thus we can no longer use it, but if we had multiple smaller
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dwild
8y ago
> Plus, each meal works out much cheaper than eating out. So for me personally this was money extremely well spent. I also live in the UK. I just got 2 free boxes from Missfresh (seems local to where I live) and Goodfood. I tried my firs
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dwild
8y ago
> Appealing to people who "want to cook", but doing so by turning yourself into a production-line assembler. That's because you ignore the true reason why it's interesting. I got 800 games on Steam but when goes time
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dwild
8y ago
> it should never feel _good_ to criticize. Why not? I feel good when I help someone. I feel good when I have made a great project. I feel good when I made a good decision. I feel good when I did something good. Your sentence is true onl
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8y ago
> What happens when Google implements its next protocol in Chromium? With Blink's market share, would they even bother with committees anymore? They didn't bother for SPDY or QUIC. They were implemented in the browser, like man
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dwild
8y ago
> I'd have thought with their robots-and-bins it was notionally identical Is it really identical? They do have quite a bit of warehouse which means that shipping can be quite longer and more expensive. Let say I'm a third party
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dwild
8y ago
Disclaimer: this is how I understands all this, I could be wrong though > Funds are invested to be able to get that 3% return. If they are, then they are not insured either. SIPC doesn't insure bad investment decision, thus if the 3
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dwild
8y ago
Wasn't he funding a group that was posting fake news and memes online?
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dwild
8y ago
> They shouldn't be using Robinhood to buy individual stocks, buy cryptocurrency, or do options trading. What if they do it for fun? Personally, I would have fun having a few thousands there (but I'm Canadian), it's not wo
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dwild
8y ago
Wouldn't the 70kb would be most likely already cached too? Which make it even more lightweight than this minimal script.
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dwild
8y ago
It's just a rebranding of Google Drive. It's crazy the amount of people here that believe it's a brand new product. Isn't there more user of Google Drive? My account was simply "migrated" to Google One. They ad
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dwild
8y ago
> doesn't it make sense to offer an "ad-free" plan where they do not track the user and do not show them ads. They did try it with Google Contributor, but only for a short amount of time to a limited set of users (US only)
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dwild
8y ago
Encrypt your data yourself and don't trust any cloud provider to do it for you. You can only trust yourself.
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dwild
8y ago
> Dropbox offers 1TB for $10 and 2TB for $20. Google added another zero (10x as much for the same price). 2 TB on Google One is $10, which is half of $20. I don't understands what you means by adding a zero. Are you comparing the 20
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dwild
8y ago
> Huh? All I'm saying is FCC comments don't matter. And therefore neither do fake ones. Not sure what you're referring to... Two negatives doesn't make a positive sadly. - FCC comments has to matters - Fake FCC commen
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dwild
8y ago
There's something that I learned too about entrepreneur, once their company is bought, they usually don't stay long, often they only stay the length required by the contract. Sure money is a factor, but usually, an entrepreneur wa
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dwild
8y ago
> Despite me having years of leading product teams and enterprise applications, the fact that I need to "study" for an interview is asinine. You no longer study? You stopped any form of education? I have an hard time believing
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