andyjdavis

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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I said "try to sink it" not that they would necessarily succeed. That said if they are on board and have unlimited access to the entire ship it may be possible to sink it without any explosives. Not all ships even require explosiv
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I used to work at a place that was able to hold onto a sizable proportion of its technical talent for many years at least in part by allowing remote work. In the minority of cases this was an in-office employee who went for remote either in
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I suspect there would be enough of value that could be stripped off the ship and removed to make it worth the pirate's time. Bear in mind that it doesn't matter to pirates if they cause millions of dollars of damage to extract a s
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Google wants to provide people with the best quality content. If you happen to have the best quality content around a topic then your search engine rankings will improve over time.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
There is mention of trading data which suggests to me that it might be to do with traders employed by Citigroup ie staff members whose job it is to use a block of the bank's money or outside investor's money to buy and sell shares
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Do you know if they publicly release analytics about humans Vs bots? I would be interested to know the proportion of tweets from actual humans.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>what steps should a candidate take to avoid completing such tests and investing personal time that results only in giving the company free performance data? Probably nothing different. I suspect that investing additional time and energy
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I read somewhere that Thailand is currently the world's largest hard drive manufacturer. It is therefore entirely possible that a substantial number of these job cuts with be in Thailand which definitely has dramatically lower salaries
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>it is just a jumble of collective stream of consciousness Much of it isn't even that. A huge proportion are not even real humans but are instead accounts being operated by one of the myriad of pieces of software that enable automat
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Although how awesome would that have been. "Ok, the photos are coming through now. Which, lol, should provide conclusive proof that no one is operating on the dark side of the.... what the hell is that?"
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>Dollars to doughnuts they tried to use some internal-only API Not at all necessary for this situation to occur. I just finished implementing a system (nothing to do with Pokemon) that also requests permission from external sites in a si
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I actually just finished wrangling social log in for a system that is waaaay less popular than Pokemon GO. Rather amusing to see an organization operating at a vastly bigger scale still hitting the same sorts of speed bumps.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Although I am not a big fan of philosophizing around travel I will say that traveling alone is a very different experience that I suggest more people try, even if only once. I have traveled a great deal, at one point travel full-time for se
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Personally I have no problem with stuff being corporate branded and/or juvenile but I am surprised that the cock-fighting element isn't mentioned more often in relation to Pokemon. Maybe it is because I have seen a little real lif
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>Tindr is the poster boy for lowest common denominator Why yes, it does have very broad appeal.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
If nothing else, it could just be to stop anyone else from patenting something similar then trying to use that patent against them.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>Can I get funds from US angel investors and build my company in my home country? That is entirely up to the angel in question. I do however suspect that many people would like the reassurance of being able to see you face to face occasi
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I actually have not come across Cangjie before and it looks really interesting. Thank you for the link :)
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Keep an eye out for either Pinyin or Zhuyin. I believe they are somewhat common for texting purposes. You input this stuff and your device starts displaying characters for you to pick from avoiding the slower process of actually drawing cha
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>Cameras that capture photos of the outside of the bag, which is linked to the X-ray image of the bag’s contents. Curious where all of that data goes. A giant catalog of x-rays of bag contents could be interesting. To get a little bit ti
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Curious how you could solve that. I guess you would need to time stamp the coordinates. Then if you had data on how each region has moved you could calculate new coordinates over time. Sounds painful.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Kind of surprised it is more money AND more time off. I am an Australian in my mid 30s and most of my social circle is mid 30s through mid 40s. There is a bit of a trend to specifically request less money but more time off ie for a new job
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>since women generally are infertile when nursing Fertility may be reduced but they are absolutely not infertile. Source: a friend of my wife who got pregnant while breastfeeding and various doctors and midwives who repeated "you ca
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Although if I encountered that as a customer I would be suspicious that the free support is being made deliberately bad to artificially drive revenue of the premium support team.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>the talented people cycle in and back out for the most part, and the less-talented people remain. This is known as the dead sea effect http://brucefwebster.com/2008/04/11/the-wetware-crisis-the-d...
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
I suspect it does matter what their motivations were, at least a little. It is about not distorting the truth Vs distorting the truth in two opposite ways that hopefully cancel out. It is still distortion.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Out of curiosity, how do you define success Vs other fields of medicine? It seems like something almost impossible to compare.
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>The old news networks at least made an effort to present both sides of most issues I am not sure whether they did that because they wanted to present both sides or if they just wanted to provide confirmation for what everyone wants to b
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
>I don't think Europeans realise how lucky they're to be so connected to there past. It is a double edged sword. Its great they have that connection but that can lead people to glamorize the past and to focus on trying to hold
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by andyjdavis 10y ago
Watching that video I was surprised how familiar it looks. There are similarities to muay Thai (Thai boxing). There are of course big differences. In muay thai the low kicks are primarily aimed at the thigh rather than the shins and punches

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