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> I did not propose a solution because there are many, as you note; there are, however, implementations with decent solutions like AFAIK Jython. There are no solutions that satisfy everyone that I am aware of yet. Guido has said in the p
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It would be even better if the tool ran your project's tests when checking upgrade combinations. Something that would say: "You can safely upgrade to Django 1.9.12. Upgrading to latest Django 1.10.5 breaks 20 tests."
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> So, years later, the only thing I'm surprised at is that Python 3 actually caught on to the extent it did. Well, it's been over 8 years. And we've just reached the point where nearly all libraries are available in Python
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The buying and selling is fast and easy to automate. The difficult part is in transferring non-bitcoin currency to and from the exchanges. If you for example buy bitcoin in the US and sell in China, then you end up with a surplus of CNY on
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Can you even create a working Google account without a phone number? When I last tried that, it seemed to be mandatory from the start. It never seemed to be a security measure, but an anti-spam measure. You can buy captcha solving as a serv
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> Neither needed the money at all. Jobs knew that and didn't take any. Mayer for some reason took as much as possible. Apple was a company that Jobs founded and got fired from. Coming back to "save" it would have been a ve
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> I found it strange that they switched from Linux to OSX in the first place. Linux would still be my favourite OS for development, and on a "work-only" desktop that's still what I would use. But I have one laptop, that I
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> As it became more famous, it focused more and more on later-stage companies, and the investment sizes also grew. Something I've wondered: was this focus change deliberate? Or is it just a result of becoming more famous, attracting
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It's not just a subjective well-known brand. Nature/Science/Cell have a prestigious brand, so many scientists try to get their best work published there. The journals get first pick of new research to choose from, and as a re
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> but I thought the mean is considered an improper metric for the "average" value of asymmetric distributions. It entirely depends on what you are looking to explain or describe. Mean is appropriate for investment returns if yo
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A few months ago Apple made it a requirement for all new iOS apps and app updates to support IPv6 only networking. If the app backend is not also available from a network where IPv4 is completely blocked, the app is rejected. At the same
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There is no need to delete data. The monthly budget cap should be allocated to existing storage first. This covers the existing data for the next month. If there is any free limit left, it could be used for new data writes + 1 month of stor
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I used a Mac Mini as my main machine some time ago when I was a student. Carried it between home and uni each term, and sometimes to offices where I had a monitor set up. My argument for getting one was similar: I spend 95% of the time with
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> If I actually printed them out and kept them in my wallet, my wallet would be overflowing by now. It seems unnecessary (and easy to lose) to carry them around in your wallet. I print them out, and leave them in an envelope at my parent
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That seems acceptable for a consumer backup (not cloud storage) solution. I have data on my laptop, an external disk that I keep at home, and BackBlaze. The likelihood of all three failing in the same week so that I can't restore from
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In the Bangladesh central bank case, hackers broken into their internal networks, got access to payment credentials, and issued $950 million worth of transactions. $850 million was blocked before they went through, and about $40 million of
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This is why I put the "problem" in quotes - I'm not sure if it can be called a problem. If we believe in people's freedom to choose what they want to read, then it isn't. When people talk about bringing back the goo
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I don't think that would be enough. How do we decide that "high quality" content gets more per view than "low quality" content? We would need a human who makes subsidy decisions. Or if it's just an equal split
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I don't see "spotify of media" really solving the problem with low-quality mass media. A subscription with pay-per-view revenue share cuts out advertisers as the money middle man, but it still rewards clickbait headlines and
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In UK, software contracting rates are almost always quoted and billed based on days.
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Scale is part of the demand side of the supply and demand equation. Using dkopi's example, at a company with 2M users, it's worth hiring a developer for each "penny per user per month" problem. A company with 1B users, i
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> Much of the the labor force will do anything to make more than minimum wage. But the subset of the labor force that takes international flights?
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> The recurring billing business model is a dark pattern, is anti-consumer, and will eventually get in trouble with the FTC. The Adore.me scam (and a few others) that you refer to are about signing people up for recurring billing without
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> I was wondering if it really was a good idea to spread so many little things in orbit Something I've been wondering: why are all small cubesats designed as stand-alone satellites that are detached from a launcher? Why not instead
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The "problem" with optimization software is that the fun optimization algorithms part is just 1% of the work. The software also needs to be complete enough to handle most of the everyday workflow of most employees at the users&#x2
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Nobody knows these numbers. There are some reports from developers on how much they make from the Mac App Store (for example http://www.cultofmac.com/321860/youll-never-guess-how-little... ), but I've never seen an
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> Currently the US averages 1 fatality for every 89 million miles driven. This is the average for all cars on all roads, in all driving conditions. To have a meaningful comparison, we would need to know the fatality rate for new luxury s
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People often pay $15 to avoid doing 40 minutes of work : walking, cooking & cleaning, washing a car. Much fewer people will pay $15 to avoid 40 minutes of driving or waiting.
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I don't think remote subcontractors are a good plan to start with. The main challenge when moving from a single freelancer to an agency is not the salary payments, but becoming the manager responsible for other people's work. * Th
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Amazon considers all stock of the same product to be identical and exchangeable. If you order from Seller A on "Fulfilled by Amazon", then Amazon will ship you from the nearest warehouse that has the same product, even if it'

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