PopeDotNinja

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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Any company that wants to be as ubiquitous in connecting people as Facebook is should not have the power to delete one's social life like this. It's inhumane.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Grad school was described to me as a self induced neurosis.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
> “Can everyone see this? Good because I can't." That is a powerful statement that requires no explanation. I love it.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
My friend once said: - B.S. = bull shit - M.S. = more shit - PhD = piled higher & deeper
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I’m not an expert in this area, and IANAL, so... When I started a business (is the USA) that had a name that wasn’t mine, I needed to file a DBA (doing business as) form in my city. If GrubHub is representing themselves as SomeRestaurantIn
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
What is Live View not good at?
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I once cloned a directory for standing up an environment via Terraform. I modified all of the environment variables and config and ran it. It worked perfectly. Except I’d forgotten to wipe out the Terraform state, which meant that in the
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Personally I’d recommend finding better things to do and then canceling your subscriptions when you’re no longer using them. Ripping out a big part of one’s life without a healthy replacement can be suboptimal.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I’d also guess that MagSafe won’t wear out the phone socket as quickly, as one isn’t wearing down the socket with the friction of inserting cables. I’ve had to replace at least a couple phones from the socket being too “jiggly” to trust th
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
The feedback was the trigger. Basically the point is it’s worth asking whether the downside of giving feedback and having it go poorly is worth it. A much more common experience is to give feedback, and have the job candidate challenge yo
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I have a candidate feedback once, and they showed up at our office drunk & demanding a second chance. I gave a lot less feedback after that.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I don’t understand why Spotify won’t let me downvote music. At least I haven’t figured out how yet.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
One could argue that spending a lot of money on a hyper advanced anything would lead to a bunch of cool technologies, even if the primary objective yielded no results. Why spend many billions of euros on something speculative when one coul
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I have no idea how the block works, but I learned that WhatsApp video calls are blocked in the United Arab Emirates, along with almost every other video chat app. There’s a UAE sponsored app called Totok that works, although it is/was
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Another way of saying it is the Toyota Corolla was a Geo Prizm that didn’t suck.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
FYI, you can choose to backup all of your WhatsApp media. All of my WhatsApp photos & videos get dumped into Google Photos. Works on Android or iPhone.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I interpreted the parent comment as... it's gonna hurt no matter what you do, so you may as well do what you wanna do while managing your condition as needed.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
If you didn’t know, you can use Google Voice with Google Fi now. That’s what I’ve been using .
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
If you want to try something that is the exact opposite of CS, you could look into sales or recruiting. If you do something like go to work for a SaaS company, having a foundation for understanding the company’s product line makes a for co
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I like saying up 3, down 1 :)
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
And the entire prison system.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I got my first dev gig at 40. The hardest part of getting established was people excepted me to be more experienced than I was because of my age. It can hard to get an entry level job at 40. To compensate I went deep on learning Ruby &am
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
> Isn't there some sort of security built-in, like "if suddenly the bill becomes 1500% the norm, kill the instance and start serving 404s"? How about we call it auto-snailing. "I wanted to grow fast, but not THAT fas
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I don’t like imprisoning people because just they are poor.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
The top of my visit-cuz-remote list is the Kerguelen Islands, if I ever figure out how to get there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerguelen_Islands
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Did you make it to La Palma? I did my coronavirus lockdown there. A nice place to be stuck :)
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
I’m a digital nomad who has been working from Pakistan for the past month for a USA East Coast company . Can confirm. 12 hour time zone difference is suboptimal XD
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
Send a letter to the CEO saying something like “FYI, you should really hang onto $PERSON. They help me with $THING. I’m telling all my friends about $COMPANY. I thought you should know, too.” For extra impact, write it by hand.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
The quality of delivered food is usually pretty underwhelming for me.
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by PopeDotNinja 6y ago
If I get to choose the style, I like doing this... bar |> decorate() |> some_more() |> case do result -> {:ok, result} end

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