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by amorphid 9y ago
I dunno. Sometimes it's easier to simply stare at a problem & noodle your way through it. That's hard to do when forced to jibber jabber. Is the ol' stare & noodle a pair-friendly activity?
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by amorphid 9y ago
> I am not even allowed to tell a candidate (another human being that probably NEEDS a paycheck) why I didn't hire them and what they can do to improve their viability I really like interview questions that have binary results. If
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by amorphid 9y ago
What happens when the human grabs the wheel? Is it possible the car could/would have stopped, or reduced the danger to the pedestrian, but the human actually overrode any emergency corrective measure the car would have taken? Did the
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by amorphid 9y ago
For Python, say I'm building a Docker container in Jenkins for Python app that includes your code. Does the YAML get evaluated when pushing the Jenkins "build now" or when executing "docker run <args>"?
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by amorphid 9y ago
Maybe it gets replaced by "micro-networks". Craigslist used to be the place to go all my classifieds needs. Now it's a cesspool of spam, garbage, and scams.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I was contracting as an individual. I thought of myself as a a temp employee. The one of the executives at the company I was contracting for referred me to an executive at another business. In that moment I realized I could make the ment
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by amorphid 9y ago
>> This provides the three essentials of a functional alarm clock... All good points. In my case, I left out the part about how I don't want a regular bedtime. When I have tried to sell myself on the idea of a bed time, I found
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by amorphid 9y ago
It's easier than trying to manager the details in an app like Quicken.
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by amorphid 9y ago
It probably depends on your product. The more expensive your service is, the more you'll probably need to offer proof that it's worth the price. If your service is going to cost me a one time purchase price of $1, I'm going
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by amorphid 9y ago
I have ADHD. Here's some stuff I do to cope: - I try to get myself to do recurring things at a specific time. It's too hard to wake up at say 7:00 a.m. The reason it's hard it because I forget to set an alarm clark. Inste
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by amorphid 9y ago
As a developer, I've definitely felt lonely at work. I'd guess that it's caused by my personal feeling that development should treated as a collaborative effort by default; it's too hard to do solo most/all of the
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by amorphid 9y ago
Say you're way, way up in your Bitcoin investment, and you yse part of the gains to buy a $10 toaster with the equivalent amount of Bitcoin (let's assume no tax in the toaster itself). Do you realize a $10/gain, and owe money
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by amorphid 9y ago
This sounds pretty cool. I used to do recruiting, and designers were always hard to find, especially because most people didn't know how to hire a designer (including me).
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by amorphid 9y ago
A couple more suggestions: - Find company's with products you like, track down the product people at those company's, and then dig up their blogs/twitters/whatever (pro tip: focus on companies with a product/environ
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by amorphid 9y ago
Not sure if this is directly related, but patio11 (@patio11?) has a popular blog which talks a lot about building a company. He talks a lot about building products & companies, so you might find some of his content useful: https:&#x
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by amorphid 9y ago
A few weeks ago, I wanted an Android tablet to play games. I shopped around for low end tablets, the the options all looked like the same tablets that were on the market 3 or 4 years ago. Many ran Androird 4.x,or 5.x. Didn't Android
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by amorphid 9y ago
You've Only Got Three Seconds by Camille Lavington. Basically helped me to understand what I can do to make a good impression on others.
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by amorphid 9y ago
This is genius.
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by amorphid 9y ago
IANAL... I believe the landlord is bound by the language of the law, not the contract. If the law enabling grandma's rent control were fully repealed, there'd be no rent control-related reason the landlord couldn't raise Gra
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by amorphid 9y ago
Because the landlord knew exactly what they were doing when they rented the apartment to Grandma. If the landlord didn't want to enter into a contract the involving rent control, they shouldn't have been in the business of rentin
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by amorphid 9y ago
To me, that's like saying grandma doesn't deserve to keep $2 million house she bought many years ago for $20 thousand because someone with $2 million wants her property.
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by amorphid 9y ago
It feels good to get rewarded for a job well done. Just sayin'.
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by amorphid 9y ago
It's also draining the heck out of my battery.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I suspect the primary use case is talking to fellow passengers with whom you already have a relationship. But maybe not. I've never used it.
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by amorphid 9y ago
It's close. The slants in the circle swirl thing point the opposite direction.
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by amorphid 9y ago
It's really easy to game Triplebyte. It's probably really easy to game all the online interview platforms. May be it's hard to game Interviewing.io, because they have you chat w/ an actual person.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Unless your GPA is super impressive, I'd argue it's not worth bragging about at all. A 3.2 is fine when you're hunting for your first real job. After you've got work experience, I doubt many would care about a GPA. Wh
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by amorphid 9y ago
I left Pandora for a similar reason. They had (still have?) a 100 station limit. It was lame. I am also a Google Play Music user.
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by amorphid 9y ago
I like getting contacted about things that don't stink. Some things don't sell themselves.
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by amorphid 9y ago
Gotta love those Space Quest games! You haven't really lived until you've played Astro Chicken in a space diner.

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