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by jimmy1 8y ago
The flip side, and I bet more people see it this way than you think: I see the value and fruits of the labor for the data collection Google does on me: Unlimited storage emails and photos, the absolute best mapping application on the market
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This is like the premise for almost every massive corporation. At some point and time they bend and twisted the laws far enough, but not too far to get shut down to gain a competitive advantage. Banks are the best example -- always a game o
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Maybe they mean uncommon amongst their userbase.
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Yeah, I don't understand this. After you went through all the work of disabling the SOS, you can just take the car then, unless breaking the window was the way they initially got inside, and maybe they were thinking that the person wou
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this was one of the more difficult quizzes I have taken in recent memory, and I use AWS every single day. 5/20
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Also, with only my rudimentary understanding of microbiology, wouldn't just scrubbing your hands together vigorously, which is already recommended, overcome that?
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> not reporting sales and not paying taxes I don't ever assume malice when there is a simpler answer, besides this store is prominent and at the border so they wouldn't be that dumb. The simpler answer is they give a small disc
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I also recommend Linear Algebra Done Right 3rd Ed
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As an Orthodox Christian, I sometimes get a (good hearted) kick reading these quotations from theology professors describing something as a phenomena that to us is just normal, everyday part of our faith. There is so much rich history.
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Most places that the poor (at least in rural areas) shop at offer substantial discounts for paying with cash. There is typically the "cash" price and the "card" price. At a liquor store, a 44 dollar bottle paid with card
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I work with brazillians often, we have an office there. It's easy to accommodate as well -- I just do the same thing I do with my mother: tell her the start time is way earlier than it actually is, and then she is on time. For example
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headius is at a jvm conf right now talking about optimizing JRuby, and here's a recent video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vxIncIm2D4
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The only question I have with some of them is what role outside of marketing does Unilever play with some of these brands? Also, wow I am surprised at how much of the Ice Cream industry they own.
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People who can "vacation at home" either: a. don't have kids b. don't have relatives and friends nearby c. don't upkeep their own house or living quarters (has a maid/servent/relative living with them that
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> Does anyone have insights into Gatto's credibility? I don't, but I like it that way. I get to judge the man and the merits of his essays and arguments on their own. In that light, he makes very compelling cases. He certainly
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Especially if you are signed into multiple workspaces. The performance degradation increases by a factor of two for each workspace I am signed into. That said, there are ways to create performant electron apps (vscode as an example), just s
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My grandparents and their great grandparents were from small villages in Greece. They used "frequent solid bowel movements a day" as sort of a at-a-glance measure of good health. I have heard of other friends who are from eastern
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Your aside might sound nice in theory, but it isn't reality. Everything is viewed through some lens or another, hell, it's how our brains work. If it comes off that way, you misinterpreted my intention. Not understanding the lens
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> What exemplified this in my mind, was when I received advice to not go down a particular path with my technical architecture. Yet, 6 months down the line, the architecture works very well, and that same "advisor" has since ch
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I really like goth https://github.com/markbates/goth
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Do you use firebase auth? It looks really good. I just had a heck of a time implementing user management and a couple oauth2 flows and it looks like it could have saved me a bit of time. My only concern is their plans are a little weird, it
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You should just stick to go, I have a solution for your "if err != nil" problem: https://twitter.com/natethefinch/status/899730215957561344?l...
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Sure, I don't have anything formal written up, but I think this might make a good topic for my first blog post. It really isn't complicated though in all honestly. I primarily stick to the stdlib, use a go sql driver for sqlite, I
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Mainly the stdlib, see above answer. Exceptions are logging auth, and sql driver.
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net/http and REST api all the way down, I for the most part try to stick to the stdlib as much as possible. The few exceptions are logging (I like zerolog) the sql driver, and auth. I do keep the front/backend separation because d
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Go and, honestly, sqlite with backups written to S3. It's the absolute cheapest. I can run multiple apps on a t2.nano (t2.micro if I am feeling fancy). My apps cost something like $1.50 to run a month, and they can easily handle medium
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I believe it was a study done on workers in Japan, they found the sweet spot was 7 hours. People who slept 8-9 were at higher risk for health issues.than those who slept less.
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> especially considering the US is the only first world country where direct-to-consumer marketing is allowed for medications. Relevant book on this topic, and highly recommended read: https://www.amazon.com/Overdosed-Ame
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> I hate the JSX "everything is JavaScript" mentality Would you object to things like unobtrusive javascript? Things like unobtrusive javascript came to be because people recognized early on that HTML was not enoug for writing
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If you enjoyed this one, the video where he adds the wheels is equally fascinating: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpFTyE-wiNo

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