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by beachy 4y ago
It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who has been swimming naked. Warren Buffett
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by beachy 4y ago
What? I can see their property from mine and it's a rich forest thanks largely to their work. I don't understand where you are coming from.
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by beachy 4y ago
> People deserve a chance to live, no matter what their lifestyle. I disagree, though I'm aware it's perhaps an unusual position to take and I would selfishly fight tooth and nail if my family were threatened. There will never
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by beachy 4y ago
> As I see it, you might as well have photos of an opium den with some heroin needles lined up for the customer's use Clearly you have never been in an opium den (nor have I, but I know people who have). The patrons smoke the opium
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by beachy 4y ago
Yikes! I understand the psych testing is quite thorough before you can work there, so that's a good catch.
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by beachy 4y ago
> If you seek any goods or services in today's world, if you use any aspect of industrial civilization, you're contributing to the warming of the planet. That's not always true. My neighbours are true eco warriors. They ha
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by beachy 4y ago
This "everything old is new again" stuff gets a bit much sometimes. Of course having ability to do strict typing is a good way to avoid bugs and write reliable code. This is not news.
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by beachy 4y ago
Yep. Why even consider geoengineering while we're still pouring fucking CO2 into the air? If we can't stop increasing the damage, we don't deserve to continue as a species.
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by beachy 4y ago
Two people I know met their partners while working at Antarctica. Plenty of social life I guess.
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by beachy 4y ago
Elon is not an Oligarch, unless the US is an Oligarchy (it's not). > An oligarch is one of the select few people who rule or influence leaders in an oligarchy—a government in which power is held by a select few individuals or a smal
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by beachy 4y ago
> To assume Elon has simply discarded the issue of accessibility altogether is to me the least likely assumption. Yep indeed, it could be that Musk doesn't really know who does what at Twitter, nor which teams are effective or not.
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by beachy 4y ago
Well I said "could surface this... effectively", and I don't know if this primitive experiment achieves that, but point taken
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by beachy 4y ago
Wooooaah. I don't know about this service, but I feel there would be a lot of value in having a person to bounce things off in real time / help with unblocking when things get challenging. Would that also be complete bullshit? Are
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by beachy 4y ago
> I think there’s a massive difference between correcting something that is untrue, and just deciding you want to have your own say because the truth isn’t representative of what you feel is the broader issue. Well stated. I think the jo
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by beachy 4y ago
I don't know much about Vine, but anecdotally I have ended up spending way too much time on YouTube reels, and have also now been drawn into the equivalent on Facebook, whatever that's called, and I barely use FB. So I don't
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by beachy 4y ago
I doubt I'll ever get to touch a kakapo, but we live in a part of New Zealand where kiwi releases happen every so often, and the kids (and bigger people) get to touch the kiwi as they are released into the wild(with radio trackers atta
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by beachy 4y ago
> I credit Solarized with setting the baseline allowing proper "dark" themes to be more commonplace. Apart from the IBM 3279 color terminal, released in 1974, and literally hundreds of devices following (and maybe preceding) th
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by beachy 4y ago
> I once reviewed code for a company that got purchased. I took less than a few hours to reach conclusion. There were 7 developers and in 2 months only one was writing code. The entire team but that one developer was fired. Larry Ellison
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by beachy 4y ago
So true. Funny seeing people complain about sites that are not mobile friendly because they require pinch zooming. Pinch zoom is what makes sites like HN so much more mobile friendly than others!
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by beachy 4y ago
This should instead be labeled "the restaurant industry's worst implementation". Just last night we were trying to order from a restaurant that uses a service called qrfy.com for their menu. I assume from the URL that this se
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by beachy 4y ago
> Without tests, there’s a very strong possibility that your change will have broken some other, potentially unrelated feature. [...] > This is why I start every single one of my projects with a passing test. It doesn’t matter what th
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by beachy 4y ago
> But PayPal was running Oracle on IBM bigiron machines even after Musk left them. Oracle on IBM big iron is a pragmatic (but expensive) way to achieve a highly vertically scalable database platform. Not trendy at all but also not a bad
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by beachy 4y ago
Everyone jacked into their VT headsets, living from their couches, not leaving the house in a fossil fueled vehicle or recreating in a fossil fueled boat is maybe what our planet desperately needs
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by beachy 4y ago
You must always negotiate the parachute when joining (or perhaps, when staying) - when leaving it is too late.
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by beachy 4y ago
The things that annoy you the most about your partner will be the same things that you will miss the most when they are gone. I try and reflect on this advice when I am struggling to communicate with my wife. Having been divorced once I fee
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by beachy 4y ago
I wish that Twitter - or some other social network - would experiment with the type of moderation seen on HN. Some would maybe call it heavy handed but I think of HN as a place that is mercifully relatively free of trolling, outrage culture
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by beachy 4y ago
> You have a job that needs to be done. You can't pay FAANG wages. There was an article some time ago (can't find it now) that posited that one of the only points you can beat FAANG on is speed of hire. Having worked on recruit
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by beachy 4y ago
It's such a challenging problem developing the elevator pitch. For what it's worth (which is likely very little) the main takeaway I get from the above (in true HN style, without having read the article) is the call-out to knowled
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by beachy 4y ago
What a refreshingly honest LinkedIn profile. First time I've seen "left there very disillusioned" in someone's employment history.
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by beachy 4y ago
This is a verb between my grown son and I. "You're cat's cradling me, aren't you!"

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