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by marcandre 4y ago
Yes. Consider the direction that the vast majority of countries have been moving in with regards to all these. South Korea appears to not have moved at all.
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by marcandre 4y ago
Lack of predictability can be a feature, at least according to Hans Monderman, famous Dutch traffic engineer. He believed drivers become more alert and cautious when there’s more uncertainty on the road. [1] From my experience, segregating
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by marcandre 5y ago
It's definitely possible. I applied for jobs with 3 days of Elixir experience + 30 years of dev experience. My requirement of half time was the issue, not my knowledge of Elixir, and I still got an offer from super.mx (we're hirin
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by marcandre 5y ago
It is pretty much a thing in French too, sadly.
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by marcandre 5y ago
It's important to learn to be ok with our own limitations, our proximity to the average. I like Mark Manson's writing on the subject, e.g. https://markmanson.net/being-average or his book "The Subtle Art of N
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by marcandre 5y ago
I was hired by super.mx with 3 days of elixir under my belt. We're still hiring btw...
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by marcandre 6y ago
The website fromrome2rio includes transfer times, wait times and costs too.
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by marcandre 6y ago
What next? `ZERO = 0`, `ONE = 1`, ...?
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by marcandre 6y ago
I did the same mistake and only figured it out when checking in because there was a fee for checked luggage; there's no fee only for international flights, only for US/Canada flights.
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by marcandre 6y ago
I was flying to Costa Rica from Montreal. Airline wanted money for checked luggage, but typically for long distance flights like this it's free. After enquiring, turns out I had bought the wrong flight to San Jose, California, instead
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by marcandre 6y ago
Note that Kraken has a USD<->USDT trading pair, so it is convertible there (and only there AFAIK)
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by marcandre 6y ago
Tether does not, but you can trade USDT/USD pair on kraken.com
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by marcandre 6y ago
Kraken.com has an actual USDT/USD pair you can trade and use actual hard currency.
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by marcandre 6y ago
Using RuboCop should help a lot having an homogeneous codebase.
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by marcandre 6y ago
Loved my 11" MBA. I needed more RAM and I could switch to any laptop I wanted for free, so I got a used MB 12" because it's the only Apple laptop with a similar form factor.
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by marcandre 6y ago
Sellers are catching on. I searched on reddit for range hoods comments. I found "reviews" that were written in a style I found suspicious (too elaborate, detailed and "business-like"). Clicking on these two users reveale
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by marcandre 6y ago
The cost of raising a child is roughly 10-15k a year. How much is the car upgrade (on a per year basis)?
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by marcandre 6y ago
In Ruby they are called "singleton classes", but the actual technical term is metaclass: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaclass (check the Ruby entry)
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by marcandre 6y ago
The three main players imo are Github Sponsors, Tidelift and Open Collective.
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by marcandre 6y ago
Another way to state the conservation of professors: in the lifetime of a tenured professor, of all the grad students (s)he suppervised, the number that will succeed in getting a tenured position is (on average) equal to 1.
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by marcandre 6y ago
`parser` is indeed a fantastic gem. @whitequark is the initial author but today it is maintained by @iliabylich
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by marcandre 6y ago
The NY Times gets 2/3rd of its revenue from subscribers; advertisers are not their prime customers. Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/new-york-times-ad-revenue-to...
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by marcandre 6y ago
This resonates so much. I support some JS packages but I often wonder how anyone gets anything done in general on the JS side, and why people seem to accept the state of affairs. I'm spending most of my time with Ruby and it is night a
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by marcandre 6y ago
Application domain may have something to do with it, language also. As a maintainer of Javascript and Ruby libraries, the difference in entitlement and cluelessness is remarkable.
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by marcandre 6y ago
I find it simpler to always list my branches sorted by last commit date (with `git for-each-ref --count=30 --sort=-committerdate refs/heads/ --format='%(refname:short)'`). You can probably modify it to show the last auth
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by marcandre 7y ago
Not yet mentioned: Come As You Are (Emily Nagoski). Sexuality book written for women that should be read by all.
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by marcandre 7y ago
Same idea. See Barcelona and superblocks for example.
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by marcandre 8y ago
I agree. There's a similar forum for Canadians too: https://www.financialwisdomforum.org/
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by marcandre 8y ago
It is very limiting to believe that "rules are unabiguous" and should be followed to the letter. Rules are often (partly) wrong, not completely adapted to a situation, etc. Let's remember that "rules" used to make h
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by marcandre 8y ago
I really wish "a bike running a red light" wasn't seen as such a problem. In many places, pedestrian cross on red lights also. In other places, cars can turn right on red lights. In at least one state, bikes can use red ligh

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