luso_brazilian

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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Europe is a very big place, with lots of countries and regions and cities and villages. My take is that the great majority of people in Europe (as a whole) only see or hear about refugees in the television, in the news, and in the internet,
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
No problems, I'll e-mail you. My hash is 66aaeaf1850395a78696b3b6c178d49fd71bf5c3
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Extradition is a well defined process subject to a defined judicial review by the countries involved. According to the Wikipedia article on (extraordinary) rendition "in the United States, the first well-known rendition case was that o
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
As the initial source of infection in a certain geographical area maybe but as far as I remember most viruses (specially boot sector ones) spread through floppy disk sharing, first from people to people inside companies, from company comput
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Back in the days a lot of thought and ingenuity was put into making these viruses. For instance, the Friday 13th [1][2][3] virus: * was only 419 bytes long * infected both .COM and .EXE, increasing the size of the former by only 1813 bytes
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Speaking as an employer: both receiving one through the regular channels and via recruitment agencies I've never seen anyone perceive Europass as anything like you mentioned. Maybe it varies from location to location or with the area o
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
For those in Europe this is already a solved problem: Europass [1] A service kindly provided by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training [2] a European Union's agency. It has a CV builder and outputs an standardiz
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
> But use whatever you like as long as it's consistent I would add "as long it's consistent with the codebase and the practices of the project" Mixing tabs and spaces in a project is very unpleasant and changing one
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Here's what an Ashley Madison blackmail letter looks like(grahamcluley.com)
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Before 2007, the way to participate in Open Source was fragmented. Each project had their own workflow, patches circulated in emails, issues were reported in a myriad ways, and if anyone wanted to contribute they had to figure out every p
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Why bullshit is no laughing matter(aeon.co)
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Windows? Laptops? They’ll Never Catch on [2009, about 1985 predictions](technologizer.com)
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Considering the date (6 Sep 2000) this should have the [2000] tag for context.
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Well, concerning to open source and free software (taking advantage of an expression said by ESR in the Cathedral and the Bazaar [1](: "every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch." It doesn&#
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
While I do not doubt price discrimination targeted to women exist (and this study seems to highlight it), in this particular market (razors) they misrepresent the value of their products across the board. For instance, read this amusing ane
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“(Startup) Employer hasn't paid in two months. I haven't eaten for days”(reddit.com)
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
What is b2 ? A classy news/weblog tool (aka log ware). Two remarkable things in this statement 1. It's been a long time since people called this "weblogging", so long that most people don't even remem
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PornHub reports a 10% traffic drop the day ‘Fallout 4’ came out(thenextweb.com)
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
I can try. Not better but conveying more meaning in the context it was made than the alternative. TL;DR: different choice of words in writing help to compensate the lack of metainformation present in human communication like body language,
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Previously discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10492282 Wasn't it throughly discussed, dissected, analysed and debated in that very recent topic? The only new input this post beings is one more opinion
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Although the polite version is semantically identical the syntax of the message in many cases as important as the message itself. Much of what makes human communication universally intelligible across cultures and languages like tone of voi
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
The attempt to improve the mobile layout for this site seems to be underway but, like the previous aborted attempt, it doesn't seem to have started well. In the images [1] and [2] below are the screenshots (taken on an iPhone 5 with th
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
Sorry, didn't notice there were already a top post about this. Will post there instead.
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Tell HN: Responsive layout broken on some devices
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
They are not expanding East. Coming from Iraq and moving into Deir Ez Zour and then Palmyra it's basically the Mosul - Beirut suggested route [1] via Google Maps. They are at the doors of Aleppo and expanding in the suburbs of Damascus
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
From the article: > She set up a Facebook page called "Chapa tu choro", or "Catch your thief", calling on others to follow her lead, and her campaign has had a dramatic effect. More than a hundred similar pages have
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
You will then be pleased to know that C# development team is led by Anders Hejlsberg, the same Anders mentioned in the article that created what went to become Borland Turbo Pascal. IIRC, he also led the development of Borland Delphi and it
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
A puerile attention seeking behavior. The creators thrive at the media and social media exposure and clearly are doing it for the reactions so don't give it to them. The more exacerbated the reaction the more they'll do it.
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Life with the Dash Button: Good Design for Amazon, Bad Design for Everyone Else(fastcodesign.com)
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by luso_brazilian 11y ago
The first paragraph you quote was cut short in your summary. The rest of it is: As noted above, despite the theoretical plausibility of all five, the data cautions against putting too much weight on any of them. And then the author goes o

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