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by Spoom 4y ago
You can fairly quickly get a temporary non-stick coating on a stainless steel pan by seasoning it as you would a cast iron pan: spread a tiny amount of oil around the pan, heat until just smoking, allow to cool.
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by Spoom 4y ago
OP is already in the world "outside". That's the point; they're in it for the paper, since the paper unlocks possibilities.
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by Spoom 4y ago
Eh. I went to a community college that let basically everyone in, and failed out ~95% of their computer programming course. I graduated, and I likely would not have gotten in in the first place if they went with the exclusivity model of uni
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by Spoom 4y ago
> given the choice between an extra >$100K/yr in savings or $10K less in life expenses The first option often isn't available to folks.
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by Spoom 5y ago
The argument is that it's a legal risk. Look up the Microsoft co-employment lawsuit for the kinds of things they're scared of. As parent accurately describes, the contractors are doing the same kinds of work as full time folks...
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by Spoom 5y ago
Apple: notes bug of Apple product being able to connect with non-Apple hardware, to fix in future versions
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by Spoom 5y ago
I got "phantom stock options". They were as advertised.
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by Spoom 5y ago
> The talented business-woman, who had run two apron shops near Toronto, Canada, before her illness, fell into a coma on Nov 22, 1963, aged 50. Given that the woman was from Toronto, probably $0.
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by Spoom 5y ago
This implies that your retirement savings are in cash, which is inaccurate for most folks. And certainly, I'd rather have it invested in the stock market than the wild fluctuations of the crypto market, especially with its uncertain w
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by Spoom 5y ago
We have an unofficial policy in my company that all pertinent information should be in the first message specifically to avoid the scenario you mention. Highly recommended.
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by Spoom 5y ago
Oh yes. Any time I see code that tries to do some kind of scheduling, the first thing I ask is if they have considered using a library someone else has written. Way too many things can subtly go wrong, but new folks tend to think it shoul
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by Spoom 5y ago
This was my first thought. Apple is notoriously secretive, even internally. They likely see this as a way to prevent folks from reverse engineering through job titles what former employees were working on. (Agreed that it's super sh
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by Spoom 5y ago
As I understand it, the Magnussen-Moss Warranty Act protects this interpretation. You can't arbitrarily void a warranty by setting conditions on it like "must not remove this sticker". Though, of course, manufacturers will st
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by Spoom 5y ago
> self-host the fonts Do you, as the website operator, have the right to copy and serve these fonts to your visitors? (Actual question; my guess is that you don't according to Google Fonts, but could be wrong.) > proxy the reques
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by Spoom 5y ago
By this argument, then, should third party requests always be blocked? If the user "is in no position to decide", that means that the only way to avoid potential liability would be to load everything from the same domain, right? N
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by Spoom 5y ago
It feels like a bubble to me. When I see Matt Damon shilling crypto, it reminds me of pets.com Superbowl ads. I think reality will catch up sooner or later.
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by Spoom 5y ago
i.reddit.com actually works quite well on mobile, but I think this has even more risk of being shut down at a moment's notice so try not to mention it too much.
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by Spoom 5y ago
I have a coupon code that keeps showing up in my email for something like $20 off from Uber Eats. I usually use Doordash, so I don't end up using it. Eventually they send an email warning that the coupon is going to expire soon, don&#x
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by Spoom 5y ago
Manna[1] is a good short story that talks about these two potential futures. I agree that in particular, it seems more likely that the unemployment welfare hellscape might be more likely, unfortunately. 1. https://marshallbrain.
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by Spoom 5y ago
Careful; if you don't go through their unsubscribe process, they can consider the contract still valid, and collect on the legally-still-valid subscription through liens and paycheck garnishments.
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by Spoom 5y ago
We do web apps so if that's a disqualifier, might not be able to help. But if you're open to web app development at a large tech company, send me an email. Your story reminds me of my own.
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by Spoom 5y ago
To contrast, I've seen this often enough that I knew immediately that they meant, don't try to send us blinded candidates and claim a finder's fee. But perhaps just adding ", no recruiters" would be enough to clarif
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by Spoom 5y ago
I remember Activision generally being a publisher of terrible licensed games in the 90s, so I wasn't too surprised by that.
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by Spoom 5y ago
Given the issues that Chime customers have had[1], and the fact that this seems to be organized in roughly the same way (actual banking services are provided by a contracted bank at a distance), I'd be a little skeptical. 1. https:&#x
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by Spoom 5y ago
> If they told me what I owed, and I disagreed, what recourse would I have? You'd file your taxes exactly as you do now, losing nothing.
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by Spoom 5y ago
Lying to police is a crime. Police lying to you is not a crime. This is a very good reason to limit interactions with police.
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by Spoom 5y ago
I suppose it doesn't say that the obligations survive termination of employment. But the perpetual license certainly does, and if you have a family etc., you're not likely to quit your main source of income to go all in on your pe
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by Spoom 5y ago
I figure that if Amazon thought the game could be profitable enough, they could just take everything in it, including the source code (which they have a license to and conveniently access since you were required to use their repository serv
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by Spoom 5y ago
That's usually not how it works with employment contracts, especially at big software companies. I'm fairly certain this was given to the candidate using something like Digisign, which can be configured to not allow revisions fro
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by Spoom 5y ago
Same with Android (at least recent versions).

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