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by fivre 7y ago
The fees aren't my issue with Ticketmaster. I'm well aware of the misdirection they provide. My issue is with every aspect of actually using Ticketmaster. Most competitors have much nicer UX; Ticketmaster is a bunch of legacy cr
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by fivre 7y ago
On Linux, selecting text normally places it in the X buffer (a clipboard, but not!). This change apparently selects the text while avoiding the buffer unless you click more, which is really odd. I'm also surprised (well, maybe not real
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by fivre 7y ago
They also tend to have some... interesting features dictated by the state UI office. When I'd applied in Wisconsin about 6 years back the site stopped accepting form submissions outside business hours. I assume some less computer-liter
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by fivre 7y ago
As someone who gets questions about this often, I wonder why nobody seems to know how to answer these questions for themselves, or even how they'd begin to research them. There seems to be a dearth of developers who understand what bot
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by fivre 7y ago
The individuals in aggregate may be toddlers, but unfortunately the C-suite as individuals are often also toddlers, at least vis a vis their responsibilities. Tasked with providing IT infrastructure that works for the company, they seem to
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by fivre 7y ago
> most junior (for lack of a better word) developers often don't read documentation anyways Though there are many other factors that contribute to excess reliance on tribal knowledge, I consider this a huge contributor to "bits
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by fivre 7y ago
The UI /elements/ of the 90s were fine. That doesn't mean that anyone will necessarily build a good UI using them. SAP and software designed to offer high levels of customization in general leave the task of building a comple
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by fivre 7y ago
Yeah, this. It's simply not worth it for a manager a company with less structure to entertain the idea of giving you a raise, even if you're underpaid, certainly not if you don't demand it. Even then they won't give you
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by fivre 7y ago
You'd be surprised. The /good/ bots do this, but there's a lot of white noise garbage that simple techniques do still filter out.
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by fivre 7y ago
In practice, you show up at the border of Russia and are detained (in my case, because virtually no Americans cross this particular border). A nice, younger FSB agent with some English skills asks you a battery of questions but doesn't
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by fivre 7y ago
The word is there to create a catchy headline. The article very much goes into the why: * Many jobs provide poor opportunities for advancement if desired. * Many jobs provide poor compensation relative to cost of living. * Many jobs lack st
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by fivre 7y ago
This is an anomaly borne out of the discipline's short history. I had fellow students in my Russian classes that were there, in part, because they wished to pursue math PhDs, and it was crucial to have competency in one of the other ma
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by fivre 7y ago
They can and do! The end result is that they're fired from Google for being too uppity about raising ethical issues.
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by fivre 7y ago
You could, and you'd likely create an evacuation pathway nightmare in the process.
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by fivre 7y ago
While I don't doubt the utility of this at all, I am quite amused by the concept of WYSISYG LaTeX.
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by fivre 7y ago
Swarm might be a simpler option in the sense that FreeBSD is a simpler option than Linux in some cases (perhaps not the most apt comparison, but bear with me). Sure, by itself it may win out on technical merit in some cases, but: * Nothing
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by fivre 7y ago
My CS degree had it as an elective. It was the class I did the worst in, and I now work primarily with network protocol implementations. Good foundation though, even though the prof was terrible at designing assignments.
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by fivre 7y ago
We should have all gone to Coub, but for some reason Americans don't care for Lukashenko joke videos. Go figure.
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by fivre 7y ago
Our H1-B notices are posted behind a large potted plant, well below eye level :) Can't imagine the reason for that.
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by fivre 7y ago
MtGox and BTC-e are somewhat examples to the contrary.
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by fivre 7y ago
Well, if nothing else, they'll probably be a bit less... flexible in the avatars they let you use. This probably won't actually stop people.
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by fivre 7y ago
> How is Horizon any different from SecondLife? Probably less cybering, from the looks of it.
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by fivre 7y ago
If nothing else, I do love another excuse to call a piece of tech "crud" all the time.
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by fivre 7y ago
Other support chat tools have solved this for quite some time with a queue and display of estimated waiting time. You may not get an initial response immediately, but once an agent becomes available they're assigned the chat and do com
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by fivre 7y ago
They may not be some grand cabal, but if biggerpockets.com posts are anything to go by, I have no qualms with any pernicious attacks against them. Ruthless capitalism and fundamental human needs do not mix well.
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by fivre 7y ago
Slack is less than ideal from a customer support perspective due to its extremely limited channel organization tools. I loathe having a blob of 15 customer channels that I'm contractually obligated to be in, but for the most part only
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by fivre 7y ago
Management by "make metric go up" is almost always terrible in every situation, since human misery is generally not considered an important metric (too hard to measure!) and metrics themselves cannot expose long-term consequences
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by fivre 7y ago
Spotify is pretty imperfect at this also. Issues over rates paid aside, albums disappear seemingly at random (presumably failures in license negotiation, but users aren't provided any information about why an album is no longer availab
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by fivre 7y ago
Recycling bins at my office are always particularly effective at demonstrating this. Single stream recycling makes things easy!.. Or so I thought, before witnessing an endless stream of banana peels in the recycling bins and plastic bags in
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by fivre 7y ago
Although not for coding, I like our take-homes for support and sales engineering staff. The take-home asks candidates to complete a basic installation of our product and document what they did in detail. The latter part forces candidates to

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