djinnandtonic

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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
13. Acknowledge that objectivity may be impossible but fairness never is. The worst problem with journalism today, encapsulated in a single sentence.
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
If you want your startup to fail, be involved with the recording industry.
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
http://archive.ph/cRZSn
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
Article's rubbish and (probably purposefully) misses a bunch of really important points. 1. The biggest problem with American health care is access to coverage - publishing prices or helping pay deductables does absolutely nothing when
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
I am rapidly developing the opinion that there is no such thing as fintech, just corporate and criminal entities using the slow pace and poor understanding of regulators to skirt laws.
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
>capitalizing on what's become a statewide industry of administering homelessness. How dare they live the good life, eating soup kitchen food and wearing donated clothing, all on my tax dime. Why, if those services didn't exist
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
If your company does business in the United States, they're violating the law. https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employers/d... Section 8(a)(3) of the Act makes it an unfair labor practice
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
It filters out anyone without a few hours/days/a week to spend interviewing at your company (those without access to good hardware at home, those with familial or other after hours commitments, etc)
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
Most of these are 3 days of effort, well over what is reasonable to ask for in an interview.
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by djinnandtonic 7y ago
A good read, but wouldn't count these results as anywhere near valid - if you're using an ORM, you're just perf testing the ORM.
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by djinnandtonic 8y ago
Paywalled.
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by djinnandtonic 8y ago
Get out of your company if they're really letting people with no productivity hang around. I'd bet $99 to $1, though, that you've missed something in interacting with this person. They've held a job, presumably for some
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by djinnandtonic 8y ago
If you want to branch into Java, learn Java. More importantly, why do you want to branch into Java specifically? Is there a company/job you have your eye on? Or do you want to get into web dev backend? Because there are so many, many l
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by djinnandtonic 8y ago
I never backed Star Citizen, though I keep an ear out for updates here and there. It seems like Derek Smart has come up in every thread about SC for a few years now. Why? Google tells me he developed a similar singleplayer game a long time
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by djinnandtonic 8y ago
Please have a better experience for mobile users; an alert popup and refresh cycle is pretty bad. Rendering the mobile unfriendly parts with a message (even if it breaks your experience) is much better.
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The Origins of the Blink Tag(montulli.org)
1 points by djinnandtonic 8y ago|0 comments
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by djinnandtonic 8y ago
Very reliable. As far as I’ve seen, it’s the closest thing to being able to buy an ex-employee a beer and listen.
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
Don't try to do anything meaningful if you have less than 2 hours in a sitting to devote to your project. Block off a 4-hour window every weekend, and take a day off once per month where you put in a full day. I find trying to work on
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
"Answer a survey to continue reading this content." No.
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
I would still argue level three does not exist - future proofing is futile over the short or long term, and only maintainance is the solution. Good article otherwise though!
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
I have friends at the code camp, BS, MS, and PhD level; PhD enables you to go into research or stay in academia, but my buddies with Masters really haven't seen any benefit. They're still competing for the same jobs as the BS folk
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
Not to mention record-setting levels of corruption. No system works if people are actively looting it
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Ask HN: Why isn't literally every train automated?
30 points by djinnandtonic 9y ago|38 comments
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
If store ads fingerprinted you for storage and tracking, flashed annoying lights in your face, displayed obscene content or infected your body with viruses, absolutely yes
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
That didn't work for me. This did, though: http://archive.is/Xb2k8
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
You can't tackle homelessness at the city level; a city doesn't have enough resources once word gets around and homeless folks start moving in to take advantage of your effort. Until we have better support at the national level, a
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by djinnandtonic 9y ago
This site first nagged me to join their newsletter and then locked the second half of the article behind an email harvester. This is toxic behavior from a content provider, please do not drive traffic to this site.