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by dvtrn 5y ago
Work serves an important purpose in our life. It not only helps us create value, but also helps us learn from people and experiences. So yes, work is important, but not most important. It deserves our attention, but not the whole of it. Ou
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Were you the guy I was having this exact comparison conversation with last night over bourbon and ginger ales? I'm terrified we're already well on the other side of the Rubicon
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by dvtrn 5y ago
(Social) Nature is healing...?
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by dvtrn 5y ago
.....what is this comment?
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by dvtrn 5y ago
The IRS has joined the chat
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I have to agree with the sensation of chagrin towards “back to work”; partially because is it feels like a loaded statement. Work never stopped for my org, we kept working, some of us worked MORE, a lot more, and saw no appreciable benefit
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Incredible thing about art is that people value it differently and for different reasons, so maybe the idea of "enrichment" isn't something universal?
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I’ve been using Telnyx for a while for burner numbers for a couple of ‘burner’ numbers. Outside of the phone number itself (or the cost to port), it’s pretty much pay for what you use. Does require some setup once you have a number, but as
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Since we’re here: https://www.amazon.com/Microserfs-Douglas-Coupland/dp/006162...
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Hrm. Is uncanny locomotion to modern robotics what uncanny valley is to CGI? Fun to ponder.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Aha okay. Thank you for that, it really wasn’t clicking for a solid moment there. I agree re:Venmo and turned the sharing function off the moment I saw there was a livestream of what my friends were paying for. Always got a bit of a chuckle
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I think I’m missing the comparison (probably because I’m still trying to wake up and get my brain through the boot process)
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Is anyone familiar enough with the generalities of contract law to speak on that angle of the discussion? I tried searching through the comments but I've been wondering lately: if a Googler (or any worker, really) signs an employment c
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Since you asked: https://www.inc.com/minda-zetlin/google-exec-remote-work-wfh...
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by dvtrn 5y ago
You've got a couple of years on me, I've been in the game a little over 13 years now. I support the notion there's a strong difference between lingo that's properly applied to the situation and lingo that is recklessly a
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by dvtrn 5y ago
My favorite one was when a superior was explaining a plan to right-size some new machines as we slowly migrated customers onto the appliance, and some particularly aggravating issues we were having with memory consumption that upon inspecti
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by dvtrn 5y ago
They seem to take inspiration from ER teams or the military It’s probably nothing but overestimation but I feel like I’m seeing more of this later in my career than I did early on, or maybe I’m paying more attention? Whatever it is: past
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Just to add to the pile of anecdotes, also in the midwest, Chicago city limits. Mentioned in another comment but I've had a noticeable increase in interviews (locations have included Chicago predominantly, Minneapolis, San Jose and DC)
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I had an interview this week where the recruiter was flat out and honest when I asked them "what's one thing you'd change about this company?" (something I've been asking a lot lately and being very observant to how
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Full disclosure - I'm CEO at Percona :) oh hi. big fan of you all. xtrabackup and PMM are wonderful tools
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I agree that you probably shouldn’t but if you think no one “is”, I’d point to my last job, an enterprise that went to k8s for a single-serving php service that reads PDFs. I recently asked a friend who still works there if anything else ha
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Agree with this, I'm a big fan of sci-fi and high-fantasy art, and follow a great deal of amazing artists on IG, there's more than a couple of great space paintings in my living room that I saw on the site, contacted the artist an
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Or in some cases letting said shittiness manifest because the person doing the pointing isn't themselves subject to it and/or could stand to lose ground when someone decides to do something about it.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/initia...
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by dvtrn 5y ago
I’m aware of that. I was answering the question that was asked, not intimating this was the way it happened in Ohio.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Ballot initiatives are one way it happens in some states. A means for the population to ask their legislators to enact a law or statute absent the legislature making such a proposal on their own.
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by dvtrn 5y ago
From the thread: “Usually when that kind of corporate feelgood bullshit happens though, it's not publicized and isn't done in such an in your face, 'lol fuck you everybody' kind of way.” Counterpoint: Automotive industry
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by dvtrn 5y ago
Adverts specifically, or just being able to scorch any design into your toast? The later sure would be neat and novel, my nephew gets a kick out of pancakes that look like his favorite cartoon characters. But adverts on my breakfast? Dear g
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by dvtrn 5y ago
you’re not alone and it’s a common complaint. along with the complaint that toggling “opt out of redesign” is constantly coming untoggled randomly and without warning. This doesn’t even happen between browser sessions where one would think
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by dvtrn 5y ago
At least IME ‘club soda’ and ‘seltzer’ can be used interchangeably, but flavored seltzers do exist

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