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Content moderation is another one - farm it off to an external entity like Accenture to manage and you are at arms length from putting some poor content moderator in front of some …

The Pharmacist on Netflix also worth a watch https://www.netflix.com/ie/title/81002576

"Hate Selling" is the term coined by one of the industry magazines https://skift.com/2015/08/10/travel-brands-stop-hate-selling...

I can't tell if you're being sarcastic or not? > Perhaps the Giant Redwood is an ideal tree to re-introduce as we are told that our climate is beginning to return to these types of…

Seems to work well based on a quick trial on the web site. Annoying that I seem to have to download the app to see how much it costs.

> in a matter of 5 years or so Wouldn't anybody master a language in 5 years? I'm assuming you're talking about a situation where you are immersed in the language.

Most people involved in tech aren't there for the tech, they only care about money they are making from it. (And there's no judgement in that, if you make a living selling fridge f…

Sowing wildflowers is becoming more popular here in Ireland. You can buy wildflower mixes or seed bombs but the expert view is to just stop mowing, there are enough dormant seeds i…

OAG aggregate timetable data from airlines and distribute that aggregated feed. You'll note their data is "seats" not "passengers" i.e. if an A380 flies from London to Dubai they c…

> The biggest story in tech no one’s talking about Is this not an old (3 years), well reported story? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-uber-fetch-idUSKBN1ES1ZI

> Society has long preached that things like reading books is great for kids Wasn't always the case, Plato felt it would dull your memory. "They will cease to exercise memory becau…

Bingo, right now, I use Kapwing for basic video editing, very easy to do the basics and the results are good enough for what I need. No way I'd spend the time to come up to speed w…

> They cannot legally admit they looked at his code and copied the structure, because that opens them up to a copyright suit. AppGet is released under Apache License 2.0, Winget un…

I've a few sites on Hugo. If you're not an active developer (like me) you can deploy a site from a Netlify template and tweak from there. So pretty much the opposite of "zero to de…

"Hate selling" as it was dubbed by one of the trade magazines (over 4 years ago) https://skift.com/2015/08/10/travel-brands-stop-hate-selling...

27 million active Fitbit users at end of 2018. "Several" say they are getting rid of the devices because of a lack of trust in Google. How many constitutes "several" is left for th…

Agile manifesto nailed that Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over processes and tools Working software over comprehensive documentation Custome…

Small bug but something wrong with character encoding e.g. Busáras (bus terminal in Dublin) renders as Busáras in right column

From an external viewpoint stuff like building your own internal chat application seems like a "too many engineers with too little to do" kid of decision. https://eng.uber.com/ucha…

Which is the bit I don't get. Even if FB say they have a trillion users, so what. Advertisers will advertise and pay based on the results they are seeing just like you did. Eric Sc…

> very warm and welcoming people I'd second this, one of the friendliest country I've ever been to. No significant tourist industry yet so most people are not trying to sell you an…

In fairness it's not like the site wasn't already world famous. I'm not even American and I know of it and have been there. The city's (farcical) efforts are not making the site mo…

You'd hope at this stage, based on various PayPal horror stories, businesses would not need this warning. > Do not kid yourself – your business is never, never > safe with PayPal. …

Does anybody know how expensive the setup described is? - Remotely-controlled observatory at the El Sauce Observatory in Chile - A 160-mm APO-refractor telescope and a Moravian CCD…

> it seemed like he did a really exceptional job profitably growing Expedia. Expedia comes a distant second Booking Holdings. https://finance.yahoo.com/quotes/EXPE,BKNG/view/v1 So …