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by lgieron 13y ago
Most road are paid for with taxes and no additional fee from the drivers is necessary? (while train operators need to pay the fee for using the rails).
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by lgieron 13y ago
The scanner doesn't help you by pointing out a mistake you've made so you can correct it, the scanner beeps at you for being too slow.
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by lgieron 13y ago
As a matter of fact, Amazon is opening large centre in Poland. It's not clear to me how much of Germany's workload will it pick up, but it wouldn't surprise me if it played a major role in bargaining with the unions in German
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by lgieron 13y ago
Death Valley in California is good enough for that IMO.
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by lgieron 13y ago
High stakes players (best targets for such attacks) usually don't play more than 3-4 tables at once - there just isn't enough action nowadays, and with hundreds of thousands of dollars on the line, even they (they are often multit
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by lgieron 13y ago
Just to warn you about car rentals in US, I was recently surprised that a rental that was supposed to cost $130 (according to a booking at priceline.com) actually costed about $450. Insurance is super-expensive and renting navigation turned
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by lgieron 13y ago
I think most people associate video games with games based solely around reflexes and (shooting, jumping) accuracy. When you think about it, these games are just more advanced variants of throwing rubber ball against the wall (or whatever p
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by lgieron 13y ago
I think it's very mature to respect users like you do and don't experiment on them with new pricing/structuring ideas. That's one thing I don't like about Google - they keep reinventing their services (basic consume
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by lgieron 13y ago
Scala/akka Actors are just a convenient way for implementing asynchronous message passing, which frees your from thinking about synchronisation. I'm not sure if there's that much to learn, at least at the beginner level.
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by lgieron 13y ago
College is different than food. Everyone cares about going to most prestigious school they can afford (that will accept them), which creates a bidding war. This is actualy very similar to housing markets in desirable neighourhoods - everyon
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by lgieron 13y ago
In my region, there are a lot of able-bodied man in their forties and fifties who, thanks to the state policy, are already retired. The sad fact is that, due to a ton of free time that's suddenly appeared in their lives, a lot of them
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by lgieron 13y ago
You forfeit the freedom to be irrational when you have a child, let alone four of them.
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by lgieron 13y ago
> work on your "being a guy that a CTO would want to have a beer with"... is probably not the best advice. It may be if you consider that the CTO would probably like to talk about interesting technologies, new programming langu
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by lgieron 13y ago
I actually moved my A1200 to the PC desktop case! My father and I moved motherboard and other components there (motherboard actually didn't quite fit - we needed to saw off a piece of it). Those were the days...
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by lgieron 13y ago
Change Requests?
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by lgieron 13y ago
We use it for ML-related tasks: transforming data, training models - stuff that are CPU-intensive and can occasionally fail.
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by lgieron 13y ago
I did that. After the break, I found a contract that paid more than a double than the previous one. Then another break (this time a little less than a year), and another bump in pay. If you can show you're valuable, the gaps don't
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by lgieron 13y ago
As an excercise - pick a random company out of fortune500, assume you have solid industry expertise (say - you've got a team of a couple of top guys who worked in that industry) in their area and also a couple million dollars, and thin
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by lgieron 13y ago
Regarding your last question - I'd say it's pretty much the norm in our field.
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by lgieron 13y ago
MtG will be turning twenty soon, and it's stronger than ever. A Black Lotus bought in 1998 for $300 is now worth $3000. I'm pretty sure it's more than just a fad.
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by lgieron 13y ago
You might have as well generalised that experience to the whole northern hemisphere, would be as justified.
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by lgieron 13y ago
You can also build it in, like, your home town. I don't get this obsession with moving to a startup hub before there's even most remote proof of your startup's viability. To me, it always raises the suspicion that one's
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by lgieron 13y ago
I think they might respond assuming that "higher salary" means +15%, which is what you can realistically expect in low-paid jobs, and which, for most people, is not worth dealing with an asshole boss, bad work environment etc. In
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by lgieron 13y ago
No wallpaper - just black background. I prefer to minimize distractions.
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by lgieron 13y ago
Another reason is the fact that these large projects rewrite business processes of the organisation (instead of merely automating them). This obviously opens up a huge turf war on how the post-deployment world is going to look like (esp. if
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by lgieron 13y ago
Unfortunately, it can be hacked by taking the initial $15m, doing a totally half-asses effort (worth say $1m) and raking in the handsome profit of $14m.
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by lgieron 13y ago
I haven't tried Idea for Scala recently (last time I tried it was much worse than Eclipse), but incremental compile in Eclipse is so fast that I basically do not notice it. Or were you talking about full compile times? These are rarely
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by lgieron 13y ago
I have one, from http://www.quietpc.com/ It's completely silent, you can only tell that it's on by looking at LEDs.
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by lgieron 13y ago
In my work, I tend to upload big jars (~55 MB) to servers/S3 frequently - without a good upload rate, that'd be basically out of the question (I know because I experience it when working from cafes with sucky connection) and I&#x2
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by lgieron 13y ago
On the other hand, I find it hilarious. Face it, what Germans did in WWII was so horrifying that it will be remembered and associated with them for a long time.

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