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by bbarn 3y ago
Anyone who owns a house is going to have to "set up a dual home situation" I think. Houses don't sell overnight - and in this case I got an offer the day it went on the market. Still took almost a month to close. If you&#x2
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by bbarn 3y ago
Advice about what to do after you've already done something else isn't very useful, but when my wife and I moved internationally for her new job, we made sure to have it be a slow process. First she went, rented a short term apar
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by bbarn 4y ago
I mean, if you just use the metric of "care enough about my industry to follow news and discussion threads about it", HN is already going to filter bad out somewhat, I'd imagine. I don't assume it's the top half onl
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by bbarn 4y ago
How much storage do you need? Unless it's proof to the negative, which in most jurisdictions isn't something you'd ever need to prove, as the burden is on something occurring, after some amount of time most recordings are use
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by bbarn 4y ago
Not only that, but people continue to evolve the way they have (no pun intended) discourse. Email used to be the thing professionals and even friends out of reach did to message each other. I now use email effectively only for delivery co
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by bbarn 4y ago
This problem will only go away with regulation. Sadly the minds in our industry are so focused on "disrupting the system" that little progress has been made. In the US, Venmo, paypal, etc. are still a thing and in most of the wo
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by bbarn 4y ago
There's a dirt road connecting two neighborhoods in my area that google thinks is the most direct way to get across town. Unless you have a true off road 4x4 with a lifted suspension capable of climbing a 15% grade, you're going
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by bbarn 4y ago
I spent a good portion of my career in the insurance space, and got to the point I just won't work in that industry anymore. Not only because I think benefits coordination companies like you mention are awful, but also because of the
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by bbarn 4y ago
There's a scene in the hospital in that movie where a roomba-like machine is just moving back and forth saying "your floor is now clean". Broken tech devices has become something I constantly see now. We have all this junk
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by bbarn 4y ago
Sounds like a super fun project. Did you find one with the moving pages for album pictures or with the pink yellow and blue "ticket" like song listings, or? Those are so awesome, I can think of all kinds of fun ideas to retro-mo
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by bbarn 4y ago
Are the "business" class seats comfortable enough to sleep in? A sleeper car sounds posh, but 5x the cost, can you travel first class if you're able to nap on a plane typically?
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by bbarn 4y ago
There is at least one piece of research however, that shows wearing a bicycle helmet (or being a male) causes people in cars to pass more closely presumably with an assumption that you're less at risk. https://www.sciencedai
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by bbarn 4y ago
It also wastes time in hiring. If I'm looking for a senior developer, I don't want someone with three years of experience who killed it at their company and got rapidly promoted (now, that doesn't mean I don't want them
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by bbarn 4y ago
You mention Python and CMS - are there not thousands of Django development jobs out there? A quick search found them in high income areas and tons of remote positions as well. Even if you don't know Django itself, if you have python
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by bbarn 4y ago
The greatest scam perpetrated by tipping was the idea of it being a percentage of the cost of the product you ordered. This is why tipping still exists in America. Because there are urban restaurant workers, and busy bartenders being tippe
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by bbarn 4y ago
Just ate at a place in CA with an 18% automatic gratuity added, and a second line for "additional gratuity". Reminds me why I do all the cooking in my house.
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by bbarn 4y ago
With all the confusion though, at least we're fortunate there aren't too many long lived "fake" secure systems out there. The IT community seems to love to expose flaws and scams very publicly, very fast. All in all I t
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by bbarn 4y ago
The banner picture threw me off. I used to look at the silhouette of that island from my window on clear days and knew right away that was Iceland and not Norway.
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by bbarn 4y ago
Salary alone is an irrelevant number. 200K in some places won't let you have a nice apartment in a safe place, 100k in some places and you can live in a king with your own private kingdom.
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by bbarn 4y ago
It must be a much more straight forward process in Canada for small business. In the US, I have worked for a company sued twice for people claiming unpaid wages. I personally knew both to be fraudulent, and retaliatory for letting the per
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by bbarn 4y ago
React today, Angular before that, JQuery, Knockout, All the gloriously bloated .net AJAX controls from Webforms, etc. There's been ways to wrap AJAX calls pretty much since XMLHttpRequest was implemented. I'd argue "Wiring i
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by bbarn 4y ago
Miller is an interesting one. Ruled that only weapons of war were protected, and now we're hearing "weapons of war have no place with the people"
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by bbarn 4y ago
Disappointed to see Wim Hof method not mentioned in "Other techniques". You don't have to buy into the whole breathing as a lifestyle thing, but if you've ever jumped into frigid water, the simple act of breathing in thr
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by bbarn 4y ago
I see you haven't looked at the camper van market lately.
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by bbarn 4y ago
I'll be honest, most of the unit tests and integration tests I write are mostly because it's more fun than cranking out "features"
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by bbarn 4y ago
.net, and C# especially are absolutely fantastic tools for programming. The problem is just that they are embraced by large companies and that is where crappy engineers tend to congregate, in my experience. The bigger the company the easi
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by bbarn 4y ago
I get the same issues I did in the US here in Iceland, fwiw. I get the added bonus of no longer being able to use many voice activated features because names aren't phonetically pronounced or simply have characters that aren't rec
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by bbarn 4y ago
When you invest in a company like Tesla, you're investing your money and your trust that ultimately there will be a return. Would you be angry if he gave everyone a 2 week vacation as recognition for doing something good? Part of what
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by bbarn 4y ago
Uptime rates should have no connection to your work hours. 99.99% uptime does not mean you need to be on a meeting every night. Your manager is bad. Really bad. Becoming a manager doesn't mean you put on some ring and now you're
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by bbarn 4y ago
Anyone who wants the job of a cop, for the pay that it offers, should immediately be suspect. I have held this belief my adult life and see it proven time and time again. The only motivation to do that job with that level of stress is eith

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