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by cmckn 4y ago
Entirely lacking details; but I don’t think anyone would be surprised at this point that shady things were happening at Terra Labs.
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by cmckn 4y ago
As others have pointed out, even if all these devices have a USB-C hole on them, the likelihood that you could actually use their charger with another device (especially of a different class) is at best a coin toss. The devices still have t
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by cmckn 4y ago
I kind of understand this from an e-waste angle, but why (as a consumer) do I care if different phones use the same cable? I only have one phone. Even if I get a new phone every year, unless I’m switching back and forth between iPhones and
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by cmckn 4y ago
More power to you, but that sounds like a pretty inflated title to (not staff) me.
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by cmckn 4y ago
There was a thundering herd e-mail at Amazon about 10 years ago that I’ve heard stories about. It went on for days. There’s a funny internal talk with lots of data about it, maybe it’s on YouTube by now…
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by cmckn 4y ago
It’s kind of like a payday loan type of micro-lending that integrates with merchants similarly to PayPal. I’ve never understood the appeal, it feels super predatory. But most creditors do, I guess. I first heard of it a few years ago when t
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by cmckn 4y ago
Throwing money at a problem is an easy thing to do, if you’ve got the money. Lock-in sucks, but having someone to blame doesn’t. A friend uses VMWare in an IT role at a medium sized company. They don’t have a software engineering team, just
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by cmckn 4y ago
Maybe I'm still misunderstanding the situation; but if you graduate college and then don't get a job for 3 years, I don't think that's going to help you get interviews.
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by cmckn 4y ago
> To be honest is my first time job hunting since I graduated in 2019. Do you mean you’re leaving your first job after ~3 years or there’s been a gap in your resume?
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by cmckn 4y ago
> minting $1 worth of Luna One thing I’m not clear on: what oracle is deciding how much Luna is worth $1? How do you calculate a market price in a manner that the chain itself can rely on to function? I assume there is a smart contract d
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by cmckn 4y ago
It sounds like there’s a torrent of gossip in your neighborhood about you, and I’m really sorry you have to suffer the consequences. Have any of the parents at the park ever just…chatted with you while the kids play? Its very strange that e
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by cmckn 4y ago
> Apple's annoying tendency to keep an app running when you close the last window This is…just how macOS works. Windows applications (generally) tie their lifecycle to the existence of a window, but Macs have a different paradigm: t
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by cmckn 4y ago
My first iPod was the 1st generation Nano. I still think it's one of the most beautiful products ever made. I'll miss the iPod era; they really were just magical products, and probably the reason I became interested in the Mac.
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by cmckn 4y ago
Posting this at 5pm on a Friday sounds about right, yeah?
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by cmckn 4y ago
Responses here are really surprising to me. Should a Google hiring committee consider your search history, too? What's lacking from this conversation is any definition of what behavior we're actually talking about , and the concl
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by cmckn 4y ago
> they consider beneath them It's this kind of inference that doesn't belong on a hiring committee; you likely don't have enough data to support this kind of conclusion about a person. The parent comment made a similar ass
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by cmckn 4y ago
Hm, I don't dig this. I don't think it's ethical to evaluate a candidate's interactions when they weren't informed they were being evaluated. People are stressed heading into an interview, and may be upset afterward
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by cmckn 4y ago
Absolutely. Java Lambdas are often particularly bad in this respect; all the nice abstractions and class hierarchies seem to go out the window as soon as one “implements RequestHandler”. Everything is a singleton all of a sudden, environmen
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by cmckn 4y ago
When I moved states, I had to fly with my rabbit. At the time, Alaska Airlines was the only carrier that would allow a rabbit in the cabin. I thought that was odd, considering a rabbit would indubitably make less of a commotion than a cat o
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by cmckn 4y ago
Twitter has not been available in China since 2009. I think the CCP is much more interested in controlling what Chinese citizens see than what foreigners say in other countries. Still, interesting to think about.
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by cmckn 4y ago
Sounds like you haven’t given up on your ‘dream’ if you’re currently still grinding to attain it. Hate to break it to you, but many, many people raise kids and own a home with way less than $135k, even in your area. If you don’t want to att
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by cmckn 5y ago
I think many single-season Netflix shows would have been movies 15 years ago. But many types of films just don't get made anymore, and many directors and performers would rather work on series. I’d still watch a show with one season, j
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by cmckn 5y ago
I think they're making money, sure; but the promoted content on Snapchat is a total tabloid cesspool of click-bait garbage. I'd rather see ads for the Amazon product I bought last week, tbh.
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by cmckn 5y ago
I got the impression that Zucker was advocating for the streaming service in part to pad his own resume and gain a tactical position at the merged company.
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by cmckn 5y ago
I take your point; but I don’t think features on an in-browser map are ever small enough for compression artifacts to ruin the integrity of the map.
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by cmckn 5y ago
This was not a case of inappropriate access. This employee learned the identity of the account holder while working at Twitter . They later left the company. You can't erase confidential information from people's memory during &q
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by cmckn 5y ago
We're hardly the first people to complain about this, but it drives me nuts. I rarely delete messages (for better or worse), so I have an ever-growing iMessage database that is basically inaccessible to me. I don't know why I pay
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by cmckn 5y ago
It’s my understanding that this was a former employee not acting in official capacity; who likely violated their NDA.
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by cmckn 5y ago
Well, any hot table should be indexed (with regards to your access patterns) and, thankfully, the data structures used to implement tables and indexes don't behave linearly :) Of course, if your application rarely makes use of older ro
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by cmckn 5y ago
I tried this, but after missing a handful of important calls from doctors offices, banks, etc. I had to allow unknown callers. It’s unfortunate that regulators in the US seem to have no desire to actually solve this problem.

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