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sjamaan
2y ago
This could even be lethal if you are ordering something you know the target is allergic to...
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2y ago
> courting the customer by speaking their language Ugh, that's like trying to use urban slang in your ads to appeal to youths - probably not going to go down very well unless you're very, very on point.
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2y ago
You don't have to pretend to be a pilot. Any cabin crew is allowed in the cockpit, AFAIK
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2y ago
These laws have been created for good reasons, and US tech companies have had free reign to trample on people's privacy rights for a very long time. If a company acts in a honorable way, there's nothing to fear and they can easily
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2y ago
> And the title says "platform". So I'm still confused. I hate it when people say "platform" or use other vague/ill defined terms. Just say it's a JS implementation of Python that evaluates code in scri
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2y ago
As I understood it, they used to generate the flex/bison stuff because they relied on very specific versions of those. But now those versions are commonly available, they rely on the user to generate these.
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2y ago
It's a B2B tool, which means it's quite likely the contract/license states that all disputes are to be settled in a court appointed by them. This is not valid for consumer disputes, but businesses are free to do what they wan
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2y ago
> Why would your colleagues want to maintain your pet project instead of making their own? The projects in question were Django model field types, which I used in the larger projects I was working on. I made them available on PyPi so the
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2y ago
Open sourcing is only really beneficial to yourself if the code is usable in your new job. Hopefully you're trying something new and growing - you probably shouldn't be switching jobs to work on the same kind of problems (or even
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3y ago
Yeah I always struggled with that too - I only had a gamepad, or just the keyboard. I always felt I didn't have enough keys/fingers, and I never mastered strafing due to that.
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3y ago
Quite recently, the researchers behind the Tetraburst attack ( https://www.tetraburst.com/ ) discovered that Tetra's encryption has "levels" which depend on the intended recipient's country. This leaves th
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3y ago
Avoiding taxes is a great later negotiating card. If they say they "can't" give you the salary you want, you can come up with alternative payment methods. Like "how about X salary plus travel expenses?" etc.
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3y ago
Parent said "more saveable income", presumably meaning you use the extra money to save for a rainy day. You can also lose a lower-paying job, if the company gets into financial trouble, for example.
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3y ago
It makes sense to listen to the sound system when making a buying decision though!
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3y ago
I think these progressions of technology are more likely to be like Moore's law: it might be true for a while but eventually it'll peter out. AI itself doesn't understand anything, and there's a limit to human understa
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3y ago
And nothing but the scheme!
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3y ago
You can use an "Apache server in a box", ie something like XAMPP or WAMP or whatever it's called nowadays and run an Apache web server with PHP locally, even if you're on Windows. There's no excuse to be a cowboy li
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3y ago
I don't understand why you're being downvoted. This is absolutely an issue of today's mobile devices.
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3y ago
Skilled manual labor like welding, for example
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3y ago
Presumably you'd be interested in any feedback, and not everyone CCs the original author in their reply.
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3y ago
> Having this theory means you can't rely on a single bet, you have to bets many many times to make profit from stock market. If you take into account trading costs, you'll probably lose money this way even if the theory is cor
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3y ago
> But the temptation is always to just stick to the deadline and refuse to extend it, because once you extend it once then everyone knows it isn't actually a hard deadline and the deadline will get extended again and the thing will
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3y ago
If they had chosen a JS framework as part of the batteries, that framework probably would've been deprecated by now. For instance, who still builds websites with Angular or Backbone/Marionette anymore? See also Rails, which did
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3y ago
"Targeted" exercises tend to be body-builder type stuff which can only really be done with light weights. Instead, bigger compound movements like squat and deadlift can be incrementally trained leading up to much, much heavier wei
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3y ago
> Is it a package manager? A build system? Nixpkg is a package manager, which uses the Nix programming language to describe dependencies and build steps. Like all package managers, it has components that could be called a "build sys
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3y ago
I sent you an e-mail
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3y ago
Look under "Update for Postgres 12 or later", there they create a collation, an index to make use of it and then a query to make use of it: SELECT \* FROM users WHERE name = 'João' COLLATE ignore_accent;
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3y ago
I'm also considering a switch but struggle to figure out how to bridge the gap financially. How did you do it? I assume you didn't have a huge list of clients right out the gate.
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3y ago
> In a nutshell, every line of code you write this way comes loaded with a pound of irreducible, unfixable tech debt. And worst of all, you are stuck with a shitload of churn every time a new Laravel version comes out. But this is true f
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4y ago
> Also from my experience of trying to leave GitHub, you just end up having a couple of projects on your alternative platform, and everything else on GitHub. > And if you want to build a community, you will quickly find out that the m
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