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by ibudiallo 6y ago
I wrote about my experience as a black developer not too long ago [1]. At first, you are shocked when you hear some insensitive comments made around you. Then you realize no one else even notices, so it must be something wrong with you. Eve
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Hmmm many years ago I was wishful thinking about this very box [1]. This is gonna be a fun week playing with and testing it. [1]: https://idiallo.com/blog/bringing-back-the-pc
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
I thought I read this here before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21947551 I still feel the same about it[1]: > Don't shut down the website. Keep it running and make the data available in read only mode and ad
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
I've been talking with companies that are somewhat small but receptive to the idea of employee protection. Unions is often the subject but the damaged done to their reputation in the U.S. is irreversible. No highly paid professional wa
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Unless I'm missing something obvious, striking is the only leverage a union has. If striking is illegal, what's their leverage?
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Unions were proponents for worker safety, fair wages, anti-discrimination. They are the reason why such thing as OSHA exists today. They are the reason some laws were passed to protect workers in the US. But once these mandates became law,
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Battery University(batteryuniversity.com)
2 points by ibudiallo 6y ago|0 comments
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Very fast and very nice. One thing that can be improved is the way the history is populated. Right now, every time a search is performed, a new entry is added to history. I was thinking how to spell Cauliflower as I was typing, now I have t
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
I love this app so much that I'm sometimes reluctant to share it with people. I'm afraid if it becomes too popular they'll add new features and ruin it. My process of writing anything goes through this tool. I write in a plai
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Ah, this one couldn't find my face. It kept focusing on my left ear and gave it a 5 for attractiveness. Then it couldn't find my face any longer. There was another fun one posted here months ago [1]. I wanna say I'm disappoin
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Thanks, I'll update it right away.
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Thank you for letting me know, and here I thought testing on chrome and firefox on Windows was enough. I'll update it as soon as possible.
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Glad you enjoyed it :)
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Hey everyone, author here. My experience is that customers will always want more features than they initially ask for. That's why I make sure to tell them my hourly rate, then give them an estimate. For example, I can say $5000 for a 1
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
The power of Inspect Element. This is exactly how I found out I was underpaid[1]. A company I worked for used a software called erecruit to manage my contracts. When you click on a clients name, it makes an ajax request to fetch the data. B
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
> How did you pull that off? I had written the article to post on my blog. But a couple years ago I've had many journalist contact me about my previous story linked in the article. So I called in those favors and BBC was first to re
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Hey everyone, author here. It seems like this post have been flagged, but I'd like to add a little comment here so it may clarify things. First, a little over a week ago we were having a similar discussion here [1] and I promised I&#x2
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
We had a whole discussion about it here a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17350645
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
Here is a part that I personally have to wrestle with: > "They never even asked him any questions before arresting him. They never asked him if he had an alibi. They never asked if he had a red Cardinals hat. They never asked him wh
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
As a consequence, my website is now available in Russia. https://isitblockedinrussia.com/?host=idiallo.com The issue was that to block Telegram they had banned a few IP blocks, around 10 million ips[1]. These blocks were us
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
> When you are a minority in a group, I think you tend to overthink things, feel very judged, and may be put in to an uncomfortable position to speak for your community. It can be weird and I try my best to stay aware of myself in such s
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
I mostly know California, this is where I learned to navigate the system. People often recommend the tech scene here or there, and it is tempting to just move. But to tell you the truth, I don't want to start over. The devil you know..
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
There is a passage in Catch-22 where Colonel Cathcart accidentally makes a sexual reference when speaking with the chaplain. At first he is embarrassed. But the more he thinks about it, the more he gets pissed at the chaplain for being pres
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
I usually choose to believe in "the honest mistake". It happens, two people walk in, one of them is the CEO, you assume it is the one on the right. And then when you realize it is a mistake, you apologize. We are only human. But w
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
People saying that this is a good thing because they save on server cost. You are right about that part. But the problem is that the search snippet with wiki powered data is a Google Product. When users consume this data, they become Google
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by ibudiallo 6y ago
I can understand the author and I usually do the same thing. But once you have done this two or three times, you have your own framework that you don't have to reinvent anymore. If you are interested, I did a live recording of building
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
This is impressive. I clicked on that link to show you that my language isn't there. I don't even know how it is possible. The whole website is available in Pular! (Aka fulani / fulfulde / etc) https://news.yc
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
no :p
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
Glad you enjoy it. The business end of things was a messy beginning for me. My contracts started as googling a template the night before and sending it with as many typos as mistakes you can imagine. It improved over the years. I haven&#x27
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by ibudiallo 7y ago
When I started freelancing, I did extremely cheap jobs because I didn't have experience and didn't know better. I did what you are currently doing, I went online to find answers. And the answer is, there are no fixed rate. The rat

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