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by efficax 5y ago
Anecdotally, Pittsburgh felt hillier in general than San Francisco, although San Francisco does have some greater changes in elevation
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by efficax 5y ago
depends how much net income is being reduced by capital investment costs... for example amazon has been bootstrapping its own version of fedex. They could probably raise net income in the short term by just using existing carriers, but they
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by efficax 5y ago
My experience is that managers at the director level contribute very little to the actual progress of a project but do get a lot of the glory if it succeeds. Maybe he can really drive innovation at Intel, or maybe the special sauce (namely,
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by efficax 5y ago
What is this guy talking about? Workers are not getting COVID benefits of any kind right now, not unemployment, not relief checks, nothing, in the US. If you quit voluntarily in most states you don't even qualify for normal unemploymen
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by efficax 5y ago
Incredible how quickly Facebook TV and YouTube TV have been forgotten
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by efficax 5y ago
Incredible that tesla recalling almost the same number of cars that they produced this year is a non-story here but their Q4 planning is front page stuff.
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by efficax 5y ago
The point is that it's not an effective safety feature. If you've ever spent time on a worksite you just hear the beeping constantly, and you start to ignore it
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by efficax 5y ago
the art market has nothing to do with taste. Albrecht Dürer was an important 15th/16th century artist, and everything of his that we know exists is part of a permanent collection private or public by now. That makes the appearance of a
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by efficax 5y ago
These complaints are 20 years old now and in the meantime i keep building successful JavaScript heavy applications
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by efficax 5y ago
I also get an endless amount of email for a few different people with the same name as me at my Gmail from 2005. I used to try to deal with it but now it's just amusing, especially the photos, family chain emails etc. My name alike is
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by efficax 5y ago
deliberately encouraging infection is almost a kind of murder...
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by efficax 5y ago
Omicron will become the dominate strain worldwide without anything so insane as that
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by efficax 5y ago
Yes, this is all big corps, pretty much. Hopefully you get equity and job security to make up for it. Before we were acquired i put in 10 hour days at least. Now a good 4 hours and I've gotten more done than most. So that's also a
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by efficax 5y ago
Putting important funds in SOL, which isn't even a crypto anyone has ever heard of, is already a mistake
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by efficax 5y ago
In Germany, at least last time i was there, a plastic bottle got you a full Euro back as a deposit. Aluminum a little less but still good. The result was you basically never saw a plastic bottle on the ground outside of tourist areas where
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by efficax 5y ago
Nuts! 600 engineers push to the repo i work on everyday. Good luck handling that with trunk based development
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by efficax 5y ago
People with compromised immune systems need the shot even more
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by efficax 5y ago
Taking everything? I'll call you in 2 weeks when the indexes are done building
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by efficax 5y ago
Check out Savannah Georgia
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by efficax 5y ago
Omicron isn't the only variant or even the dominate one outside of South Africa. If you've already gotten the initial doses, why wouldn't you complete your vaccination? There's only upside to it at that point
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by efficax 5y ago
Those language requirements never never never mean fluency. They mean the ability to read an academic paper in that language, with a dictionary in hand, a skill you can develop for almost any language in a few months, more for languages wit
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by efficax 5y ago
VM detection and escape (breaking through the VM to access the host machine) is an active area of research and a very hard nut to crack. It's trench warfare!
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by efficax 5y ago
99.7% of all ADULTS. Covid cases are surging in 12 and unders and of course there are still breakthrough cases.
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by efficax 5y ago
the wood in my house is over 100 years old and is still in good shape. Stored properly, wood lasts very long. but i get your overall point. A balance has to be struck between too much and too little inventory...
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by efficax 5y ago
it's not at all unusual for you to do less software development the higher up you go on the ladder, especially if you have direct reports. Strategy, architecture, planning, removing blocks for others, these are all valuable parts of
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by efficax 5y ago
apple has a 25% profit margin and did 275 billion in gross revenue last year, will likely be >300 billion this year. It's the most profitable company in the world and top 5 in overall revenue. Tesla isn't even in the top 50.
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by efficax 5y ago
> Try to explain to a non techie how a car moves I always love a classic hacker news take where software engineers are the only people who can understand how things work. It's not like high school dropouts are ever car mechanics.
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by efficax 5y ago
javascript, at least, has "undefined" and "null", an infuriating duality of falsiness. PHP also has a notion of not being set as well as being set but null.
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by efficax 5y ago
failure to see disaster 3 moves ahead is a mistake, failure to see it 10 or more moves ahead is just the limits of human reasoning. In between is squishy
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by efficax 5y ago
you need a tremendous amount of trust in your manager and confidence in your job security to raise genuine issues with management style, manager performance. I've only felt comfortable doing that as I've moved into a upper-senior

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