father_of_two

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by father_of_two 6y ago
> Foreigners who have been in the following countries in the prior 14 days: Iceland, Ireland, Angola, Italy, Iran, Estonia, Austria, Netherlands, San Marino, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Slovenia, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Vatican, France
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Ditto. We have been hearing so many negative things about the US that it really scares even to think going there, being it as a tourist, on business, whatever.
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Mugabe honest?!
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by father_of_two 11y ago
I don't know about Crew but Toptal seems just like remote body shopping. Seems the freelancer gets locked in working for toptal. Not a real freelancing scheme like odesk and such.
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by father_of_two 11y ago
They could just have rebranded themselves as "cheap" or "bottom" because that's what those platforms promote. I appreciate the efforts they've tried to improve the platform(s) but they're dealing with some
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Even SV clients get as cheap as they can. I had one -- from SF bay, not exactly SV -- which agreed to pay me 75$ to create a function to write text into images at two different possible positions (bottom and centered). Ok, cheap, but it was
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by father_of_two 11y ago
In many other European countries it is difficult (or impossible?) to find subscriptions with similar pricing. It's pretty much leveled, give it or take it a few. Here's a current Portuguese pricing plan: €30,99/m
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by father_of_two 11y ago
You can use one of those "world sim" cards to get cheaper connectivity when you cross the border. Check http://airbalticcard.com/ for example.
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by father_of_two 11y ago
wodenokoto, don't get me wrong. I'm not even a native English speaker, let alone an US or UK citizen. But this issue is just overwhelming. I recon that Asian countries, not only Japan and China, but also India, for example, are no
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Oh the languages again. Many people don't know that it was the US, and not the UK, who mostly contributed to the spread of English -- of course one might argue that US talk English in first place due to the UK. That world-wide'fic
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by father_of_two 11y ago
When medium articles are too long to read. That was just kidding, though.
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Click-bait alert! This is just an US article about Europe, which falls in the same spectrum of English telling History or Silvia Saint praising virginity. much of Europe lags behind, with countries in the south and east in particular
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Ask not why some people are so smart, ask why so many are dumb. :)
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by father_of_two 11y ago
(...) jobless builders presented her with a gift: a life-size sculpture of a hand with a raised middle digit. She keeps the artifact prominently displayed on a coffee table at her office in the European Commission. Got to love
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Another give-away against open-offices is that people who decides them usually reserve a single office for thy selves. A real story: a given company moved to new, but existing, installations. The original facilities were organized in small
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by father_of_two 11y ago
I started my career working at a team room, which was exclusive for the technical people and had no more than 7 people at its peak. Then progressively went from open-office to open-office. And man, how I hate those. I can't get focus,
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by father_of_two 11y ago
"I have a football team, therefore I exist." I'm sure Descartes would rephrase his famous though to something like the above, had he been contemporaneous of us (and tweet it as well). These Liberlandeers need to create a prop
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by father_of_two 11y ago
The footer alludes to that: "Peter Norvig (Copyright 2001—2014)" I tracked the page on web archive, and it existed at least since 1998. Here is a funny edit over the years: 1998: Let's analyze what a title like Learn Pasc
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Here's a variant of the last solution the author presented, using a Counter of each word, instead a sorted list of words' chars, as normalization. cnt=Counter(tuple(Counter(w).iteritems()) for w in words) print [w for w in w
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Hey, very nice. I knew about the "new" format() but didn't know it was so powerful.
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by father_of_two 11y ago
There is also scsh (scheme shell - http://scsh.net/ ) although not being maintained anymore.
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by father_of_two 11y ago
As an EU citizen and consumer, here's my message to European Commission: SCREW YOU! I would like to know why is it so hard (and expensive) to buy a car on a foreign EU country and legalize it on other, I don't know why am I still
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by father_of_two 11y ago
I'm not surprised with Singapore's kids being smart, but Albert and Bernard really impressed me :) Here's a solver in python (just an hack, don't unleash hate on me). import collections dates = '''m
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by father_of_two 11y ago
"permanent PIP" -- didn't got this part, can you explain? that couldn't stand doing group projects in school Hm, how did you found that about me? :-)
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Not being an expert on the subject, I think the trend is to have a progressive increase rate in suicides along the age. I don't know where this 40s figure comes from. http://goo.gl/j7pOgc -- this is a study about suici
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Average workers' monthly pay (year/12) as of 2013 for some of the UE28 countries, in euros: DK 3739 LU 3009 FI 2622 IE 2621 DE 2574 ES 1634 GR 1028 PT 984 HR 848 PL 693 BG 316
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by father_of_two 11y ago
I started using vi in the 90s and got very used to it. It's still my standard text editor (the nvi implementation, that is). I've never grasped vim. It was too slow at the time and the extended command set consumed all the free ke
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by father_of_two 11y ago
Here's my own version of an iterating chunker (itertools needed imports omitted). def chunks_of(it, n): return takewhile(len, imap(list, imap(islice, repeat(it), repeat(n)))) But this library functions adds error checking an
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by father_of_two 11y ago
seq has the -s flag which voids the need of the paste for that command: $ seq -s + 10 20 10+11+12+13+14+15+16+17+18+19+20 But I agree that the paste is very useful. # a few random samples for an IN SQL statement $ shuf -i 1-5
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by father_of_two 11y ago
A solution in the spirit of the post using itertools: >>> from itertools import islice,count >>> sum(x*x for x in islice(count(1),10)) 385

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