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by gerbilly 7y ago
This should be the top comment. I'm a bit disappointed in HN. So many of the comments here are focused on doubting the victims and ridiculing them for their irrational beliefs. The irony is that it's those very critics that aren&#
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> These people are desperate for relief, so they’re often cycling through 10s of supplements or quack treatments at a time. If they spontaneously go into remission, they’ll swear it was due to the supplements. Can you blame them for tryi
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by gerbilly 7y ago
When you use passive voice, you are obscuring who performed the action. This is one of the hallmarks of corporate speak ("Mistakes were made.") It is bloodless and takes the people out of the picture. Business is a human activity
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by gerbilly 7y ago
The further I get down your list of alternative phrasings, the worse the writing gets. This is corporate speak and it's regrettably taking over the world. I do agree with your final paragraph. Telling people privately sidesteps all th
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by gerbilly 7y ago
What specifically do you propose for the "new house?"
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Just use this: https://bitboost.com/pawsense/ (PawSense is a software utility that helps protect your computer from cats.)
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I would recommend against assuming anything. It's a start up not IBM, things are more fluid. I've used this strategy before in real life, more than once and it resolved the issue 50% of the time. If it doesn't resolve the is
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by gerbilly 7y ago
> try not to name names. Definitely do name names. Don't you think the tech lead will when they go ask him about it? Why pussyfoot around the issue? A start-up I worked at went through this after I left. An asshole team-lead ch
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He said that he believes the founders aren't aware of the team lead creating problems for him. At the moment it's simply unknown which of the two they value most, the OP, or the team lead. The most reasonable course of action isn&
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by gerbilly 7y ago
Go to the founders and tell them it's either you or the team lead. Remind them of all you've done for them. If they side with the team lead or ask you to work your differences out, quit. Your career will be fine. Also take a vacat
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Now that is interesting. I heard that quote from a respected Zen master! This is why I love HN. Thanks for the correction.
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It is a direct quote from the buddha. The point of it that some people don't start practise because they don't believe they deserve to be happy.
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What we're all really looking for in most workplaces is love and attention [edit: acceptance], but we express that by working harder and harder in order to 'earn' it. In my opinion this is the most beneficial buddhist '
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> I often hear the argument that the current applications of mindfulness in corporate or otherwise commercial settings are a perversion of the original teachings. Buddhism teaches that you should tackle the coarser causes of suffering fi
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It would be a tough fight for sure, and let's hope it never comes to that, but look at what insurgents in Vietnam/Irak were able to do against the us military with scarce resources.
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IIRC, revolutionaries in Russia didn't wait for the proletariat class consciousness to arise on it's own, as it had been predicted by Marx. The middle class helped spark the revolution hoping that the proletariat would come around
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You could say that we're all doing it now. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surveillance_capitalism )
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The only thing these disruptive companies (Uber, Deliveroo) are providing is unregulated access to cheap labour in first world countries. I don't know why on earth that even technical people praise them so much. The technical innovati
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>And I am really tired of of screaming "workers rights" all the time. That line sums up this entire site. Talking about workers rights is politics, and we can't talk about that. Let's just invent things and concentra
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> lack of experience and expertise. Canada is a relatively young country with very few major infra projects under its belt. Gawd. As if Canadians are too dumb to go to international conferences like everybody else. Maybe they wouldn&#x
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Because humans as a species have a strong bias to unmask 'cheaters.' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wason_selection_task
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> Kubernetes is CORBA of this generation. I like to compare Kubernetes to websphere.
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> Because the market for desktop Linux applications is too small to be worth considering. And that is because office and other major applications aren't available on linux.
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I will try an find a source, but I think it might have been: A History of Egypt by Nicholas Grimal. However for a while I read widely on the topic so I can't be sure.
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We know who built them The workers were paid for their labour and consisted mainly of farmers who were idle during the off season. There are even records of the workers striking and that their demands for better food and work conditions wer
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> but he has chosen two passages where gender is critical, and moved them between languages where gender is expressed in very different ways. So what, if the program can't handle these simple sentences, it can't claim to be a t
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CHS: A mysterious cannabis-related illness(cbc.ca)
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> the sysadmin doesn't need to learn how the container was built just to manage services or deploy new instances I disagree on that point. Just taking a docker image from a developer and deploying that to production does not work to
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> "Would you take a deal where you could 10X your salary, but you'd have to live the rest of your days starting in 1979." Dude yes, and I'd do it for free. First thing I'd do is go see the clash live.
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Perhaps but they are happy with the results. They tried it their way for a couple of years, and there were performance problems and outages.

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