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> You have the problematic application: com.qualcomm.qti.autoregistration Could you explain why this is problematic?
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> If making $40k/year is "success". With your $6k payment on the $40k you made, your $34k is barely above the poverty line. The poverty threshold in the US for a single person under the age of 65 seems to be $13,064[1]. [1
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> Like over the years I’ve noticed that the kind of person that insists on sending me Excel spreadsheets is markedly less conscientious. While your observation may be based on anecdotal evidence in this instance, just a reminder that not
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Great reply, thanks! I did wonder if this would be useful for integration with things like cloud storage, so good to hear that it was one of your primary driving factors.
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This might sound like a dismissive question, so I should say upfront that I don't mean it to be. I'm truly curious and not overly familiar with this technology. With that said... What is this for? What itch were you attempting
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> > The modern Web requires Javascript. > I disagree. The argument was not that the modern web requires devs to over-rely on JavaScript, forsaking all others and creating experiences which fail to function without it. The argument
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> One of the best introductions to the field is going through overthewire’s bandit vulnerability games. Never knew about these. I'm visually impaired, so a text-based system like this appeals. Thanks!
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> They have received a bank license recently so they are in process of becoming a full fledged bank. Sounds great, and I hope TransferWise go down that route one day too. But it still doesn't mean your Revolut account is the same a
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> sorry I'm mistaken with something else but can't remember what! Probably N26[1], who use TransferWise for in-app currency exchanges[2][3]. [1] https://www.n26.com/ [2] https://transferwise.com&#x2F
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> Strange you trust a middleman more than an a actual first-party tier-1 bank (your Revolut UK account is a Lloyds account). No it isn't, the money is just held in a Lloyds or Barclays account. Revolut are not a fully-regulated ban
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> Revolut is the only bank I know of that does free fx conversions, it's a huge feature and money saver for people that have bank accounts in different countries and currencies. Try TransferWise borderless.
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While teaching web dev, do you put any focus on accessibility for users with disabilities and other special needs? Is your platform accessible to students using assistive technology like screen readers? You're possibly offering somethi
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Do you have some sort of announcements list or a way I can be notified when you expand to other countries? As an aside, while teaching web dev, do you put any focus on accessibility for users with disabilities and other special needs? Is y
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Do you have plans to extend this outside of the US at some point?
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£30,000 in unexpected credit card debt is the sort of story which ends with somebody committing suicide. But sure it's okay in this case because he did well. If the business had failed, which one could argue was the most likely outco
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Your home page, pricing info and FAQ are littered with grammatical and word choice errors. I understand that this is probably frustrating for you if English is not your first or native language. But I also need to have confidence that a d
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The CEO himself sent texts to the article's author, and visited her several times. How many people get a visit or a text from Uber's CEO when there's an accident, when a disabled person is refused service because of their as
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A console is an interface intrinsically driven by text and data. So it's a shame to see yet another article where all code samples are, presumably, screenshots. Search engines can't index them, readers can't search through
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> They can always look them up (online), set them, and forget them. But they don't. You're a reader of HN. It is fairly obvious that you're the sort of person who, at a point when you need to accomplish something you don
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Does your friend get anything if I pay to read the article?
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Python.
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> No - I check the quarantine folder regularly - usually daily. So what's the point? The whole exercise is intended to cut down on looking through non-personal./junk email, but you have to look through non-personal/junk e
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Bit of a mixed bag this one. Love the site itself. It's accessible, it's fast, it's easy to use. But it also only shows two jobs. One of them isn't remote, and it pays in euros but the salary section at the top of th
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There's a typo in the page title: > Jobs for juniors, entry level, interns and fresh garduates garduates -> graduates.
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> Sure, I just meant that going from that level of knowledge to shipping a working program which integrates with a non-trivial third party library is a decent showing for a new grad hire. Do you think this is a commonly-held view? Hones
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> Netflix has stacks of local market competition in every local market. They're just not companies Americans know of. I'm in the UK and I can't really think of any serious competition they have here. Maybe Amazon, but I d
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> It's really frustrating: all articles on accessibility mention the alt attribute, and that you should use them. But few give guidelines on how to write a good alt attribute that is actually well thought out. You're not alone
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> We leverage remote workers for specialized consulting (such as legacy IE browser debugging) but we not for full time hires. Do you have any interest in hiring someone to do remote consulting in the areas of accessibility and screen rea
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Are you, or do you have reason to believe you might be in the future, hiring in Mexico?
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> You could except you would get sued. The Kindle 2 was announced with a feature that would read the book to you and Amazon landed in court. But yet here we are, 9 years later, and the Kindle apps on Android, Windows and iOS support scre

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