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by flamtap 8y ago
Jordan Peterson absolutely and completely does not "insist", insinuate, or suggest that "white men are the most oppressed group". I am a really big fan of Dr. Peterson's work and I have never heard him say or publis
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by flamtap 8y ago
My rule of thumb for email correspondence is the "you idiot" rule. If the email could be appended with the words "you idiot" without changing the overall tone, then I need to rephrase.
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by flamtap 8y ago
I went from Inbox to Fastmail about six months ago, more due to data privacy concerns, but that's not necessarily important here. Fastmail is a great service that I'm very happy with so far, but you will have to set up your own &q
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by flamtap 8y ago
It's definitely common in gaming-focused apps, but not in the general or business focused apps like Skype, Slack, Teams, etc. We use Teams on our team, and my current PTT technique is to Ctrl+Shift+M to unmute and mute every time. Très
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by flamtap 8y ago
The reply is suggesting it as a solution to the problem for apps other than Discord, which the parent comment mentions.
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by flamtap 8y ago
The only reason I use chrome is the easy debugger hookup for VSCode. If anyone has any tips on how to get that running with FF, I'm all ears!
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by flamtap 8y ago
Yeah, I think I would rather wait 10 minutes in my car than 5 minutes in line. I'm sure other people may feel differently. And something about the drive-thru still "feels" faster, even if it's not. I think it's just
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by flamtap 8y ago
I know the type of comment I'm about to make is discouraged here but... That was really funny. Thanks for the laugh, needed that today.
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by flamtap 8y ago
Normally (i.e.: the vast majority of the time), games don't simulate pooping.
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by flamtap 8y ago
One reason I think Netflix has a lot of those 1-season, low budget, 4-8 episode flops is that producing them is a lot lower risk. Unlike a TV network, they don't have to take up time that could be filled by something else, nor do they
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by flamtap 8y ago
Yeah, I've never seen anyone have their backpack/purse/jacket searched at a movie theatre.
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by flamtap 8y ago
I'm... I'm so sorry.
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by flamtap 8y ago
Thanks for the tip on that, bro! That will really come in handy.
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by flamtap 8y ago
I don't use it, but I do think it's pretty cool. It's small, as a 6'1 male I would say it's just big enough. My girlfriend uses it when she's having troubles sleeping, she says that it really does put her to
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by flamtap 8y ago
I was targeted by an ad for those Gravity Blankets (as I'm sure many others were). I bought one as a gift for my SO. The whole time I was looking at the Gravity Blanket website, I was thinking to myself "dammit, they got me."
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by flamtap 8y ago
The latest versions of 1Password (I’m on 7) have great HIBP integration. Really pleased with it so far.
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by flamtap 8y ago
Yep, that's how it works for me, working from Canada. I invoice on the 15th and the last day of the month, wire transfer comes in a week later (just because of how the company chooses to do payroll).
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by flamtap 8y ago
I don't know where you are in Canada, but I would not consider $100k a good rate for a contract position. I would double it to consider it a "good" salary for a contracted position.
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by flamtap 8y ago
>I put out several long reads. It helped us to improve our SEO and led decent traffic to our blog on Medium. Overall, my posts received 150k views in 2017. My takeaway is that it helps people find the "magical thing" in the fir
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by flamtap 8y ago
>If you care about keeping your shit secure, it shouldn't be on the internet at all. If only we lived in a world where this was practical. I don't think it's unreasonable to be concerned about privacy this way, or to take
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by flamtap 8y ago
Tasks assigned to older devs I've worked with generally sail through QA. So even if they're not as fast to put in a PR (though this has not been my personal experience either), they're a lot more efficient getting their code
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by flamtap 8y ago
Yeah, that definitely has to be factored into the salary. I choose to pay for an individual insurance plan for these things, including disability insurance which should be accounted for as well. I don't have any dependents, but that wo
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by flamtap 8y ago
If you are working from home in Canada (as a self-employed individual), you can claim some of those expenses on your taxes entirely, and a portion of some others. I can write off my entire phone and internet bills and all office supplies. I
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by flamtap 8y ago
It's a Canadian invention, and to this day quite localized to Canada, where it's nearly the standard for carpentry (at least, every deck screw I've ever seen here is Robertson drive). It's good that it's catching on
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by flamtap 8y ago
I did exactly this, and have been working remotely for a Californian company as of two months ago. All I had to do was open a sole proprietorship (a trivial errand) and a USD bank account (technically optional), and report in via email on m
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by flamtap 8y ago
This resonates with me. In a recent stint with a Canadian startup, an exorbitant amount of attention was paid to strengthening and increasing the number of ties we had to Silicon Valley. It seems so often that the end goal is to be able t
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by flamtap 8y ago
I heard someone say that A.I. is just what we call technology that doesn't work yet. Once it works, we give it a specific name, like "natural speech recognition".
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by flamtap 8y ago
Sexism aside, the morality of this service is interesting. What if this service was involved in a match, and some time later the couple married?
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by flamtap 8y ago
I think remote work definitely favours the introverted personality. I have started a remote gig as of four weeks ago, and I was surprised that I did actually miss the water-cooler/coffee machine conversations. Based on my own personali
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by flamtap 8y ago
That was my immediate question, as leather is one of the most hard-wearing upholstery materials available. As far as price goes, at first blush I would imagine this would scale fairly well, at least much better than livestock.

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