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by fma 7y ago
I've never understood why drive through ordering was not done through a call center. It could be in India for cheap labor. At the end of the day, you are "calling" someone and they punch things into a computer that is the sam
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by fma 7y ago
One of my go to question is "When is the last time you had to work over the weekend". This will help you determine if projects are mismanaged, how stable their prod environment is...etc
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by fma 7y ago
I rewrote an app that used to only deploy on weekends because we do a lot of processing on weekday afternoons and nights. I changed the deployd to the mornings. I justified as saying if something breaks we have everyone there to fix it. Plu
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by fma 7y ago
I've watched people fly RC airplane and helicopters with gas engines. They still exist, and there are air fields for them. I've seen them since the 90s as a kid. They aren't expensive but, are bigger and require an actual lan
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by fma 7y ago
Frys offers same day delivery for free, with orders over $49... https://images.frys.com/art/deals/tralfaz/Free_Local_Deliver... Once B&M stores offer same day delivery its going to be hard to be an online
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by fma 7y ago
The Chinese government openly blames the US on these "riots". Their propaganda machine frames the protestor as western manipulation to hold back China. If the US grants HK protestor asylum, that would create more fodder. There are
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by fma 7y ago
Backend dev here. I tried to create a simple Angular app. I got into some kind of dependency hell on something simple. Going from Angular 7 to 8 broke some junk? Then trying to get Angular Bootstrap to work was hellish as well, especially w
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by fma 7y ago
I like Google Reviews too and use it more than Yelp. Especially when Yelp forces me to download the app. But I find it difficult to generate a link directly to Google reviews for a particular place... I can link to the Google maps results,
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by fma 7y ago
Fun tidbit: you can still access messenger via mbasic.facebook.com Looks ugly, but does the trick.
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by fma 7y ago
More like... What's in their wallet.
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by fma 7y ago
Yes it used to be open. Now you need a Chinese credit card. Even those who had an account before are not grandfathered in. I'm in the US and have colleagues who go to China on business trips. It's a huge pain. It's almost imp
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by fma 7y ago
Thanks. I used to use virtual cards from Bank of America and Citibank but looks like it's just an after thought to the big banks now...
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by fma 7y ago
Or someone on slickdeals is good at marketing because that's what half the article talks about. I'm surprised Amazon honored such a big price mistake. A few weeks ago, some Western Digital drives were priced incorrectly. About ha
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by fma 7y ago
I've given up TV for years. Having kids does that. The spare time I do have is in HN, Reddit, Google News etc... I'd like to reduce that, as most of the time it adds no value to life (except HN, sometimes)
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by fma 7y ago
I took an AI class that used Lisp. Language processing, knowledge based questions... What you can do in a few lines of Lisp code... Holy crap.
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by fma 7y ago
The most notable article I guess is from South China Morning Post ( https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3017530... ) and they cite 'a source'. Also in their article, there are cl
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by fma 7y ago
"Rabin, the former software engineer, recalled one manager saying at an all-hands meeting that Boeing didn’t need senior engineers because its products were mature." Doesn't exactly make me confident in flying in their planes
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by fma 7y ago
NPR has a podcasts that interviews founders and how they got started, how they made money (likely they didn't, at first) and how they continue to be better than everyone else. It's called How I Built This. https://www.n
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by fma 7y ago
If I can't wait 2 weeks, I go on Ebay :) It's usually a few dollars more, or sometimes even the same price (probably a US retailer buying bulk from Alibaba instead of Aliexpress). Make sure you check the "Ships from North Ame
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by fma 7y ago
Yes...every online store not named Amazon.
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by fma 7y ago
Yep, I remember that - and I made the conscious decision to purchase my glasses from B&H Photo because of this exact reason.
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by fma 7y ago
Anyone used the HP TouchPad? I favor that OS more than iOS and Android.
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by fma 7y ago
This is why I roll my eyes when I see resumes, especially from senior engineers who job hop every year or two. They may have never deployed their system or even they did, have enough support time to learn how supportable their system is, ho
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by fma 7y ago
If I remember correctly, Sid Meiers would call up computer stores and ask if they had his games in stock because he wanted to buy it. He'd call several times and eventually the stores would reach out to him to buy it.
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by fma 7y ago
A lot of what you've described is covered in detail in the book: "Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting" I have not used YouTube yet for parenting but I would imagine it's a great resourc
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by fma 7y ago
That's the beauty of state controlled media and the Great Firewall of China. It doesn't get reported much, and the parts that are is only the pro-Beijing opinion. To appear to provide an unbiased opinion, they will quote pro-Beiji
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by fma 7y ago
I'm in the same boat as you were, I think. I like my company, but as the lead dev of a team in a big company I make a lot of technical decisions/reviews/collaborations... but others implement because I'm spending most of
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by fma 7y ago
It's a major advantage. I went to the same state university for my masters, so to me it was a continuation of my undergrad but in classes I was actually interested in. Even dumping money into a startup, I graduated with a low amount of
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by fma 7y ago
Same thing happened in 2010. There were talks of restarting mining in the US but obviously it didn't follow through. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. https://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspecula
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by fma 7y ago
As a follow up I decided to implement a "Sprint 0".

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