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by hrbf 4y ago
This first happened to me in school. I had the misfortune of many rather incompetent teachers. Asking them genuinely interested follow-up questions would more often than not be met with an annoyed generalization. Still persisting to extract
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by hrbf 4y ago
I’ve said it before and will say it again: as long as there are no painful legal consequences, including jail time, for the responsible managers and C-suite, such behavior will not stop.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Thanks, that’s what I was aiming for. It’s kind of a litmus test what kind of professionalism you can expect in a place – if any. Especially when they have shown prior incompetence, as in OP’s example. In all honesty, given that example, if
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by hrbf 4y ago
Nowhere were contracts mentioned. A proper proposal, for example, always has a date and to sign it if agreed to is just professional conduct. I’d be wary of any exec not willing to do that. Instant red flag.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Having stuff in writing is essential, for accountability on all sides. The exact format does not matter, neither does what passes as a signature in a company. My example was for broadest possible applicability. The point is the willingness
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by hrbf 4y ago
Unless I’m missing something major, the article does not answer its headline question in any way. It just presents a bunch of examples but does not come to any conclusion.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Before anything else, getting buy-in for any kind of major change from the execs is key. Explain the situation and the effects. Have everything in writing, complete with date and signatures. Push back hard every time this commitment gets sa
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sd: Intuitive find and replace CLI (sed alternative)(github.com)
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by hrbf 4y ago
In case someone is interested in the approach and uses Fish, I’ve created a simple autocompletion. https://git.herrbischoff.com/dotpr0n/tree/.config/fish/compl... I’m using “s” for a name instead of “sd”
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by hrbf 4y ago
I have submitted this exact article three days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32821927 Can someone tell me how this apparent duplicate comes into being? I was under the impression that HN consolidates identical s
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by hrbf 4y ago
Fair enough, I agree. Given this requirement, free accounts will probably not be possible. If a person uses a free email account for critical transactions, what can one say? There’s a bigger issue here regarding our increasingly digital liv
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by hrbf 4y ago
> Mark Zuckerberg has created a monster that has no oversight. You don’t say? I’m shocked I tell you. Hopefully this will at least generate more buzz for the movie than Facebook could have.
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by hrbf 4y ago
It is not meant as a strict comparison and I believe you know that. IIRC, HN asks to take the strongest points of an argument, not the weakest.
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by hrbf 4y ago
While I’m generally all for consumer protections, you cannot secure against cases like this. The person affected was obviously ignoring repeated prompts for a current phone number, on a free account nonetheless. The only reliable alternativ
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by hrbf 4y ago
It fascinates me to no end. On the one hand many people more or less voluntarily use private companies’ free services and are surprised when they are shut out for arbitrary reasons. On the other, regulation is decried as government overreac
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by hrbf 4y ago
Knowing there are people with that much money who are thoroughly motivated by the same ideals they were back when they were eating cat food, makes me feel less alone.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Exactly this. As long as there are no painful personal consequences for fraud, this will keep happening. In this case, $8M is casually written off as cost of doing business. This is utterly insane.
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Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires(rushkoff.com)
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by hrbf 4y ago
Same here. Was interested in the answer but I gave up before getting to a satisfactory conclusion. Way too little information density.
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Survival of the Richest (2018)(onezero.medium.com)
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Why do domain names sometimes end with a dot?(jvns.ca)
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The Sender Policy Framework (SPF)(netmeister.org)
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by hrbf 4y ago
There is a general business lesson here: don’t entrust your critical infrastructure to any provider that does not offer a direct line of communication.
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Web pages can overwrite your system clipboard without your knowledge(lapcatsoftware.com)
8 points by hrbf 4y ago|1 comments
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by hrbf 4y ago
And yet another tech positivist discovers the reason why decades of regulation for certain industries are in place.
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by hrbf 4y ago
Years ago, I’ve found an inverse correlation between emoji frequency and information quality. Anime is usually indicative as well, as is excessive use of imagery in general. All together are a dead give-away.
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The golden noose around Apple's neck(spectatorworld.com)
1 points by hrbf 4y ago|0 comments
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by hrbf 4y ago
This actually confirms my points. They are a niche company doing a niche device for a completely different target market, entirely not focused on performance but eco-friendliness. They are not mainstream competitive. The devices’ camera is
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by hrbf 4y ago
Given the possible target market, there is a reason why only a handful of companies are producing competitive smartphones today. It reads as wishful thinking to me that a competitor would arise, bringing “cool” and “privacy” and whatever el
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by hrbf 4y ago
Given the complexities involved in such an endeavor, I'm still confident in my assessment, especially when confronted with a one-liner just throwing a large number against the wall. If Microsoft couldn't get a mobile OS off the gr

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