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kfk
13y ago
Hi there, have you tried remote? Nobody has ever given me a chance since I never was in tech, but I think I reached competent skills in both web development (django-flask-python) and web design, so I thought I might as well give it a try. I
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13y ago
It seems that in average one could expect a 4.2% interest rate (4.6% avg at a 8% faulty). I am wondering if a higher interest might be more beneficial?
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13y ago
Does this mean that contracting the virus with the vaccine will give you HIV but not AIDS? What about being a carrier, would you still be a carrier?
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13y ago
As Italian myself, I lived almost 5 years ago and I have never looked back. If you want an advise, live. If you can go to US good, otherwise almost any other country would do too. But you are not trapped... You are what? 23? With a EU Visa.
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13y ago
Ms Office, really. Take that away and businesses will move to other OSes. Everybody is tired of the constant poor quality of Microsoft products.
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13y ago
Travelling by kayak or bike for 800-1500km will give you a new perspective on things. I did about 750km when I was 17 and it changed my life. You can check out my article on my kayak trip this year in Poland to get an idea.
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13y ago
It’s good to point out that a G8 country like Italy is going about the same way as Argentina. Those 2 countries are extremely connected, Argentina’s Italian descends today might be as much as 60% of the whole population. As Italian, I am no
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13y ago
Uhm, I see the problem here: m = random.uniform(0, pot) Once somebody wins a few games, he will fish "wealth" from a bigger and bigger pot, even if he plays against the poor. According to this, you just have to be rich to be even
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13y ago
Most of that money isn't stored as a pile of cash under the bed. It's capital invested in other activities: think machinery, think infrastructure, think capital (and we know in some industries like banking and insurances they need
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13y ago
I think you need some kind of reputation/review system in place. I used to do 8-9 hrs hikes and in that case you need to know the new guy won't start screaming in pain after 4 hrs. Also, most of the hikers are in a group, there sh
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13y ago
Can I also add don't hire solely by github? I know you people are makers and all, but building stuff alone is hard. Why not mentor people with empty githubs and fish employees from that pool? Set up a cool open source project, ask peop
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13y ago
What’s your current pain in dealing with financial projections? What kind of help could benefit you from a finance controller expert remotely? Would you be willing to share finance/spreadsheet knowledge with some coding mentoring?
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13y ago
Matching couples looks like an easy problem to solve, here, you have my little algo to find the optimum match for n couples: https://github.com/kfk/scripts/blob/master/match-date.py Ok, joking a bit, but
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13y ago
From the article: if I want to use Arch Linux without banging my head with the terminal, I should be able to do that Look, I got burned by Arch a couple of times and I finally dropped it after 2 years after some crazy nuts updates that br
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13y ago
sdoering got most of it right. I also would add backups, it doesn't feel safe keeping all your pictures on cameras sd cards for weeks. Actually, for me it's mostly backups, that's why a dirty cheap rougged tablet would be nic
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13y ago
Hey, let me know if you do. I am not a toddler (of course), but for my kayak trips I need something decent, cheap and waterproof.
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13y ago
Maybe I should really start writing that book about pragmatic finance for SME's. I never started because I always found the task of writing a book daunting, but writing bit by bit seems a great idea.
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13y ago
Being a new entity, shouldn't you be worried about your product instead?
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13y ago
So, I run some numbers. First, all back in Euro, the a 20%VAT gives us: 1.73 per hour Considering this place is a cafe and runs only during day starting very early, it can run at 12 hrs day. Let's also take the normal accounting standa
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13y ago
Why not call them managers and simply take away the elements of their job which cause issues? But what are those elements? A good boss keeps a LOT of crap away from its employees, a bad one is the exact reverse. I want a manager, he does
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13y ago
Maybe, but to me, this still looks like an intrusion to people's privacy. Edit To those "but if they tell you before". I reply: it still is. Google/Facebook tell you before that they will use your data for advertisement,
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13y ago
What’s with memorization? I give mostly short presentations, but usually I just need few bullet points on a slide and some solid eye brain control to calm down my nerves. Remember to talk slow, don’t wave too much, don’t stand too still, ma
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13y ago
I'll describe you my latest project. Paying outdoor writers and photographers competitive prices for their works and delivering users amazing stories in well designed, modern, web pages, only online, no print. Link to a sample articl
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13y ago
It's worth noting that this problem can be flipped the other way around: you get to hear a lot of tech guys trying to "disrupt" industries they know nothing about. The only reason why they don't sound like total jerks i
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13y ago
Yes, I did not like the way they were doing things. No, I don't think leaving it up to CL is the solution. I had a guy once screaming very badly at me for being 10 min late, this kind of people cannot be spotted easily, you need some k
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kfk
13y ago
And... question. Why don't you teach newbies and then you hire them?
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13y ago
Completely OT. What's with these articles that look like traditional magazines on the web? I get this is a PDF, but it makes reading on screen painful. I think something like the medium layout is the best way to present writings and yo
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13y ago
Can somebody tell me the difference between using this and, say, a normal http-server+virtualenv+database set up?
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13y ago
If people avoided seeing labor as a problem and started looking at it as to what it is, a resource just like any other (petrol, energy, etc.), they would stop making comments like this. Once you free humanity from a task, people will just d
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13y ago
Can somebody please tell me what elementary OS is based on? Ubuntu?
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