reading-at-work

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by reading-at-work 9y ago
I find that when a headline poses a yes/no question, the answer is usually "no."
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
It's a valid example. There are people alive today who remember that exact scenario happening, in Western Europe itself no less.
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
They used to do that. They had two different news feeds, one with their algorithm and one that was just a real-time feed. Then they scrapped the real-time feed in favor of their algorithm-based feed. It's not that the real-time was har
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
Big firms like to use it, but most developers who work there probably don't; they just suck it up and do it for the paycheck. Source: am a developer at a big firm being forced to use Java.
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
Foolproof no, but you should get the Ghostery browser extension. You can tell it to block all social media and advertising tracking on websites you visit. From what I can tell it's effective (websites that require a Facebook login, for
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
You could try Upwork. It basically lets you be a contractor, remotely, for programming projects that people have.
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
> With regards to liberal arts education, I'm inclined to agree that government subsidies may not be the best use of tax money. Who do you think will start going to college more once it's free? Students who are driven to get a
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
That may have been true 30 years ago. These days kids who make the "responsible choice" to attend an in-state school can still pay upwards of 20-30K a year in tuition and fees (source: me and everyone I know at my large state scho
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
Surprised I had to scroll this far down to find this. You're absolutely right. Plenty of people just choose a major based on whimsical interest their freshman year, then stick with it because it's too late/expensive/diff
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
Agreed. "Minimum Viable Product" means it's viable, i.e. people can use it.
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by reading-at-work 9y ago
And yet, thousands of people who started using the cards have increased their savings more than they would have otherwise. Yes a credit union is preferable, but the point is that this demographic of people wasn't using them (or regular