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by bbarn 5y ago
It depend on the person, and it depends on the job. The article does a lot of dancing around that obvious fact.
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by bbarn 5y ago
You sound really fun at parties.
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by bbarn 5y ago
Micropayment are a non-starter, and even if they weren't, you'd still have ads. There are companies lined up willing to pay money to show you something they want to sell you, and even if your favorite news site was micropayment e
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by bbarn 5y ago
Moved from the US to Iceland. I thought plastic waste was bad before I got here, until I went to the meat and produce sections of the grocery store here.
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by bbarn 5y ago
Didn't read the article (paywalled) but I'm commenting on the context of the title. People have been saying this for years, but Intuit has invested billions in fighting the idea off. https://www.propublica.org/arti
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by bbarn 5y ago
Here's a problem I didn't realize existed since my iPhones have been on vibrate for the last ten years.
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by bbarn 5y ago
To be fair, you're on a forum of largely highly technical people. If every one of us pirated movies and music, we still don't make a dent in the overall market.
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by bbarn 5y ago
Cinemas and Movie theatres are going the way of drive-in theatres. The only ones that will survive are those offering some feeling of nostalgia, and small independent ones with incredibly low overhead. Outside of dating, why spend that muc
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by bbarn 5y ago
I quite like Duolingo at the start. They did an excellent technical presentation at one of the AWS events I attended, and I think they were doing some really innovative stuff. If I recall correctly, their original model was to have more a
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by bbarn 5y ago
The concept rendering made me ask the same question. I have cargo ships parked out my windows, and that's a lot of space.
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by bbarn 5y ago
As a hiring manager, if someone did this, I would just feel bad for the person who was on their way to me, that they had to work with people like that.
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by bbarn 5y ago
Oh, cool. Something else I can put in the no longer supported pile with my PocketCHIP.
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by bbarn 5y ago
"never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity"
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by bbarn 5y ago
Yeah, your loud pipes don't help the fact that most people can't handle driving without intentionally distracting themselves with music, apps, or phone calls. Driving a car is too easy a task and requires just enough focus that p
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by bbarn 5y ago
With that attitude, only the most elite and large companies would even consider it. It's not that you need someone with a handicap, it's simply that you need to consider them when you're building something.
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by bbarn 5y ago
What about the "guilt effect" of showing that the high price is mostly because of the labor costs involved. Wouldn't that potentially dirty your experiment of just showing "cost" vs. involving a human element?
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by bbarn 5y ago
I really don't think the message of this article matches the state of the industry today. Annual bonuses in many companies - especially in the tech industry - are practically considered part of your compensation, and often times base
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by bbarn 5y ago
They also tend to overlook the fact that most Scandinavian countries are incredibly homogenous, which helps with adoption of socialist practices.
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by bbarn 5y ago
I moved to Iceland a year ago, and brought my PC and my laptop with me. I am confounded by icelandic (nordic in general) keyboards. I can understand their use for a non-technical person, but even keys such as @ are obscured behind "A
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by bbarn 5y ago
Question then - what do you use functionally to replace "Escape" in your daily use? As a native English-speaking engineer, the escape button has a history of doing exactly what you're suggesting it not do going back to the b
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by bbarn 6y ago
> there is this a significant intersection between career changers/developers coming from non traditional backgrounds (i.e. people with no CS degree) and minorities. Put your money where your fucking mouths are and hire these people
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by bbarn 6y ago
The day I proposed to my wife on a beach north of Monterey, we found a nearly perfect abalone shell on the beach. To this day she uses it to store her jewelry in. Saddens me to think that no one else will ever find one of these mother of
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by bbarn 6y ago
The cause of the wasting symptom is still unknown, that's why the link in the article leads to a school that is looking for specimens to analyze. It would be very surprising, to me at least, to find ultimately humans did not contribute
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by bbarn 6y ago
Funny, I've spent entirely too much on the one I have in the US because it has a temperature control. I want my tea and coffee at hot, but below boiling so it doesn't wreck my mouth. He calls it a bonus but it's the one fea
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by bbarn 6y ago
Funny how Microsoft's including a useful tool for you know, getting on the internet, with their OS was the subject of an anti-trust suit just a few decades ago and now it's ok to force users to purchase all apps from the apple sto
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by bbarn 6y ago
"Better" is certainly a point of view here. Having to tell the government all of your whereabouts when you already live on an Island with no spreading is an overreach, IMO.
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by bbarn 6y ago
A lot of the time, that's ok. A few people in the know want to avoid a lengthy and wasteful evaluation process for the product or company they already feel confident will meet their needs. Or worse, they're afraid someone might
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by bbarn 6y ago
Who defines far? Who defines meme'ing?
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by bbarn 6y ago
Your body has several devices to filter out non-digestible matter of different sizes. Once filtered - they get stuck, mechanically, for lack of a better term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subs
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by bbarn 6y ago
Yeah, If it gets babied and my wife never touched it. The reality is the tip is likely to get chipped, she'll forget it's the nice one and toss it in the dishwasher, etc., and it'll wear out.

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