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by hbarka 5y ago
VB6
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by hbarka 5y ago
I’m quick to toss out bad hardware but this one has been with me for a year now and suits my triple monitor setup plus Macbook.
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by hbarka 5y ago
I’ve been with a couple of companies where the “corporate culture” thing was heavily preached by HR. You could call it cultish because of the endless training and mantra about mission and passion and competition and a whole slew of other wo
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What we really need is the next Twitter. It is time.
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by hbarka 5y ago
This beautiful block of metal is my go-to: https://www.amazon.com/Docking-Station-Dtation-Thunderbolt-E... Docking Station, 18in1 USB C Docking Station for Windows/MacBook Pro/Air/Thunderbolt 3 Dock with SSD
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by hbarka 5y ago
I would hardly think this is what drives Putn and other dictators.
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by hbarka 5y ago
Why is it that when you reply to recruiters their first request is to send them a copy of your resume?
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This official site is pretty comprehensive: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/News/visas-news/i...
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Unfortunately what has been somewhat consistent for me during onboarding is that my manager did not bother to make sure I have the needed credentials and roles in advance. Days and weeks were wasted where I had to fend for myself, against N
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Ask HN: Ukrainians who were working in the IT sector, how are you?
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Whether it’s PST or PDT, let’s pick one please and get it done. When do you see it taking effect?
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by hbarka 5y ago
When do we see this take permanent effect in California? It feels like this has been decided many months ago but why is the implementation in limbo?
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Thank you, that’s informative.
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I’ve lived in newer suburban neighborhoods where some of the homeowners would cut their developer-planted trees down to branchless stubs, just as the trees were about to grow. I wonder what would explain the aversion to a tree. I suppose th
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by hbarka 5y ago
The other dark tea, the fermented tea they mention in this article aka hei cha or commonly referred to as pu’er, scares me because there are bad quality versions of it containing mold due to their fermentation process. Hard to detect sinc
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by hbarka 5y ago
Enter Piper, Google’s monorepo https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13563336
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by hbarka 5y ago
He had me until “It’s not clear Americans can handle this kind of power” . David Roberts would like to you to use a dull knife because you can’t handle a sharp knife. Here’s his intro bio: “I should note that I’m not a car guy. I don’t kn
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by hbarka 5y ago
Having the luck of abundance of coal and abundance of metal-bearing earth allowed states to smelt metals to a scale that can defeat enemies and then the rise of arms races and industrial revolutions and science.
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San Francisco and Seattle are turning into sister-cities. What baffles me is why drug DEALERS are allowed to do so with impunity. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/heatherknight/article/sa...
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A complementary proposition would be Teaching is a slow process of becoming something you love.
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Here in San Francisco, what are the chances that these Norwegian tourists can even hope to be reunited with their possessions? https://twitter.com/powellmason415/status/150229144319646105...
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by hbarka 5y ago
There must be some universal novelty about food from convenience/convenient locations. My neighbor keeps telling me about the fried chicken from the local gas station mini-mart. He swears it’s the best thing since Popeye’s but I’m not
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by hbarka 5y ago
I would love to see this for wine. Imagine all the features.
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They tried Department of Offense but the acronym didn’t go over well
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Harkens back to Wen Ho Lee [1]. Getting wenholee’d is now an adjective if you’re perpetually seen as that dagum fornur. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2001/02/04/us/the-making-of-a-suspec...
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Military veterans here would know that NBC (the DoD’s umbrella acronym for Nuclear, Biological, Chemical) threats and defensive postures against them are constantly ingrained into the individual soldier’s training regimen. It starts from b
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by hbarka 5y ago
You’re confusing probationary period with contract to hire.
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Contractors are on a different time period contract. They’re treated as a temporary resource and more than likely will roll off than get hired. Filling an FTE role has a different motivation and so the probationary period would be very shor
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Here’s a radical idea: hire the top 4 candidates on a probationary period. Have them work remote and with the same requirements and blind to each other.
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The initial commit was devoid of that fact. I still contend the Wikipedia initial entry was created for myth-making. It’s a good thing it can be edited.

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