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m23khan
7y ago
Just stop please. If you are a IT leader and reading this, do us technical workers a favor and just stop. Please get a life outside of work to satisfy your slave leader/world conquerer appetite instead. As a developer, I am really gett
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so far what seems to capture people's imagination is news about automation taking work of IT workers/developers as well as jobs belonging to service industry and manual/labor intensive jobs. However, the game changer will be
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7y ago
Frankly, I find Kotlin syntax a lot more meaningful as it contains much less boilerplate code than Java. And the same time, though, I believe Kotlin can only be truly appreciated if you are coming in from experience with Java. The thing I f
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7y ago
well, for sure the owner would have town's monopoly in the bar business.
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7y ago
I wonder if Google’s project Sidewalk Labs in Toronto would be affected as well.
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7y ago
google has been making lots of typical corporate moves lately.
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7y ago
good point!
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7y ago
This is rather interesting development. Just last week I saw similar feature in IBM Watson being demoed on IBM Cloud. And now AWS Sagemaker has this capability. Does this mean that going forward, for small-to-mid size IT companies and Corpo
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7y ago
the preacher in me is saying: you have no idea how good you have it - here I am stuck with ‘high end’ market rate working in corporate IT making probably 1/3 or even less than high end FAANG salary with mortgage and kids. I have no ide
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7y ago
ah, so there is a good career ladder for us IT folks :-)
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7y ago
It's OK - if your partner really wants one and somehow you can afford, go for it. If not, than don't. No point of complaining or badmouthing (or promoting) diamonds. EDIT: wow, quiet a few downvotes (was expecting). Anyways, allow
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7y ago
question: Is transporting cargo via airplanes more environmentally friendly than ships? Because, one thought comes to my mind: If speed of ships go down, then airplane cargo industry would probably benefit. So, I am not sure if this move wo
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I really appreciate people (amateurs and professionals) who take time to make explanation of mathematics concepts simpler and easier to understand -- even for layman just familiar with basic primary school maths. Because of such people effo
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7y ago
All I hope for is Google to settle this amicably with the discontented employees and at same time not upset their clients. Because, actions in both extreme would set a bad precedent for a tech giant like Google: Extreme 1 - Fire the employe
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7y ago
well they have had an amazing run since 2001 - and during that time, they have grown to be a huge enterprise comprising of all services under the Google brand plus others such as Youtube. Extending into OS, some hardware, etc. Still, 23% is
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7y ago
I am sure in 2-3 decades eating meat in West / developed World would either become prohibitively expensive like caviar or it would be outlawed. It seems that nowadays humans want to completely redefine what is humanity - all social, cu
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7y ago
from what I understand, the name of the language is Klub - which translates to Dog. And the example showcases implementation of fibonacci sequence and calling it with 10 as parameter. A nice, straightforward syntax indeed! Although I don’t
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ah, that is a nice movie but no, this is from early 1990s (or maybe late 1980s). The premise was kinda similar to Stuart Little but I remember there were multiple mice who were able to talk to each other, some toy car driving scene and a bo
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7y ago
vim is definitely a great tool especially when you are editing/developing/viewing scripts within Linux. However, as soon as you start writing anything beyond one-file scripts, better move over to proper IDE, IMHO.
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This is pretty cool. Reminds me of a movie I saw in early 1990s as a kid where there are rats who drive toy cars. If only I could remember the name!
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Frankly speaking, the amount of steps a customer has to go through to ensure quality from Amazon -- check out reviews for buyers, cross check prices to ensure you are not getting ripped off, check out estimated delivery times, and then as t
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7y ago
Frankly speaking, I don't have MBA nor am I in Management. Infact, I can't afford to get MBA. But as a Developer, even I recognize the need for MBA grads from elite schools especially as Company scales in size. You can definitely
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the most basic pagers can only receive callback number. More advanced ones have additional features to display text messages as well.
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question - what do Saudis gain from inflating their production capacity and oil reserves? Do they want to come across as some sort of superpower / critical country based on their reserves -- to continue getting preferential treatment f
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7y ago
global economy is slowing down, it’s not just India.
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While it is good to move away from plastic, instead of discontinue, can no other construction material be picked up? I have seen 'biodegradable' plastic being used to make water bottles... Wood would be a great choice but I reckon
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dumb question: what can scientists do with this besides studying the DNA data? Can they now clone that animal?
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I am sorry but as Canadian, I don't see much point of development in Canada's North. That part of Country is simply unsustainable for human settlement and whatever is there currently is on back off massive amount of investment in
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7y ago
I understand but the whole start off your day slow, be dainty in the morning, etc does not fly well in IT industry I have seen. People seem to rush to work, I would estimate majority either just grab some breakfast on the way or skip it and
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