paolomaffei

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by paolomaffei 3y ago
I laughed when I read the substraction of 0 legs for each legless elephant. Then I did a double take... 8 legs per elephant is standard?
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
Had a permanent role (mid weight) level before, applied for contracts. Nothing special!
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
Personally I've seen quite a few of up and downs in my market (UK contracting), this might be a bit longer than usual, but not a permanent situation. An encouraging sign I'm seeing is that there's more permanent positions adv
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
About 2 years ago I found myself once more checking my phone while on the toilet. I decided that was enough, I don't want to be an addict. Since then, all my devices (phones, laptop) now stay in a specific room of the house: the office
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
This very translation has been put to music by an artist called Indiajiva [1], I find it very peaceful [1] https://open.spotify.com/track/1bBMoUSm7Oc07l3JdQoP4g?si=671...
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
I'm a bit confused why nobody suggested cryptocurrency mining? not feasible?
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
Absolutely gold suggestion. This might just be the future for most internet-connected device use, and particularly for children/supervised use like you're describing.
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
Hey this is great and something I started on working myself. Just a note that if you pin the extension on the extension page itself it gives a very, very confusing message of "SuperFocus works on Youtube, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, a
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
Great work! I think apps like this will be seen as pioneers in the age of getting back our attention. From somebody else very interested in the topic, with a pending HN application for a startup app in the same space
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by paolomaffei 3y ago
what day is today?
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by paolomaffei 4y ago
the problem is how to identify capable non-technical founders. I suspect the ratio of capable non-technical and technical founders is nearer 0.1-0.5:1 any thoughts on how to identify the unicorns?
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by paolomaffei 9y ago
vVoosh | Social Platform Startup | Old Street, London, UK | ONSITE | https://vvoosh.com - HTML/CSS/Javascript Developer, 6 months contract, competitive rate - Senior Javascript Developer, 6 months contract, competitive
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by paolomaffei 10y ago
a Buddhist would say that just in the same way that a rock evolves into a human, a human evolves into a Buddha.
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by paolomaffei 10y ago
Precisely, ultimately everything is empty.
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by paolomaffei 10y ago
Scientific rationalism at its worst: trying to apply logic for something that is beyond logic, and all the way not realizing the basic mistake of thinking that everything in experience can be expressed or understood with logic, thought and
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by paolomaffei 11y ago
I agree that this sound like self-promoting, but calling that bit of the book "obviously unacceptable"?
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by paolomaffei 11y ago
(Buddhist here) Could I see quotations about the history of violence? Buddhism has by far the lowest score of violence of all five big religions of the world. Not to mention that when that violence did happen (zen priests blessing kamikazes
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by paolomaffei 11y ago
Would be interested to see the actual prices for the examples
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by paolomaffei 12y ago
"We modern smart men have figured a way to have trippy experiences without puking and going into an uncomfortable jungle with this funny superstitious shamans, we are the best!" As if doing a hit of DMT was nearly the same thing a
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by paolomaffei 12y ago
local registers often have very cheap prices for local TLDs for example for .it, gidinet.it has a way lower price than $14.99
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Anarchists governed the capital city of Reykjavik for four years(tagesanzeiger.ch)
9 points by paolomaffei 12y ago|0 comments
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by paolomaffei 12y ago
then again finding a job with a software engineering related PhD (in UK or US) is not that hard at all, is it?
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by paolomaffei 12y ago
work with angularJS is actually quite easy to find in London, write me an email if you want some contacts
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by paolomaffei 12y ago
In London with 5 years experience that's a reasonable estimation for web developers, especially if you are contracting
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by paolomaffei 13y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote (Based between Thailand and London, UK) Frontend Developer with strong focus on JS frameworks Before the frontend contracts in London I ran a web development shop in Italy so I have experience in a broad set of technol
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by paolomaffei 13y ago
If you are half-decent at JS (specially if you actually can use Angular) I can get you a job in London (or even near Basingstoke if you now happen to live there) no problem, I'm literally swamped with work requests and got so many coll
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by paolomaffei 13y ago
Forcing to tweet AND not making clear it's a sweepstake? That some two dark patterns.
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by paolomaffei 13y ago
What's that 14.7% of 'Information Systems' unemployed graduates? People that degree in IT but can't actually code/sysadmin/whatever is the technical skill they're supposed to have?
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by paolomaffei 13y ago
A service that solves captcha for you can cost as low as $2/1000 captcha
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by paolomaffei 14y ago
To be honest Italians prefer .it to .com, and I wouldn't be surprised if other countries did the same (It seems to be the case here in the UK, too). Also hulu.com even before meaning something would have retailed for the sum that you mentio

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