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by jacalata 10y ago
And what's the percentage increase on student debt?
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by jacalata 10y ago
I don't even know how you think that's related to this topic.
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by jacalata 10y ago
I guess you think science would be better off just memory-holing results that you don't want to know about, is that right?
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by jacalata 10y ago
You don't donate to charity because maybe it isn't the perfect solution, but obviously giving money to open source is worthwhile?
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by jacalata 10y ago
I think a better sign of being "so far gone" is when you find it totally blasé that a stroke can lead to homelessness.
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by jacalata 10y ago
That's probably at least as true for voluntary homelessness.
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by jacalata 10y ago
High positioning on HN can presumably drive a lot of traffic?
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by jacalata 10y ago
I would have guessed that the school sponsoring your visa is listed somewhere, and Facebook definitely should be looking at visas for foreign employees.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Where is that law? I know tons of restaurants that offer free water without being asked.
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by jacalata 10y ago
> Aren't computer programmers supposed to be troublemakers? We're hacking the system ... ;-) No, we're not, and no, we're usually not.
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by jacalata 10y ago
I didn't realise it was all manually curated - can you get it to automatically search any of the listed sites for the name I put in? That seems like it'd be helpful at least half the time.
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by jacalata 10y ago
It looks like a really neat aggregation of tools. I'm curious why nothing came up when I searched Yellowstone?
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by jacalata 11y ago
They may have been thinking of trucks within the mine site, which is still quite new? ( http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-18/rio-tinto-opens-wor... ). I'm pretty sure we don't have any automated truck
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by jacalata 11y ago
I was wondering if your experience backed up the theory I've heard that men are happy to be average programmers but women who aren't excellent don't stay in the profession. Sounds like it does.
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by jacalata 11y ago
That is nothing like "you agree not to use us for this purpose". That is "go ahead and use us but we could be wrong".
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by jacalata 11y ago
Actually, accounting software doesn't say this. It has a disclaimer of 'no guarantee of being fit for purpose' but it doesn't have a self-dismissable line about 'you agree not to use us to do tax calculations'.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Well, that's some interesting Terms of Service! >9.) We don’t screen properties or listings or offer any guaranty or advice regarding the suitability of properties, landlords, or potential tenants. Nothing we say should be construed
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by jacalata 11y ago
Also a ton of people who want to get rich.
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by jacalata 11y ago
This isn't exactly my theory, this is something fairly well documented that I have come across in general reading. >men died on all sides in WWII I'm not sure if you're aware of how far the scale of deaths in the Soviet Un
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by jacalata 11y ago
So what percentage of male programmers that you worked with were excellent?
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by jacalata 11y ago
Some of it may be traceable to the enormous number of Soviet men who died in WWII, prompting intense state support for single mothers and allowing the remaining men to avoid responsibility and be spoiled, essentially. This is mentioned brie
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by jacalata 11y ago
Huh, when I saw the headline I assumed they'd gone into home sales.
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by jacalata 11y ago
No, I was thinking of me sending things to a bank as well. Like supporting documentation for a loan application which must be received by close of business on this date or the loan will fall through - it may not need to be an original docum
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by jacalata 11y ago
I don't think that's true, although that's gut feeling and not based on data. Do you have any data on that?
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by jacalata 11y ago
A lot of these are requirements around the delivery metadata, not the item being delivered.
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by jacalata 11y ago
Mostly to relatives who would prefer to receive mail than email. Otherwise I recently had to communicate with a health insurance company that didn't accept anything by email, and said the images of cancelled checks I faxed them were to
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by jacalata 11y ago
They might mean just getting the question "why write a female lead".
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by jacalata 11y ago
Sending to a regular person that doesn't have a fax machine
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by jacalata 11y ago
Ah - that makes sense. Perhaps update the example shown to use an internal link instead of Google docs, and add that second sentence to the homepage somewhere?
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by jacalata 11y ago
If you narrow your scope enough then almost anything can be seen as doing the right thing.

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