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Google Cloud, AWS, IBM all seem to offer a generic American English accent but with different voices. Given the huge variety of regional and ethnic accents/dialect in the US, why a…

You raise good points. I would agree that Plato/Aristotle are good foundations for understanding European intellectual history but a lot of chronological study is required to see t…

As a philosophy major, I would advise you to pay attention to the order in which you expose yourself to materials. The earlier stronger impressions in your journey will naturally h…

More of your type is needed in the industry because specialists get outdated You need to market your openness to jump in and solve problems. https://link.medium.com/5ucrrV7nNbb

For anyone looking to test their GeoIP implementation, we have a tool here: https://www.geoscreenshot.com

Very comprehensive list, it would be useful to include uptime and performance stats as well. Plug: If you would like to test your GeoIP implementation, we have a tool designed spec…

At least 3 reasons: stereotype threat (related to race), financial aid and socio-economic pragmatics. Stereotype threat makes people less likely to engage in psychologically risky …

1. Could you please explain the connection between economic growth and the population problem a little more? I would expect economic development to gradually cause a decline in bir…

I worked for 2 large companies that compiled (in back-end language for ex. ASP.net/JSP template) and sent transactional email messages synchronously in response to some action. Uns…

VPN users are an exception. I would think it would be best to use a proximate node to reduce latency. For corporation, there is another form of targeting (account based targeting) …

GeoIP is pretty accurate at the state/country level for most users, but you will run into precision issues at the city level. A bigger problem seems to be that many forget to conti…

For very large sites with thousands of dynamic pages, what are some ways to test the consistency of UI elements, layout, SEO conventions, etc... between builds and environments? I …

Interested to hear about professional use cases for this kind of tool. I am working on a cloud-based sandbox browser very similar to the OP here: https://www.sandboxbrowser.com/ My…

If you are interested in testing geo-specific dynamic pricing, we have a tool here just for that: https://www.geoscreenshot.com

You can self-host the pre-AWS Cloud9 IDE on a VPS: https://hub.docker.com/r/sapk/cloud9/

Hire for adaptability. How soon after being hired do they provide value? Wrote an article about it here: https://link.medium.com/AifgIE7AvV

Blind spot mirrors solve this issue, and they are very cheap. I am surprised they are not mandated by manufacturers.

You can share your skills by mentoring junior developers in your local area. I have observed that there is an oversupply of junior developers who are self-taught or have credential…

Is the name a portmanteau of Baruch Spinoza?

A quick side-project I developed to test CDN issues. Looking for ideas on how it can be made more useful.

Yes but like all async ops not without expense to the UX.

For conditionally loading other blocking assets in JS. For example, if IP is in China, local fallback for Google CDN as it will fail.