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by pandapower2 8y ago
>one app with three "skins" and three different brands, each a different level of "edginess." They aren't a tech company as such but this reminded me of Coca Cola. There's Coke, Diet Coke, Coke Zero, Coke No
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by pandapower2 8y ago
I was a kid in the 80s and HIV was terrifying back then. I'm Australian and this ad is burned into the memories of a lot of Australians. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U219eUIZ7Qo
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Although weight may still have some validity in terms of making you feel full and satisfied.
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by pandapower2 8y ago
>Are plastics not recycled in the U.S.? You may want to look into what specifically is recycled wherever you are. I'm in Australia and recently discovered that much of the plastic that I have been putting in the recycling bins are n
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by pandapower2 8y ago
>I really hope there comes a day when companies can be held accountable for straight up lying and taking advantage of customers who simply don't have the technical means to know any better. The situation is genuinely pretty grim but
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Serving advertisements is certainly very bandwidth and energy intensive at least when talking about news/media sites. The majority of the data that is getting pushed around during a page load is ad delivery or tracking code to inform t
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by pandapower2 8y ago
I'm not sure what point you are trying to make...
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Hong Kong seems an odd choice. Or at least a short sighted choice. Right now its an ok place to operate but given the slow erosion of Hong Kong's independence will it still be in 1 year? 5 years?
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Suing your own customers is never a good look. I'm somewhat surprised they would bother. Presumably they are hoping to make an example of this single person. What then? People like him will voluntarily overlook the cheaper fare and cho
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Yes. Some stick in your memory but others kind of get swept under the carpet. They are all still in your memory somewhere. A photo, something someone says, or even a smell can cause them to come rushing back. "Holy crap, twenty years a
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by pandapower2 8y ago
After almost 20 years as a commercial developer I forget entire projects, entire jobs even. Someone will mention a company name and it takes me a few seconds to realize that the reason the name is familiar is because I briefly worked there
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by pandapower2 8y ago
>Isnt a "lifestyle" business a business to support the lifestyle of the founder? IE money is not typically a problem, either the company is profitable or the founder will support it loss making. The main function of the company
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Guessing that there are plenty of employers who would take the opposite view. There are surely companies who want employees who will do stuff without complaining about a bunch of annoying ethical implications.
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by pandapower2 8y ago
>4. There must be something wrong with the person if he didn't get into management by the age of 50. This idea amuses/saddens me. Personally, i know a few older technical people (myself included) who have been managers and chos
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by pandapower2 8y ago
>Of these options, what are your greatest challenges to productivity as a developer? Select up to 3: I feel like this is missing an important option. "Boring work". Right now I'm slogging through an unenjoyable project and
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by pandapower2 8y ago
I feel like something has changed in Australia. I've worn glasses a long time and remember them always costing a few hundred dollars per pair. A few months ago I went into Specsavers and was able to buy glasses for under $50 per pair.
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by pandapower2 8y ago
"Cost" is not purely monetary. The cost of additional testing includes patient's time spent traveling too and from additional appointments, additional patient stress waiting for results, additional infections or other side ef
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Random idea. If you have profits sufficient to fund R&D you could also potentially approach your investors about buying them out with those profits. Something like "It has become apparent that this company is never going to provide
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Migrating customers away from a one-man band is a pretty thorny issue. Unless you happen to know another one person operation who can take over no other vendor will offer the same level of personalized, hands on service or the same level of
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by pandapower2 8y ago
I'm not the person you are responding to. I don't recall every being asked about other nationalities. Countries will ask if you have previously entered under a different name but presumably you are using the same name world wide.
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by pandapower2 8y ago
1 MB is incredibly compact by news site standards. Try a random article page like https://edition.cnn.com/2018/12/07/tech/australia-encryption... I refreshed a few times, scrolling to the bottom of the p
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by pandapower2 8y ago
>I’m not saying practices promoted by AMP are bad or useless. They are good practices. But nothing stops you from following them in the regular web. Disagree. The most important feature of AMP is that it makes it impossible to add the ki
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by pandapower2 8y ago
The scoring for Australian football is dramatically different. The final score in the last australian football grand final was 79 to 74. Its closer to basketball scores than it is soccer.
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by pandapower2 8y ago
If you can get yourself to Thailand and dont have an aversion to Buddhism there are Buddhist temples where you can go stay. Frequently you make a donation at the end of your stay with the amount being at your discretion. An example near Chi
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Its an unusual line to take in an entrenched democracy like Australia. Kind of refreshing compared to the platitudes and metaphorical pats on the heads that would typically greet children undertaking this sort of thing.
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by pandapower2 8y ago
This. An SUV is just a station wagon or minivan with more cosmetic appeal. Not a bad thing. Kind of clever really. Car manufacturers figured out how to deliver a vehicle that has the benefits of a minivan with an external appearance free of
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Presumably developer experience, the developers experience working with a particular project, tool or whatever. Sometimes referred to as "dev x".
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by pandapower2 8y ago
>My assumption with mission statements was that they were always bullshit made up by a marketing team or some exec In my experience they are concocted by a dozen people from across the company sitting in a room all day filling white boar
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by pandapower2 8y ago
>But I I get the odd feeling using Facebook that the content is not even so data-optimized for engagement likely their metrics are way more involved than that because there are inherent trade offs there.
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by pandapower2 8y ago
Its worth noting that its not actually compulsory to vote in Australia. Your options are: 1) go to a polling place and get your name marked off. Whether you actually vote after that is up to you. You can just leave or you can take ballot pa

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