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by coffeedan 3y ago
Tangential Counterpoint: I have no connection to this thing and also question its value, but… At least on iOS, I think calendar reminders (both native and gcal) are fundamentally broken. Their notifications easily get lost in a sea of other
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by coffeedan 3y ago
I get an error trying to enable notifications (on iPhone safari): undefined is not an object (evaluating 'swReg.pushManager.subscribe')
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by coffeedan 3y ago
On the east coast, Stop & Shop has the best self-checkout experience I've seen. You get a bar code scanner when you enter the store and scan and bag as you walk around. At checkout, you scan the reader, keep everything you already
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by coffeedan 3y ago
If only we could have predicted that: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/26/remote-wo...
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by coffeedan 3y ago
Finally! These H1Bs in India are living the 100% remote future that 99% of HN wants!
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by coffeedan 3y ago
> Office space is the single most expensive line-item on most companies financials Is it? Not payroll? Expensive commercial real estate in the US rents for $80/sq ft/year (source: https://www.matchoffice.com/new
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by coffeedan 3y ago
Easily fixed: Make your own damn coffee - it’s not that hard
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Working from Home, Worker Sorting and Development(news.mit.edu)
1 points by coffeedan 3y ago|0 comments
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by coffeedan 3y ago
>> If I am disrupted 5 times with 5 small things in an hour, that will slow me down significantly But those 5 people who interrupted you are no longer blocked. If they had to schedule a call with you tomorrow or the next day then the
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by coffeedan 3y ago
Can you list some of the thousands of reasons?
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by coffeedan 3y ago
Make mosquitoes extinct to make the area nicer for humans? Mosquitoes aren’t all bad: https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-would-happen-if-mosquitoes...
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Ask HN: For your work week, would you rather?
2 points by coffeedan 3y ago|5 comments
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by coffeedan 3y ago
The sources cited in the “710%” chart don’t seem to have any data to support the thesis. What is the source for this data? (see https://educationdata.org/student-loan-debt-statistics and https://www.pewtrusts.org
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by coffeedan 3y ago
This is an opportunity for more airline upcharges: * Reclining seat: +$50 * Seat behind a seat that can’t recline: +$75 * etc (90% joking, 10% terrified this could happen)
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by coffeedan 3y ago
To leave the FC each associate has to walk through a metal detector and empty their pockets. No bags are allowed in. These guys must have stuffed the games down their pants or something. Also, there are cameras everywhere. Mostly to figure
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by coffeedan 3y ago
Or you might win in court and collect. For thousands of dollars, yes, it's worth my trouble to fill out a form and send in a court fee. Worked for me...
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by coffeedan 4y ago
Maybe, but the percent of US population that is 80+ has grown quite a bit. For example, between 1950 and 2020 the percent of those 80-84 more than doubled. In the same period those 85+ went up five-fold (source: https://www.urban
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by coffeedan 4y ago
Funny (or maybe not-so) story: My grandmother is in assisted living. She left with my uncle to go to a doctor’s appointment. As per procedure, she signed out - writing her name in cursive. A few hours later, staff came to her room but she w
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by coffeedan 4y ago
They mark all of my Google Calendar invitations as spam. Frustrating…
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by coffeedan 4y ago
> How are you supposed to "build relationships outside of work" in that environment? Do the things you enjoy: run, bike, ski, live music, drinking, church - whatever floats your boat. Other people do them too. Meet them. Be fri
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by coffeedan 4y ago
Better title: “Should required fields be marked with asterisks, or something else?”
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by coffeedan 4y ago
I think programming is made worse today by how programmers are managed. Agile, Kanban, Scrum, JIRA - they’re all there so upper management can get a sky high view of what’s going on, but it’s all based on “estimates” that are often shots in
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by coffeedan 4y ago
“I also love email, which I’ve always thought of as the digital equivalent of a postcard.” Postcards would be the equivalent of email if they didn’t require a stamp. And then your mailbox would be full of 5,000 postcards every day from peop
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by coffeedan 4y ago
E-tickets for concerts: - need to fumble through awful apps/sites to find them and hope you have signal - phone dead? no ticket for you - went with other people? all the tickets are on one phone. good luck getting back to your seat wi
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by coffeedan 4y ago
“One Bridge, One Price” - I’m selling the Brooklyn Bridge. Same price, no matter where you live - trust me.
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by coffeedan 4y ago
No, but we do if you want me to believe this.
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by coffeedan 4y ago
Seems strange to say “One Job, One Pay” and then not say what that pay is.
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by coffeedan 4y ago
Yes
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by coffeedan 4y ago
Stop & Shop (in northeast US) has had a scanner gun you carry with you for at least 10 years. Works great. Takes about 30 seconds to checkout. Also helps to verify you are getting the correct price.
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by coffeedan 4y ago
Maybe? I think it will take time to know who the winners and losers are. It might be good for your recruiting numbers right now, but market performance over an extended period will decide winners and losers.

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