mooism2

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by mooism2 12y ago
No, this is not about classes. This is about organisations exhibiting qualities that none of the individuals who make up those organisations exhibit.
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by mooism2 12y ago
If you're disadvantaged because of your race, then it's racism. It's important to be clear: the outcome is racist even when no individual is being racist. You can't be reductionist about this, you can't decompose th
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by mooism2 12y ago
There is relevant data, but I don't know where it is, sorry. I am under the impression that this sort of under-the-radar hiring occurs enough to be a significant cause of institutional racism in hiring. (If your existing employees are
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by mooism2 12y ago
If you have connections, you can land the job before it is advertised publicly; therefore the job won't be advertised publicly. If you don't have connections, you can't land a job that isn't advertised publicly. Publicly
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by mooism2 12y ago
Of course it makes a difference. If I am paid annually in arrears, I must live off savings or credit for the first year. I pay off the loans and rebuild my savings at the end of the first year, but must dip into them again to get me through
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by mooism2 12y ago
I am paid monthly in arrears. If I was paid annually in arrears, I would have cashflow issues, would have a greater need of short term loans, and would want a larger salary to compensate me for this. Most of my expenses (credit card, utilit
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by mooism2 12y ago
Re haptic feedback: I'm forever feeling my phone vibrate in my pocket when it isn't vibrating... and still manage not to notice when it does vibrate. Perhaps I would perceive the signal more accurately if it was on my wrist instea
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by mooism2 12y ago
Personally, I find tv and radio ads extremely annoying. But everyone who's experienced it finds my habit of muting the tv during ad breaks to be very strange. So I can easily believe that I am in a small minority on this. On the other
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by mooism2 12y ago
For location-timezone, try http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database For country-currency, scrape Wikipedia?
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by mooism2 12y ago
Adverts opening the App Store without permission.
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by mooism2 12y ago
Windows/MS-DOS had file extensions (which it inherited from CP/M) before it had directories and directory separators. Did CP/M and Unix independently come up with file extensions with a dot separator, or did they acquire it f
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by mooism2 12y ago
That depends on the website you want to create.
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by mooism2 12y ago
1. Add an entry to ~/.ssh/config instead of adding a bash alias: it works with scp/sftp as well as ssh. e.g. Host dev Port 22222 IdentityFile ~/.ssh/icantreadwhatyourprivatekeyfilescalled User dev HostNa
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by mooism2 12y ago
Credit card, ideally in GBP, with the caveat that I don't want to be forced to care who is processing the payment. e.g. I prefer not to pay by credit card via Paypal, because then I have to go through the hassle of resetting my Paypal
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by mooism2 12y ago
It reminds me of websites that insert live stock quotes into their stories. - generally the information / buy it now link isn't of interest to readers - more useful generally would be a link to an internal encyclopaedia page: give
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by mooism2 12y ago
What's the advantage of this over hiding your service behind spiped?
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by mooism2 12y ago
#10 on the front page, 125 point, 64 comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8177063
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by mooism2 12y ago
Are you trying to say that their service is implemented using Docker?
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by mooism2 12y ago
The page crashed the tab after I swiped onto the third slide. Does it name any particular mobile operators at any point, or is it just FUD?
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by mooism2 12y ago
If a comment really is factually incorrect then a downvote is appropriate, but some comments that at first glance appear to be factually incorrect are really just opinions.
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by mooism2 12y ago
1. How much money would the site be paying out? 2. Where would that money come from?
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by mooism2 12y ago
Why are USB controllers reprogrammable? Is it in the standard? (Why?) Or is it cheaper somehow?
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by mooism2 12y ago
What happened to IBM?
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by mooism2 12y ago
My droplet is still up (Amsterdam). Is it just NYC 2 that's down? https://status.digitalocean.com
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by mooism2 12y ago
9.7" is a small display.
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by mooism2 12y ago
No. Why do you think C might be dead?
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by mooism2 12y ago
Step 1: buy a Mac :-/
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by mooism2 12y ago
Bug report: all cities appear as black text on a white background, regardless of the local time. Safari on iOS.
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by mooism2 12y ago
My cats don't wear collars either, but they've still been chipped.
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by mooism2 12y ago
Why does it need face recognition? Why can't it detect your cat's chip? Wouldn't that be simpler? Do cats not get chipped in America?

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