alleyshack

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by alleyshack 5y ago
Honest question, as this is related to something my company's HR department is grappling with (I am not involved, I'm just a lowly engineering manager): How does this law interact with companies whose pay range is location based?
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by alleyshack 5y ago
> basically, you can move around with CMD+Arrow. Up goes up a directory, down goes down a directory (or opens the file). Left / Right go forward / back in history, like a browser. This is really helpful to know - it's one
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by alleyshack 6y ago
I love this idea! I've kept around a lot of old sentimental value shirts with a similar, albeit more vague, idea of putting them together in some form that makes them visible. Keeps the memories and lets you actually look at/revis
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by alleyshack 6y ago
I would argue that men are not "simply" more interested in computers than women. Computing was originally a female-dominated field[1]. However, as computing became more and more important and presigious a field, more men entered i
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by alleyshack 6y ago
If I'm reading both the Apple prompt details and the Twitter statement correctly, what that tweet is saying is that Facebook will not request access to the IDFA at all, and will also not allow developers using Facebook's SDK to re
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by alleyshack 6y ago
Do you still have to navigate? Like, click or scroll or whatever, to get between tabs? I'm looking for a UI that shows me all my tabs, all at once, no clicks/scrolling/navigation required.
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by alleyshack 6y ago
Thanks, but I'm looking for something that doesn't require scrolling - where I can see all my open tabs at the same time, no scrolling, clicks, or other interaction required. I toggle between tabs a LOT, and having to scroll or ot
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by alleyshack 6y ago
I want to switch to Firefox, but of all things, its tab management is keeping me away. On my last try, I gave up after five minutes because I couldn't see all my open tabs at once (had to scroll). Does anyone know of an extension or se
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by alleyshack 6y ago
I'm curious what metrics are driving that behavior by Instacart shoppers. In my (entirely amateur/armchair) opinion, it would seem like the time you'd save by making an unapproved substitution wouldn't make up for the po
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by alleyshack 6y ago
They don't always respect this. I've had multiple Instacart shoppers replace items without marking them as replacements, including replacing some of them with things I explicitly indicated I did not want as replacements.
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by alleyshack 6y ago
I'd strongly recommend looking into the Aesthetics of Play[1][2]. It's a framework that talks about eight primary reasons why people play video games, and only one of those reasons is "Challenge" (i.e., beating a goal).
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by alleyshack 6y ago
Oh yikes. Mine's been iffy, but looking a full week out I've usually been able to find something. I suppose I should consider my area fortunate for that. I don't know if either of my other suggestions are of any use to you, b
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by alleyshack 6y ago
You don't specify why Instacart "became less usable", though if your experience is like mine I'd guess it's a combination of delivery windows being a full week out and the results being somewhat unreliable between r
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by alleyshack 6y ago
What do you think 80% normal will look like? I'm currently planning a small (30-50 people) event in October and I'm trying to figure out if I need to postpone/reschedule.
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by alleyshack 7y ago
Yep. "I think this way, therefore everyone else thinks this way," is an incredibly common human fallacy.
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by alleyshack 7y ago
As an Xoogler, my experience is that one thing changed, and one thing didn't. The thing which changed is that Google operates on a much, much larger scale than anything imaginable back in the late 90s when they first started. In 1999,
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by alleyshack 7y ago
From the article: > The extent of tracking makes it impossible for us to make informed choices about how our personal data is collected, shared and used, says Finn Myrstad, director of digital policy in the Norwegian Consumer Council. Th
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by alleyshack 7y ago
This is exactly why I'm one of the (probably many) silent switchers away from Fitbit now that this acquisition has happened. Whatever Google says now, in one or two or ten years, that could change, and my data will still be there. >
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by alleyshack 7y ago
I'm an Xoogler who worked on the privacy team a few years ago. All of this is true, and at the time I worked there, I made the conscious, considered decision to buy in to the Google data collection ecosystem because I trusted the peopl
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by alleyshack 7y ago
There are definitely hardcore adult gamers in the speedrunning community, who have day jobs and families. I'm friends with a world-record-holding speedrunner, and he treats it like any other hobby. He enjoys spending his free time prac
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by alleyshack 7y ago
This is my biggest concern. One of my favorite mobile games (high stakes, I know) was originally produced by a small indie dev with a strong privacy policy. A year or so ago they sold to Zynga. I've not updated the app since then becau
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by alleyshack 7y ago
This is exactly what I do, and it generally has good results. I don't have to worry about being rude, because the greeting - usually a simple "Hey!" - is there for those who care about it, and my question is also right there.
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by alleyshack 7y ago
Xoogler here. Individual contributors are aware of it, but have very little to no power to change it. I left when I realized I would never make career progress due in large part to this incredibly restrictive advancement model. My partner,
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by alleyshack 8y ago
The article title is somewhat misleading; the point of the games described isn't simply to "cut stress". Rather, the games variously work to raise awareness of mental illness; help people with mental illness cope by giving th
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by alleyshack 8y ago
My jobs have ranged from heads-down engineering work to constant meetings, phone calls, and impromptu chats. For all of them, I much prefer a private office or at least a private cube. I can't wear headphones for an extended period of
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by alleyshack 8y ago
Not OP, but Slack/IRC/IM of some kind is the answer to most of your questions. I've bounced around between shared office, private office, cubicle, private bullpen, and open office my whole career, and by far the least product
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by alleyshack 8y ago
This requires a lot of things which aren't obvious: 1) the person to realize the site is broken because of something on their end (as opposed to the site being broken because of something "on the internet") 2) the person to r
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by alleyshack 8y ago
The flag workflow is the closest I've seen on any platform to Tumblr's submissions, for sure. The concern about people not wanting to use reddit is definitely a big part of this. Reddit has a very different culture than Tumblr, an
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by alleyshack 8y ago
Automod is an automatic moderator, not a curator unfortunately, which is what we really need. Tags are in the same general family as flair, but they're distant cousins of each other. Reddit generally expects one flair per post, and for
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by alleyshack 8y ago
Like I said in the original post, a transfer to Reddit is not impossible, but it would be a significant effort, and it would definitely kill the blog's personality. Even if the curation team comes along, even if the submission numbers

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