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by tajen 9y ago
A good donation to EFF for a freedom campaign would go a long way at coordinating the fight. And boost their image.
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by tajen 9y ago
Visual Basic / Excel VBA does that, and I thought it was the way to go until 18yo. But when you can only see one function/event handler at a time, you lose the understanding of how programming works. If only I had been exposed to
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by tajen 9y ago
Or he just installed Windows to see whether the sources compiled, then switched back to Goobuntu. And plugged his Yubikey in.
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by tajen 9y ago
Will young Philippinos empathize with terrorist causes after reading too much?
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by tajen 9y ago
Same: As a backpacker I worked in Kununurra, north of Australia, pruning 500 sandalwood trees a day. With 42•C, we drank 9 liters of water in 7hrs. Legend says a guy of the previous year didn't take electrolytes and died of dehydration
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by tajen 9y ago
On the one hand I've never seen a successful project with non-colocated teams, whether 300km away or 10.000km away. On the other hand, I'm surprised a airplane company is so much localized in UK.
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by tajen 9y ago
Spot within your example, I've actually written a petition for "Men should have the same rights as women, i.e. change X and Y in sectors Z and Z2". If downvotes were allowed, it would take a single feminist organization to sw
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by tajen 9y ago
I just want you to know that I'm a beginner in management (having hired two juniors for my startup), and I'll use this advice (The junior is not productive, but him being reasonably motivated is the reason why I'll keep him).
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by tajen 9y ago
I run my whole company on a Digital Ocean account. I'm frightened at the idea of the account being suddenly shut, for example if I miss a payment and the process had a bug.
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by tajen 9y ago
How did you create 2 fb accounts? Don't they ask for phone number confirmation?
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by tajen 9y ago
Slack has a flawless multi-account implementation, which surprised me in this era where corporates try to aggressively create links between our accounts (import/suggest users, merge, or share the advertising ID). But, for example, if
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by tajen 9y ago
Atlassian takes 25% fee. If Atlassian takes 25%, GitHub does, if Atlassian has a marketplace, so does GitHub. But Atlassian makes money, while GitHub lost $66m in 9 months of 2016 ( https://developers.slashdot.org/story&#x2F
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by tajen 9y ago
In XXth century, Communism was about nationalizing companies. In XXIst century, Communism will be about only recognizing a copyright duration of 10 years, after which the content is free to copy. And compiled content must be open-source. It
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by tajen 9y ago
It looks like pirates have found enough ways around Content ID, since a lot of movies are available with the original + "full movie" in the headline... That's how I became fan of Air Crash Investigation and Mythbusters, btw.
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by tajen 9y ago
Brexit, Trump, FN, Erdogan, etc.
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by tajen 9y ago
but high pollution in Barcelona and Madrid. They're big cities and a good part of the population relies on scooters on cars. Jogging there may not even be good for your health in such places. Of course, London is even worse, but Paris
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by tajen 9y ago
MS' goal is for kids not to learn the Linux subsystem , and focus on Visual Studio instead. I thought Visual Basic was the way to program on Win 95-2001 until very late. It landed me a crappy career start, despite starting at 7yo. Get
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by tajen 9y ago
> Internet companies would also be asked to help promote counter-extremism narratives Funny, from the party who promoted Leave for the Brexit, a position which is usually considered as "far right".
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by tajen 9y ago
I've fallen again in this parallel universe where Google has a support team. How do you go back again? Ah, here it i— click
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by tajen 9y ago
No. Cars makes 15% of your employees angry in the morning because it's a passive-agressive activity; It makes them more expensive because they need a better car to demonstrate social status; It makes them lose time because decreasing t
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by tajen 9y ago
Resident parking, €20pm in Lyon, France, knowing that the public transport is excellent. I wish they would ban cars entirely in the 500,000ppl area, but you need a car from time to time, when you're pregnant, old, have a sprained ankle
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by tajen 9y ago
> Ho..., Home... What astonishes me is how much GMaps doesn't learn . Every time I use the map to go to a place by car, my way back is back home. But it doesn't suggest it by default, and doesn't even get the hint when
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by tajen 9y ago
Or have windows that don't reflect the sun downwards.
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by tajen 9y ago
Not sure politicking is the root reason for Airbus: Catia is just hugely expensive, so upgrading is really a considerable cost. But probably not worth causing $6.1bn delay – Technical debt can bite you in weird ways.
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by tajen 9y ago
> To what extent does gender bias exist when pull requests are judged on GitHub? As long as we ask gender-related questions, we'll find gender-related answers. Especially noteworthy: > Perhaps only a few highly successful and pro
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by tajen 9y ago
In other words: You pay the airline to transport luggage, then another company for them not to break/irradiate/magnetize/flood things inside your luggage. I'm still at the age where changing the world seems more appealin
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by tajen 9y ago
Aww man, if only an airline could target the "no-bullshit" niche... Minimal screening, come on board with water and even soap and knifes if you need to, just be aware that the liability of the company for murder/piracy is 100
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by tajen 9y ago
It's not the last version of bombs. There's no reason since the invention of li-ion why terrorists wouldn't short-circuit the batteries. Guaranteed entertainment outdoors, super dangerous in confined space.
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by tajen 9y ago
and submit them to TSA-style questioning on landing.
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by tajen 9y ago
Fn + Backspace. Not as easy but that's the answer.

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