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by scardine 12y ago
Most of the fleet here in Brazil runs on dual combustible (ethanol or gas) and ethanol is available at every gas station. Ethanol from sugar cane is way cheaper than ethanol from corn and we have 2 crops a year (no harsh winters).
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New JavaScript framework from former Angular developers(aurelia.io)
13 points by scardine 12y ago|4 comments
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by scardine 12y ago
Defense funded a lot of science over history.
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Digital Ocean will start charging for Backups
1 points by scardine 12y ago|0 comments
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by scardine 12y ago
I learned to create vector graphics on CorelDraw 3, Inkscape looks like an old friend for me.
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by scardine 12y ago
So you disagree that Italian immigration politically influenced these places? Not that every Portugal and Spain former colonies are doing great, but in Latin America (with exception of Venezuela) they probably will do better than Brazil and
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by scardine 12y ago
Try GoW (GNU on Windows) - several of my favorite command line utilities compiled as native windows binaries (no need for funky "/cygdrive/C/foo" paths). Combined it with a better terminal like ConEmu and I feel at
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by scardine 12y ago
GoW + ConEmu make Windows 8 acceptable for me.
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by scardine 12y ago
I'm 3rd generation of Italians that emigrated to Brazil. Regions with lots of Italian immigrants like Buenos Aires in Argentina or Sao Paulo in Brazil can resonate with every feeling in this thread.
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by scardine 12y ago
If we don't allow honest, regulated and tax-paying business to provide high quality recreational drugs we are in fact giving an incentive for criminals to fill this market need. Our dumb war on drugs transfors a public health issue int
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Meet “ELO”, a Special Teddy Bear from Amaral Carvalho Hospital in Brazil(youtube.com)
1 points by scardine 12y ago|0 comments
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by scardine 12y ago
Even with favorable exchange rates, living in most metropolitan areas in Brazil is very expensive and you are likely to earn more working for Brazilian clients - right now unemployment is under 4% in general and almost inexistent in IT so w
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by scardine 12y ago
My lame cartoon about this affair: https://github.com/scardine/random-writings/blob/master/text...
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by scardine 12y ago
My stupid cartoon about this affair: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/scardine/random-writings/m...
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by scardine 12y ago
SCSS is a CSS extension/preprocessor, a very specific subset of "Web design tool / framework trends". Main competitor for SCSS at this specific niche is LESS, followed by Stylus. SASS/SCSS and LESS are pretty much e
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by scardine 12y ago
PHB: This situation is so embarrassing... We are so fired!!! BOFH: We can blame North Korea. Aren't we about to launch a comedy about their supreme leader? PHB: Genius!!! (and left the room) BOFH: Let me change the locale to Korean and
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by scardine 12y ago
The indicators per se are not gamed. Instead, you select a few indicators like "Olympic medals", "life expectancy" (etc) and commit every resource of the country to them at all cost and without regard for everything else
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by scardine 12y ago
Brazilian tobacco tastes good, but leaves are not spotless like in Cuba, so Brazilian cigar makers have to import them just for the "capa" layer (the external layer in cigars). Many countries do the same.
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by scardine 12y ago
I highly recommend reading "Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot" which explain how dictatorships can pick a handful of indicators and elevate them to first-world levels while still making everybody's life miserable. [1]
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by scardine 12y ago
The very idea of idea ownership is a dangerous one. Because most ideas are compositions of other ideas; should you pay if you write a poem because someone else invented the concept of poems?
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by scardine 12y ago
I had this boss in Brazil that also own some business in Florida - when he wants to hire some H1B from Brazil he just adds "fluent in Portuguese" to the job description.
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by scardine 12y ago
Use a marketplace that ensures payment like Elance or Odesk (I'm able to make a few k/month freelancing there).
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by scardine 12y ago
At first I was pretty sold on react too. Now I'm trying to figure out if the bad parts in Angular are worst than the bad parts in React. I don't have an answer yet. The only thing I'm sure is that the virtual-DOM thing is a g
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by scardine 12y ago
Precisely the argument from Dilbert's Y2K episode: http://www.tv.com/shows/dilbert/y2k-12015/
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by scardine 12y ago
Like people said, it is practice. Stackoverflow worked wonders for me. Of course at first I sounded like Tarzan, but after some time I started to get comments like this: "+1 for sense of humor and for the fact the post is written in no
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by scardine 12y ago
I think the climate in Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil is heading to a combination of both dystopias. On one side, Chaves, Evo Morales and Lula assembled fantastic propaganda machines in order to ensure their respective parties continue in po
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Brazilian 50% tax over foreign datacenters services(computerworld.com.br)
2 points by scardine 12y ago|0 comments
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by scardine 12y ago
It is easier to create new drugs if you are not subject to strict regulations and if you are not afraid of lawsuits from people that participate in trials. What slows down the research in USA is the safety mechanisms imposed by FDA. This is
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by scardine 12y ago
I think most ML implementations still have poor support for unicode, and this is a killer feature for me.
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by scardine 12y ago
> Any weekend compiler project can be faster than CPython. Not true and not even funny.

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