falconinthesun

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by falconinthesun 1y ago
"You're using it wrong" if a user cannot use a tool intuitively, the tool is not fit for purpose.
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by falconinthesun 3y ago
But there's nothing in the article to suggest that these events actually affected the entire world. Most of the analysis seems to have been carried out in the northern hemisphere. If one of these events happened, perhaps it'd affe
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
I recommend as well the comic The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: The (mostly) true story of the first computer: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thrilling-Adventures-Lovelace-Babba... Very funny read with great art.
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
+1, really enjoyed that book. I had recently read the Illuminatus! trilogy and was really amused to find the hacker named himself after one of the characters from the books.
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
An old profesor of mine who used to review computer science books as a side gig told me he never bothered to read them, all he needed to do was check the contents page to see if they were good or not. I've been applying that method for
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
And the kidnapping charge?
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
Your initial post didn't seem like a question as someone who doesn't live in the US, it seemed to me more like an accusation. As someone from south america living in the EU it seems to me fairly strange that it's not immediat
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
>billionaire investor complains that google is paying avg salaries of 300K >They are hoarding talent from their rivals and paying workers handsomely so there isn’t a motivation to quit and build a startup that will disrupt the status
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
Fully agree with this. As a south american woman working in a multi-cultural company, I have a very direct and passionate way of speaking, which tends to mean I can easily dominate conversations and "intimidate" a lot of my co-wor
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
I'm really good at time management. Outside of work I love reading history, working out, I paint and write and do swordfighting and reenactment, which means i need to make a lot of stuff (learn leatherwork, clothes making, and do resea
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by falconinthesun 4y ago
Gg