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by dotBen 4y ago
I’ve found that the more people you throw at a candidate the higher the chances that _someone_ is going to find _something_ they don’t like about him/her and burn them in the end I can't emphasize this enough. Successful intervi
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by dotBen 4y ago
"That's totally irrelevant, and not what we're talking about though." Well yes, we were originally talking about shops selling American candy...
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by dotBen 4y ago
Does anyone know why the author renamed the website? Well, I guess because they are now preferring to use the term "deceptive design", which is new to me... So anyone know why the author suddenly switched terms? I personally prefe
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by dotBen 4y ago
This misses a key value of Pinterest -- the collaborative filtering of "people who pinned this also pinned ...". To me, that's a huge value of Pinterest which you won't get on a self hosted instance.
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by dotBen 4y ago
I migrated from Evernote to Microsoft OneNote. If I was 10 years younger or still an engineer I would have experimented with a 'roll your own' FOSS option but these days I'm an exec and I just need my notes to be stable, dep
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by dotBen 5y ago
The Visio business model was always to sell units at a cheaper price (ie lower initial margin) than competitors then monetize the user post-sale via data and adverts. If you bought a Visio television and didn't realize this, you didn&
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by dotBen 5y ago
Another vote for Peopleware. It felt like it was written for a prior era, and that's when I read it in the early 2000s! But then you realize that the fundamentals of being a good engineering manager are the same regardless of the techn
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by dotBen 5y ago
Except that the next Olympics are due to be held in France, Italy, USA, Australia - and only one of those is partly an authoritarian nation. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olympic_Games_host_cit...
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by dotBen 5y ago
I worked on the BBC's British coverage of Sydney, Salt Lake City and Athens Olympics (2000-2004). The sibling comments here are absolutely right - the US coverage is terrible compared to the quality of the output of other broadcasters.
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by dotBen 5y ago
Another Litter Robot owner here (we are onto our second one) and I feel it does cut down on the smell. The litter won't stay in the open part for more than 10-25 minutes and then it is cycled into the drawer which is relatively contain
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by dotBen 5y ago
I spent 5 minutes on the site and couldn't for the life of me find any free resources to actually change my vision. They have a free 7 day course that tells you about the biology of the eye and how their program works, but nothing act
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by dotBen 5y ago
Phillips Xelsis https://www.usa.philips.com/c-m-ho/coffee/saeco-automatic-es... This is probably my fourth full automatic espresso machine, definitely the best I've owned. Amortize the price based on how muc
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by dotBen 5y ago
It's very easy for a 1gig connection to saturate residential hardware, especially if you have a symmetrical connection which I assume you do if it's fiber. Definitely look into Ubiquti, I posted above a bit more on my setup. I h
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by dotBen 5y ago
Well, the battery is actually the most problematic part of the environmental footprint. Repairs/maintenance are very minor on a Tesla. The way we look at it is a family of 3 with a young baby needs a car, we only have one car, and it&
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by dotBen 5y ago
Seeing as a few people are asking for more info on the enterprise home wifi. Main objective is flawless heavy-usage (Zoom, streaming media) from multiple clients within the home, plus support of lots of clients (we have over 150 assigned IP
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by dotBen 5y ago
Enterprise-grade home wifi and networking paired with a generous (1gig) ISP connection we don't really need but is never slow. High-end espresso machine that makes coffee in one button but with all the settings configurable (grind, vol
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by dotBen 5y ago
And HikVision cameras seem to have no end of security issues. Sharing this most recent one cos HN loves cited sources but there's a ton of independent issues https://www.forbes.com/sites/leemathews/2021/0
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by dotBen 5y ago
Not an expert but think it through (for US law): only prosecutors have the discretion to decide whether to bring charges and the severity of the charges they will bring. A LEO who says to you that they'll get you a better deal if you
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by dotBen 5y ago
Yup, this is a very important video for everyone to watch, but especially anyone moving to America who doesn't understand the differences to policing in this country vs others. If you have watched this video, you might want to review t
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by dotBen 5y ago
(I have yet to understand why people talk to law enforcement instead of staying silent so as to not implicate themselves.) When the FBI knock at the door you totally do the whole "no comment/talk to my lawyer" thing. But
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by dotBen 5y ago
Does the parent commenter need to be considering 'dual intent' issues if they are applying for their non-resident alien TN renewal while now engaged to a US citizen and potentially on a path to applying for a green card (resident
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by dotBen 5y ago
You can also explore PEO's which are organizations set up specifically do this. For single or small number of impacted workers in a given country, a PEO might be the better route than establishing your own company. https://
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by dotBen 5y ago
Not wanting to pick on the parent comment but this is were 'lay person opinion led forums' don't work for legal questions. You may not see why, but that's you conveying your opinion based on common sense or your own reas
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by dotBen 5y ago
The app stores typically tell you what permissions an app requires, including location. It would seem to me to be more efficient to programmatically analyze the permissions listed of the top 10,000 apps (or more) than have readers send in r
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by dotBen 5y ago
But then bad guy just logs in to Authy with the same stolen credentials because most normal people will probably use the same credentials for everything, including Authy. And arguably, the smartest tech-savvy folk wouldn't be storing t
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by dotBen 5y ago
Remember, the US Government only needs a warrant if you are a "US Person" (which is a US citizen anywhere in the world or a person of any nationality physically located within America). We learned from the Snowden leaks that the U
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by dotBen 5y ago
That's fair point which I both missed and not personally familiar with as I'm an Android user (Android's equivalent of Apple Wallet does require you to unlock your phone). I still worry about relying on my phone to hold my ID
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by dotBen 5y ago
As mentioned in my previous comment, a lawyer told me you can't arbitrarily withdraw your consent in that way you are describing. The police officer may also have taken your phone back to their car to use the ID details to write up the
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by dotBen 5y ago
This currently may only be for a TSA usecase but this area of using a phone to show ID starts to get very murky very quickly My insurance company has an app that will display my proof of insurance - just hand your phone to the police office
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by dotBen 5y ago
I'll be honest I keep my NAS in a purpose built server closet in my house which is shielded. Maybe costs of SSDs are coming down enough you could use those instead?

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