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by greyman 8y ago
I usually don't have a slightest problem with someone being a zealot, but I don't respect RMS because of his tactics to take some word (for example 'freedom'), attach his own meanings into it, modifying what the word nor
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by greyman 8y ago
> What is "evil" about working with the military or developing weapons? I wouldn't use the word evil, but I feel it is inappropriate, since Google is a global company. We should be more precise, it is working with the mili
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by greyman 8y ago
I used to use single quotes for dictionary keys and other constants, and double quotes for strings intended to be read by human. I read some article about it a considered it a good convention. Now I see it actually isn't a convention.
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by greyman 9y ago
>> Where's a valid technological problem? I see the problem being that there's true information out there that is unpleasant to somebody, and that somebody wants to force others to not be able to access that information. I f
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by greyman 9y ago
There is some bandwidth limit, though, and with CDN your site could also get better response times, since they will serve content from a server with better proximity to visitors.
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by greyman 9y ago
> You are trading freedom for convenience and access to an audience. While this is certainly true, the understanding of platforms like Medium had been that they will not censor people for ideological reasons, or will do so only if the co
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by greyman 9y ago
Hard to say... I was more proficient in PHP than python, but when doing AI, we use python anyway, since in PHP some necessary libraries just aren't there...
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by greyman 9y ago
If you will work in some bigger company doing data analytics, you can also come across Tableau instead of Excel. Apart from SQL, if there is more data, you might want to use Bigquery or something similar.
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by greyman 9y ago
The company I worked for didnt treat us worse, and it was basically the same amount of work. Only the salary was much lower. But the real difference is less than 50%, since living expenses are lower in Slovakia than Austria.
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by greyman 9y ago
You need to take into account the country, not just company... I worked for a German company, which paid 2K eur in Slovakia (average salary for a dev), but 4K for the same position in Austria.
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by greyman 9y ago
> All those people who sold bitcoin at $19k could do so because there were buyers. Every single one of those buyers lost. Only if they sold. Otherwise they might just wait until the price climbs back.
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by greyman 9y ago
It will not. A lot of people, even very rich, use Bitcoin as a store of value, something like an electronic version of gold.
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by greyman 9y ago
We are not surprised or shocked. This topic was also reported before, and the article is just about not adequate protections of those workers. Someone must do this work, until AI will be able to filter out everything, but those companies ar
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by greyman 9y ago
Yes. My friend is employed at Redhat and he told me that he also works on porting 2 to 3 (although not fulltime), and it is a huge amount of work. They work on it several years already, and it is still far from finished.
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by greyman 9y ago
> The point about Apple hiring best graduates who got their education mostly free of charge cause of all the tax payers really shift my mind about the whole tax-avoidance thing. Yes, that's true, but another angle is, that when the
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by greyman 9y ago
No, it is not a feature. It is an implementation of the feature - to have secure and zero trust transactions.
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by greyman 9y ago
I think it is untouched market, since there were many attempts and it didn't work. I call it a "micropayments dream"... publishers dream about it, but it is not going to happen. I personally would not pay 5 cent per article,
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by greyman 9y ago
As I understand it, this is the result of Google itself having quite a strong political opinions, at least recently. They profiled themselves as being leftist/progressive... their software just enforces this.
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by greyman 9y ago
I wonder how the fight between Android and iOS will go on. I kind of never liked Android and never owned one, but my wife had several Android devices and I always considered them inferior comparing to iOS. Mostly talking about operating sys
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by greyman 9y ago
No no, in this time it is possible to normally get part-time programming job at a company. No need for MCD. (if you know coding of course).
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by greyman 9y ago
Getting employed part-time at a normal company is still one of the viable options. How many did you try to ask?
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by greyman 9y ago
It boils down to a philosophical question about whether "tivoization" is good or bad. I am with Linus on this, I believe it is nothing wrong with it and I therefore doesn't support GPL v3.
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by greyman 9y ago
I believe this is the correct answer, it happened to me as well. I got friend suggestion for my daughter speech therapist, and all our communication and appointments were done only in paper form. But I searched her name on FB out of curiosi
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by greyman 10y ago
He probably meant, that Google should give more precise targeting options. For example, I want to spend my ad dollars on Youtube, but I might want to not advertise for example on extreme right-wing (or on cultural marxists, for that matter)
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by greyman 10y ago
> The main thing with the work-around is that you need to start Pocket on your phone while you have a data connection so that the articles are on the phone. Hmm, I always found this to be obvious, and not a work-around. How else would th
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by greyman 10y ago
> Allegedly, you can read things offline, but that feature never works for me. Strange, because that is the main use case I use in Pocket. I save article there, and it stores it for offline reading, striping all formatting. It isn't
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by greyman 10y ago
If honest and moral people will rise to the leadership positions - which is not what always happens.
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by greyman 10y ago
> not everyone can meaningfully contribute to something that can't be done more efficiently by automation I don't know if this statement is true, but a lot more jobs could be created in the area of teaching, caring for elderly
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by greyman 10y ago
Yes, I know. The question is if this decision is correct, given that apparently a lot of people and companies just doesn't plan to switch no matter what.
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by greyman 10y ago
Yes and no. Community can continue, but only under different name. So only fork is allowed.

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