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511.
by farseer 8y ago
The only lesson here is: If your company has ever sold any products in Iran, I think its safe to avoid taking any connecting flights through US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and possibly Britain. Fly Emirates, Qatar Airways or Cathay Paci
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by farseer 8y ago
No they can't! That alleged incident was over a private chat, not a public tweet.
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by farseer 8y ago
If you inherit a large code base that is badly written AND you are planning to stick around in that company. I would strongly suggest to immediately start re-writing that legacy code even if you have to burn extra hours. Otherwise you would
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US commander survives Afghan gun attack in which police chief dies(bbc.com)
1 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments
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by farseer 8y ago
If the platform gives space to lunatics, I want lunatics of all shapes, size and spectrum on there. This is a strength of NY times, not something to criticize.
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by farseer 8y ago
Most people I knew who left CS, did so either during the first intermediate programming course (where C/C++ pointers were introduced), while the second set of defections were during the Computer Organization/Assembly Language cour
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Astronauts escape malfunctioning Soyuz rocket(bbc.com)
830 points by farseer 8y ago|370 comments
518.
by farseer 8y ago
Well that battery could and does catch fire during collisions, however rare that might be.
519.
by farseer 8y ago
Recording raw audio would not be feasible storage wise, however transcribing that audio and recording the resulting text is very much doable.
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by farseer 8y ago
How Ironic, that the current hybrid authoritarian China could be reset by Communists. Time for a new long march I suppose?
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F-35 Fighter Sees Combat for First Time(popularmechanics.com)
3 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments
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European parliament gives thumbs up to controversial copyright reforms(techcrunch.com)
16 points by farseer 8y ago|3 comments
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Marshall Islands warned against adopting digital currency(bbc.com)
55 points by farseer 8y ago|44 comments
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by farseer 8y ago
Matrix, except for the premise about machines wanting to mine energy from humans. They could have come up with a more believable explanation.
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by farseer 8y ago
If WAPO gets only sporadic traffic from your particular IP, there aren't any other readers behind that NAT and hence your access can be limited. BTW Bezos now owns them, so they can also access that state from a multitude of other Amaz
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by farseer 8y ago
https://www.bbc.com/weather/map Very intuitive and simple weather map
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by farseer 8y ago
A few points of my own experience: 1. A practitioner gave me black seed oil to cure non-allergic rhinitis. Safe to say, it made things worse. 2. All the "alternative medicine" experts I know spend time criticizing the medical prof
528.
by farseer 8y ago
AI/ML has not matured enough to take over any jobs. However "computing" in general has replaced a lot of jobs such as flight scheduling, CRM voice calls, analysts who used to pore over crime data have been replaced with excel
529.
by farseer 8y ago
This! You can follow the 9-5 routine, however at some stage you will bomb the performance reviews. Be overlooked for promotion or terminated altogether. I suppose if you are sharp enough and productive enough, maybe you can pull it off at a
530.
by farseer 8y ago
"Machine Learning" and "AI": when used by people clueless of basic logic or stats "Synergy": Management uses this word a lot, often to appear not clueless (or helpless) of how business processes work "Tech
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India’s angry young men and its lynch mob crisis(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments
532.
by farseer 8y ago
No one wants to advertise their money making niche ideas, especially if they are easy to copy.
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The dangers of illiberal liberalism(economist.com)
25 points by farseer 8y ago|47 comments
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Crumbling infrastructure is a worldwide problem(economist.com)
1 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments
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DRAM Closing in on $100B Mark(eetimes.com)
2 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments
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Wi-Fi Preps for Leap to 6 GHz(eetimes.com)
2 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments
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American democracy’s built-in bias towards rural Republicans(economist.com)
16 points by farseer 8y ago|11 comments
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Automating cookery: The rise of the robochef(economist.com)
1 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments
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What we buy can be used to predict our politics, race or education(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments
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Tomorrow’s squadron leaders will be accompanied by drones(economist.com)
2 points by farseer 8y ago|0 comments

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