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8y ago
“Apple-designed GPU” eh, this’ll be interesting.
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8y ago
Nevertheless on LI it is very common for people to sprout Senior prefixes that I am certain they never had when we were cow-orkers!
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8y ago
You’re forgetting that Corbyn is a staunch Leaver, he opposed the EU his entire parliamentary career. That is a matter of public record. And most Leave voters were in traditional Labour areas and most Remainers were traditionally Tory voter
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8y ago
Google’s end goal is that the only way to monetise content is by one of their ads. That’s not a world good for either democracy or journalism or any artistic work.
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8y ago
Interestingly, Farage wasn’t actually a part of that, BoJo wouldn’t let him join the official Leave campaign. So you can blame UKIP for lots of things, but not the bus.
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gaius
8y ago
including being taxed as both a slot machine maker and as a slot machine operator. In France so presumably Belgium too, gambling companies are taxed on turnover.
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8y ago
They do on LinkedIn and on their CVs.
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8y ago
Making MongoDB publicly accessible The game's already over, you just don't know it yet
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8y ago
Edit your docs in Windows, write your code with Visual Studio targeting WSL. It’s the future.
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8y ago
It's how the thought process works that's interesting, not the result. I wonder how many interviewers have the necessary background in clinical psychiatry to analyze a candidate's thought process, or if that's just mor
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8y ago
There's no book that you can read that says "if the program crashes, try these things". Here you go: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/valgrind/manual/
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8y ago
by including an older, less-physically-capable team member, it was no longer an option to do fun, youth-oriented team events No disabled people nor pregnant women either then? This company is practically begging to be sued into oblivion.
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8y ago
Uhh, yeah, it wasn’t such a bad choice 20 years ago. I had no idea they were still using it lol. Interwoven we called it back then.
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8y ago
Here’s the thing tho’, BA’s website exists solely to provide information on and sell their own services. Why is there third-party anything on it in the first place? Fix that and you’ll fix everything, well almost. Disclaimer: worked on ba
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8y ago
I am reminded of https://xkcd.com/1831/
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8y ago
Interestingly given the context of this thread, I think the attitude of always needing to be angry, always focusing on negatives, always demanding more, always blaming others and obsessing over grand injustices can itself tip some people i
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8y ago
The industry is awash with 23-year-old "senior engineers" who think senior means "on my second JS framework".
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8y ago
It's about tossing out any resume of a 40+ year old because tech is "a young man's game" People become managers, generally, because they want to be managers. Why do they want to be managers? Well some are just assholes
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8y ago
Sorry but you don't seem to have any idea what you are talking about. Perhaps you are unaware that BBM and hence WhatsApp are really about their group chat features?
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gaius
8y ago
Not necessarily - many parents highly value education and encourage their kids despite and/or because they don’t have much themselves. Recent immigrants are a good example of this phenomenon.
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8y ago
A one-way hop is probably fine. A revolving door is not.
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8y ago
Their wants and needs sound almost like those you might have seen in a past era lunatic asylum - with the exception that these people have the $$$ to actually get people to acquiesce to their insane demands and normalise them. Paying some
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8y ago
What exactly is "growth hacking" in a chat app? WhatsApp is a fairly direct clone of BBM and BBM’s growth hack for want of a better term was to make its users feel like part of an exclusive in-group.
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8y ago
Either it will be easy to communicate or it won't be. But ease-of-use is only one product dimension. Different tools encourage different modes of communication. The kind of discourse and the use cases of tool A and tool B will be dif
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8y ago
might not realise how strange the idea of emptiness is to many Brits This is certainly not true of all Brits, mostly Londoners think this way. "What this green empty space really needs is an exciting development of exclusive executiv
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8y ago
I'm curious why they elected to use third-party firms. Plausible deniability, and no liability for the long term effects on the mental health of those exposed to extreme imagery. Knowing these companies almost certainly a tax dodge o
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8y ago
Testosterone drops from high consumption of soy products too, so what are you going to do?
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Yes, men today much weaker than their fathers https://www.menshealth.com/fitness/a19526832/grip-strength-w...
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it's only fair that those people have to pay more, after all they also cost the insurance more What a curious thing to say in 2018. Would you also argue that women take more time off to have babies so it’s only fair on employers not
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8y ago
Russians are not permitted to work in London London is full of employed Russians so your information is perhaps outdated.
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