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by rifung 9y ago
I think it's a bit more nuanced than that https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/danielgilbert/files/if-mon...
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by rifung 9y ago
How many services do people on AWS usually use? What else besides EC2 and S3?
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by rifung 9y ago
I believe that if you host it in Taiwan it would still have to go through the Chinese firewall if it were accessed in China.
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by rifung 9y ago
That's a weird assumption to make but I use Linux for both my work and personal laptop as well as my work desktop.
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by rifung 9y ago
> Not to detract from this very nice development, but it's still the case on many laptops that installing Linux tends to extend battery life substantially, not to mention make graphics more stable (at least, given FOSS-friendly grap
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by rifung 9y ago
Im assuming you're asking genuinely. If not please disregard. I like seeing movies with friends but don't want to own furniture to accommodate guests since I have a small apartment. Of course maybe the theater is overkill for this
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by rifung 9y ago
I'm bipolar and personally I would be afraid to tell my manager about it because there's still a great amount of social stigma.
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by rifung 9y ago
> Medically speaking, physical illness is different from mental illness. One is diagnosed from objective scientific tests (pathology) while the other is not. Isn't this just because we don't actually understand medical illnesse
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by rifung 9y ago
For what it's worth, although I always hear good things about Shenzhen IO I don't think it's for everyone. I quit after a day because it just felt like I was working.
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by rifung 9y ago
> Sounds great in theory, unfortunately, this doesn't really work in many situations because you need to be doing the job you were hired for. I assume that when you are asking for promotion you would have already been doing the job
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by rifung 9y ago
> I strongly disagree with the notion expressed by some that beginners should start with flask "to learn how things work". Making a sane and maintainable project layout is not a particularly easy thing to do, >90% of people
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by rifung 9y ago
I think that it's because it's too far to the left to be politically viable. That being said, there is some talk about it, even today for example: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/03/sanders-to-int
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by rifung 9y ago
I have no idea what the problem is with respect to your not getting put up for promotion, but I certainly see a problem in your title. Working x hours a week doesn't mean you should get promoted. Getting promoted has nothing to do with
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by rifung 9y ago
> Most of it stems from society's lack of planning for the future of the young people. Doesn't this mean that it's actually NOT the result of poor choices, or at least the type of choices people generally accuse people of
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by rifung 9y ago
I think that they often do when it's appropriate, but the way they make them more accessible isn't by changing their papers but by giving talks or presentations that are less technical (like TED talks for example). This seems like
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by rifung 9y ago
> My question would be why don't donors and taxpayers (who are funding research) demand that researchers do these 11 steps? Because the overwhelming majority of taxpayers do not read them or care to. Also, even though a taxpayer may
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by rifung 9y ago
I don't often feel constrained by static typing but perhaps we are just working on different kinds of problems. As for distributed systems, it's true that static typing doesn't solve that on it's own, but combined with s
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by rifung 9y ago
Only anecdotal but my experience would lead me to seriously doubt that engineering majors learn social skills.
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by rifung 9y ago
> Hey, at least they've got nullable types? That's a big win over Java right there. Can you elaborate what you mean by nullable types? You can set Object variables to null and with primitives you can do the same with their boxe
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by rifung 9y ago
Since sushi is Japanese, doesn't it make sense that it would be found in Little Tokyo instead of Chinatown? Maybe there are lots of Chinese people eating it outside of Chinatown?
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by rifung 10y ago
HP Chromebook 13 and Dell Chromebook 13
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by rifung 10y ago
While I don't disagree, at this point it's not news that the President says things which are not based in reality. I'd rather they just publish a piece every month to gather them up for those interested and publish more artic
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by rifung 10y ago
> The recruiter also said I was borderline, which might be just a nice empty word from her, but made me feel better. I don't think this is just her being nice; I was also told I was borderline and they actually ended up letting me i
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by rifung 10y ago
I'm not sure that's actually the case. It's still up in the air whether Apple, Google, and Amazon are actually going to be building the cars or just building software/hardware that auto manufacturers can add to their car
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by rifung 10y ago
Joke's on you; they already don't support it. They've gone from a couple of years to none at all! It's an April Fool's Joke..
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by rifung 10y ago
Perhaps this is because I am from California, but having lived in Seattle for the last 3 years, the hardest part isn't the rain or cold but the lack of sun. My previous manager at Amazon told me he recommended everyone who came from Ca
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by rifung 10y ago
> I find that the bay area and Seattle (my home) value the wrong kind of diversity. Its the unimportant stuff like skin color and gender that everyone means when talking about diversity. The diversity that matters (diversity of thought a
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by rifung 10y ago
> GCP as a product is really awesome. I've been using GCE and Datastore for a project and they just work. I just can't trust Google enough to bring all my works to their cloud. I work in GCP and can say that we definitely reali
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by rifung 10y ago
> Furthermore, the idea that companies are paying women with "exactly the same" skills as men in "exactly the same" positions up to 20% less doesn't make any sense at all. Why would I ever hire a man in that case
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by rifung 10y ago
> I don't know a single woman who likes sales work, and I know at least a few who have given it a serious try. I don't work in sales so perhaps someone better qualified can comment, but isn't the stereotype that the cultu

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