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by asark 8y ago
A non-"rockstar" hiring process and parallel job track (with potential for cross-over) so they can get in people who are happy to do "boring" work on an interesting product might do it. Probably can't be in the Vall
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by asark 8y ago
It really, really shows. That and documentation. And some periphery work related to larger efforts, especially on any platform that's not the Web. It's the only explanation for how an organization like that can produce so much bro
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by asark 8y ago
So far as I can tell, most orgs have meeting problems to one degree or another. If they're on the good end they're only spending ~2x the person-hours they would if meetings were scheduled and run about as well as conceivably p
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by asark 8y ago
Conditioning oneself to feel shame when purchasing or being seen eating unhealthy food works too. In fact I'm pretty sure it's a key component of the general food culture of most places that are slimmer than the US—which is almost
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by asark 8y ago
Ali: A man can do whatever he wants, you said. Lawrence: He can, but he can't want what he wants. (Pinching his chest) This is the stuff that decides what he wants. -- Lawrence of Arabia (film) [EDIT] How strange to see / That I d
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by asark 8y ago
FYI: big scary SSL warning in (at least) Chrome when I click that link. NET::ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID This server could not prove that it is www.f19n.com; its security certificate is from *.easyname.com. And so on. ( that'll be $1,
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by asark 8y ago
Ask a current middle or high schooler if they have. Probably, the answer will be yes. Source: I know an awful lot of teachers. IMO the drills are dumb as hell and indefensible considering how traumatic they are (reports of teachers breaki
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by asark 8y ago
> That's a pretty rich position for someone claiming he's an agnostic, "someone who doesn't know". There might exist a being that defies everything we know about physical reality! But not other humans anywhere
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by asark 8y ago
This seems easy to reducio to "you can't disbelieve anything you're not empirically measuring right this second !" without even going too far down the epistemological rabbit hole. "Dude the sun just disappeared! I
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by asark 8y ago
It's more the hip PMs and business-side folks who are on calls a good percentage of any given day, trying to use them for work, than too-long meetings killing them all at once. I don't think they've got the battery life for p
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by asark 8y ago
Airpods dying on conference calls has become another common part of the joke that is conference calls generally. Seeing that happen constantly has turned me off buying them :-/ Well, that and the fact that I'd definitely lose on
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by asark 8y ago
> AFAIK this means only public sector non-union employees cannot be forced to pay for unions' political activities. Private sector employees are still on the hook. Unless there's something else you're trying to draw attent
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by asark 8y ago
Wasn't trying to be unbiased there and it's not especially relevant to the broader point—I just find the "I want to be free to keep punching myself in the face!" POV funny and couldn't resist a poke. As for evaluati
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by asark 8y ago
Kickstarter's in the US, no? Did you check out that WP link? I don't mean this as a "did you even read the article" jab, but you mention Labour, but this is about the US and the laws in the US mandate that those working
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by asark 8y ago
You get upset that tenants are subsidizing a landlord's political spending without a say? Any time you give money to anyone else for any purpose, for that matter? And "their money" comes from your labor (plus their capital, i
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by asark 8y ago
One down, 49 to go, I guess. (probably there are a few other states where they're illegal, but it's far from all of them) EDIT: and there's still the "if you write a novel in your free time on your own hardware we can tr
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by asark 8y ago
What do you do when all the best-paying companies in your industry lobby for things you don't like, leaving you few, poor, options for employment? If we must solve this problem for unions, it's surely at least as important to solv
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by asark 8y ago
50's too much and 40 should include an hour of breaks. Noncompetes and very broad claims of inventions and copyright by employers need serious push-back until they're rare or illegal, and organized labor can do that. Also it'
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by asark 8y ago
Seems no worse than an employer doing the same, directly or via interest groups. Though they do tend to be more equal-opportunity in their support. In both cases the answer to "how do I stop supporting this political action I don&#x2
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by asark 8y ago
Yeah, it's been a net-negative for me. I never use it for touchbary-stuff (I don't even know why I would) and it's worse than real buttons for everything else. The fingerprint reader's OK I guess but is far enough out of
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by asark 8y ago
Their steps backward in MacBook functionality (keyboard, ports, touchbar which is at best a wash) and the price hikes over the last ~4yrs have me thinking about going back to Linux. But I need a laptop, and don't want to feel like I h
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by asark 8y ago
I've had to remove a lot of the stuff from mine because, turns out, when I hit certain modifier'd key combos with my left hand I tend to rest my right ring finger at the top of one of the number keys... close enough to the touchba
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by asark 8y ago
I want a "good cheese, good wine, good bread" price comparison metric. By that measure, my money in the US only goes like 1/2-1/3 as far as the same amount in France, since it takes about 2-3x the money to consistently m
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by asark 8y ago
The 1st gen Pencil's charging/pairing plug is ridiculous. It's like someone at Apple made a joke charging interface and that was accidentally sent to production. Lose the dumb little magnetic cap, which you have to leave enti
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by asark 8y ago
The reverse problem (I have lots and lots of USB-A devices, while the only USB-C device in my house is my wife's Android phone, so like almost everyone else I had "no compelling reason" to want a device with any USB-C ports,
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by asark 8y ago
I've found PBS' scattershot streaming strategy really frustrating. There are a few new things I'd like access to, and some of the older programing that's still unmatched (pre-Elmo-takeover Sesame Street, Mister Rogers&#x
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by asark 8y ago
If this one makes it clear what is and isn't available if I pay for the service, isn't full of useless "clips" crowding out real content, and lets me filter out stuff that's just Youtube videos, I'll take it ov
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by asark 8y ago
> You don't see the partisan crap that occupies subscription TV in the US. Well, aside from all these stations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Broadcast_Group
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by asark 8y ago
My understanding is it's an insurance thing. As in, the owners' insurance rates would be crazy-high if they didn't drug test (at least) anyone operating machinery.
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by asark 8y ago
When I had one on my car for a while (my wife signed us up for it with our new insurance, had to leave it on for a couple months) I had to struggle with driving safely and trying to keep that stupid thing happy (often by guesswork). If no-o

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