chrisbennet

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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I think only Y Combinator companies can post "Is Hiring" ads. Everyone else posts job ads on the once a month "Ask HN: Who's Hiring" list.
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
If you're in the US, could you contact your representative about your experience? The government is starting the wake up to abuses like this and you might find a receptive audience. At the very least, Amazon might suddenly talk to you
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
As a data point, my 2006 (carbon frame) Ibis Mojo mountain bike has seen quite a few crashes (in the woods) without sustaining any real damage. Maybe mountain bikes are less delicate?
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I always wanted to say "How did you get the Attorneys Generals personal cell #???"
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I couldn't read the article but as an aside, a charity is a non-profit but a non-profit isn't necessarily a charity. https://www.medicaleconomics.com/view/how-nonprofit-hospital... Data point: My father wante
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I seem to remember that they install Superfish only on their consumer laptops, not the professional ones (i.e. Thinkpads). I have switched from Dell XPS's to Lenova X1's (A couple of X1 Carbon's for Linux and one X1 Extreme
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I'm so happy for them! (Let's just say I have intimate knowledge of what they are going through.)
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
Suggestion: Don't call yourself "A jack of all trades." When you call yourself that, some people/interviewers will add "master of none" mentally. Call yourself a "Swiss army knife" or something.
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
This may be apocryphal, but I recall a story from many years ago of a glitching CRT terminal. The manufacture replaced it with another but the new did the same thing so they sent someone to the customers site to see what was going on. That&
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
This is awesome! Anything you can tell me/us about how you made it?
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I used to use VisualGDB but now that Visual Studio (not VS Code) supports embedded, I use that.
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I have a couple of used Aerons and I really like them. I have aftermarket 3" castors on mine that work better on carpet. I bought them from a brick-and-mortar shop so I could test them out, see if a wheel was sticky, etc.
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
As an aside, be sure not to charge "just enough" but instead charge "a lot". I have a similar years of experience to you (35yrs). I charge $150-200 hour in the New England area. You never want to compete on price.
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I'll add that Patrick McKenzie is our very own "patio11" on HN.
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
Matt is great and I have no interest in trading/finance. BTW: You don't have to subscribe to Bloomberg to get his column. You can sign up to have it emailed to you.
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
Hacker news is not your advertising venue. “I see your yard is right on the corner, perfect for my signs!”
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
Aah, I see what you did there. :-)
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I must have read something - maybe on hacker news. :-) “Figured out” was a poor choice of words because I didn’t have an epiphany, “learned”would be more accurate.
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
This is true. When you are younger and inexperienced, you believe fact will change people's minds. This is just not true. I didn't figure this out until I was in my 50's. It is very important for some people to convince oth
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
How did your employer treat other employees that gave their notice? I would let that guide your actions. Did they march them out with security and cut off their network access? Did they let them finish out their 2 weeks notice helping wrap
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
It was explained to me once that [at least in New Hampshire, USA] common law marriage has something to do with the principle of estoppel . Estoppel is the principal that if you do something repeatedly, you would be expected to do it in the
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
My default state is "unreasonably happy" but my latest "generosity" was making A couple of what I call "Porsche house calls" to help fix a friend's car. He's an hour away. Before I got sick, I used to
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
You need to view this transaction for what it really is: a "value for value exchange". They aren't "giving you a job" they are exchanging (mostly) money for your precious time. If you have a lot of relevant experi
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
That's amazing. I used to swim with this eel and a bass(?) sometimes one summer. The eel would swim near the bottom and the bass would swim above him a foot or two. I imagine the eel would flush out prey the bass would eat. I'm no
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
Look for a youtube "Dirty Money HSBC" for news stories about HSBC's money laundering. Why no prosecution for HSBC money laundering? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C05S0pVKQE
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I'm friends with everyone I know, including my managers, if I've had some sort of extended contact. I went kayaking with my last manager for instance. I've even made friends during interviews (where I didn't take the j
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
Reminds me of Jack Sock vs. Lleyton Hewitt act of sportsmanship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvhLq09FaZg
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I doubt Snowden was ignorant about what happened to those who "followed the rules". Their lives were ruined and nothing changed. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/22/how-pentagon... .
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
I never hear about this one: "DesignSpark Mechanical" Its a great solid modeler IMO. It exports .STL, 2D Autocad .DXF's and .PDF's. https://www.rs-online.com/designspark/mechanical-software It'
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by chrisbennet 6y ago
All the time! I mostly take pictures on my iphone and email them to myself. It bothers me that the iPhone's "send to" (or whatever it's called) does not put my email in the "recent email addresses" choices even

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