itisit

10 ms·

121.
by itisit 4y ago
Had you heard of Donna Tartt before? I can relate though. As someone in his 40s who considers himself quite erudite on the history of electronic music, I could not believe I never heard of Yellow Magic Orchestra until several years ago. It&
122.
by itisit 4y ago
Given enough cronyism and persistence, any toxic chemical can be made safe. I'm referring to Donald Rumsfeld (then CEO of Searle, creator of aspartame) and his friends at the FDA. https://vtuhr.org/articles/10.2106
123.
by itisit 4y ago
It's a productivity booster too. I can discreetly go about my business during meetings, off camera of course, without skipping a beat. And no one is the wiser. What a time to be alive!
124.
by itisit 4y ago
That's all it is. These EDA transformation journey blog posts are de rigeur for any company looking to have its engineering culture perceived in a modern light, at least in the eyes of a junior-to-intermediate developer.
125.
by itisit 4y ago
> Also if I find GPT generated comments that are not clearly labelled, I flag and downvote. As you should.
126.
by itisit 4y ago
The latter...forgive me! I had to just this once, and I promise not to generate a bunch of ChatGPT pollution on HN!
127.
by itisit 4y ago
You don't think the clients know it as well? There is a tacit collective grift practiced by both sides. Truly bullshit jobs. Coast and collect.
128.
by itisit 4y ago
I’m not sure if that video is tongue-in-cheek. Funny either way.
129.
by itisit 4y ago
The last thing NYC needs is people walking around with air rifles.
130.
by itisit 4y ago
> i never had a chance to handwrite my notes or thoughts. Really? Yet to come across a pen and paper in your however many years of life? I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Are those things so exceedingly anachronist
131.
by itisit 4y ago
Can diabetics sue the professional athletes that marketed sugary beverages as liquid performance? Those with lung cancer, can they sue all the actors that touted the therapeutic benefits of lighting up? And gambling apps, I'm broke bec
132.
by itisit 4y ago
> it's pretty unreasonable for them to not have a convincing modernisation plan The planning isn't the issue, it's the conviction, resolve, determination...whatever you want to call it. COBOL modernization is quite expensi
133.
by itisit 4y ago
This was a concern in the mid-to-late aughts very early into the format's debut, but not so much anymore, if at all. I have Pioneer Elite Blu-ray players running pre-2010 firmware that have never had any playback issues with new releas
134.
by itisit 4y ago
For baking an apple pie, not for eating directly.
135.
by itisit 4y ago
The file system.
136.
by itisit 4y ago
"So I have just one wish for you—the good luck to be somewhere where you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the organization, or financia
137.
by itisit 4y ago
Did Leslie say that? I know TeX creator Knuth has had a long-standing bug/typo/error bounty for his works.
138.
by itisit 4y ago
A schadenfreude-laden reminder that a business owes you nothing more than a paycheck and a legally safe work environment.
139.
by itisit 4y ago
The whole page feels like the output of a stream of consciousness writing exercise, complete with the expected qualities of being incoherent, maundering, abstract, and hollow. There can be pleasure in imagination and invention, of course, b
140.
by itisit 4y ago
Popping? Not for AWS. Still posting robust double digit growth YOY. Most of the cloud abstraction services out there rely heavily upon AWS.
141.
by itisit 4y ago
There is a glorious harmonic resonance to being in the choral company of others espousing the same delusional views on technology, society, etc.
142.
by itisit 4y ago
An HOA below $1000 for a $2MM+ place is a steal. Would take that any day of the week.
143.
by itisit 4y ago
How big of a company? Is it a consultancy?
144.
by itisit 4y ago
I smell a unicorn.
145.
by itisit 4y ago
I think most Casio fans regard that to be the F105W-1A. https://www.casio.com/us/watches/casio/product.F-105W-1A/
146.
by itisit 4y ago
This tragedy could have been avoided had a sandwich been made at home.
147.
by itisit 4y ago
Yelling, threats, backstabbing, attrition, substance abuse.
148.
by itisit 4y ago
https://www.parliament.uk/globalassets/documents/commons-com...
149.
by itisit 4y ago
What's your USP compared to others in this crowded iPaaS+EDI space (ex. Celigo, Boomi, SPS, etc.)? Maintaining reliable integrations requires a lot of money, especially at scale and even more so when traversing borders. And EDI 850 i
150.
by itisit 4y ago
Talk about a tragicomedy! Thanks for sharing.

More ›