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by ben1040 8y ago
My problem with noise canceling headphones is that while you can use them just for their ANC and have no music playing, it gets extra uncomfortable. My brain can't handle feeling sound pressure on my ears from the ANC, but not hearin
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by ben1040 9y ago
Remote job #3 so far for me, and networking in various ways greased the wheels for it significantly. 1) went to a local tech meetup, spoke a few times and attended regularly. The organizer for the meetup worked remotely for the company, the
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by ben1040 9y ago
Great blog post bringing this comparison up about unlimited salary (original version seems gone now): http://archive.fo/ByJ8X It really makes sense -- you wouldn't leave it up to your line manager to decide ad hoc &quo
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by ben1040 9y ago
I worked for a US company that gave you an accrual of one sick day every month, with a maximum accrual of 120 days on the books. Sick days could be "verified" by presenting a doctor's note when you come back to work, or unver
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by ben1040 9y ago
Worked for a (now defunct) Silicon Valley company that did this. My experience also really turned me off to the whole idea. The problem was that it was not clearly defined across the company how much vacation was too much or too little, an
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by ben1040 9y ago
I realized the only other time I'd heard of the Multia was from Slashdot posts from nearly 20 years ago. https://tech.slashdot.org/story/99/08/02/0219235/free-multia...
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by ben1040 9y ago
>Also you couldn't just say "stop until I say start," but rather you had to login every 2 weeks to keep clicking "Skip delivery." Wow, I thought this "negative-option delivery" business practice went ou
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by ben1040 9y ago
Little kids don't observe common-sense safety measures, and can dart out behind a car before a parent even realizes what's happening. Also the cameras usually have fairly wide-angle lenses. In situations like backing out of a spot
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by ben1040 9y ago
Yep. The majority of our purchases at my house are now delivered via Amazon Flex, which is the name for their services that contracts ordinary people to deliver using their personal vehicles. The degree of professionalism here is lacking, c
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by ben1040 9y ago
https://twitter.com/TheRealBuzz/status/627895978796916736 ? See also, the joke "customs declaration" filed by the Apollo 11 astronauts.
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by ben1040 9y ago
I see that here in the US as well. Ads for fast food restaurants or movies, quite often. Interacting with the ad would navigate you to the nearest restaurant, or theatre playing that film.
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by ben1040 9y ago
I took some glassblowing classes and the first day safety lecture included a bit about this. Eye protection, closed toe shoes, and cotton clothes, precisely for this reason. Especially when we were first learning, it was easier than you mig
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by ben1040 9y ago
Yep. I got multiple U2F keys. One is on my keychain, another is in a drawer in my desk, and a third is in a safety deposit box at the bank with my other important documents.
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by ben1040 9y ago
>I'm not sure why they gave me a RFID card for it. The card is for crossing the border via car. You can use Global Entry at the NEXUS (when arriving from Canada) and SENTRI (inbound from Mexico) lanes, and the procedure there is you
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by ben1040 9y ago
Pretty much this. I live in St. Louis. I've got 15 years' career experience, the last 5 of which were remote; I've been able to do impactful work for major east coast and west coast names you've definitely heard of. It&
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TechShop to Reopen Locations Through Asset Acquisition(makezine.com)
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by ben1040 9y ago
A while ago I took glassblowing course at Jim McKelvey's glass studio in St. Louis. McKelvey co-founded Square -- he was selling these amazing glass faucet spouts[1], and he lost a $2500 sale one day because a lady wanted to pay with
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by ben1040 9y ago
They were originally only on wal-mart.com, and have held that domain since 1991. walmart.com was held by "World At Large" until later, looks like 2001-ish. Walmart's branding still used the hyphen (as "Wal-Mart")
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by ben1040 9y ago
Yeah, used to be you'd get a free subscription if you registered an account with a *.edu email address, but a couple weeks ago they announced this would discontinue effective December 31 of this year.
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by ben1040 9y ago
I was just thinking about how I bought a G5 Thanksgiving weekend back in 2004. I bought the base configuration. It came with only 256MB of RAM, which honestly was a criminally low amount for that size of machine. My wimpy 12" Powerboo
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by ben1040 9y ago
I had one of the Xeon Mac Pros and got way more use out of it than I expected after putting in an SSD. It felt like a brand new computer. It was an "Early 2008" model and I finally replaced it in 2015.
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by ben1040 9y ago
And here I thought the $90/hour late fee that my child's school imposes was steep (they charge $15 for every 5 minutes after 5:45 PM).
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by ben1040 9y ago
Meanwhile when they opened up the application process for anyone to request verification, they made the implication that a verified account was a "high quality" account you might want to follow. https://www.prnewswire.c
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by ben1040 9y ago
I used to work in biotech and we were using Aspera to transfer 200-300GB genomics files up to the NIH's central repository, because FTP stopped cutting it at that scale. http://asperasoft.com/
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by ben1040 9y ago
36 here. I'm happier in my job than I ever have been. I'm working for bigger names, on bigger projects, for way more money than even 5 years ago.
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by ben1040 9y ago
Is $3-4 is a fair price for access to a song, at a time when Apple was selling it for a dollar? You couldn't connect a phone to Verizon's network unless Verizon sold it to you. The phones they sold had the firmware configured to p
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by ben1040 9y ago
I'm 99% sure that's why my favorite bar refuses to take cards. OTOH they had a break-in and someone walked off with their safe that had like a week's worth of cash revenue in it. Almost put them under. You'd think they&
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by ben1040 9y ago
Brings to mind the Canadian government's official wordmark: https://www.canada.ca/en/treasury-board-secretariat/services... It's simple, yet clever (the "D" in Canada is a flagpole!) and you se
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by ben1040 9y ago
I was in Sweden last week and this caught me by surprise. A significant number of the restaurants and shops I visited had signs indicating cash only. I'm used to the US pattern where businesses prefer cash, to the point of refusing to
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by ben1040 9y ago
I really had no idea how much the actual "unit cost" of a call to customer service was until I worked on a consumer-facing app for a company that also had a large call center. One of our metrics of how well our app worked was how

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