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great_reversal

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    Comment #35539029

    Nearly a decade ago, transitapp.com had a premium app that costed $2.99 to buy. Most users opted for free options, but I saw the value in the app and bought it. The company later s…

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    Comment #34228017

    Have you made any progress on the ADHD tool?

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    Comment #33776740

    I'm 23 and have lived most of my life without having close friends. I'd say I'm very extroverted and can strike up engaging conversations with most people I meet. I'm easy going an…

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    Comment #31779765

    OF COURSE IT IS because its about British Columbia

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    Comment #31710544

    https://www.athinkingape.com/about/ A game company that hired Waterloo co-ops once upon a time.

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    Comment #31027886

    This sounds familiar... https://science.ubc.ca/news/new-nasal-spray-treats-delta-var...

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    Comment #27531526

    Getting hired is just applying to another job posting. The interview process is two-step, with a project-based technical component. The job itself is also two-step: first year is s…

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    Comment #27522931

    Money talks

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    Comment #27522921

    Maybe it'll reduce the number of trading days in a year from 252 to 251. All the quants will need to update their models :)

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    Comment #27083601

    @TikTok employees: any thoughts?

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    Comment #27031656

    I agree that the post isn't flag-worthy, but I don't think the content is very relevant to the community either. Although the Gates Foundation and Microsoft share the same founder,…

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    Comment #26936753

    For overall memory, I generally just remember things instead of using all these fancy apps. Sometimes I'll make some notes in Typora (clean .md editor), but more often than not, I'…

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    Comment #26936593

    This was posted previously a couple weeks/months ago.

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    Comment #26936546

    Meanwhile people are going outside more because of the pandemic. So much for lockdowns.

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    Comment #26936479

    Unless you opt for SpaceX's Starlink. Still expensive, but bandwidth is usually better than without it in remote regions.

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    Comment #26813280

    tldr; Bloomberg goes after young entrepreneur for catering to businesses previously turned away by the likes of AWS, Cloudflare, etc due to socially unethical (yet still legal) beh…

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    Comment #26765562

    > Last weekend, my partner had her friends stay with us over the weekend. We needed to find a movie to watch. This was my chance! I was so excited! > "Let's use WeWatch!" > "No, it…

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    Comment #26703544

    Sure Amazon might not like them for their advocacy, but if they really did unapologetically break internal policies then I think Amazon's firing them is valid. Assuming they did le…

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    Comment #26703444

    I tried `curl` and `wget` before finding the `help` command. Kinda bummed out that tab completion doesn't work. And neither does `ls -la`. Also make it so I can click anywhere to g…

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    Comment #26703421

    Thought this was about writing tools in Go...

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    Comment #26603689

    Currently working as a backend dev in a mid-sized company. Current directive is a gradual migration to Go for backend services that used to be written in Python/Django.

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    Comment #26603680

    Why can't you just build libraries to make Go a better language for data science? There's already Go support for a Jupyter Notebooks kernel: https://github.com/gopherdata/gophernot…

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    Comment #24172045

    Lol you crashed the site