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by fro0116 9y ago
> I think it's best to change your situation so that the right choice is the easiest to make. Lowering the activation energy required to do cardio by getting my own treadmill in the living room really helped me get into the habit of
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by fro0116 9y ago
Do you have any recommendations for alternatives?
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by fro0116 9y ago
Or more likely, it's just a process that was born out of necessity due to them getting more and more applicants for a limited handful of positions. How else could any company handle that situation other than making their process more a
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by fro0116 9y ago
That's news to me. Any idea what would explain the red channel exhibiting much more burn-in than others then? I've tested this by filling my screen with each color, and burn-in is by far the most visible with a red fill.
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by fro0116 9y ago
I have an LG OLED TV, and I would recommend against purchasing an OLED for monitor use. Burn-in is still a huge issue. I've used mine for about a year and the red channel is full of distracting burn-in patterns from still elements on m
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by fro0116 9y ago
I mean sure, so would I if I had to choose between the two, but that's a false dilemma. And for me at least, a company that doesn't treat their candidates with kindness and respect in the hiring process likely wouldn't be a l
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by fro0116 9y ago
I really want to start using a streaming service, but I listen to a lot of Japanese artists and composers (lots of anime/game soundtracks). So far I have not found any streaming service with a decent selection when it comes to the late
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by fro0116 9y ago
Wow. Is it just me or does that sound like a downright horrifying company to deal with as a candidate? At our company, we try to painstakingly craft our recruiting experience to make sure each candidate we interview has a good experience an
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by fro0116 9y ago
Not to diminish the technical accomplishment here, but that sounds like the very definition of tyranny of the majority. Not to say that our current systems of manual moderation are perfect, but at least it's a step removed from mob rul
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by fro0116 9y ago
That sounds awesome! Could anyone point me to some examples or docs on this new feature? I tried searching for `sideEffect` on https://webpack.js.org/ but came up empty.
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by fro0116 9y ago
I don't have any experience with the more expensive panels you listed, but I do have an LG OLED, and I'd be a bit more careful about recommending it for color critical work as a computer monitor. I've owned it for about a yea
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by fro0116 9y ago
> I did not realize we were talking about you? I re-read my original comment again and still think it was pretty clear, but I realize how easy it may be to gloss over things like that in reading, and in hindsight it was definitely in bad
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by fro0116 9y ago
> The best talent has no trouble attracting far more than $80,000/year. I'm mediocre at best and have had no trouble attracting far more than that amount, in rural Canada no less. The people being offered $80,000/year are
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by fro0116 9y ago
In case I wasn't being clear enough, by benefits, I meant benefits from the perspective of the Canadian tech industry, not necessarily from the perspective of Canadian society as a whole (that's a much more complex and nuanced sub
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by fro0116 9y ago
Former Vancouverite here. I really wanted to work in Vancouver, but I simply could not justify taking the ~$80k CAD offer I had in Vancouver over an ~$140k USD offer from a company in SF. Even when taking into account the cost of living dif
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by fro0116 9y ago
To offer one small piece of anecdote to the contrary: We use Clojure for most of our server-side code and picked Lacinia from Walmart Labs [0] to implement our new GraphQL API. It does most of the basics just fine, but its pace of developme
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by fro0116 9y ago
Indeed. All I see from this and similar threads here and articles all over the internet on topics like these is: "blah blah hindsight bias blah blah rationalization blah blah" At the end of the day, the only useful theories for th
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by fro0116 9y ago
That... sounds like a nighmare. I've always been slightly bitter about not ever having been able to get the canonical version of my first name or first name last name combination on email services due to having a rather common name, bu
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by fro0116 9y ago
Ah thank you! That's great to hear. Looks like I just couldn't find the right search terms to find it.
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by fro0116 9y ago
Not really related to extensions, but one thing I've been curious of for a while now: Does the Firefox team have any plans to implement something like Chrome's expensive background timers throttling feature? https://blo
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by fro0116 9y ago
I've personally had great experience with GDAX, which is an exchange operated by the folks at Coinbase. Though if your issues with Coinbase extend beyond just pricing, this might not be a very good alternative.
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by fro0116 9y ago
FWIW I've always been of the opinion that HN would be better off without downvoting. Most arguments for downvoting I've heard revolve around the desire to maintain a high signal to noise ratio, but in my view, the marginal increas
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by fro0116 9y ago
> Introducing te "do-not-track" header was a great idea but it has been completely ruined by major browsers turning it on by default so the trackers have legitimately chosen to ignore it. This seems to imply that doNotTrack wou
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by fro0116 9y ago
Has anyone made a blocklist for sites with these scripts yet?
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by fro0116 9y ago
I've been using Syncthing [0] for syncing music between all of my devices (Android phone included) for quite a while and it has always worked perfectly for me. Curious if you also consider that one of those "buggy syncing solution
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by fro0116 9y ago
Beautiful! Thank you for bringing this to my attention. The Firefox Test Pilot teams have been coming up with some consistently awesome features, and generally with great UX. I can't wait to try out their take on panes!
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As a long time user of many of his projects (see also https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-... ), that just made me respect him even more, which I honestly thought wasn't even possi
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by fro0116 9y ago
Speaking of terminals, I personally find that a combination of panes (i.e. arbitrarily nested horizontal + vertical splits) and tabs is really the best of both worlds. Tile Tabs [0] was an extension that used to enable this kind of workflow
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by fro0116 9y ago
This is why I wish there was a ROM that's purely focused on bringing the latest stock Android to as many devices as possible. Right now it looks like the most popular cross device ROMs are projects like LineageOS and OmniROM, which are
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by fro0116 9y ago
Ah yes. The fight for smartphone OS dominance is unfortunately over, but I do hope a company like Mozilla could secure a leading spot in the next big consumer technology platform (my bet would be AR), so we can have the option to choose an

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