Alex3917

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by Alex3917 6y ago
How commonly do candidates actually get ghosted? Clearly it happens, but this doesn't seem like a serious problem.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
On the same topic, one of my favorite Moth stories is Alternate Ithaca Tom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70CCXXz0qzo
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Amazing work. The idea of grouping similar packages together makes this post way better and more useful than any similar analysis I've seen.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
You misread the article. The article is saying that the emails said they were from the godaddy.com, but it doesn't say that they were actually sent from godaddy.com.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Also waterpiks. Much better for your gums than flossing, and 10x easier. (Granted you still need to floss to prevent cavities, but still.)
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Effective security culture builds rapport with business units. This type of nonsense does the exact opposite. But these emails presumably weren't even coming from the company's domain, since they were phishing emails.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
IANAL, but my understanding is that in order for the company to keep ownership of your designs, code, and other IP, you'd need to get some sort of consideration for that work. If you've been paid at least minimum wage then that co
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> If he's leaving less than a year in and his partner has the contractual authority to sever his employment, what he actually has is zero. FWIW that's only true if he was being paid at least minimum wage. Otherwise he would be
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I remember being taught it was something "shifty" Chinese people do to their food to make it taste better as a sort of dishonest competitive trick, at the cost of the health of their customers. Yeah the MSG thing is clearly r
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by Alex3917 6y ago
It is a big deal because both the PS5 and XSX are at risk of going into a death spiral right now. Because most people have only been able to buy units at double the normal price via scalpers, people have been buying way less games than norm
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I mean Ben Goldacre's book itself is a pretty good example of people being irrational. He's mostly just covering the same ground as Marcia Angell's earlier book The Truth About Drug Companies, which "skeptics" hated
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> the shift in consumer expectation (that they help create) that news and journalism should be free OK but they created that expectation in the 1890s. The Internet isn't the cause of the media companies' problems, it's jus
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> In reality, the effort for producing a deep investigative story can be equivalent to an a mid-size software engineering project in terms of person hours and expertise. Investigative journalism is 1 or 2% of the budget of most media com
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Jeff, Excited to try this out, but it would be great if AWS could also support GIS libraries on Amazon Linux 2. C.f.: https://github.com/aws/elastic-beanstalk-roadmap/issues/28 Without this feature, AWS is ba
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Right but the version of an email message you download via IMAP is different than the version of an email message you see in the Gmail UI. That's my point, that the error is probably in the way Google is processing messages for Gmail,
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Not fixed for over a year and they've locked the thread so I'm starting to wonder if they actually deleted the emails by mistake. Did you try pulling them down using the API tester?: https://developers.google.com&#
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Why doesn't the NBA just lower the height of baskets by a foot? They would get much better athletes, so surely the games would be more entertaining and the league would make more money, no?
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by Alex3917 6y ago
I'm excited that this seems to reduce the time needed to compile Python regex by over 50%, something which Python currently offers no way to speed up or parallelize. You'd think that you'd be able to combine compiled regex to
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> too much can ruin your sexual health and distort your ideas of what sex should be. If men actually believed that what they saw in porn was real, the only jobs they'd ever want would be plumber and pizza delivery guy.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
All of their video games look completely paint-by-numbers also. It's hard to imagine many people continuing to subscribe to these services once the free trials run out.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Apropos of the soundscape cyberpunk, this Burial album is very cyberpunk inspired. It won album of the year in a bunch of publications, and is super approachable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nB26OKyH3eI&list=PLjIuADM
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Reporters literally can't believe it when founders making piles of money say that they started their companies to make the world better. The situation seems made for mockery. To be fair a lot of startup origin stories are so ridic
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> Maybe you don't need to treat these people better (though why not?) IMHO the best argument for 'why not' would be that it's generally unethical to deploy software without first taking the time to read the manual and
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Users don't even understand the difference between extensions and add-ons.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> let's not forget that it's possible, if hard, to have a honest business. I'm not convinced this is true in all industries. E.g. if you're a waste management company, how are you supposed to win deals on price if you
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> the entire Democratic party, with media allies, promulgated for the last 4 years and pressured social media leadership to adopt as well. Democrats have claimed pretty every election for the last 20 years has been stolen, or at least co
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Yup. For me the Sublime default theme is perfect, whereas I find this new GitHub redesign to be basically unreadable.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
> I think the parent commenter is saying that in order to make a superior product these days, you need an extraordinary amount of investment for R&D which can only be made up by selling it at volumes that someone like Apple can achie
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by Alex3917 6y ago
IMHO Baraka and Samsara are much more realized versions of the idea behind Koyaanisqatsi.
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by Alex3917 6y ago
Leaving treasure on public lands is allowed, otherwise geocaching would be illegal. Maybe not in a national park, but certainly in a national forest or multiuse area.

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