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by flak48 6y ago
As someone with very little music theory knowledge is there a better alternative to getting into music theory to be able to write music, than the western system, that can be recommended? Like how it would feel to grow up learning in metric
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by flak48 6y ago
> But for everyone else, internal expression wasn't squelched out of fear of external forces. I recall my reaction when doing that training; it was less a feeling of internal expression being restricted by force. But rather a vague
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by flak48 6y ago
I had read the book, but not the Wikipedia article.
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by flak48 6y ago
I don't work at Google but I had to take similar training too, where using words/phrases like 'dominant', 'market share', 'leading in a market' etc were discouraged. Specifically because the 'mar
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by flak48 6y ago
Compared to just opening 'Ringtone' in settings and just choosing any file I want, I would hardly describe having to Google for 10 seconds and then having to go to iTunes (on a different device?) to push a ringtone, as trivial or
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by flak48 6y ago
Just read your post and just wanted to say I'm in absolute awe!
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by flak48 6y ago
> What would your opinion be on that matter, answering your own questions? I'm honestly perplexed. Maybe I should study what those fields did, if they made any conscious efforts to address diversity mismatch (compared to demographic
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by flak48 6y ago
Firebase offers email login (passwordless) as an auth method. Where you are emailed a new URL that logs you in, each time you wish to. It also offers SMS based login in a similar manner where no passwords are involved and you just copy a 6
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by flak48 6y ago
How did other industries that were once historically male dominated overcome this 'identification problem' atleast in terms of gender if not race? (Professions like biologists, psychologists, forensic scientist, vet for example al
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by flak48 6y ago
On the other hand tech is one of those industries where someone from say even a journalism degree can get a job after a short bootcamp (and there are many free ones if you are a woman or minority)
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by flak48 6y ago
> A simple fix is to just use the previous power value if ever: the cadence is non-zero and the previous power is non-zero and the current power is zero. A slight improvement is to keep track of the slope and factor it in when calculatin
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by flak48 6y ago
I think Google blacklists you after 3 failed onsite attempts.
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by flak48 6y ago
I had a similar question once, someone had mentioned https://www.unshackledvc.com/
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by flak48 6y ago
I would assume the comment you're replying to means things like resource usage patterns and costs to estimate a client's profits for example. Rather than reading actual data from S3 or a database.
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by flak48 6y ago
I would argue most people in a organization actually are fungible, especially the more junior they are. At least in software. It's not a coincidence that conversations around the number of engineers/designers required for a projec
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by flak48 6y ago
I guess as it becomes more obvious to people that the logical next step for a fully remote company would basically be to lay off staff in higher cost of living locations (I'm sure we are starting to see this), more people will internal
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by flak48 6y ago
The most amusing aspect of Gitlab's location based compensation is that they spin it as employees in higher CoL locations should be paid more (while carefully choosing to ignore the corollary implication that employees in lower CoL loc
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by flak48 6y ago
> used to display a dolphin Ah, the retired fail whale https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/01/the-s...
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by flak48 6y ago
It's going to be interesting to see how FB & Google's investments in Jio will end up shaping the bill. If not a way to nudge regulators to be lenient, this investment is perhaps a hedge.
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by flak48 6y ago
Maybe we are underestimating the power of their relations with the present government, in terms of an ally that can be used to threaten or harm competitors both Indian and foreign. Just like TikTok can be banned, other services can eventual
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by flak48 6y ago
Amazon has teams with global and local impact, with the work somewhat on par with their US counterparts. Google generally has a bit of the shittier work in general (the permanent curse of India offices of US companies - local managers/
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by flak48 6y ago
Exactly. Many people I know, myself included see the 'investments' being routed to Jio as buying assurances from the government that regulations like data localization and other pro-privacy, anti-west measures are halted or watere
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by flak48 6y ago
Yep if anything I hope the Ambani family's escapades with Jio doesn't whitewash their deserved reputation as perhaps the most corrupt company in India. For those not aware, Jio itself came into being via a scam. (That the comment
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by flak48 6y ago
Me too, started to wonder what they could have done wrong
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by flak48 6y ago
I've flown on the 747 only twice. The last time was just this year before COVID hit, when a Storm Ciara shut down down London Heathrow for 2 days. I 'volunteered' to postpone my flight without making a fuss, since I absolutel
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by flak48 6y ago
Companies tend to keep track of the onsite success to failure ratio and then if it's too low examine if the bar raising is too aggressive. Which ends up going in the direction of meetings like "Should we standardize on what questi
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by flak48 6y ago
The general approach to dealing with low diversity in a team seems to be to increase the percentage of phone screens being allotted to diversity candidates (which on the other hand reduces the number of non-diversity applicants that get a p
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by flak48 6y ago
Don't mean to sound facetious, but isn't self hosting also technically hosting somewhere ? (Unless you mean actually having access to the physical server where it's running from) In other words are we just assuming Digital
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by flak48 6y ago
Yep, since he didn't seem to care if our Digital Ocean account would get suspended.
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by flak48 6y ago
And the fact that the intern didn't care/foresee we would suffer downtime or at the very least a major inconvenience if our accounts were suspended as long as they could finish their personal task.

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