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> Foreigners who have been in the following countries in the prior 14 days: Iceland, Ireland, Angola, Italy, Iran, Estonia, Austria, Netherlands, San Marino, Switzerland, Sweden, S…

Ditto. We have been hearing so many negative things about the US that it really scares even to think going there, being it as a tourist, on business, whatever.

Mugabe honest?!

I don't know about Crew but Toptal seems just like remote body shopping. Seems the freelancer gets locked in working for toptal. Not a real freelancing scheme like odesk and such.

They could just have rebranded themselves as "cheap" or "bottom" because that's what those platforms promote. I appreciate the efforts they've tried to improve the platform(s) but …

Even SV clients get as cheap as they can. I had one -- from SF bay, not exactly SV -- which agreed to pay me 75$ to create a function to write text into images at two different pos…

In many other European countries it is difficult (or impossible?) to find subscriptions with similar pricing. It's pretty much leveled, give it or take it a few. Here's a current P…

You can use one of those "world sim" cards to get cheaper connectivity when you cross the border. Check http://airbalticcard.com/ for example.

wodenokoto, don't get me wrong. I'm not even a native English speaker, let alone an US or UK citizen. But this issue is just overwhelming. I recon that Asian countries, not only Ja…

Oh the languages again. Many people don't know that it was the US, and not the UK, who mostly contributed to the spread of English -- of course one might argue that US talk English…

When medium articles are too long to read. That was just kidding, though.

Click-bait alert! This is just an US article about Europe, which falls in the same spectrum of English telling History or Silvia Saint praising virginity. much of Europe lags behin…

Ask not why some people are so smart, ask why so many are dumb. :)

(...) jobless builders presented her with a gift: a life-size sculpture of a hand with a raised middle digit. She keeps the artifact prominently displayed on a coffee table at her …

Another give-away against open-offices is that people who decides them usually reserve a single office for thy selves. A real story: a given company moved to new, but existing, ins…

I started my career working at a team room, which was exclusive for the technical people and had no more than 7 people at its peak. Then progressively went from open-office to open…

"I have a football team, therefore I exist." I'm sure Descartes would rephrase his famous though to something like the above, had he been contemporaneous of us (and tweet it as wel…

The footer alludes to that: "Peter Norvig (Copyright 2001—2014)" I tracked the page on web archive, and it existed at least since 1998. Here is a funny edit over the years: 1998: L…

Here's a variant of the last solution the author presented, using a Counter of each word, instead a sorted list of words' chars, as normalization. cnt=Counter(tuple(Counter(w).iter…

Hey, very nice. I knew about the "new" format() but didn't know it was so powerful.

There is also scsh (scheme shell - http://scsh.net/ ) although not being maintained anymore.

As an EU citizen and consumer, here's my message to European Commission: SCREW YOU! I would like to know why is it so hard (and expensive) to buy a car on a foreign EU country and …

I'm not surprised with Singapore's kids being smart, but Albert and Bernard really impressed me :) Here's a solver in python (just an hack, don't unleash hate on me). import collec…