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I wouldn't WANT the email, but wouldn't be surprised by it. Its actually less offensive to email sooner. If you email me 6 months after I signed up just to check something out, I probably won't remember what the service was a
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They don't support cycling license keys, as we discovered yesterday. What a mess. Can anyone suggest any alternatives?
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Except for the whole thing where it's illegal to record someone without their explicit consent.
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Yes, HR acts in the company's best interests, not yours. However, if you ever want to be able to pursue legal claims against a company for actions such as permitting harassment, or firing you in retribution for it, you need to be able
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It's got a network-effect moat. The terminal isn't just a way to get information. It's a communication platform for members of the financial industry. And all the people they want to talk to are already there.
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They died because the web is so large that it's somewhere between cost-prohibitive and impossible to index directory-style manually (which is how directories used to be maintained). And nobody's come up with a way to automate it t
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I use Firefox as my default, Safari for apps that crawl in Firefox. I too look around for alternatives once or twice a year. I recently force-enabled multiprocess FF on a machine that usually crawls due to memory starvation, and it's f
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Virtually nobody in the US would be able to distinguish members of different Indian castes. And we don't have castes of our own here. (One can argue that to a degree race in the US operates a bit like a caste system. And even the most
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On the flip side, studies have shown that women are less likely to be taken seriously when bringing a medical concern or complaint to a doctor. Which might suggest that women are under-diagnosed compared to men.
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The breast cancer movement was started because at the time, male-only cancers (such as prostate and testicular cancers) were getting far more funding and research, while breast cancer was essentially being ignored despite being at least an
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Do you make a distinction between "abandoned" and "deliberately turned over to other primary maintainers"?
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This article makes a major point that a lot of comments seem to be missing. She's criticizing how people get pigeonholed -- not just early in their careers but early in childhood -- as being "math people" or "physics peo
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There are some tools you can use to populate a local database with dummy data. Django's support for model introspection makes it especially easy. I'm on my phone and can't remember the name of the tool I last used for that, b
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We integrate continuously; deploy to staging almost continuously (probably averages 2x/day per developer); deploy to production 1-3x/week (once we automate that it'll probably be daily or 2x/day on average).
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Wikipedia barely scratches the surface of the scientific knowledge that would be lost in a breakdown of civilization. It also requires a certain level of technology to be able to read a digital version, or a large warehouse to store a print
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4-day week, no contest. I'd probably do it for 67% salary, tbh.
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If they're refusing to pay you, as mentioned in a comment, get a lawyer. Now. The lawyer can help you recover your wages AND advise you about the legal implications of both your and the company's handling of the code, and of any a
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Try cutting out caffeine entirely, starting 10 hours before bedtime each day. It will improve your sleep quality. Also, see if you can figure out what your sleep cycle length is. For most of us it's somewhere around 90 minutes, roughly
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When I've been the vendor, the most appreciated gifts have been food that this person can choose to either bring home or share with their office. I don't need more knick-knacks, but being able to put a smile on my co-workers faces
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What are those questions?
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I wish the managers earlier in my career had given me 1-1s. Done right, they can really accelerate your career development and help you get more out of your job, as well as be a better employee. 1-1s and being available/approachable ar
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I have just about zero interest in having an AI agent right now, but that would alleviate one of my myriad reservations.
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I always think those standard of living comparisons do NYC a disservice. They generally include the cost of keeping a car, which most people in those other cities do but very few New Yorkers do. And a monthly metrocard is far cheaper and fr
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To me, throwaway has nothing to do with the fake internet points. It's for keeping my main account anonymous if I want to post a question or answer that could easily be used to identify me or link my primary account to one of my other
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Yes, you should get someone to do a code review. Ideally, you should make this part of the ongoing process so that design and architecture problems can be caught early, while its easier to unravel them. For the code review, plan to hire som
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Water. If you can wean yourself off your caffeine dependency, being well hydrated will keep you awake better than caffeine - without crashes, withdrawals, or ill effects on your sleep. Sugary caffeinated drinks will compound the high->cr
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That simplification results in an enormous exaggeration of the benefits. The actual result is between $25-30k. Assuming the rate of return is steady (which it's unlikely to be). Which isn't an awful return on $6k total investment,
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I'd be thrilled if I could flip a switch and make our DB 10x faster. It's currently our performance bottleneck. However, migrating an existing production DB (especially to an unproven technology) is no small matter. And even just
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We were locked into an Atlassian stack when they discontinued Bamboo and Pipelines wasn't ready for production (nor a good fit for us). We ended up going with a service called Buildkite, which is almost a drop-in replacement. They even
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Why not do both? Set yourself a schedule. Marketable skills Monday and Thursday. Fun project Tuesday and Friday. Hobbies Wednesday and Saturday. Sundays whatever you feel like, or nothing.

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