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by drugme 7y ago
How would you spend it? To be honest, at least once a year I'd probably go to a technical conference.
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by drugme 7y ago
Let's be honest: many people at conferences just see them as a way to have the company pay for you to get out of the office and go on a semi-vacation. You're saying that like it's a bad thing. I find that these "semi-
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Lost Manuscript Contains Searing Eyewitness Account of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre(smithsonianmag.com)
1 points by drugme 7y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 7y ago
We lost everything, our servers, and more importantly 1 year of database backups. We now have to explain to our clients, Fortune 500 companies why we can’t restore their account. And yet, the explanation is very simple: Because you neglec
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Most of us feel sleepy in the afternoon. Why can’t work fit round that?(theguardian.com)
2 points by drugme 7y ago|1 comments
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by drugme 7y ago
no need to inspect each piece for quality, Because you know it's uniformly mediocre.
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Physicist Brian Greene Has Mushrooms on the Mind(grubstreet.com)
1 points by drugme 7y ago|0 comments
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by drugme 7y ago
"Always-on" can kind of sort of work out, for a couple of years -- provided all 3 of the following simple conditions are met: (1) You're getting a decent base + health insurance (2) The equity is in proportion to the sacrific
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by drugme 7y ago
I don't think people are qualified to reject this pattern unless they've spent some serious time working in these ecosystems. Fine - but it isn't a matter of rejecting or accepting; but rather of understanding. And if some
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by drugme 7y ago
Even when we think "the world is going to hell", it simply doesn't Actually things are pretty much going to hell, as far as climate change (and its spillover effects) are foreseen to go. Or what is your prognosis of that si
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by drugme 7y ago
I elaborated on my point with detailed reasoning It was extremely hand-wavy, actually. Whether you take that as an insult or not is up to you.
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by drugme 7y ago
I don't understand how this isn't completely obvious. Because you're living in a bubble, and have grown accustomed to thinking that everyone else is using the same lenses to view the world as you are.
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by drugme 7y ago
Your experience was unfortunate, but it sounds like ultimately it just wasn't the right job for him. Which happens to everyone at some point or another.
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by drugme 7y ago
It's safe to say that he did an outstanding job for the first 27 years. But everyone has their limits.
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by drugme 7y ago
"Orders or magnitude" (plural) means something on the order of 100x. Which suggest to me that either you're either exaggerating quite a bit - or you were using the term without quite knowing what it means. (Which something m
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by drugme 7y ago
And the root cause of its suddenly "not being considering cool or exciting anymore" would be?
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by drugme 7y ago
No one disputes that Google has its tentacles in many pots -- and definitely needs to be kept on a leash. But the claim was that Google was not just a matter of concern -- somehow a clearly bigger threat than FB. Can anyone provide subst
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by drugme 7y ago
[dupe] [clickbait]
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by drugme 7y ago
The vast majority of applicants cannot code at all. And I mean that literally. No, you mean that hyperbolically. Not only does it simply not happen that "the vast majority of applications cannot code at all" -- this literally ha
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by drugme 7y ago
A perfectly valid point, of course. And hence, there's no reason you should have been downvoted.
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by drugme 7y ago
Making it work as a selective sound cancellation device would be amazing in open office environments. Then again - this would be a perfect of example of bleeding edge technology being used to "fix" a certain situation -- namely
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by drugme 7y ago
Fine article, but (2016): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12872304
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Mind-controlled hearing aid allows the wearer to focus on particular voices(theguardian.com)
111 points by drugme 7y ago|29 comments
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A Feel-Good AI Story Went Wrong in Flint(theatlantic.com)
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What to Do When the Boss Is Wrong(theatlantic.com)
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by drugme 7y ago
Whether the people impacted are predominantly African-American is likely incidental. The story makes a compelling case that it was in fact very far from incidental.
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Uber and Lyft strikes: US drivers stop taking rides in protest over pay(theguardian.com)
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New evidence of China's mission to raze the mosques of Xinjiang(theguardian.com)
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Why moderate drinking is probably not good for you(theguardian.com)
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by drugme 7y ago
Is this common practice in the industry? Yes, and so are burnout, abusive interpersonal behavior and the physical / mental problems that inevitably go along with such working environments. But there's no reason you need to put u

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