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by cimmanom 8y ago
Yup. Someone telling us that programming was something for us - not just being exposed to media and advertising and social pressures that continually suggest (and did even more so in the 80's and 90's) that computing was for soci
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by cimmanom 8y ago
To be fair, it failed in part because fares were frozen without being subsidized. Of course, the fare freeze happened for a good reason: a city where people can't afford to get around is a city whose economy can't operate. (Let t
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The way some people approach the status quo as normative or inevitable.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
As a bus rider who uses apps to track expected arrival times (not to be confused with scheduled arrival times), here are some thoughts: Timing when you leave the house/office to catch the bus matters a lot more when weather is miserabl
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Yeah, JavaScript also has too many names for the language itself. I mean, I search for “Django” or “Python 3” instead of “Python” half the time. But with JS, if I’m looking for info about the language itself it’s usually with the keyword “E
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Ask HN: What Do You Do When Your Phone Is in the Shop for Repair?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
You need a system, not a tool. Once you have a system, you can find the tool (or more likely, small set of tools) that help you best implement it. My system is loosely based on Getting Things Done (GTD). At different times over the last 15
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Yup. Or the nicotine patch.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The same way you’d manage any other group of engineers. Which depends a lot on company context, team composition, personalities, and goals. This is a really vague question.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The only ones I use you might think of as command line tools. top. Apache’s monitoring tools via Lynx. Etc. What I like about them is that they’re information-dense and extremely performant; and a bit more discoverable than a CLI. What I di
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Uptime
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Ah. SF = Special Forces.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
SF?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I ask for monthly or quarterly check-ins with my manager. That way we can make sure to discuss issues while they’re fresh and address them before they get out of hand. Plus, come annual review time, there are no surprises.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The Apple App Store will collect sales tax on your behalf, I believe. Not sure about the Play store. Income taxes are almost certainly an issue. I’d suggest finding a few tax accountants and asking for free 20-min consultations to a) quickl
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Working fine for me on mobile safari. Sometimes someone will post a long headline that doesn’t wrap, which makes the list pages miserable to browse until you click “hide” under the offending post.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Yes, it’s the manager’s ultimate responsibility. But it’s not only the manager’s job. Every team member, and especially those with more experience, has a responsibility to ensure the team communicates and operates cooperatively and effectiv
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I think this list is great. As AI begins to be applied to problems like driving that affect the real world instead of just information, I’d add: Ethical use of AI should not create negative externalities - negative impacts on people other t
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by cimmanom 8y ago
The lack of dedicated key is probably an artifact of the typewriter origins of the keyboard, where the paper moves under the cursor as you type, and it’s somewhere between difficult and nonsensical to move forwards rather than backwards thr
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I have friends who do audio transcription and medical data entry. Ive heard some customer support centers are also hiring people to field calls from home, which has been corroborated by interactions with some financial providers’ customer s
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by cimmanom 8y ago
I’m able to do two things at once if one uses the language processing centers of my brain and the other uses motor memory and neither is particularly demanding of concentration. That’s about it. Either or both can use a bit of visual proces
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Getting off transit a few stops early and walking a mile and a half to work; doing the inverse in the evening. It helps that most of that last mile is through a lovely park.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
It’s perfectly reasonable to say something like “after working together for a few months we determined that we didn’t really ‘click’ as a founding team and decided to go our separate ways.” That’s something that happens all the time, and yo
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Presumably productivity is roughly money saved on rent, plus appreciation, minus taxes and maintenance costs.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Are these questions prompted by a specific observation or experience?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
That’s not enough when the way the country’s election districts are set gives the Republican Party a heavy advantage at the polls (even without district level gerrymandering - the state boundaries alone are enough to accomplish that in the
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by cimmanom 8y ago
OK, that's a descriptive explanation. That doesn't mean it should be normative.
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Um, is this sarcastic? Maybe because Instagram millionaires are about as common as sports millionaires? Maybe because beauty fades, and doesn’t make for much of a career past age 35? Maybe because not every woman is conventionally beautiful
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by cimmanom 8y ago
What problem would this solve?
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by cimmanom 8y ago
Because they are explicitly preventing the whole thing from staying in memory to make it more difficult to download/pirate.

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