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by iamdave 10y ago
rent-seeking Tangent, thanks. This is the phrase I was trying to conjure to mind earlier today in a discussion about the very topic of this thread. Ended up taking a long, exhaustive and context-laden road to get to my point; after which
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by iamdave 10y ago
Silly as it may sound to HackerNews, I had this exact thought given the new season is starting very soon.
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by iamdave 10y ago
Why do I feel like this is just going to create a feeling of "serfdom" (there's got to be a word for this that stings less) of writers who choose to publish on Medium? -asking as someone who publishes on Medium for a national
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by iamdave 10y ago
given how shady that business is (seriously it's just a bunch of sharks fleecing anybody they can get their hands on) There's definitely sharks fleecing people in the sense of "buy my automated trading bot!" or "p
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by iamdave 10y ago
Heck, I'm pretty sure you can open a forex trade account with a retail broker for as little as $25 if you're fine trading nanolots and making fractions of a penny every trade.
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by iamdave 10y ago
If you truly want to sell or buy no matter the price, then sure, use a market order. But most of the time there will be a price that is too low/too high for you to want the order to execute. Well...yes, exactly; bordering on a flat o
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by iamdave 10y ago
Oh goodness the irony on this page "SEE ALSO: Netflix’s ‘House of Cards’ Falls Prey to Piracy" Still, that's a very interesting and out of the box method of thinking by the Netflix team. Definitely want to try and find out mo
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by iamdave 10y ago
A desk with a single wall in the front, behind where your displays would sit, and a frosted glass pane demarcating rows. "We're not an open design", but you don't exactly have anything remotely resembling a private works
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by iamdave 10y ago
Much like how Netflix monitors torrents to find out how popular movies/shows are, Wait what? Really?? What are they monitoring, seed ratios from trackers? That's an interesting/novel way of researching demand-makes sense gi
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by iamdave 10y ago
The best part is our 5 person IT team will be right next to 25 people who work phones for customer service. Lemme guess, your company is the type of company that thinks the entirety of IT equals help desk, and therefore will be on the pho
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by iamdave 10y ago
Can't we have an office with a variety of different workspaces that we can move between as our needs change? This would require companies to invest in their people beyond "Here's your paycheck, here's your healthcare,
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by iamdave 10y ago
Instead of calling downvoters cowards can you point to something that substantiates your argument? I was able to swiftly look for and find the exact story re: Rather and Olbermann mentioned in the parent comment. What do you offer here to c
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by iamdave 10y ago
Don't tell me your default method for deleting files is to carelessly throw 'rm -rf' at the issue...if it's "important" and you're using -rf, a part of me thinks "you deserve whatever happens"
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by iamdave 10y ago
Genuine question: would they prevent gentrification or soften the grueling appearance of it?
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by iamdave 10y ago
Google is working on another experimental messaging app Does anyone want to buy in on a betting pool on how many messaging apps we're going to have from Google by Christmas?
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by iamdave 10y ago
>Going back to your original questions, have you considered telling the person that "I'm fine and it is possible that I may have seemed _____." Quite a few times, actually. "Sorry, I'm actually okay, I just have
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by iamdave 10y ago
Take an improv course. It will force you to communicate out of your comfort zone which in turn will help you better communicate in your comfort zone. Are you out of your mind?? But good suggestion (but also, are you actually out of your m
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by iamdave 10y ago
So I'd like to share an anecdote for a moment and get some feed back on this: I have a rather brief speaking style when I express myself verbally. It's a brief, staccato and deliberate speaking style combined with my deep voice an
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by iamdave 10y ago
Hrm. You have my attention. Is there a demo blog up somewhere I could look at and does this support custom blog themes and post templating yet?
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by iamdave 10y ago
Admittedly, no I didn't. What's the tell? I obviously missed it :(
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by iamdave 10y ago
This seems like a decent primer for someone who already has their heads wrapped around application development, but absolutely horrid for someone who wants to pick up a web language for the first time and create that first simple output. Th
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by iamdave 10y ago
Appears to be for me, across multiple teams. A quick twitter search shows other people having problems as well. https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=news&q=slack&sr... Looks like it
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by iamdave 10y ago
>Are you really using it for professional work or have seen anyone use it? Checking in. My side-gig and paid hobby is live production, and Reaper has more than earned it's place in my toolbelt. I've recorded shows produced for
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by iamdave 10y ago
Oh that's clever, that's beautifully clever.
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by iamdave 10y ago
Taking a long/high level view on this: When people are uncritical about that immediate reaction to share, repost, reblog, retweet anything that feeds into that dopamine high of "this coincides with my preconceived notions of n &q
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by iamdave 10y ago
I maintain the firm position that humor can in-and-of-itself contain substantive points. But alas, I'm fighting windmills here-this is a subject I've discussed in other threads; I understand the want for the community to remain at
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by iamdave 10y ago
I've got a bridge to sell you. Plenty of Rust. oh hang on (what's that Mike?) Sorry, Built with Rust.
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by iamdave 10y ago
Well of course they're all not going to be knee-slappers, humor is subjective. So what's the answer to this? Is there one? Should there be one? We're just going to downvote jokes-even if one is made completely within contex
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by iamdave 10y ago
I keep seeing this refrain "we don't want to turn HN into reddit because of low effort jokes" I also see some pretty good, very nuanced jokes (the kind you chuckle about at first, then the second level of the joke hits and yo
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by iamdave 10y ago
Didn't you hear that WordPress runs on C# now? I just threw my computer out a window reading this. An invoice is on the way to your mailbox :P

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