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AjJi

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codesandbox.io 3y ago

Boxy, Your New AI Coding Assistant

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h1bpay.com 8y ago

Required in-person interviews for employment-based green cards

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pss.sagepub.com 11y ago

Advantages of Longhand Over Laptop Note Taking

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wikileaks.org 11y ago

Julian Assange – Google Is Not What It Seems

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www.codinghorror.com 13y ago

Procrastination and the Bikeshed Effect

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programmers.stackexchange.com 14y ago

Why do business analysts and PMs get higher salaries than programmers?

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ucsdnews.ucsd.edu 14y ago

Aymara Language and Gesture Point to Mirror-Image View of Time

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blog.ponoko.com 14y ago

Ten-year-old wins first place at a university-level robotics competition

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blog.schauderhaft.de 14y ago

Where is the Science in Software Development?

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www.redmondpie.com 14y ago

Here's Why Android's UI Will Never Be As Smooth As iOS Or Windows Phone 7

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info.topcoder.com 15y ago

Who gave Crowdsourcing a Bad Name?

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blogs.forbes.com 15y ago

Google using robotic self-driving cars for street view

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www.readwriteweb.com 15y ago

South Korean Police Raid Google Office

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www.ted.com 16y ago

Jill Bolte Taylor's stroke of insight

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www.businessinsider.com 16y ago

Apple is in the middle of the pack on revenue, but crushing on operating profit

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ostatic.com 16y ago

A good company looks like a good Open Source project

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sixrevisions.com 16y ago

How to Find Clients for your business

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www.tuaw.com 16y ago

Stephen Colbert and his iPad at the Grammys

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mixergy.com 16y ago

Business Tips From An Entrepreneur Magazine Columnist [Video Interview]

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blog.hubspot.com 16y ago

How Your Twitter Authority Affects Google's Real-Time Search Results

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ajji.posterous.com 16y ago

Yahoo backs Google's response to China hackers

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mixergy.com 16y ago

Mixergy Backstage – with Cedar Rihani

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www.readwriteweb.com 16y ago

Facebook's 1st CTO Launches His Next Company (Screen Shots)

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arstechnica.com 16y ago

Google's biggest announcement was not a phone, but a URL

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mashable.com 16y ago

Apple to Acquire Mobile Ad Platform Quattro Wireless for $275 Million

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mashable.com 16y ago

Seesmic Acquires Ping.fm

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www.boingboing.net 16y ago

Nina Paley's Copyright Song - Copying is not theft

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www.wired.com 16y ago

Video Interview with MacBook Bullet Girl

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davetroy.com 16y ago

Why Twitter “Lists” Change Everything

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www.whoisd.com 16y ago

100 Oldest .COM domain names

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  SEEKING WORK | Morocco (working timezones: UTC-8 to UTC+2)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL, HTML/CSS/SCSS, React, NextJS, Flask, Scrapy, Selenium
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E2Ycju8nP1ipx7AHgQ00dofWaqqcI2YF/view
  Email: see résumé
  Location: Morocco (working timezones: UTC-8 to UTC+2)
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript, Python, SQL, HTML/CSS/SCSS, React, NextJS, Flask, Scrapy, Selenium
  Résumé/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E2Ycju8nP1ipx7AHgQ00dofWaqqcI2YF/view
  Email: see résumé

I can count the number of multiple-choice tests I had on the fingers of my hands, and all of them were tests preparing for tech certifications.

When discussing the multiple choice format between students, we've always thought that it's way easier to get the guess the right answer between choices than to show how you got there.

It's even worse outside of math classes, say history, and you're asked "when did $COUNTRY get its independence", obviously, it's much easier when you have a list of choices to choose from.

Maybe dead in the US, where I live (Morocco), daily deals websites are growing like weed, and many users "discovered" online payment through them, IMO, they're not going anywhere.

I don't know about the US, but in Europe (and Morocco where I live), many freelance use "sales engineers" (technico-commercial in French, not sure if it's the correct translation), this person gets a commission for every gig he lands for the freelancer.

"Moving" from a language is a laughable concept for me.

As professionals, we tend to work with many constraints in play, and one of them, most of the time, is the language. It's not that the client requires me to use PHP, but not using it will be a hassle for the client afterwards, mainly, because of hosting and maintenance. Python and Ruby devs are quite rare where I live, thus, using PHP enables the client to find maintainers easily down the road.

Technically, I have no problem moving from one language to another (though, never tried a functional language), and I've done professional work using ruby in the past.

Frankly, reading HN discussions about PHP, I feel like they're missing the point, or maybe, it's because I live in a country where PHP is prevalent - there's a whole market here for PHP devs, I've been doing contract work for almost 3years now using XHTML/CSS/JS/PHP stack exclusively, most of the time with a framework, or even a CMS.

"normal" conversation? what's that?

In all seriousness, in my opinion, there's not such thing as normal conversation, people are different, conversations too.

I believe that "not having to screw around to make things work" doesn't apply to windows, or at least, not anymore. Do you recall specific situations where something worked out-of-the-box on Mac but required "screwing around" on a windows machine?