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by dxdm 3y ago
That's a question of culture and organization. Onboarding a new hire is a job, and someone has to do it. Same for mentoring juniors. If you're relying on in-office for that, because the newbie needs to tap physical shoulders to ge
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by dxdm 3y ago
I read HN almost every day, and this is the first time I've seen the link. I'm glad it was posted again.
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by dxdm 3y ago
Not saying this design has anything like that, but it could: high-end digital pianos come with mechanical key action that's very close to what upright or even grand pianos use - except the hammer strikes a sensor instead of a string at
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by dxdm 3y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this. Best comment I've read on HN this past week.
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by dxdm 3y ago
You could consider intentionally paying a somewhat higher price in order not to support Amazon's practices with your money. I'd imagine some of the price difference is attributable to the kind of conduct you may find objectionable
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by dxdm 3y ago
You might like this house then It proclaims in big letters how the house used to be situated in a different country: https://mama-arbeitet.de/gestern-und-heute/dieses-haus-stand... Because, as it says above, "the
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by dxdm 3y ago
What does WBNIS mean? Google tells me that WBNI is a radio station. We Better Not Implement Soybeans?
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by dxdm 3y ago
This definitely sounds impressive, but could it be that you "learned" how to describe the symptoms over time in a way that makes it easier to arrive at the correct diagnosis? It could also be that knowing the correct diagnosis cha
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by dxdm 3y ago
I'm assuming people become members of the politburo after a substantial career in the political party apparatus, maybe even longer than it takes to become a member of congress. Of course, there will be differences between coming up in
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by dxdm 3y ago
> for every news article I consider reading, I want to have that website extract a little bit of the money from that pile I'd like that, too. A simple implementation that automatically deducts a payment on access might be promoting
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by dxdm 3y ago
Now I'm curious what you thought when you tasted butter for the first time, and, since it's the topic, whether it was American butter, a European one, or from somewhere else.
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by dxdm 3y ago
Awareness is an important step. If you haven't found them already, maybe there are groups of people who are (or were) in similar situations that can lend some support. It's always better to not go the hard walks alone.
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by dxdm 3y ago
> Having even a few customers with unlimited rights to a limited resource creates intractable scheduling conflicts. Could you elaborate on what you mean by "scheduling conflicts"? I'd assume the problem simply that these p
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by dxdm 4y ago
The same, at least in the remote-first org that I'm in Remote still has teams and department with reporting lines and clusters of incentives, responsibility, and who communicates how often with whom and in what manner.
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by dxdm 4y ago
HGV = Heavy Goods Vehicle, presumably.
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by dxdm 4y ago
> Does deleting stuff from the memory count as destroying evidence? Maybe? The line is more blurry here, but there are probably cases where it's more or less easy to make the distinction. If data is recorded on a permanent medium, i
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by dxdm 4y ago
> exploit others for free for ever They made use of a functionality that was willingly made available for free. That changed, so they are stopping to use it. They made no financial profit, but offered a public service of great utility, f
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by dxdm 4y ago
> I also wonder if there is something wrong with me There is not, and it's important to understand that. The environment is grinding you down, which can make you doubt yourself. In essence, your mind gets tricked into taking the bla
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by dxdm 4y ago
I think more people than one can come up with this thought independently. It's not a far stretch.
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by dxdm 4y ago
Could you elaborate?
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by dxdm 4y ago
Even better: don't press. Let the grounds sink to the bottom and don't drink them.
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by dxdm 4y ago
> that measuring lines of code as a performance metric is an awful idea, and then there are others that more or less kinda shame people for not being good or great typists I'm not on board with shaming people, nor do I think that li
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by dxdm 4y ago
Yes.
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by dxdm 4y ago
Could you link to anything that explains what you're talking about?
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by dxdm 4y ago
> how do you translate git commits and tests run to “project Y is now Z% done”? You don't, because in most cases, for anything that has the scale of a "project", nobody knows how many commits it will take for it to be done
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by dxdm 4y ago
> The average citizen is more principled and less prone to corruption than the average modern politician. This claim needs some back up. I don't think there's an innate difference between an "average citizen" and an &
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by dxdm 4y ago
I've worked on shitty code with shitty tests that ran the core of the business. Even while doing that, it was horrible to work with, held important features back and drove talented people away, leaving everything to stagnate in a &quot
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by dxdm 4y ago
If I understand you right, then following your logic, all programming languages are conveniences. The computer runs just fine if we give it a binary to execute. It's not clear to me where you'd draw the line.
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by dxdm 4y ago
Stripe also has much better transparency for troubleshooting. You can see exactly what happened to a payment, when and why. In the Adyen UI, it's not even simple to find a given payment. Stripe also has much better docs, and their API
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by dxdm 4y ago
In the first sentence on the start page, there's an unnecessary apostrophe in the word "recipes". It's a plural form, not a possessive. Not everyone will agree or care, but this kind of thing can have an unfortunate effe

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