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> When was the last time they were physically attacked? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presiden...

An ad that is “relevant” to me is an ad that leads me to think “yes, this item is exactly what I was looking for”. Sometimes you know you want to buy something (let’s say a backpac…

> I’m honestly perplexed what the FANGs are even thinking in being so aggressive about pushing an end to WFH. Yes, aggressive measures such as: -Allowing employees to apply to be p…

Do you have any examples of articles like these from the Telegraph?

Depends on your stack and requirements (do you want to know about errors ASAP, or is a 2-5 minute delay ok?), but I personally love NewRelic because of how easy it is to set up (an…

1) The struct's fields will have the default value for their respective type. I understand you might want to force specific values, but if this is the case, maybe you could only ex…

They handle real-time events exactly as your latter example stated: an external (licensed) company provides live data, and orders that were placed during a dangerous situation (e.g…

Smarkets, London, Software Engineer (Python, Erlang & Mobile), QA and Test Automation Engineer, Operations Engineer Smarkets is disrupting the global betting industry by offering a…

Yes, it would work. "==" is a method like any other, and you're overriding it. You should download the Scala IDE and play with a feature called the "Worksheet". See here: https://g…

I would guess he's thinking of the 3rd gen iPad price, which was $479 if I recall correctly (for the 16GB version; the 32GB Surface has around 20GB of usable space).

Yes. #2 is especially known for its technical institute (IST, where I study), which competes with another one in #8 for the title of the country's best engineering school (the one …

Good job, but the data could use a little more refinement. I'm in Portugal, and for instance The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is shown as being available for 3,99€. The movie page t…

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"Nutjob" To me it just looks like a kid who is willing to randomly make up stuff to try and get a Raspberry Pi for free. As amusing/crazy as this was, I'm not really sure if it mer…

Clint Eastwood appeared as a surprise guest yesterday on the GOP Convention in Tampa, Florida. He pretended that Obama was sitting on a chair next to him and proceeded to ask it qu…

I'm a soon to be MSc graduate from a top university in Portugal (Technical University of Lisbon). I've been thinking about my options, and right now I'm pretty sure that I'll try t…

You either use grep or Spotlight.

Personally, I think emotions would be more intuitive/easier to choose from than numbers. However, the number of emotions to choose from would have to be low (I'd say 4 or 5). I can…

Well, I guess that all depends on your upbringing. I'm from Southern Europe and I'd say it's quite normal for waiters to greet customers like that (except on fancy, expensive place…

From what I can see on my Macbook Pro, yes, there is. One of the hostnames (the one that connected after the original) is automatically changed (in my experience it either appends …

Thank you for the words of support. Unfortunately people in my generation are not seeing a brief end to this. Emigration has increased by about 40% last year. And this is in a coun…

Due to austerity measures, the cost of living is increasing quite a lot. Taxes are increasing on basic goods such as electricity. There are actually a lot of people in a lot of tro…

I'm Portuguese. In average, a Computer Engineering graduate (Msc) from the top university in Portugal with 0 experience, earns about 1000 euro, before taxes, per month.

I'm also interested in knowing how he afforded it at age 20. I'm 21, and just now finishing my M.Sc, and I feel like I would have to work a few years in a Megacorp in order to be a…