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by fatnoah 4y ago
I experienced 2001 and 2008. In 2001, f**kedcompany.com was daily reading to find out which random startup(s) went under that day. For me, every company meeting was the one where I wondered if we were all being fired. I started as emplo
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by fatnoah 4y ago
Tell me something dirty. (Dr. Sbaitso will ask that, on occasion)
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I used VEDIT2 to sample and loop music for my (with friends) triumphant high school Talent Show act way back in 1992.
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I have no idea why or how it's happening, but whenever I view a Youtube video on my personal computer, it stops after < 1 second and I get skipped right to the content. It's the only device in my home that happens to, and I&#x
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by fatnoah 4y ago
My local natural gas company does the same thing. "Contact us now to upgrade your service!" "Oh, sorry, we don't offer service at that address." Similarly, I've used the same tax preparer for the last 10 year
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>But also I've met and read some truly brilliant programmers and can't help but think they might know more than me. I've seen a lot and done a lot in my over 20 years of building stuff. I like to think that I know some th
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by fatnoah 4y ago
I spent over 15 years of the start of my career at startups, and was typically the one woken up by alerts and/or the operations team (when there was one) to help decode alerts. That really shaped my logging philosophy around log level
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by fatnoah 4y ago
>What's the point behind putting all this effort into it when at the end of the day it means almost nothing? At a company like Facebook, the difference between L4 and L6 is over $100k in salary, and $80k in stock (difference in 4 ye
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by fatnoah 5y ago
My personal opinion is that renting vs. buying is a lifestyle choice with financial implications. Owning and renting each have risks and rewards. When I was younger and wanted to live in a city and have that lifestyle, renting was the onl
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by fatnoah 5y ago
It's not quite as willy-nilly as that, as the FCC settlement required some controls to be placed on access to data, however a huge part of that effort requires manual review. That's manageable. What this doc shows (IMHO) is that
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by fatnoah 5y ago
It definitely is. I live in the US, and my house has 3 separate "zones" for heating and cooling. Programmable thermostats turn things off and on automatically based on a pre-set schedule, and the schedules can also be overridden
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I've seen red-tailed hawks, bald eagles, and peregrine falcons in downtown Boston. One of the coolest things I've seen was a hawk gliding down the bike path about 6 inches from the ground near a large playground, as it tried to s
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Since it's on a card issued by the FSA provider (I also don't know the correct word), they see the transactions in real time. Data that accompanies the transaction lets them know that it's reimbursable medical care.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Oh, that's the best part. I did have the Visa, but for whatever reason they hospital never coded things properly, so I had to fall back to the manual reimbursement.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I've also had to do something similar to "forge" supporting documentation for medical claims. In order to claim FSA money, I had to provide detailed invoices. My hospital, however, was a big Kafka fan. They would only prov
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I haven't used an alarm for over 10 years at this point. I realized that I was almost always waking up about 5-10 minutes before the alarm went off. Some experimentation showed that by thinking of a time before I went to bed, I could
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I don't think that's the intent, but that's definitely how I've seen it implemented, either through spending lots of time comparing velocities, trying to optimize burndowns, or making equivalencies like 1 point = 1 day (
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by fatnoah 5y ago
As I tell my teams, the actual points don't matter and getting the points "right" doesn't matter. What really matters is that we apply a consistent rubric to estimating the magnitude of the work. If there's anythi
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by fatnoah 5y ago
This is it for me. I find that I can easily skim and read threads on HN, plus the actual content takes up the vast majority of the screen. On Slashdot (and maybe I'm doing it wrong), less that 50% of the screen is actual content, and
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I assume those to propose to tax unrealized gains are also going to allow deductions or refunds for unrealized losses, too. Right?
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Later, the article makes this statement: > Billionaires in tech pay the lowest tax rate, an average of 17% of their income That seems to be > 3.4%
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Ironically, my previous job was an internship at a big valley company, who's former HQ is now occupied by one of the biggest valley companies. There, I needed to ship a bunch of equipment to another office. It needed to be there in 3
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Gotcha. Yeah, IT for the parents & grandparents is definitely a challenge for things like this.
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by fatnoah 5y ago
>All I ever wanted was my own Gmail domain. Who owns the domain here? I use a custom domain with Gmail Workspaces, but I own the domain, and therefore control the MX records. The only thing I'd lose in a switch is stored email mes
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by fatnoah 5y ago
In my first job after college, I shared a cubicle with another worker. For whatever reasons, our desks were next to each other, rather than spaced out. I wanted to rotate my desk 90 degrees and had mentioned this to my manager. In a near
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Wow, this takes me back to my freshman year of college in 1993 and trying to connect computers in different dorm rooms with lengthy serial cables. We eventually got it to work, but I remember it took a couple days of tinkering. In the summ
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by fatnoah 5y ago
Hey! I'm in the same boat. I'm really glad I got that Secret Clearance in the late 90's!
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by fatnoah 5y ago
> Yea. This is something I have thought about, but the wife and I have decided to just wait and see how the middle school years go. I imagine it is going to probably become amplified. I have a 14 year-old and we have zero blocks on anyth
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by fatnoah 5y ago
The problem with auto lights is that they can be turned off or set into other modes that prevent the auto part from working. Throw in drivers who don't seem to notice that their headlights are not or barely illuminating the road and w
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by fatnoah 5y ago
I'm also not sure why this is a thing. With all of the various sensors, etc. in cars, there's safeguards to prevent me from typing an address in the GPS while moving, so why can't there be something that turns your headlight

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