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Well then it's still exactly the same? You can either press fn or change your preferences. You opted for the latter. Do that again?

If you're using a MBP at the moment - then you're already pressing the fn key to use the functions keys for anything other than the media-stuff they've been designed around for years. Your workflow is exactly the same - you're just using soft keys instead of physical ones.

3 * 7 = 21 != 40

3 * 5 = 15 != 40

So why do you use the '3 hours of work then slack off' example to deride people working a typical week?

Yep - "Thank you for accessing the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud. Due to your country location, we are unable to process your request."

Yep. I'm a freelance developer and I bought a new MBP. I don't mind a soft-key function row, and I'm kinda curious what people can do with it. I don't need an SD card slot.

Losing Magsafe, 16GB top-out on the RAM are disappointing, but when I looked at alternatives nothing stood out as 'better'. I could get something much more powerful, but generally bigger and/or with worse battery. I've got a desktop for when I need nothing but horsepower. When I'm out working for clients I need something that fits in my bag on my bike.

'working full time' != 'good'. Some of us choose not to work all year round.

I live & work in London. I can't imagine doing that kind of commute everyday. Utterly soul crushing.

Cycling in the morning does it for me. I feel like a totally different person when I skip the cycle and get public transport. Even if it's as short as ~2 miles to where I'm going, I find getting the body going before the mind helps me focus.

Pretty standard practice in accounting + book keeping. You'll see pretty much all balance sheets represented in this way.

That's exactly what they do. It's heavily based on performance evals. I remember the first year I was there, we were told it'd be around an 8% cut. Our team lost exactly that 8% in headcount.

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I guess you're not based in the UK, but monzo(previously Mondo) (https://monzo.com/ ) sounds like the start of what you're looking for. Their API (https://monzo.com/docs/) opens them up to all sorts of uses for your bank account.

Did you read the article? It's a police blog - and has a list of things to consider doing when letting a place on AirBnB et al. Doesn't at all appear to be what you think it is. Certainly not just a 'new article'.

Healthy food does have something to do with the amount of calories it contains. It's not the be-all or end-all, but if you're consuming less than you use, you'll lose weight.

Weight is by far one of the largest risk factors for a huge number of medical conditions and problems, so I'd be amazed to hear how calories/nutritional content of food isn't related to health!

You're being downvoted because it's cool to hate on McDonald's, but I agree with you.

From my experience in the UK, their menu is increasingly easy to find nutritional information for (the print it in big font on -all- of their packaging), and they offer alternatives for fries/sodas if you like. Much of the McDonald's menu is far healthier than 'real' restaurant equivalents, which use much more oil/salt because the international community isn't scrutinising every menu item.

It really ( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/26/apple-ben...) was ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-29349998 ).

Most people in Europe don't need Lawyers to submit their taxes.

In fact, until I started my own company (UK) - I didn't 'submit' taxes. It was calculated (and taken) automatically based on my salary and otherwise declared income.

The 'all the time' part of my statement was quite an important bit.

Sure, ARAM exists - but like I said there's an always-changing array of free champions, so it's not like you'll never get them. And again - if you're just starting out, there's going to be some time before you even get around to trying every champion for the first time. Even if you go with ~30 minutes per game(below the average length in normal modes, slightly above average on ARAM) - you're looking at upwards of 60 hours of playtime just to try everyone once.

You can complain about F2P games all you like, but I don't think for a second we'd have had as many new champions released if they'd been on a pay-once model. I don't think that's exploitative, just different.

-edit- before my play patterns are criticised again, I should say I've been playing LoL to varying degrees of intensity for about 5 years. I think it's more accessible in terms of champion acquisition now than it was then.

Almost all of the money I've spent on League of Legends has been on cosmetics. If you're time rather than cash-limited (like most of us here, I would assume) - you won't have time to actually deeply learn all that many champions. The free champions rotation is great, and gives you plenty of time to try people and then buy with in-game currency if you like the play-style.

You're never going to play 123 champions all the time anyway, so dropping money on them doesn't make much sense until you're already deep in the game. You absolutely don't need to unlock 100+ to enjoy yourself with it.

Why not? I've been known to do this as well. I'd rather put a quick link to a relevant source of information explaining why I did something the way I did than spend 2-3 lines trying to explain it.

I probably most often use it when I've hacked around a known bug in someone elses framework - linking to the respective ticket, that way if someone comes along later and the ticket is resolved, they can remove/adjust whatever I've done.

Links are everywhere else, why not in our comments?

This looks great. Is there any removal of positions that have been filled, or is it just hit and hope?

Slightly ironic, isn't it? Edinburgh is basically to Scotland what London is to England - just not quite to the same extreme.

In Scotland, most* Degrees are 4-year courses.

*technically, the 4th is an 'honours' year, and you can graduate without honours after 3 years. This isn't that common for people who aren't struggling.

Or in the UK - Engineer. Not a protected Profession in the US, but is here.

Similar situation here. The company I'm currently contracting for mentioned they struggle to find experienced Scala devs who will interview for permanent roles.

Can I ask what location this is? It's vastly different to my experience of the contracting environment in the UK.

This is super common practice in the UK, at least in some industries (e.g. Gambling). Most online bookmakers & exchanges will require age-verification before they let you place a stake.

I've had similar experiences ordering alcohol online (though only from smaller retailers, and usually only for a first purchase).

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How many consumers have this style of interaction:

* buy an item from Amazon (coffee maker or otherwise)

* realize the build quality/size is rubbish (which from some of the less well known sellers, it really can be)

* return the item using Amazon's generous returns policies (never had one rejected, I've used it many times)

* buy a different item in the same category.

* repeat?

If this type of purchase happens a non-negligible number of times, could that be the reason we see so many 'buy more of X!' style ads?