amorphid

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by amorphid 9y ago
I will not mourn the death of paper checks in the USA. I still have to pay my rent with a paper check. Le sigh.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I often find Google searches for GitHub gists to be super useful. <stuff you care about> Vagrantfile site:gist.github.com
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by amorphid 9y ago
> What part of "age/deterioration" makes units lose value, exactly? Is it just that buildings aren't built to last, or is it that newer buildings have newer amenities? My place is (San Francisco) affordable, but: - 2
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by amorphid 9y ago
You're email is (not currently) in your profile. I'd be happy to take a look. I was a tech recruiter for 9 years, and am now a developer. My email is in my profile. One thing I can tell you right now is that a key to interviewi
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by amorphid 9y ago
I've been homeless in the United States. It sucked big time. Saying homeless people in developed countries are happier than other countries might be true. But that feels kind of like saying most people would rather get stabbed in th
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by amorphid 9y ago
My gaming group stopped playing Car Wars after I min-maxed a trike vehicle to absorb damage with armored beer fridges. The beer fridges had more "hit points" per pound than regular armor. Every attempt to be clever after that fe
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by amorphid 9y ago
In the title, "add-ones" should be "add-ons".
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by amorphid 9y ago
Hey Aline! Regarding diversity, have you needed to steer away from any particular anonymous interviewing techniques because that technique heavily favored a particular demographic? A silly example would be that you no longer allow people t
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by amorphid 9y ago
I am a native English speaker from California. It is hard to get my Google Personal Assistant to understand the difference between desert and dessert. It's also hard to request music by an artist with name similar to another artist.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I'm in my 40s and still paying off the debt incurred to get 2 business degrees. Maybe the advice should be "don't major in business!" :P
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by amorphid 9y ago
I once worked for a hosting company. Getting in through the front of the data center felt like going through an airlock on a spaceship with someone having to verify your identity with 100% certainty at each gate. Going in the backdoor jus
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by amorphid 9y ago
> As a result, Iceland is a case study in desertification, with little or no vegetation, though the problem is not heat or drought. About 40 percent of the country is desert, Dr. Halldorsson said. “But there’s plenty of rainfall — we cal
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by amorphid 9y ago
> If I turn them off, half of my mails still get sorted somewhere that I cant see. When the tabs were first enabled, I deselected all of them except the primary tab & haven't had any problems. The primary tab is essentially my
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by amorphid 9y ago
Going through the motions of going to school is a waste of time if you don't take it seriously. One can "grow up" or "see the light" by doing committing to anything substantial and seeing it through, and there are
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by amorphid 9y ago
College is a huge waste of money for someone who doesn't value it. Debt sucks.
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by amorphid 9y ago
> The pressure difference between 1 atm and the moon is exactly 1 atm. It's less than the difference between the inside and outside of most car tires. I forget the moon has a hint of an atmosphere. [1] The pressure is 3×10^−15. I
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by amorphid 9y ago
I confess I'm not an M&A/finance/VC-funding wizard. Would you mind giving an example describing the scenario you describe?
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by amorphid 9y ago
Say investors own 60% of the company. In an acquisition worth $220 million, 60% of the company would be worth $132 million. It's common for investors to have a 2x liquidation preference, meaning they get up to twice their money back
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by amorphid 9y ago
I need to bounce around in a book. Flipping physical pages is way easier than scrolling around in an ebook reader.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Maybe I'm wrong, but a 10% to 20% failure rate could be pretty good. A lot of projects were never going to be successful no matter who tried to implement them. If you please everyone, you're probably doing easy work.
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by amorphid 9y ago
How can you show someone you are good mobile developers? I would focus on communicating how have done amazing work for previous customers, and try to earn referral business. Also, do amazing work!
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by amorphid 9y ago
> We knew we can't hire him, he would be bored here and soon ask for more money, which the company didn't have. I recommend giving anyone who appears minimally qualified the benefit of the doubt & see what they have to say
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by amorphid 9y ago
I prefer to reply "living the dream, you?".
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by amorphid 9y ago
If you like your employer... One option you have is to prepare to ask for a raise, and then pitch them on why you're worth more before you accept the other offer. They might agree with you, and simply give you the raise you're as
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by amorphid 9y ago
I do not agree. Just because something is hard does not mean it is worth doing. There are lots of things one can do that are hard, and most of them probably aren't worth doing.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Once you ditch all your open source, you run your Oracle software in the cloud. And by cloud, Larry Ellison means that physical Oracle appliance attached to a network in your data center. [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web
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by amorphid 9y ago
As part of understanding profitability, I recommend focusing on gross profit and not cost of revenue. Here's a couple examples: Company A sells has total revenue of 1.01 million units, has a cost of revenue of 1.00 million units (1% ma
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by amorphid 9y ago
Maybe? I was thinking more that stuff comes up that affects my schedule, and I don't be forced into living with the constraints of a 10 p.m. bedtime (or whatever time I set). More to the point, I am more disciplined about getting to
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by amorphid 9y ago
I've tried doing that. Even if it is possible, I really don't like it. When married to a fixed schedule, life just isn't as much fun for me.
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by amorphid 9y ago
If you don't know what you are doing, trying to pick an optimal path is not likely to be a useful exercise. I'd start with anything that looked approachable & free/cheap, try to learn a few things, craft a few questions,

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