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by vfc1 8y ago
The article does not talk about alternatives. A great alternative for Omega-3s are ground flax seeds, one tablespoon a day mixed for example in your oatmeal is enough - https://nutritionfacts.org/topics/omega-3-fatty-ac
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by vfc1 8y ago
The problem is that micro-plastics are eaten by the fish and end up in our plate. It gets worse because pollutants in fish bioaccumulate a lot (fish eats smaller fish, gets eaten by larger fish etc.). Fish high in the food chain like salmon
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by vfc1 8y ago
You don't HAVE to be an employee, that is only one choice among several possible ways to live. As a senior developer, you can make some in-demand software an sell it, there are tons of developers making a living of selling a software p
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by vfc1 8y ago
Google is betting on serverless, with products that are very developer friendly. Firebase and the Firestore NoSQL database just out of beta are awesome products, and they are backed by Google Cloud. The ability to build a serverless applica
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by vfc1 8y ago
Cooking unlocks a lot of calories and nutrients, especially starchy food like potatoes and other root vegetables. These are usually not eaten by most animals, and are available almost everywhere close to year-long, plus they can be stored f
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Breath test for cancer being trialled in UK(bbc.com)
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There is this project which has the goal of building a decentralized Facebook - https://www.scuttlebutt.nz I think it will eventually happen, but I don't see how mass adoption will occur. Facebook grew a lot by getting our
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by vfc1 8y ago
It looks like people on a Paleo diet have double the amount of TMAO produced in their gut when compared to the general population. TMAO is a marker that is linked to heart disease and colorectal cancer. It's a marker meaning that it mi
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Study links Paleo diet to heart disease(theaustralian.com.au)
2 points by vfc1 8y ago|1 comments
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Although hash tables are used internally by libraries, they are not directly used by the application developer. When was the last time you had to hand code a hash table? Unless you are a library developer, its an example of a task and knowl
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The problem is, there is a huge disconnect between hash tables and the work we do every day, so why to use that as a criterion? Homework exercises seem like such a better way to go, its much closer to the actual work experience. And its eas
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There are some very solid alternatives to this current system, which lets face it some of things that they make you do in an interview are borderline ridiculous and its a matter of lucj more than anything else. For the technical part, I wou
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by vfc1 8y ago
Sounds just like any other large organization that I've worked at: Too much bureaucracy, mindless procedures, politics, blame deflection, responsibility avoidance, siloed teams hiding behind a black hole support email address that don
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The problem is that there is almost no correlation between how candidates do in whiteboard interviews, and the ability to perform the job on a day to day basis. Also, and the article says it: you are being tested mostly for personality comp
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think there is a lot of religious-like thinking when it comes down to tests: many people swear by them even against all the day to day proof to the contrary that they are really not that useful at the application level. I think if we are s
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I don't see why the developer that builds the interaction with the backend can't be given directly the design and turn it into HTML and CSS himself. I wouldn't expect the developer to be able to come up with a good web design
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The problem is that most tests break frequently not because of bugs, but because of some environment dependency that changed. The tests break and we have to fix them not because a bug was found, but because something else changed that affec
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by vfc1 8y ago
Systematic code reviews is really a complete subversion of the agile spirit. Agile was about doing what makes the most sense for the project at any given time, and code reviews don't make sense all of the time, far from it. I worked o
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by vfc1 8y ago
Companies that have work environments that induce a lot of stress in their employees should pay more to society as opposed to companies that have low stress working environments, probably under the form of a tax of some sort. It is clearer
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Google announces plan to shut down Google Plus by August 2019(ricksdailytips.com)
2 points by vfc1 8y ago|0 comments
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Landmark UN Report Says Humans Have 12 Years to Stop Climate Crisis(ipcc.ch)
1 points by vfc1 8y ago|0 comments
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It has been known for decades but largely ignored by the general population, that doctors themselves are one of the leading causes of death in the united states. We are talking about a couple of millions of unnecessary deaths in a 16 year s
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SETI spots dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy(techcrunch.com)
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"Only a handful of the largest tech companies have the technical and financial means to operate the sprawling filtering systems that this law demands." The smaller platforms often use under the hood Amazon AWS, Google Cloud or equ
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There is not one single mention in the article of one of the probable causes, which is the rise of remote work. And much of the technical cloud infrastructure that allows companies to operate remotely has been built in Silicon Valley itself
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I have had a middle manager tell me that they where not cutting down the team, because he wanted to be a manager of 5 people, just like that. The problem is that teams in large organizations are not run by the company owners themselves anym
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by vfc1 8y ago
The creation of bullshit jobs probably comes from a combination of 3 things: - the primal psychological need to show that we are busy to the tribe, to prove that we are useful and carry our weight in the group. Those who didn't in earl
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by vfc1 8y ago
When Google gives projects back to the comunity like this it usually also means that they will stop investing so many internal resources on them, and will move on to the next product.
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Here is the study - https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
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No amount of alcohol is safe, health experts warn(cnbc.com)
2 points by vfc1 8y ago|1 comments

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