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by inostia 8y ago
Of course if you take some kids with liberal arts degrees (or no degrees) and train them to have programming skills they will be cheaper than people with senior level skills and CS degrees. But isn't that to the benefit of those worker
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How do I access an old blogger account with a non “gmail” email account?(productforums.google.com)
1 points by inostia 8y ago|0 comments
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by inostia 8y ago
I was confused why the author called it a "new" documentary. It's 2 years old. Also the link in the article to the documentary is incorrect. Here's the correct link for "Titanic: The New Evidence": https:&#x2F
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Palm Oil Was Supposed to Help Save the Planet(nytimes.com)
186 points by inostia 8y ago|183 comments
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by inostia 8y ago
Thanks! I have been looking for a reliable source, I'll check this out.
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Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana play to thrilling Game 10 draw(theguardian.com)
2 points by inostia 8y ago|3 comments
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by inostia 8y ago
As I said, > Opinions may vary about the convenience, efficiency or "upsides" of that I highly doubt that the savings on labor cost will translate to "longer open hours, more organized shelves and cleaner, etc", I wou
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by inostia 8y ago
Self-checkout shifts the physical and mental labor traditionally done by a worker onto the consumer to save money. Instead, I'm paying for the product _and_ performing the labor traditionally done by someone else chiefly to save the co
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by inostia 8y ago
Definitely not the case for signaling to bicyclists and motorcyclists. Intent needs to be communicated as clearly as possible. It bothers me when drivers in the city do not use their turn signals.
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by inostia 8y ago
I took a MyTaxi in Germany and it was terrible. I absolutely missed Uber when I was in Berlin, MyTaxi was a joke, same with most other taxi apps (i.e. Flywheel here in the Bay Area)
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by inostia 8y ago
Overnight busses are great for traveling if you're in another country. You can pay for the transportation to get to your new destination, and save a night on lodging cost at the same time by getting to sleep. I took an overnight bus fr
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Why do we count starting from zero?(cseducators.stackexchange.com)
1 points by inostia 8y ago|1 comments
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by inostia 8y ago
This is an incredible series. The guy's breadth of knowledge is amazing! Super interesting stuff.
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by inostia 8y ago
Try looking into higher education, particularly major state or well-regarded private universities. Avoid for-profit degree mills. It's a great environment to work in, often times much less stress than in a for-profit environment, with
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When the Mac mini goes pro, will the pros get Mac minis?(macworld.com)
20 points by inostia 8y ago|22 comments
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by inostia 8y ago
Eh, fair enough. I guess I meant, "less culturally diverse" than a place like the Bay Area or Los Angeles.
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by inostia 8y ago
Unfortunately, I have no sympathy for the company, as they recently laid off much of their full-time, expert-level employees for a quick and dirty buck, likely accelerating their demise. It is a shame, though, because in some places - despi
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by inostia 8y ago
A simple GET request? How can a single developer be so grossly negligent as to not protect their API's?
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by inostia 8y ago
Restricted collections are always amazing to browse. In the Bay Area, for example, the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley is a fantastic resource for browsing extremely old and rare books. I believe it's open to the public but you have to
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by inostia 8y ago
There's nothing stopping the companies from providing a dine-out per diem if they choose to. They could for example form relationships with local eateries to subsidize those meals either in full or through discounts, which would suppor
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by inostia 8y ago
Thumbtack has worked well for me as a client. But that's more of a platform for advertising of real skill as opposed to just performing some unskilled labor. "Gig" work as a skilled contractor isn't new though.
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by inostia 8y ago
Are people really that lazy that they can't ride bicycles anymore?
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by inostia 8y ago
You don't even have to self-host it now. You can host it on pretty much any cloud service.
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by inostia 8y ago
That seems right.
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by inostia 8y ago
In the past week I've been assaulted and threatened twice by crazed homeless men. The first grabbed a glass bottle from his cart and raised it up as if he was going to hit me in the head (this was by Civic Center BART). The second char
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by inostia 8y ago
I wasn't talking about mean or hurtful language. I was talking about telling someone that their question isn't a good fit for SO. The consequence of that may be a feeling of being "excluded". So now everyone has to add a
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by inostia 8y ago
I don't think what I said came across correctly. Of course overly broad questions will get downvoted. What I meant was, "questions that will likely benefit another person in the community". I.e. there is a sweet spot in terms
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by inostia 8y ago
The one thing I appreciate about SO is that its users aren't afraid to call out dumb questions for what they are. Seriously, the majority of new questions _are_ dumb, or at least misunderstand the point of SO being a canonical source f
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by inostia 9y ago
It also used to be called "anti-design". The concept has been around for a while. I really get annoyed when terms like "brutalism" are co-opted as yet another buzzword/trend/fad.
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by inostia 9y ago
I have a similar story. My current girlfriend was living in another city about three hours away, I never would have seen her profile in my possible "matches" because I wasn't looking in that city. She did a search query for a

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