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by tahdig 7y ago
Genuinely curious why this post was flagged.
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by tahdig 7y ago
My OnePlus 6T is fine as far as I can tell. It is Android 10 but was fine in 9 also.
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by tahdig 7y ago
> Sure, VLC is probably not always the best for your usecase VLC is both consistent and almost always the best media player for the platform. I especially love your Android UI/UX. It has been my go-to player for ~14 years now, insta
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by tahdig 7y ago
I think namecheap does not have a bad reputation, godaddy is known to be bad though(both security and customer support). The thing is, of course people can hack your gmail or yahoo mail somehow, but when you host your own domain, you have t
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by tahdig 7y ago
There are too many people here advocating to host your own email in your own domain. Please be warned that it has its own risks: By hosting your main email on a custom domain(not a provider) you open a new attack vector for identity theft.
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by tahdig 7y ago
Be careful: By hosting your main email on a custom domain(not a provider) you open a new attack vector for identity theft. Someone can hijack your godaddy/namecheap/gandi account and point the MX DNS records of the domain to their
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by tahdig 7y ago
Just for the sake of redundancy: Python 2.7 is not getting any kind of updates including security and bugfixes.
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by tahdig 7y ago
Python and Ruby although in the same category have still different mindset. It is understandable the way you think fits Ruby more. I tried to learn ruby and was put off by all the magic, last value calculated is magically returned, the usef
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by tahdig 7y ago
I think it is about the thinking process of the person, I assume you are >35, you grew up at a time that people were think about the performance more than the readability, that was the bottleneck back then. Now that you have bigger syste
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by tahdig 7y ago
> Masa is bailing out the Saudis. Can you elaborate? genuinely interested to understand, isn't he investing more Saudi money in potentially doomed unicorn?
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by tahdig 7y ago
Probably to inflate the valuation, do a quick IPO of WeWork for 10x the actual value it should have, get their shares sold on high price, and wave to the fools that took the bait and bought an almost worthless stock. This whole ordeal was t
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by tahdig 7y ago
I feel hitting Google with monopoly lawsuits without going after the others would just make it worst. Atleast Google somehow competes with the Facebook and Amazon which in my view are "more evil". My other concern is, big co can r
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by tahdig 7y ago
Well, good luck finding alumni as good as the ones from ETH Zürich anywhere else . Not counting the MIT, Stanford, Harvard, UOT etc. that they have to compete with other FAANG for graduates.
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by tahdig 7y ago
Would love to read more on the topic of German/French-speaking Swiss, would you mind sharing some reads you would recommend?
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by tahdig 7y ago
I remember reading this post* which is very useful for comparing US and Swiss(Or European in general) work culture. * "Living in Switzerland ruined me for America and its lousy work culture" https://www.vox.com/201
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by tahdig 7y ago
https://outline.com/BbAsc8
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by tahdig 7y ago
Agoda seems to be owned by Booking Holdings which I think implements these kind of dark patterns most aggressively.
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by tahdig 7y ago
I imagine sometime in 2030 when a 60 yo uncle/aunty sees this "38 people are looking at it", calmly right clicks on the HTML elements and sees the use of math.random and says "Nope, bye bye stupid website". I think
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by tahdig 7y ago
> ... many of whom are new to Python. well, if you ask me to write language X, I would definitely make mistakes for the first couple of weeks/months/years, that is why you need code review, mentoring and education plans for you