mapleoin

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by mapleoin 7y ago
So two programmers ran a streaming website bigger than Netflix from their garage?
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by mapleoin 7y ago
I called the phone number on the back of the Monzo card today a few times. There's a recorded message saying that they're too busy and then they hang up. That phone number is bogus.
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by mapleoin 7y ago
This doesn't state the fact that if we stop all emissions now, the temperature will keep rising because there is already too much CO2 in the atmosphere.
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by mapleoin 7y ago
The problem is we've started deleting it now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_level_rise
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How to Invest in Technical Infrastructure(lethain.com)
2 points by mapleoin 7y ago|0 comments
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by mapleoin 8y ago
A killer feature for spotify would be if they would tell each individual user how much they are contributing to each individual artist they've listened to. I think that could encourage users to subscribe to spotify and listen more to s
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The Resource Leak Bug of Our Civilization(viznut.fi)
1 points by mapleoin 8y ago|0 comments
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by mapleoin 8y ago
EF Education First, EF Class | Backend SWE | London | ONSITE, VISA | Full Time We're a small startup-like team in a big profitable company, building an iOS/Web app to teach English in public schools. Our app has been live for a co
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We need to shift our focus from competencies to agency(medium.com)
1 points by mapleoin 8y ago|0 comments
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by mapleoin 8y ago
As long as all the world requires increasingly more energy, there will be political support and policies which allow the extraction of fossil fuels. This is the situation we have now. The companies digging up fossil fuel would go out of bus
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by mapleoin 8y ago
EF Education First, EF Class | Backend SWE | London | ONSITE | Full Time We're a small startup-like team in a big profitable company, building an iOS/Web app to teach English in public schools. Our app has been live for a couple o
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by mapleoin 8y ago
This might help: https://xkcd.com/1732/
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by mapleoin 8y ago
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/global-an... > According to different observational records of global average annual near-surface (land and ocean) temperature, the last decade (2008–2017) was
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by mapleoin 8y ago
What I don't get about Athena is what happens after you've put the data in Athena? Fine, you've got SQL and tabular data, but the type of BI I've had to do usually has a graph or some other visual representation at the e
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by mapleoin 8y ago
> The unique shape also means you can spin the phone in ways you never imagined. [1] Amazing marketing! [1] https://www.nokia.com/en_gb/phones/nokia-8110-4g
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by mapleoin 8y ago
> the actual pesticides used today are mostly relatively non-toxic to humans Love this! "mostly relatively" won't kill you... maybe...
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by mapleoin 8y ago
Still sounds a bit much. But let's have some fun with napkin math: Assuming you started reading to them when they were 2, then you'd have three years to read. To get to 1000 books that would be almost one book a day. You'd ha
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by mapleoin 8y ago
> They've been read over a thousand books by the age of 5. I'd really like to hear more about that. Did you mean that literally? How would you even acquire that many books?
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by mapleoin 8y ago
You're overcomplicating it, use pytest :P def test_some(): assert False is True (no need for imports, classes and special assertion methods if you're just writing a simple test)
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by mapleoin 8y ago
Yes, traffic does expand to fill roadways if all you do is build roadways and population and car-ownership increases. One solution to traffic congestion is, yes to provision more transit infrastructure, but that usually means subways and cy
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by mapleoin 8y ago
Correlation does not imply causation.
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by mapleoin 8y ago
Education First, EF Class | London, UK | FULL-TIME | ONSITE or REMOTE | Backend Developer, Devops We're a small startup-like team in a big company, building an iOS/Web app to teach English in public schools. Our app has been live
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Better(merlinmann.com)
2 points by mapleoin 8y ago|0 comments
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Martin Lewis suing Facebook(blog.moneysavingexpert.com)
2 points by mapleoin 8y ago|0 comments
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by mapleoin 8y ago
As a consequence of what? Of them subsidising fossil fuel?
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Test Isolation Is About Avoiding Mocks(destroyallsoftware.com)
2 points by mapleoin 9y ago|0 comments
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by mapleoin 9y ago
Education First, EF Class | London, UK | FULL-TIME | ONSITE or REMOTE | Backend Developer, Devops We're a small startup-like team in a big company, building an iOS/Web app to teach English in public schools. Our app has been live
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The big secret of small improvements(medium.com)
1 points by mapleoin 9y ago|0 comments
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On the Moral Economy of Tech (2016)(idlewords.com)
112 points by mapleoin 9y ago|45 comments
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by mapleoin 9y ago
How is "UK, Germany, France and Switzerland" most of Europe ? Those aren't even the four richest countries in Europe. The title implies this is the case for all of Europe, but the link only claims this for four countries.

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