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Comment #12389243
This article is regarding Apple's EU profits, the Yahoo statement (I think?) is global profits. Also the income statement says: All numbers in thousands So you need to add 000 to t…
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Comment #10046512
Well the sample was testing against twitter (obviously prod). So someone may test against prod if they didn't really know what these things could do.
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Comment #10046498
Agree, it seems like a pretty straight forward approach. Having said that, one year out of university is a good time to take as much risk as you like so its not too important at th…
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Comment #10039518
Likewise: 1;DROP TABLE users 1'; DROP TABLE users-- Seems a bit hairy to have that in there in case someone tries to run these tests on their prod environment
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Comment #9877899
If you're main goal is "to have some steady income via side project" then it doesnt matter which language you pick. What matters is the product you create and whether people will u…
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Comment #9783347
Compared to the interest only part, the savings are significant. Way more than 200 per month. The capital repayments are not money lost in the same way that rent would be (assuming…
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Comment #9754833
No, slack free plan only allows 10000 messages to be saved at any one time. Nothing to do with user limit. Unbelievable that a service like this would change the key part of their …
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Comment #9744500
I disagree, this view is too simplistic. It's very different to owning shares in a company. You have to either buy a house or rent. You cant opt out entirely, whereas you can with …
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Comment #9677655
Its funny that you post that, he comes off a lot better than you in that thread.
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Comment #9304796
True, but then that is not what he said, you conveniently reworded it ;)
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Comment #9183689
You may want to mention where you live and/or are available to work from, also adding a resume may be nice
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Comment #8787693
Thats unfortunate, you just red flagged yourself! I think its time to never ask your interview candidates that question again.
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Comment #8722334
Hmm, I don't think not fully understanding existing tools and not wanting to read documentation is a good reason. You can easily add prompting with maven, gradle etc, test result r…
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Comment #8692685
Yep, nonsense in = nonsense out. This "study" is pointless.
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Comment #8681477
I am also interested to know. Could be because they're (generally) cheaper?
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Comment #8667509
I believe the parent comment is talking about website owners. A quick check of a website I run says 96% of hits come from Google. If Google decide to block that site or put it on p…
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Comment #8538367
Ah, but that depends on what the definition of ""is" is" is
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Comment #8448173
Didn't work for me "Request to start crawl failed" after I entered a web page and clicked try it out.
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Comment #8432462
Didn't see that little gem. If I signed up and received a phone call within 30 mins Id probably go ahead and close the account. Email replies doesn't actually mean anything, would …
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Comment #8416719
The article mentions this as a question if you want to confine the amount of money you spend: “How much do you want to invest before we stop?” I think this is one of the fundamenta…
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Comment #8290555
So her talk was on tech interviews and someone thought she was a recruiter? Doesn't seem that big a stretch...
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Comment #8285557
This should be forced whenever you try to purchase something
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Comment #8284020
YouGov is the most recent poll though, the others are 1-6 weeks older. So it is hard to compare
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Comment #7811160
They have also rocketed in the UK just 10 years ago a 3 year undergraduate course would cost around £3300 (~$5500). Nowadays it costs around £27,000 (~$45000) You dont pay up front…
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Comment #7803912
No deadline means he can never win the bet, but whoever he is betting with can, so seems win win ;)