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by mltony 7y ago
Websites from big IT companies tend to be good: Google, GMail, Youtube, Facebook, Amazon, Bing.
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by mltony 7y ago
It depends. If I know I'll make an order only once, calling phone is probably easier. If that's a pizza, and say I have expectation that I might be ordering same pizza every week or every month, then ordering through website is ea
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by mltony 7y ago
Google's recaptcha is actually somehow really good - you just click on the checkbox and somehow it magically understands that you're a human, even when using a screenreader. Other websites have audio captcha. In the worst case, yo
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by mltony 7y ago
Blind programmer here. Just a glimpse of my life. Blind people have to live in an environment where X% of web sites and programs are not accessible, where X varies somewhere from 20% (for web sites) to 50% (for desktop applications). That&#
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by mltony 7y ago
I see there's one more problem with thinker sculpture study, that has nothing to do how we analyze the data. There was another study a while ago, where a dime was placed (or not placed for control group) in the public copying machine.
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by mltony 8y ago
It is possible that declension suffixes once upon time were postpositions. At least I remember this was a theory behind Indo-European declension suffixes. If a postposition is used often enough after a noun, people quickly learn the pattern
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by mltony 8y ago
The problem is that what constitutes a word is not uniformly defined across all languages - every language has its own set of rules that is partly justified by its grammar, and sometimes by historical reason. Let me give you an example in E
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by mltony 8y ago
It took me a few years to adjust, but I'm back in the workforce. I am working in a big IT company now. Blind people can use screenreaders - assistive software - to write code and leave comments on hacker news. If something happens to y
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by mltony 8y ago
Here is my similar story from Washington state. I was a happy fully sighted software developer up until a few years ago an eye disease started all of a sudden. Now I am blind. I applied for disability and got denied. I appealed and was deni
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by mltony 8y ago
I mostly work in the backends, but I wrote a few UIs too. Either in HTML/PHP, or in wxPython. I can probably write UIs in other languages/technologies too if I had to. They probably don't look very nice, but they are function
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by mltony 8y ago
Blind software engineer here. Sorry to hear about your eyesight issues, dealing with that is always hard, but the good news is that there is life here. I've been working on a bunch of open source projects and recently I found a full ti
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by mltony 8y ago
I am wondering whether high levels of gamma waves are the result of so much meditation throughout their lives, or the other way around - maybe these meditators have higher levels of gamma waves to begin with and therefore they enjoy meditat
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by mltony 8y ago
I had similar experience with Uber last month. My recruiter scheduled an introductory phone call with me and then she forgot about it. The call was rescheduled and then she forgot again. On the third time she did call me but never apologize
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by mltony 8y ago
But recording phone conversations is illegal in most states, so unless you live in a state where it's legal, they might know that you are bluffing.
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by mltony 8y ago
Is this story true? The part about mid-life crisis VP sounds too good to be true.
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by mltony 9y ago
This article focuses too much on economics. Surely these economic effects have happened and greatly contributed to Rome's demise. But were they a root cause or just a consequence of something else? I think that politics played some rol