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by random42_ 7y ago
The person who actually made the call was sentenced to 20 years: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/03/man-behind-fatal-swattin...
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by random42_ 7y ago
I had the same questions before I got a mechanical keyboard without the F row and an ESC key but I got around that pretty quickly. Using the number row with the Fn key for the functions is not bad and I was able to remap the CAPS LOCK key t
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by random42_ 7y ago
Did you actually had to give up on your Japanese citizenship? I know that when taking the oath you reject all other citizenship you may have but AFAIK this is not enforced, meaning you don't have to go to your embassy and formally requ
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by random42_ 7y ago
(1) You don't need to have a degree to apply for an H1B as long as you can prove 3 years of experience to each year of college. So, if you are a developer with 12 years of experience that makes up for the lack of a 4-years degree. You
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by random42_ 8y ago
You are correct. US Congress (most of the time) legislate in favor of whoever pays more.
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by random42_ 8y ago
That guy specifically was transfered and had plans to stay. He actually brought his wife and newborn daughter some time later but was still living in a shared home (not the same with 8 other people, but still).
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by random42_ 8y ago
In the US, a company I worked for hired TCS to provide developers and QA to our project. Most of them were offshore in India but a few moved to the US because we needed people on site. I feel really sorry for them. One of the project manage
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by random42_ 8y ago
Funny that my entire life that's been the only way I would drink coffee. My parents would make it that way and I was doing it that way when I started drinking coffee. I guess that the fact that electric coffee makers were not popular n
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by random42_ 8y ago
Guess the risks are the same in the end.
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by random42_ 8y ago
I used to love physical books and the feel and the smell and the looks. Until the day I moved overseas and couldn't take my collection with me. I left them stored in boxes at friend's house and one day, during a storm, his house w
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by random42_ 8y ago
Lenovo Yoga 900 that I've bought in 2016. It's running Fedora since day one and I only had two issues with it: - Wifi driver didn't work with the Fedora version I was using but I fixed it by using next version's beta. -
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by random42_ 8y ago
Yes, and it is noted in the article: Praying mantises have occasionally been observed to feed on vertebrates, including small birds, lizards, frogs, newts, mice, snakes and turtles. But many of these cases have either not been scientifical
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by random42_ 8y ago
There is a setting on the Phone app just for Caller ID and Spam and you even have the ability to filter spam calls. I don't have Google Voice so I don't know if/how it works.
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by random42_ 8y ago
I've been pretty happy with the way Android is handling spammers. Not only it shows when a call is suspected to be spam, it also gives me the opportunity to flag a caller as such.
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by random42_ 8y ago
And it seems they are already denying renewals in some cases: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/us-is-deny...
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by random42_ 8y ago
Been there. OTOH, my last job was at a startup that used a LAMP stack but made enough money to be self-sufficient and not depend on VC money to keep running. When the legacy systems started to hurt us (because they were written by the found
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by random42_ 8y ago
Probably the Gentoo Linux documentation. Not sure how it looks like today, but back in 2005 when I started using Gentoo it helped me a lot because not only was comprehensive but also deep enough albeit clear.
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by random42_ 8y ago
Now they are moving to the biblical end of computing era by making every Javascript. Does that means the apocalypse is upon us?
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by random42_ 8y ago
GNOME 3.28 on Wayland has this as an experimental feature.
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Why Fortnite on iOS/Android Is the Most Important Mobile Game Ever(forbes.com)
1 points by random42_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by random42_ 9y ago
It's an interesting fact--anecdotally, of course--that as much as they complain about the country, they won't let anyone from outside to do the same thing.
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by random42_ 9y ago
Like the others already explained, "vira-latas" is a portuguese term for a stray dog and the idea that they need to flip trash cans to try to find food. However, there is also an expression (whose origin was also explained) that m
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by random42_ 9y ago
I think they are listed in the full list: http://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
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Fewer international grad students are seeking computer science degrees in the US(geekwire.com)
1 points by random42_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by random42_ 9y ago
How does Linode compares to DigitalOcean? I see that at least price wise DigitalOcean looks cheaper.
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Code that allows iOS devices to boot up has leaked online(businessinsider.com)
1 points by random42_ 9y ago|0 comments
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All-girl engineer team invents solar-powered tent for the homeless(mashable.com)
2 points by random42_ 9y ago|0 comments
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GoPro has hired JP Morgan to put itself up for sale(cnbc.com)
1 points by random42_ 9y ago|0 comments
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by random42_ 9y ago
Yeah, it's like, act like an owner, but you have to do everything that the _actual_ owner tells you to.
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by random42_ 9y ago
Glad I wasn't the only one.

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