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by peeky 9y ago
Exactly! Beautifully put. The most insidious thing about a lot of these books is the way they can undermine your confidence as a parent at exactly the time you're most vulnerable. Look at these guarantees, look at all these testimonial
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by peeky 9y ago
I've been doing this for years. It's fascinating (and sometimes horrifying) which addresses end up on spam/scam lists. I used to inform companies when it happened, but they almost always go for plausible deniability with &quo
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by peeky 10y ago
Yeah, I worked for a startup that grew large quickly through a drive to get innovations to market fast and fix bugs later, and what slowed us down was winning enough large contracts with enterprise companies and governments who wanted more
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by peeky 10y ago
The problem is that it isn't really a shared account - the login email and password are the same, but they won't accept any current mobile number/etc entered anywhere but AWS. I used AWS for a bit and then stopped, and then f
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by peeky 10y ago
I recently tried to change my password on my Amazon account (something I do a couple of times per year) and was presented with a multi-factor auth prompt for a long-forgotten and inactive AWS account that I trialled years ago. It turns out
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by peeky 10y ago
Nobody's ignoring this data, it actually poses a lot of interesting questions like why is that difference only present in about half of OECD countries, why does the difference only occur after a certain age (that varies per country), w
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by peeky 10y ago
I've actually emailed the Guardian before to say I would gladly pay at least whatever they earn from my ad impressions to have an ad-free site. They just pointed me to the mobile apps where this is already an option. I wish more sites
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by peeky 10y ago
I'm interested in how you model the strength of players, is that for the whole squad or the expected starting eleven? The prediction that stood out for me was the Wales vs Slovakia which FIFA rankings and betting odds would both sugges
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by peeky 10y ago
I interview people like this all the time. I'm long enough in the tooth to have been using telnet regularly, and it terrifies me that so many people doing what I was doing 20 years ago have found a path to obsolescence in an industry w
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by peeky 11y ago
My last CEO thought I was insane because I took a pay cut to swap a 90 minute each way commute for a 15 minute commute, but that's about 600 hours of extra time per year I get to spend with my wife and kids. 25 whole days.
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by peeky 11y ago
What makes you decide some bible rules are good and others less good? Same answer, probably.
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by peeky 12y ago
To be fair I've found Asus notebooks to be superb value for money hardware-wise, it's the drivers and software out of the box that are the problem.