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by habosa 4y ago
This article feels like it was written by a friend of someone who is named as let go. Google let a lot of good people go last week. Some more and some less deserving than those in the OSPO. Google has never had a particularly coherent open
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by habosa 4y ago
We can do that! But if they need to edit multiple files at once they have to jump into the VSCode-based web editor which requires understanding all the Git things.
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Ask HN: How can I enable non-technical team members to edit files on GitHub?
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by habosa 4y ago
I was talking purely about “benefits” by which most people mean things outside of standard monetary compensation. EU workers have much better vacation, healthcare, parental leave, severance pay, etc than US workers on average.
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by habosa 4y ago
The scale of benefits generally looks like: Average US worker << Average EU worker < US Big Tech Worker
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by habosa 4y ago
Interesting! Is this because the exchange rate (currently 1.23 GBP:USD but has been lower recently) is fluctuating in the same range as the VAT rate (20%)?
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by habosa 4y ago
Yes. I feel that the tech media has done a terrible disservice by recommending the 8GB Apple M1 laptops. I am not sure what it is about that architecture but they are completely unusable under load in a way that's not true of my 2015 i
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by habosa 4y ago
It was great. £50/month and I used 1TB of data with no throttling. Two people working from home full time. Only occasionally slow. Not great latency though.
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by habosa 4y ago
Some color about buying home internet in London vs San Francisco (in my experience). I recently moved back from London to San Francisco. In my 3 years in central London (N1) I had to use a 5g hotspot (thank you, Vodafone unlimited) to get a
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by habosa 4y ago
100%, I noticed it immediately.
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by habosa 4y ago
Whoah the Madison voice sounds _exactly_ like Julia Whelan, who is a real audiobook narrator. I have listened to many articles on Audm (narrated news articles) using her voice. I wonder if she had a part in this?
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by habosa 4y ago
The Google developer relations team has hundreds of tech writers, they have their own career ladder alongside developer relations engineers.
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by habosa 4y ago
Fun (maybe?) fact for the HN crowd: Charlie Munger III was/is a software engineer at Google.
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by habosa 4y ago
Other countries, like France, have credit card fees < 0.5%. The US lacks competition, regulation, and innovation in payments. https://www.valuepenguin.com/interchange-fees-na-vs-eu
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by habosa 4y ago
Surprised this isn’t a slam dunk. One of the main reasons Binance is popular is because in the 2017 crypto run up they made it easier than anyone else to get an account and start trading. It seemed obvious at the time they couldn’t be compl
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by habosa 4y ago
TL;DR "Why don't people work as hard for 250k as I worked for 100M? They must be lazy"
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by habosa 4y ago
If you like Herzog’s narrative style in movies you’ll enjoy the book. It’s a very quick read, maybe 3 hours. In some bits I could practically hear him in my head, like this: “The night is long. The crickets, not caring about war or peace, o
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by habosa 4y ago
Meanwhile the other day I did a Google takeout of my Photos and when I clicked the download link, Google warned me about malware on their own *.googleapis.com domain I think an ML black box is getting out of control
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by habosa 4y ago
Back in 2017 when there was an new coin spiking every day Binance was by far the easiest place to sign up and trade. Everywhere else had either much stricter KYC or a much worse reputation. It’s likely Binance was so much easier because the
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by habosa 4y ago
This. It’s not just startups, big companies do it too. The best recent example is Google Photos. Google announced “free and unlimited” photos storage to everyone one day. Every other paid photo app out there fell of a cliff. Nobody else cou
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by habosa 4y ago
> If Uber somehow lost money to drive out competitors (an insane strategy) This is literally what happened.
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by habosa 4y ago
If I was the CEO or Co Founder of a startup that could see success on the horizon I’d work all night too. The project is very personal and the potential rewards are enormous. But it makes me furious when those same people want to know why t
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by habosa 4y ago
This would probably drive increased base compensation and decreased variable compensation in order to stand out on job boards. I’m among the people who would like that !
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by habosa 4y ago
This article is clearly a paid advertisement, as you can see at the end. It’s also maybe the worst tech writing I’ve ever read, so bad it’s almost funny. Some of the best worst lines: > “Visuals may be half the fun of technology, but th
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by habosa 4y ago
Re: Extracting a machine-readable CI token Don’t do that! Firebase CI tokens are not a good way to authorize with Firebase anymore. Use a GCP Service Account which you can scope very precisely and remotely adjust permissions / track us
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by habosa 4y ago
Most lawyers only exist to protect you from other lawyers. The language is all part of that, consciously or not.
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by habosa 4y ago
Any computer targeted at business users really needs to start at 16GB minimum. I can't understand why 8GB is still the default base configuration on almost every computer. My company made the mistake of ordering 8GB M1 MacBook Pros for
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by habosa 4y ago
While this seems consumer friendly, I imagine that such a massive negative shift in the cash flow mechanics for airlines would result in them having to raise prices or degrade service.
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by habosa 4y ago
I've met some very smart and capable programmers who perpetuate this "style". It's so harmful. Comments are good for the writer AND the reader.
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by habosa 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Old_Red_Lion,_Islington The reason it doesn’t look as old as they say is because it was rebuilt.

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