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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I still love the UI of instapaper a lot more than the one pocket has on their iOS version. The main reason I switched to pocket was that Instapaper doesn't seem to have support for PDFs. I don't need any of the "position sync
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I can't seem to find it anywhere, so I thought I'd add this here for the non-German speakers: Flak stands for "Flugabwehrkanone" or "Fliegerabwehrkanone" which consists of the 3 words: - Flug / Flieger (Fl
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Maybe they made a referral of a person they knew would be great, but they didn't make it through the interview process. After that happens once or twice, it could be somewhat demotivating.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
There is a posting requirement. You have to prove that you had the job opening advertised (newspaper, website, ...) and that no qualified Americans applied. As usual, there are ways around that though.
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SRE Interviews in Silicon Valley(blog.marc-seeger.de)
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Workers Betrayed by Visa Loopholes(nytimes.com)
1 points by rb2k_ 11y ago|2 comments
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I guess this fits in here: Once upon a time I wrote my thesis on building a web crawler. The (tiny) blog post with an embedded preview: http://blog.marc-seeger.de/2010/12/09/my-thesis-building-blo... The PDF
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
You are right in that it seems like a impractical solution and the providers should just figure out roaming. As far as the competition goes: OneSimCard charges 25 cents per Megabyte, Project Fi doesn't really exist since you need an in
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
For Germany that's false. You can get usually get one of the "no-frills" prepaid providers at any supermarket register (Medion Mobile at Aldi, Lidl Mobile at Lidl, jamobil at Rewe, ...). You will usually need internet to acti
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I don't have a particular dog in this fight, but I thought this is interesting: The last O'Reilly Software Architecture Conference had a talk by Glenn Vanderburg titled "why software development is an engineering discipline&q
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I am not an expert in this field (nutritional epi + cardiovascular disease). Luckily, my significant other is (which is there the quote came from). Her answer: "The first article shows no association of saturated fats with cardiovasc
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I didn't say that counting calories won't work, I just said that it's not an optimal solution. There are ranges of protein, fat, carbs that is possible to lose weight on. Some of them are just more effective than others.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I have no idea where you got that information from, but from what I know this is simply not true?
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
I agree mostly. My main point of concern was the "just count calories, you'll be fine" completely ignores anything we know about a healthy died in terms of nutrients. The fat one I find interesting: > I think it's fai
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
At least these days the updated food pyramids doesn't suggest stuffing yourself with grains but balance it a bit more. That being said, people still will.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Running a marathon every day would also work, but both of them are pretty tedious and sub optimal ;) A focus on nutrient dense foods will make you feel fuller and will be better for your nutritional status and disease risk.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
After cross-reading this, my impression is that this was written with the nutritional knowledge that was prevalent 20 years ago and mostly focuses on counting calories, not about the nutrients present in the food. From what I understand abo
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
yes, and that's why I'd love to have another column to figure out if there are any countries that have statistically significant higher/lower Greencards per capita :) It's probably not a super useful metric, but it would
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Thanks for the work to present that data in a nice and explorable way! It would be awesome to have another column next to "% of Greencards" that says "% of population". One of the reasons India has by far the most green
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Works for me on Chrome 43.0.2357.81 (OS X) Green lock + "The identity of this website has been verified by COMODO RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA but does not have public audit records." No warnings.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
> employers can't lowball my salary, because they have no such leverage like they do in US with H1-B visa They have to pay you at least the average wage for your position, experience and area. At least from the other H1B folks I kno
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
One big takeaway: When every single "personal finance" site tells you that having an "emergency fund" of 3+ times your monthly costs (rent, food, insurance, ...) is very important, they probably are right :)
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Plus they decided to have no children. Otherwise the equation is probably a bit more problematic :)
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
Is there any chance of ever getting an IOS client to browser backups again? I love arq, but I always have to keep a 2nd kind of cloud sync going to be able to view files from backups while on the go.
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by rb2k_ 11y ago
At least this says 1993: $ whois pizzahut.com | grep Creation Creation Date: 07-dec-1993 Creation Date: 1993-12-07T05:00:00Z
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by rb2k_ 12y ago
I don't think Confluent really counts as "non-LinkedIn team" :) "Jay is co-founder and CEO at Confluent. Prior to Confluent, Jay Kreps was the initial developer on several open source projects, including Apache Kafka, Ap
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by rb2k_ 12y ago
I guess the main problem is that the rain might fall somewhere else that is not California and we now have to move that water back there because otherwise they'd run out.
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by rb2k_ 12y ago
So I guess the main problem is that the rain might fall somewhere else that is not California and we now have to move that water back there because otherwise they'd run out.
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by rb2k_ 12y ago
I never quite got what "it takes x gallons" actually means. Where does the water go? Does it get sucked up by the plant somehow? Does the plant split the water into oxygen/hydrogen and those get bound to some other atom? Does
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by rb2k_ 12y ago
I don't particularly enjoy poetry (or poets for that matter), but I always liked reading "Algorhyme" by Radia Perlman, the inventor of spanning tree network protocol Algorhyme I think that I shall never see A g

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