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Ex-Yahoo engineer pleads guilty to hacking thousands of accounts(nbcnews.com)
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On a Wing and a Prayer (2010)(aljazeera.com)
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> It’s sensible to buy a support contract. It’s charitable and good PR to give them money. If the development of an open-source project significantly affects your commercial product, there is nothing charitable in supporting it: because
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> And why should they? Because that's a sensible thing to do when someone's open source project is at the very core of your commercial product? > When was the last time someone you know paid Redhat for CentOS or Canonical fo
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It might depend on how competitive the general admission process in a particular university is. I wouldn't be surprised, if 70% of the Britain's 100+ universities accepted all Chinese applicants. In the case of University St Andre
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There are no such guarantees – as far as I am aware – and as a former student I remember having a single Chinese classmate in my 4-year Computer Science degree program. After the Foundation Year, students of all nationalities were treated e
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> It's like there are two sets of standards now. One for Chinese students, and one for everyone else. At least in the UK, University of St Andrews, which has the highest percentage of international students in the country, offers a
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To summarize: living in a yurt – no matter how modern it is – can have the same drawbacks as living in a tent.
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> The only way to watch TV without being watched is to use an antenna or local storage. Pi-hole[1] might still help at the moment, until the TVs start coming with their own SIM cards. In any case, I wouldn't use a TV as anything mor
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I would choose Go to solve network I/O bound problems, Rust to solve CPU / memory bound problems, and Clojure to solve business bound problems: where mental cycles are more expensive than computational cycles.
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> Uber. WeWork. Flexport. Slack. MapBox. DoorDash. What do all of these hip American companies have in common, other than appearing regularly in tech headlines (and, now, being leading indicators of a tech bubble)? > They are - or wer
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An Android-based infotainment system developed in collaboration with Google has already been announced and demonstrated in 2020 Polestar 2 EV, Volvo's alternative to Tesla Model 3, which might have inspired this "Volkswagen's
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> Ableton is a different ballgame if you have the Push interface. Bitwig, started by former developers of Ableton, supports Ableton Push and many other MIDI controllers[1], and is probably the most advanced DAW for electronic music produ
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> I made $15k+ on there pretty easily How did that translate into the hourly rate in your case?
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At least in Eastern Europe, most nuclear facilities were built near the borders with other countries, and in this case Belarus was affected much more than Ukraine[1]. Belarus itself is currently building its first nuclear power plant just 4
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> I’ve been living in Ukraine for the past few months, trying to figure out why the food here, especially the vegetables, simply taste so good. I had exactly the same feeling when I was living in Lviv and buying vegetables from the local
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> Google Maps has real time traffic data and the accuracy is staggering. But does Google Maps use real time traffic data to calculate the most optimal route in the same way as Waze does? As I understand, that's the main difference b
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> Any tips from clojurists on getting the repl (and readline) working fluently? I'm using Leiningen but it's not responding as I'd expect. I would think this would all set up more effortlessly. For me, Boot[1] has complete
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Canada and Australia are the only two countries with the population of over 20 million that are ranked higher than the USA in the OECD Better Life Index[1]. Therefore, it's safe to assume that the size of the country makes a huge diffe
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As a side note: given all the security resources Google has, why Android is still not considered safer than iOS? What mistakes has Google made with Android, and how could they be fixed?
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> Assuming this isn't sarcasm, this is how the word prestige is defined - "denoting something that arouses widespread respect or admiration". "Prestige" in terms of the scale of technical challenges that very few
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Maybe the position of VP of AI at other FAANG companies was already taken, and there were no other alternatives at the similar level of prestige and compensation in the job market.
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Usually products are priced not based on the direct costs to produce them, but based on the value they provide to the end-user. What is the target price range you expect people to pay for such product, above which it wouldn't be worth
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> It's 20% shorter with the i7 + 4K XPS they've used for their comparisons, that's a fair amount. The battery life gains in Macbook Air might come from the different series of processors used, rather than from the battery
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In fact, Dell XPS 13 is twice as powerful as Macbook Air, but lasts only a little shorter on battery[1]. [1] https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-macbook-air-vs-dell-xps-13-i...
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> Switching this computer to using a simple battery like the Dell XPS 13 is using means sacrificing a significant amount of battery capacity. The point was, that despite getting rid of the single rectangular battery Macbook Air is neithe
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> Yes, all those issues could be addressed by making Apple laptops thicker and heavier Dell XPS 13 is both, thinner and lighter than Macbook Air, yet its battery replacement process is rated as "very easy"[1] by ifixit. The sam
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> There is actually a lot of competition in the space. Is there? Expedia Group owns: Expedia, Ebookers, Orbitz, and Travelocity. Booking Holdings owns: Priceline, Agoda, Kayak, Momondo, and Cheapflights. Ctrip Group owns: Trip.com, and S
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It would be interesting to learn the technical reasons for choosing PHP to implement a Dropbox clone.
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> The average might be 71, we cannot deduce that one way or the other from "IQ of 70 or greater". We cannot deduce that from this single quote alone, but there are far more detailed figures available[1]: > 31% of children wi

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