abz10

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by abz10 10y ago
I remember when they wanted TSA to grope children at high school proms.
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by abz10 10y ago
Yeah, screw that. I wear some cheap blue blockers before bed. I look like Bono but it works :)
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by abz10 10y ago
Friends don't let friends program in C++ :) I'm holding out for Rust. Every now and then I think I should go native, then I try it and my productivity goes out of the window :/
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by abz10 10y ago
The light has an effect during the night as it blocks the melatonin hormone from kicking in. It takes about an hour of darkness for the hormone kick in and make you sleepy. On very long occasional drives it's probably safer to trade so
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by abz10 10y ago
I also thought pedastal. I guess it has been a long time since I've seen a woman wear a skirt. But I think your interpretation of why is off. I was looking for something sexist (as per OP) so the pedestal fit that for me. I presumed it
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by abz10 10y ago
Lotus Notes was very successful. They were acquired for $3.5B in 1995, long before our current bubble economy. It's likely Slack will progress along the same path - except it will be much faster now. If they don't sell out soon en
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by abz10 10y ago
The ideas behind Google Wave are very very old, like Lotus Notes old. I worked on plugins Lotus Notes to do all sorts of Google Wave stuff. There is nothing new there. These ideas pop up on a regular basis and fail for the same reasons. My
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by abz10 10y ago
It will introduce a conflict of interest, where the side that has is paying Twitter. The perception alone of a conflict means people will 'find' it all over the place and those examples to their bias until slowly and gradually no
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by abz10 10y ago
It was not ahead of its time, it was poorly executed. People didn't know what to make of it. That is the designers fault. They needed to relate it to existing ideas and beat those ideas at their own game, even if that mean restricting
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by abz10 10y ago
You need to be a contractor, not an employee, then a lawyer can sort it out so you're all good.
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by abz10 10y ago
I understand that it's not politically viable. But I don't think that disqualifies it from a suggestion worth exploring. Politics can change, especially when the money starts running out.
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by abz10 10y ago
I hear you. Panama and Belize are poor man's tax havens if you can work remotely with a foreign source of income. I live in Panama. I haven't seen a homeless person since leaving SF.
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by abz10 10y ago
If the village cannot survive without taxes and without a subsidized ferry then I think the answer is clearly to allow the village to disband. You'd no longer need to force other canadian taxpayers to subsidise island residences lifest
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by abz10 10y ago
I think the wrinkle is that many people see rent as a function of mortgage payments and low interest rates and other rebates are seen as a way to lower rent and provide a win-win. Homeowners get value appreciation and renters get cheaper re
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by abz10 10y ago
That would be tricky. I think fairness depends on the value for money - it's possible that they don't need as many services that are being provided with. It's also possible they could provide for themselves cheaper - perhaps
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by abz10 10y ago
Could the down-voters at least tell me why? Thx
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by abz10 10y ago
I oscillate between following my passion and getting paid. I'm a shell of a human when I'm not following my passion.
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by abz10 10y ago
Statistically more people would be able to afford the mortgages because houses would be cheaper and wealth is on a powerlaw distribution. High interest rates is great for poor people for which their labor dominates their wealth.
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by abz10 10y ago
What about stopping the services as well a stop taxing them? Then if it is viable they can stay.
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by abz10 10y ago
It's fair to bemoan the general decline of your society with the desire to better your personal lot through immigrating. It's likely that they don't dislike foreigners but they do dislike being forced to subsidise them via ta
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by abz10 10y ago
Manyana means tomorrow. But often tomorrow never comes, especially in the more laid back Latin American cultures, so it also means probably never. You have to know Spanish and have exposure to the culture to get the 'joke'
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by abz10 10y ago
Hosting an installer is trivial, basically free, and likely less effort than dealing with the MS store. Their search is terrible (I work in search) and their reach is poor - people have been trained not to trust the store and most ignore it
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by abz10 10y ago
I worked at Microsoft Redmond in 2009. They have a private uber like transport system. Around once a week the driver would hand me their resume and ask that I pass it on to my manager. It turns out that many of them had worked in the indust
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by abz10 10y ago
How much do you want to bet?
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by abz10 10y ago
I'm an Australian male who moved to the US. I don't recommend anyone, male or female, work in tech in Australia. The pay is crap and housing is ridiculously expensive. Think SF'ish rent for midwest pay.
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by abz10 10y ago
Are we allowed to ask them Engineering questions?
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by abz10 10y ago
I was not proposing alternative metrics for measuring quality but I believe it should be safe to say that talk proposals are a better indicator of talk quality than race and gender. Nor was I recommending maximizing individual speaker quali
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by abz10 10y ago
A subsidy can exist in effect when the terms are overly favorable and not at market rate.
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by abz10 10y ago
The problem with using diversity as a selection criteria bias means that statistically on average the diverse speakers will be worse. While attending such a conference, if one were to optimize for the quality of speakers a simple rule to ac
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by abz10 10y ago
+1 I got sick of Docker and switched to FreeBSD. Far better experience.

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