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by jjp 10y ago
Based on a google site: search and an eyeball of the first couple of results pages I'd summarise as www2 - partnering, alliances education [1] www3 - investor relations, careers [2] www4 - central european languages [3] www5 - japanese
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Thanks for taking the time to explain some geology/plate tectonics in an accessible way. HN is great for the random educational diversions away from plain old tech.
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More details on the study from NewScientist [1] They analysed data from a long-running study of almost 10,000 people across the UK who were born in November 1958. They found that 28 per cent of the study’s participants had been involved
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Scouts and guides provide ‘mental health boost for life’(bbc.co.uk)
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Dutch prison crisis: A shortage of prisoners(bbc.co.uk)
125 points by jjp 10y ago|176 comments
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Would have been useful to see some thinking on joins and the naming conventions when you have the same column in both tables
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Content, content, content and then presentation. You need to think of yourself as the product and work out what's the best way to describe and package the skills and experiences that you have already acquired and how they can be appli
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by jjp 10y ago
For an summary of all the environmental/physiological factors that affect work performance in the office take a look at Creating the Productive Workplace [1]. Research material covered include affect of temperature (high/low and v
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What Do People – Not Techies,Not Companies – Think About AI?(hbr.org)
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Good read, along with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Concorde_Project
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Seems to have missed the falsehood that everything on the network will respond really quickly and so it's fine to have loads of blocking calls on starting an application
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My Shop: '6p a minute' cafe thrives in north of England(bbc.co.uk)
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This is an editorialised title. The blog posting is a boring "Test Driven Development". The blog posting and the paper that it fronts has a conclusion that no significant difference between TDD and iterative test-last (ITL) devel
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Hope there is an option to not show your intention to some recruiters especially if they are also employed by your current employer. Otherwise I can see a potentially uncomfortable discussion when the recruiter who finds you is an internal
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by jjp 10y ago
Raw data is reported in different units and presentation in formats that the consumer might find useful - See http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/measdes.shtml for explanation of the raw data.
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by jjp 10y ago
The blog post about the infographic says that it's a crawl of Flickr, 500px and Pixabay. [1] If you drill through to the camera/lens combination you actually get to see some of the photos that have been crawled, and then it will t
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by jjp 10y ago
Hans Rosling's original Ted talk, which has so much passion about data visualisation and making information accessible - http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_shows_the_best_stats_y...
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by jjp 10y ago
Try the previous discussion for more details - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188144
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Try Synology Hyperdrive. I'd assume that all the other NAS vendors do something similar.
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Also being discussed - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12491084
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Title on page: I Used The New iPhone 7 And, TBH, Having No Headphone Jack Was Not That Bad
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And for guest houses etc the default password device is often unchanged you could always login and reboot for yourself.
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Page 7 doesn't detail how it works, but does seem to describe what it does. From cell base station creates a connection to a target cell phone without the user of the cell phone being aware. Can then use RF direction finding to identif
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by jjp 10y ago
Thoughts on how to push through 1. Pick an industry that you are either interested in and/or you believe is going to be more profitable - i.e. financial services pay more than retail therefore more potential. 2. Take a friend from Univ
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by jjp 10y ago
From your follow-on comments I'm not sure whether the challenge for you is finding problems or identifying that it's a problem that is worth working on. Providing a little more information on the sort of problems you have seen and
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> I am a bit shocked, that they want to keep old passwords. Presumably that is required to stop simple password rotation of Password1, Password2, Passsword1 > why brother with the ones that doesn't work? That's going to depe
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by jjp 10y ago
What sort of sales environments have you find this works in, doesn't work in? Particularly interested in enterprise sales were you will typically have smaller pipeline but larger opportunity size.
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by jjp 10y ago
The original Uber blog post that led to the discussion - https://eng.uber.com/mysql-migration/
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The two questions that I would love to understand more are 1) how difficult is it to hit the target landing zone and 2) how novel is the net that safely captures somebody at terminal velocity.
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1. Complain that the internet isn't working. 2. Talk to friendly geek who explains going to non Secure site forces pop-up 3. Forget that this work around applied in all cafe and not just the one were problem solved. Goto 1.

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