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programbreeding

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    Comment #38912440

    >Companies could offer these as a return to office incentive So an office full of people with VR headsets on? I don't see the incentive in that compared to doing it from home.

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    Comment #34985025

    FlightAware | multiple roles | REMOTE (US timezones) | Houston / US | https://flightaware.com/about/careers/ Hello from FlightAware! We are hiring for a number of positions includi…

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    Comment #29475270

    I watch a lot of Grady's videos and there's a comment I've always wanted to make but I don't leave comments on YouTube. I'm going to leave that comment here: it would be great if h…

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    Comment #29140029

    What is Blind? I tried searching various things but just keep getting results for accessibility.

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    Comment #28530376

    Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28528756

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    Comment #28001357

    Complete guess here but I would suspect that means some items are made in Germany and some are made in China or elsewhere (meaning, even the same model may be produced in both loca…

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    Comment #27630102

    Or it shows that he's open and honest. And that's definitely someone I would want on my team.

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    Comment #27619553

    Unless something has changed recently that I'm unaware of, that definitely isn't currently possibly on Android itself. I assume it won't be possible using the Windows-version of th…

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    Comment #26269160

    I'm not saying this is a reason to do it, but the part of the model that isn't broken is that people love it. The consumers are benefiting.

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    Comment #26172241

    I laughed, but also stopped reading at >if you're from IT — well, it would be like learning the alphabet once again. Probably you won't find anything new; if you do, that is a bad …

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    Comment #26114231

    VSCode is by far the lightest Electron app I've ever used. I currently have a decent sized repo open, with a good number of plugins, and it's using 0% CPU and 12MB ram on Windows (…

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    Comment #25685914

    This website seems to have version 2 which includes that text on page 11. You can scroll down and read it without downloading it. https://www.academia.edu/36044237/WhatsApp_Encrypt…

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    Comment #25685835

    Google translate of the first tweet (in German): > Extreme nightcap in the #network frequency. Quite unusual at this height and at this point in time. One of my measuring devices e…

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    Comment #25562029

    Below is the majority of the post, before it gets in to all the links and such, run through SMMRY[0] set to only use 7 sentences (92% reduction). It obviously doesn't tell the full…

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    Comment #25431139

    Just curious: What is the benefit/reason for the readfile shortcode for displaying code snippets as opposed to just pasting the code in and using the typical syntax highlighting? I…

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    Comment #25364186

    Good to know. Thanks.

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    Comment #25362167

    One of the local news stations uses them on their website. They have a tiny "continue without supporting us" link that blends in nicely with the text around it. The weird thing is …

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    Comment #25351815

    Do you mean this: https://github.com/sindresorhus/css-in-readme-like-wat/blame... ?

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    Comment #25281326

    I don't have any experience with them but I went to the pricing section on their website[0] and was greeted with very large all-caps text: PRICING: WHY PAY FOR WHAT YOU DON’T USE? …

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    Comment #25277363

    Thanks for making this public. That's a fantastic use case that I hadn't considered.

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    Comment #25198178

    >stackoverflow page comparing hash algorithms (from crc32 md5 xxhash to sha) thru patterns it generated onto an image. https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/145633 >Also …

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    Comment #25153676

    Looked at one record as an example and sure enough, the same meeting ID and password is found in 709 different cases in Cleveland, OH.

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    Comment #25083586

    That article (and others) say it's because "Google hired only the most talented engineers, he thought that extra layer of supervision was not just unnecessary but also an impedimen…

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    Comment #25083484

    >To me it presents as disillusionment or polemic rather than somebody losing their mind. You're very right, that's a better way to phrase it. >Glad I found it on here I completely …