toennisforst

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by toennisforst 10y ago
What would you prefer instead? That they not hire these 50 people at all?
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by toennisforst 10y ago
I'd say that my tolerance depends on the kind of project. Does it do 3D maps? I can understand that the UX will be terrible even with a lot of progressive enhancements. Does it display text (i.e. news sites)? Then it should by all mean
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by toennisforst 10y ago
Parent was probably referring to closing down entire products (e.g. Google Reader).
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by toennisforst 10y ago
Though this requirement is moot even in Germany, as it is impossible for you to verify such a deletion.
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by toennisforst 10y ago
I think parent assumes users send their confessions and sins to people after they die instead of clearing things up beforehand or living an honest life. Says more about himself/herself than the product IMHO.
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by toennisforst 10y ago
No, but you can use Chrome Store Foxified to install most Chrome extensions in Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-store-...
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by toennisforst 10y ago
Of the top five results Google gives me, all are by recruitment agencies who have a strong incentive not to loose candidates and their commission. The notion that accepting counteroffers is always hurtful to your career is contested to say
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by toennisforst 10y ago
Can you give some examples for these non-fitting cases? It would be interesting to hear as a non-US citizen since this debate seems so cryptic to me.
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by toennisforst 10y ago
You can: Assuming that Powerball simply collects all earnings and pays them to the winner (they don't and keep a share), simply regard your lottery ticket as your share and deposit the price you pay in your savings account.
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by toennisforst 10y ago
Because just like with lotteries, there are a lot of blanks, few small wins and a tiny amount of never-work-again wins: Many startups don't net the investor much, some make quite a bit after being acquired, and very few - such as faceb
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by toennisforst 10y ago
From my personal experience, a good vs. a mediocre IDE can be the tipping point between really getting into developing or only doing it because you have to. Of course CS students who come to university already programming and with a strong
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by toennisforst 10y ago
> When [you are infected with ransomware], you can’t get to the data unless you pay a ransom. However this is not guaranteed and you should never pay! What bothers me about their advice is that it is only correct macroeconomically. For y
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by toennisforst 10y ago
Let me human-translate the two relevant paragraphs for you: > A tesla electric car with activated autopilot rear-ended a bus on the A24 motorway on Wednesday, as police reported on Thursday. Tesla could not confirm any details regarding
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Ask HN: Why don't online stores display return rates for individual products?
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by toennisforst 10y ago
Yes, but this does not diminish the value of the companies in the long term. Remember that index funds are an investment vehicle for decades, not months.