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About awjr
Family Man - Cyclist - Gamer - Intensely into Technology
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Comment #16500381
Also these two: Director of IT - Santa Clara, CA http://barefootnetworks.applytojob.com/apply/IEwpj0eIQP/Dire... Financial Analyst / Cost Accountant - Santa Clara, CA http://barefo…
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Comment #16500366
Barefoot Networks | barefootnetworks.com | Santa Clara, CA or Shenzhen, China | ONSITE | Full Time | Various A team of visionaries, experienced technologists and engineers who have…
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Comment #16333819
One of the pieces of advice I did not heed from my Dad was to try and save/invest 30% of your salary. This one is hard to understand until you are in your 40s and realise you are p…
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Comment #16260875
Generally no, but it didn't start out that way. I just highlighted the oddity that a political party that relies on old people was implementing policies that were accelerating the …
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Comment #16258644
I watch what the USA is doing with healthcare, and I see this type of model being foisted upon the UK, and it's terrifying. I recently got into a twitter spat suggesting that it wa…
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Comment #15860496
I see a need for a government to facilitate access to clean good quality drugs, taxing them, and providing the support mechanisms to enable people to come off those drugs. Portugal…
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Comment #15860126
Ah the "they are weak" argument. Humans are fallible. Don't judge individuals by your god like ability to only survive on mineral water and lettuce.
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Comment #15860014
Prohibition is one of the most pernicious ideas within our society. It enables people to prey on the weak and vulnerable. Whether we like it or not, people will seek out chemicals …
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Comment #15786504
Honestly this is now the way I see Ikea staff. Benign and friendly, encouraging you to spend your money during the day, malign and evil after the store closes, hell bent on murderi…
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Comment #15756361
Unsure I'd agree. It looks like Amplify is providing you with all the components you need to build on top of all AWS cloud services. I particularly like their approach which makes …
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Comment #15738886
I have a habit of playing a F2P game to understand how easy it is to advance. They really do understand how to get you hooked, and then put you up against players/AI where you eith…
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Comment #15731148
More interestingly that is simply a maturity issue. React told people the official API and people still used hidden features as it was easy and clever. Thankfully Facebook did the …
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Comment #15721864
I've been making the point that fuel duty and car taxes (if your country has them) need to be removed and road pricing brought in. Price per litre of diesel in the USA is about $0.…
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Comment #15708832
Probably one of the most terrifying and very possible futures.
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Comment #15704039
I would agree that my interest only mortgage is storing up trouble for my future. However given I bought my 1st house in 1996 with no deposit, the reality is that interest only has…
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Comment #15662093
Think I've seen that film.
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Comment #15635116
I was lucky. I remember being 18 years old and putting the money for my bus ticket home into a slot machine because "it had to pay out this time". I lost and had a 5 mile walk home…
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Comment #15600316
I've played with Firebase but have been exploring GraphQL services recently. Initially http://www.graph.cool/ and https://scaphold.io/ Graph.cool just released their development fr…
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Comment #15532242
Minimum Viable Product In fact these days, people kinda know what they want, but really only understand what they want when they have something in front of them. I'd go so far as t…
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Comment #15458926
So is this a reason to consider buying WD stock? This looks like they've completely surprised the market with this technology leap.