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by jobu 10y ago
Always be working on the "soft skills" (people skills, communication skills, writing, etc.) The "hard skills" may come easy for you, but they will only take you so far in life.
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Reminds me of doing development for old macs. Apple would combine four characters and cast them to an integer - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FourCC They used these four-char-codes for error codes, file formats, return
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Maybe we should hope for more declines in life-expectancy then: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-li...
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One of the major critiques of phage therapy is that it will fail the same way antibiotics have failed: Bacteria can evolve phage resistance. That's interesting. Previously I've read that evolution was one of the benefits of phag
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The biggest issue I see with the new MBP is that the iPhone 7 (released only a couple months prior) is essentially incompatible out of the box. The connectors are incompatible, and the headphones are not interchangeable without a dongle. Ap
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Unlike carbon-based power, Mr. Kava said, wind supply prices do not fluctuate, enabling Google to plan better. Can someone explain this? It seems like wind energy prices should fluctuate based on weather patterns (more wind == lower price
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> This can result in double vision, chromatic anomalies, headaches, and worse. I can attest to this. My astigmatism is pretty severe, and the lenses are useless if any measurements are even slightly incorrect. Usually when I get new le
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As a parent of four kids myself, this seems ridiculously low: "I spent a mere 9.09 hours weekly on housework and errands" How is that possible? Housecleaner? Personal shopper? Nanny? We spend 6-8 hours each week shopping around
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Diamonds have been used to detect ionizing radiation for a very long time, and it looks like they've now figured out a way to harness that to generate a very small current. Here's a general explanation for how the detectors work:
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> This sounds like a good way to irritate people. Definitely, and it seems like an evil version of this is already happening in my Facebook news feed. Occasionally there are some interesting looking articles (non-spammy headline, inte
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> Part of the problem are the unions and a large ownership stake by the state That's interesting. I thought VW had been fully privatized, but TIL the German state of Lower Saxony still owns 20% of the company - http://w
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"As an investor, I love founders that can balance this — being less dependent on external financing but still staying ambitious is ideal." I worked for a company with a founder like this, but I think he was driven by a love for
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It sounds like they're only talking to chicken producers, and the producers have a pretty obvious incentive to lie to regulators if it increases the price they get for chicken. An easy fix would be to contact retailers like Walmart or
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It's unbelievable how far behind the technology curve most car companies are. We recently test drove a used 2015 Suburban with a touchscreen console. The MSRP for it in 2015 was almost 90k, and the touchscreen was laggy, unresponsive,
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In the past (10+ years ago), clicking the Unsubscribe link in a spam email was a sure way to get your email address sold to every spammer out there. Most of those bad actors seem to have been weeded out, but some still might try it.
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Can't believe I've never heard of this before. Here's another page with more info: http://www.iranreview.org/content/Documents/The_Red_Snake_Th... The article mentions that parts of it are still vis
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Same thing happened with AVG, and then Avast. Fortunately Microsoft Security Essentials came out about the same time every other simple AV became a bloated mess. The problem now is that MSE doesn't seem to keep up with the latest virus
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Even just a small, yearly flat tax on copyrights, patents, and trademarks would be enough to discourage many people and companies from holding on to useless IP. A lot of old books or music still under copyright will never generate another p
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> So if we lived in Colorado, when he actually wanted to die, he would be unable to fulfill these requirements. Colorado's law is fairly specific to those that are imminently terminal (6 months or less), so most forms of dementia do
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It's unfortunate that they didn't delve deeper into the atmospheric attenuation since the whole point of the project is to deliver internet from UAVs. Seems like the next test should involve a foggy day in San Francisco instead of
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> The other problem is that when you pay them you generate all sorts of nightmarish legal liabilities. I was wondering about the tax and legal implications around paying someone for an interview challenge as well. The overall idea seem
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China has been doing some pretty complex deals with countries all across Africa - financing and building hydroelectric dams and other massive infrastructure buildouts. These are long-term deals that often include concessions for oil or othe
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Whatever you think about Trump or the policies in that document, it's clearer and more concise than anything I've seen from an elected official.
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It's hard to say actually. Many republicans are very strong states-rights supporters, and they would happily leave controversial issues like marijuana up to the states and local governments.
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the most politically polarized are more actively involved in politics, amplifying the voices that are the least willing to see the parties meet each other halfway The problem is that these hyper-polarized people often have very non-mainst
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That is true. Trump's unstable personality could be a stabilizing force if the world is afraid of what he might do.
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It would be nice if that were true. Maybe Bernie could've pushed the focus back on improving the US instead of picking international fights, but Trump's rhetoric is far more Hawkish than Obama or Clinton.
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Relocation costs in Canada are tax deductible (same as the US and many others), so essentially the country pays for it. http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/tx/ndvdls/tpcs/ncm-tx/rtrn/cmpltng/...
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I've heard a similar quote: "Broken code gets fixed, but shitty code lasts forever."
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> That's fine, but Soylent marketed the product as being suitable for everyone even if they had allergies. Obviously there are caveats for their allergy claims. The first ingredient in Soylent is soy protein, and while it's not

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