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by brtkdotse 2y ago
Negotiation start and stop with BATNA - Best Alternative To Negotiated Agreement. The employers BATNA is they go to the pool of 35 other candidates. Yours is you go back to your job. If your job hunting first when your sick to death of your
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
Never mind AI, I just want Siri to have better text-to-speech quality than my freaking vacuum cleaner.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> McKinsey asked us for lots of information. Then they put it into a dossier and gave it back to us." To be fair, that’s exactly what a psychologist does
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
Is WordPress even used for blogging anymore? In my view it’s more akin to Emacs or Jira - a platform to build whatever you want that out of the box just happens to be configured as a blog/text editor/bug tracker. I’d say this is t
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
It’s weird how different cultures can be. I’m in Sweden and never had a boss with less than 30 reports.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
I’ve had great luck with the Thinkpad P14s range with AMD CPUs. Cost around 30-40% of a MacBook and get me around 6-7 hours as my daily driver
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
Jonathan’s stuff I awesome _however_ if you’re someone who slings code for a living you’ll probably have a hard time implementing his ideas.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> next consumer electronics platform I really hope this isn’t the case. We have enough screens around us as is, the last thing I want is screens pressed up against my eyeballs
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
Y'all should look at the rest of the site. This is written by a content farm. These kinds of "blogs" serve the purspose of building up authority with google by writing waffer thin but linkable articles (as shown by it appeari
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
”I better buy a smaller clothes now in case I suddenly lose weight next week”
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> The SQL database is probably the hardest part to scale Use an ORM and SQLite, I bet you a beer that you won’t hit the perf ceiling before getting bored of your project.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
If you’re a billionaire EVERYTHING is fantastic.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
I’d like something like this, but instead of bypassing the paywalls and stealing the articles it’d pay a few cents for each article and charge me at the end of the month. I really, really want to pay but I really, really don’t want to s
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> endless hours of enjoyment from buying/selling I get a bunch of satisfaction purchasing used high end gear, owning it for a few months and then selling it for more or less what I bought it for. I usually get some nice social inter
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> However, I do think there is a case to be made for falling into the trap of being more interested in the gear than the thing you're meant to do with the gear. Is that such a bad thing? It’s supposed to be a hobby, if geeking out o
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Gen Z job seekers should be 'willing to do anything,' says Squarespace CMO(fortune.com)
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
As someone who got started with web dev by sending HTML over HTTP I marvel about the ways modern web devs contort themselves to be able to send json instead.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
That’s comforting in some sense. Got a link or a graph I can use to propagate these news?
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
Good old fashioned server wrangling, since the pendulum will be back in full swing from “cloud” back to “on-prem”.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
I thought the vote was happening today?
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
I’ve tried switching from Windows to MacOS three times over the past few years and each time I run up against the wall of having to research, choose and purchase small utilities to fix things that I never in a million years would’ve guessed
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> So they want to use your freelancing profiles (Upwork, fiverr, etc) your IP address (Using TeamViewer), and your US bank accounts to secure those contracts. They'll split the profits with you 50/50. All you have to do is let
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> You'll see people promoting Laravel as faster and cheaper than say C# Faster in what way? Cheaper in what way?
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> 95% of businesses never become unicorns, but that's the goal for most Is it really the general case or is it just a HN echo chamber meme? My pet peeve is that patterns used by companies that in theory could become global unicorns
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
> Do European countries require printing pictures of diseased lungs on the side of cigarette boxes? They do.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
I think .NET has gotten, or rather failed to shake off, a reputation as slow and Windows-only. It's very powerful, the tooling is free and best-in-class, self hosting on a cheap Linux VPS is trivial and the framework itself includes al
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
It’s pretty eye brow raising if true, got a source for that?
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
They're just phoning it in these days and going full EA FIFA-playbook.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
Or, you know, don't risk losing a finger to prove How Great The Truck Is.
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by brtkdotse 2y ago
Value pricing is just entrepreneurial fan fiction unless you happen to be in a niche where that is possible. Run-of-the-mill dev work is not it.

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