great_reversal

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by great_reversal 3y ago
Nearly a decade ago, transitapp.com had a premium app that costed $2.99 to buy. Most users opted for free options, but I saw the value in the app and bought it. The company later switched to a free model, and then more recently a subscripti
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by great_reversal 4y ago
Have you made any progress on the ADHD tool?
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by great_reversal 4y ago
I'm 23 and have lived most of my life without having close friends. I'd say I'm very extroverted and can strike up engaging conversations with most people I meet. I'm easy going and don't really have a fear of talki
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by great_reversal 4y ago
OF COURSE IT IS because its about British Columbia
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by great_reversal 4y ago
https://www.athinkingape.com/about/ A game company that hired Waterloo co-ops once upon a time.
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by great_reversal 4y ago
This sounds familiar... https://science.ubc.ca/news/new-nasal-spray-treats-delta-var...
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by great_reversal 5y ago
Getting hired is just applying to another job posting. The interview process is two-step, with a project-based technical component. The job itself is also two-step: first year is similar to contract work, with good employees brought into th
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by great_reversal 5y ago
Money talks
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by great_reversal 5y ago
Maybe it'll reduce the number of trading days in a year from 252 to 251. All the quants will need to update their models :)
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by great_reversal 5y ago
@TikTok employees: any thoughts?
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by great_reversal 5y ago
I agree that the post isn't flag-worthy, but I don't think the content is very relevant to the community either. Although the Gates Foundation and Microsoft share the same founder, the former is nothing like the latter.
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by great_reversal 5y ago
For overall memory, I generally just remember things instead of using all these fancy apps. Sometimes I'll make some notes in Typora (clean .md editor), but more often than not, I'll never revisit the file. I'm a visual learn
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by great_reversal 5y ago
This was posted previously a couple weeks/months ago.
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by great_reversal 5y ago
Meanwhile people are going outside more because of the pandemic. So much for lockdowns.
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by great_reversal 5y ago
Unless you opt for SpaceX's Starlink. Still expensive, but bandwidth is usually better than without it in remote regions.
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by great_reversal 5y ago
tldr; Bloomberg goes after young entrepreneur for catering to businesses previously turned away by the likes of AWS, Cloudflare, etc due to socially unethical (yet still legal) behaviour. Young entrepreneur doesn't care who his clients
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by great_reversal 5y ago
> Last weekend, my partner had her friends stay with us over the weekend. We needed to find a movie to watch. This was my chance! I was so excited! > "Let's use WeWatch!" > "No, it would take too long. Let'
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by great_reversal 6y ago
Sure Amazon might not like them for their advocacy, but if they really did unapologetically break internal policies then I think Amazon's firing them is valid. Assuming they did leak private company information or try to organize a mas
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by great_reversal 6y ago
I tried `curl` and `wget` before finding the `help` command. Kinda bummed out that tab completion doesn't work. And neither does `ls -la`. Also make it so I can click anywhere to get my cursor back on the right line for typing.
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by great_reversal 6y ago
Thought this was about writing tools in Go...
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by great_reversal 6y ago
Currently working as a backend dev in a mid-sized company. Current directive is a gradual migration to Go for backend services that used to be written in Python/Django.
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by great_reversal 6y ago
Why can't you just build libraries to make Go a better language for data science? There's already Go support for a Jupyter Notebooks kernel: https://github.com/gopherdata/gophernotes
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by great_reversal 6y ago
Lol you crashed the site