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throwaway828

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    Comment #39905309

    I feel worth saying about 1: a non technology/software technical co-founder can still be technical but deep in their domain of expertise.

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    Comment #39905277

    We have ample computing power today to be rid of floats altogether and use integers, fractions and natural numbers.

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    Comment #39875724

    Amazing. And as another reply said, 1B Android devices with Photos. I hadn't put these together! When Facebook was newish and introduced the ability to tag others in photos, I got …

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    Comment #39874701

    Photos? I may be missing out on something. Is Photos a big thing, and if so, how?

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    Comment #39838539

    Everyday. Just not being afraid to try stuff. Self-efficacy is a powerful thing. (Meta edit: Both Bandura and Young in a 5 word sentence. That postgrad pedagogy course was worth it…

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    Comment #39807234

    Children of GenX.

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    Comment #39804263

    DEI? What's wrong with a Diverse, Equitable, Inclusive world? Of the podcast, not a fan. Nor of the book. But DEI, that's Startrek TOS/TNG bread and butter. What's the problem?

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    Comment #39745825

    purelymail.com

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    Comment #39742167

    Having lived in Asia for 10 years I observed that I had gained the ability to squat, quite comfortably too, that I never had on arrival. Funny old world.

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    Comment #39732177

    Make it super easy for a customer to cancel a renewal. You might get customers that lie. But you might get customers that think they've cancelled when they haven't, from a sketchy …

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    Comment #39669160

    > Has anyone asked information if it wants to be free? Asked rhetorically. Of course information can't reply, right? There's substantial context that this quote is often dislocated…

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    Comment #39627671

    Growth, if a constantish %, is exponential.

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    Comment #39627546

    The car occupants clearly didn't pay Boston Consulting Group or McKinsey to come up with an optimum span of control, as they'd surely been advised a management role wasn't necessar…

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    Comment #39616317

    Came here to say this, so just echoing. A private banker and their team become problem solvers long term also almost like a modern butler servie. Have a kid that needs picking up a…

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    Comment #39616254

    See if they have Omega ;) But as you say, if you know what Omega is you're probably not their customer.

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    Comment #39522554

    There were rumours that the following year would be the year of Linux on the desktop. It had just taken, and was taking, the server world by storm. Windows 2000 was really importan…

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    Comment #39476640

    Given the PDS server works on ports 80/443 and I'd like to use a domain (@nytimes.com in the documentation, but say @example.com), how does it interoperate with existing services t…

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    Comment #39438716

    Laptop (Debian): At the end of the day. Also when travelling. It's fully encrypted with a boot password stronger than my user (sleep/resume) or root passwords.

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    Comment #39427199

    What was your multi hundred million dollar company?

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    Comment #39405459

    That sounds like some quick kills to be easily made. I use a dev machine that's quite archaic compared to a modern server, a 2nd gen i5 ThinkPad to be precise, that struggles to to…

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    Comment #39395394

    Dedicated server? Take a look at serverhunter.com

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    Comment #39373750

    Look into Flexcube docs to more fully answer your questions. It's a reasonably well established core banking product, or series of products.

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    Comment #39367149

    You have passed Level 1. Level 2: Put a form and form elements in it. Level 3: Do it with flex.

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    Comment #39367106

    MacClippy seems like a useful bot. Similar to AI chat windows on websites without the second guessing.