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by thestephen 8y ago
I am in the same age group and had the same experience as you when it comes to friends in the childhood. However, I have a different experience than you when it comes to adulthood. While I do have acquaintances I have great conversations wi
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by thestephen 8y ago
> The LAPD uses Palantir’s Gotham product for Operation Laser, a program to identify and deter people likely to commit crimes. Information from rap sheets, parole reports, police interviews, and other sources is fed into the system to ge
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by thestephen 9y ago
What? As much as I'd like for the Excel dominance to end, I can't see how anyone would ever work quicker in Numbers over Excel for any work that takes more than an hour a month. The ribbon interface offers shortcuts to pretty much
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by thestephen 9y ago
Note that the iPad with a keyboard handles non-English languages relatively bad. There are shortcuts in some applications that simply do not work using a non-US layout.
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by thestephen 9y ago
> All of this is too bad, because R syntax is just plain rotten icky stuff. (but I may be seeing things with some of the examples looking like awful R syntax... maybe I need sleep) If you can get over the way assignments are made, I find
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by thestephen 9y ago
This is a great tool! I noted, though, that the Linkedin import didn't seem to work flawlessly – after uploading, I was redirected to the resume list and I have no clue of what actually happened. Would you like more feedback?
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by thestephen 9y ago
Almost right! Imagine if Chrome also trimmed away all the AMP mess when sharing a link.
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by thestephen 9y ago
Why would you want that? When it comes to working immigrants, the Swedish unions generally have the power to say no [1], which they use – several high-skilled immigrants have been thrown out of Sweden the past two years. [1] https:/&#
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by thestephen 9y ago
That is good to know, and I've considered switching to Things for a while. This makes it easier. Thank you!
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by thestephen 9y ago
What makes me sad about Siri on the iPhone is that it would be such a boon if I was able to use it with actually good apps and if I didn't feel like a second-class citizen for having an iPhone outside the US. I'm forced to use the
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by thestephen 9y ago
Here's my suggested addition, law 00, that this website really needs to follow: Please don't make your websites into huge Vogue ads on desktop. I have a 27" monitor, I can fit more than 4 lines of text on my screen.
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by thestephen 9y ago
And on the flip side, every time I add a new device to my Apple ID, iCloud flips out totally, detects "suspicious" activity, and locks my account (and requires me to both verify it with one or more devices and changing my password
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by thestephen 9y ago
We re-released the product to this group. It consisted of 10% of Rick’s original code which was pretty stable. It also had a few thousand lines of new code to replace about 150,000 lines of incomprehensible mess. The team had replaced fi
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by thestephen 9y ago
"Some 800 pages came back containing information such as my Facebook “likes”, my photos from Instagram (even after I deleted the associated account)" It's going to be interesting to see how Tinder tackles the 2018 EU General
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by thestephen 9y ago
While your sentiment probably holds correct in some places, it really is "that bad" in some places that aren't the US or the UK. Many countries still don't have transit, and my apartment (in Stockholm!) doesn't even
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by thestephen 9y ago
I've recently received several friend requests a day from spambots. This is annoying, but I can just ignore the "friend request" tab and go on with my life. However, as if it wasn't a nuisance enough, Facebook now gives
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by thestephen 9y ago
Some countries have youth entrepreneurship programmes – in Sweden, at secondary school (15-18), some programmes have a youth entrepreneurship course where students get to run a business over the course of a year. These microcompanies genera
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by thestephen 9y ago
Very nice idea to use the tidyverse equivalents – thanks!
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by thestephen 9y ago
While I agree that it easily can be abused, I quickly got the hang of it and found it makes a lot of my code more readable. One could think of it as a "then". my_column %>% gsub(" ","",.) %>% # Rem