chiurox

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by chiurox 8y ago
I need to do this as well. I use most messengers out there and it serves a purpose to separate them into groups of different friends. The problem is that some of them still use the shitty fb messenger, and the inability to switch off '
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by chiurox 12y ago
This would not work in Brazil, at least currently, where our 3G/4G are laughable... But it's a good start. The machine learning applicability could be awesome. Maybe one day we can have a smartphone guiding the blind without the n
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by chiurox 12y ago
I took a linguistics class a couple of years ago. The cognitive advantages are so extensive because according to a school of thought (Chomsky and Pinker) language itself is part of our human nature, it's innate, and is a product of bio
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by chiurox 12y ago
How about WhatsApp's backend being extremely scalable because it was written in Erlang from the start? Or even Twitter that rewrote much of their backend in Scala to deal with scaling issues (I'm not saying that Rails isn't
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by chiurox 13y ago
Even if their kids aren't left with much money, they will definitely leverage their parents' influence across so many areas and be able to do anything they want.
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by chiurox 13y ago
Soon we will start seeing news of young graduates committing crime to pay off their student loans. Heck, it would be interesting to see a movie with this plot line.
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by chiurox 13y ago
Maybe there could be a new kind of social network, one where in order to maintain your online friendship connections, you have to occasionally/physically get together with your friends and if it doesn't happen it means that the co
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by chiurox 13y ago
Sensationalist title but there are some parts with which I agree to some extent. I've heard about Meteor over a year ago but never thought about a use case where I felt the need to use it. Last week, we had a last minute project that r
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by chiurox 13y ago
If finding a Scala position in the US (I assume) is already this difficult, here in Brazil it's infinitely harder. I guess our startup is one of the very few that has a fairly large system in production running on Scala, Play, and Akka
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by chiurox 14y ago
So going from "I don't read resumes" and "I don't care about your resume" to "I usually read resumes" seems a bit self-contradicting. Regardless, I agree with your point of view. When we were interviewing, we got a bunch of impressive resum
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by chiurox 14y ago
It's also partyland for employees who work at customs. They claim that they take the abandoned products and sell it in auction...
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by chiurox 14y ago
Yes, this happens a lot. This is also why the US opened a lot of new consulates in Brazil to keep up with the tourist visa demand.
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by chiurox 14y ago
This is not entirely true. Even if you factor in the plethora of taxes Brazilians businesses and customers are "enslaved" to pay, it still should not be this abusive. In Brazil, people consider imported products (specially Apple's stuff in
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by chiurox 14y ago
Including the airfare and import tax, it's still cheaper.
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by chiurox 14y ago
I'm surprised no one mentioned the exorbitant prices of electronics in Brazil compared to the US. For example, the top of the line Macbook 15" retina in the Brazilian Apple store costs R$12599 which is around $6395USD, while the same in the
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by chiurox 14y ago
Shouldn't this problem be hugely mitigated by putting rubber or any non-slippery material on the shower floor?
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by chiurox 14y ago
Two years ago I had to make a similar decision compared to what the OP did. I was about halfway through a top US university degree as an international student but suddenly excrement hit the fan, in the financial sense. I was faced with the
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by chiurox 15y ago
I signed up for almost all of them too. It's hard to choose which ones to fully dive into. I guess since they'll probably offer them again and again, I'll take one/two at a time.
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by chiurox 15y ago
With so many online courses happening concurrently, how are you guys choosing which courses to actually do? I work full-time and I find it really hard to squeeze some free time.