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by jacurtis 3y ago
Spoiler alert: Everyone is replaceable labor. If you think you are a special unique snowflake that is irreplaceable, think again. There are a few handful of individuals in the entire world that might be exceptions to the rule and those peop
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Billing systems are complex... but so are most other SaaS systems. If you take any other SaaS product, it generally seems simple, "i could build it in a weekend". But having worked at these "simple" SaaS products, there
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Its sad that Vice feels like they can only gain value from social media and YouTube. I feel like the best part of the internet is dying (good written detailed content), but the worst part of it is surviving and thriving: social media (short
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by jacurtis 3y ago
The reason Kagi isn't like Google is because it is paid. Contrary to popular belief: servers aren't free to run or buy or maintain. Software developers also don't work for charity therefore they require paychecks. Both of the
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by jacurtis 3y ago
The reply post to that one [1] is a perfect example of what I see everyday on Google. You search for "Best Men's Wallet" and the top examples are from 1) Forbes, 2) BusinessInsider, 3) New York Times. These sites are huge con
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by jacurtis 3y ago
You are explaining one component of SEO, which is click-through rate. Google will A/B test certain sites one spot higher or one spot lower to see if click-thru rate is positively affected. So if SiteA gets 80% of clicks while in spot #
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Basically yes. I used to write regularly for a large finance site. You've read articles from this site, they show up on HN regularly and its one of the top 100 sites in the world and bounces around in place among the top 3 finance site
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by jacurtis 3y ago
+2 I thought it was part of the experience, so I put in a bunch of fake information. Then got to the end and it said "we will contact you later". Lol, nope you won't. It's a very confusing Call to Action.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I have no idea how tailwind has gotten so popular. Tailwind is a way to justify writing inline css in our HTML. This was once considered the cardinal sin of a frontend developer. You avoided inline-css at all costs. But now Tailwind just ma
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> I no longer have to wonder what primary means The point is exactly that you don't need to worry about styling in the HTML. You just structure the HTML. If you want to know what primary means that you open the css file and search .
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yep, thats exactly what will happen. You get an echo chamber that slowly deteriorates. Some original ideas will always exist, but the AI will be so hungry for new ideas that they will be sucked up and regurgitated immediately.
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I'll attempt to summarize information coming from many different sources to help people out and provide context. WJLX is a radio station in Jasper Alabama. It operates a standard music+talk radio station that they brand as "WJLX 1
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by jacurtis 3y ago
You're confusing two different parties involved in the monitoring here: the FCC and the station owner. The station owner likely knew within a few hours to a few days that the tower went offline. At the very least the power bill would h
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by jacurtis 3y ago
How would they have realtime monitoring unless they have a receiver in every city in the country? This happened in Jasper Alabama, not Los Angeles California. I think its possible that they only send someone out once a year to check for act
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by jacurtis 3y ago
He posted it on Medium, not the front page of the New York Times. People follow him on Medium, presumably because they want to follow his thoughts and are interested in what he has to say. So for him to post to a platform of followers, expl
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by jacurtis 3y ago
black wallpaper will be awesome for battery life once OLED laptop screens come out
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Graduate tuition is usually even more expensive than undergrad. So I bet graduate students are paying ~15-20% more than this from my previous experience of graduate tuition. This data dump is loading research papers, which is going to prima
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I think you hit on one of the great benefits of cordless electric tools, especially those that have recently taken over the lawn&garden market. For so long if you had even a small yard you had to have a mower, an edger, a hedge trimmer,
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I never knew about this slogan. But I'm curious if this was the real origin behind Apple's infamous "Think Different" campaign. IBM was the big competitor at the time and Steve Jobs didn't have a high opinion of the
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by jacurtis 3y ago
What ive learned in my career is that all companies are operating on a knife's edge. I have accepted offers at some very prestigious companies where I assume that "surely this company will be organized and have good systems in pla
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I read the whole article and it was very difficult to follow. Then I realized it was a transcript from the video at the top. Watching the video made much more sense. Like you, I was confused about Justin Gray since he repeatedly quoted hims
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Tl;Dr: Takeaways from the article. > Surveying nearly 30,000 bachelor degree programs... 28 percent of programs left students worse off economically than when they started > 4 in 5 engineering programs have ROI above $500,000, but the
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yeah that confused me too. Metro is a terrible title for this, because metro is used in every major part of the country to mean the metropolitan area of the relative city. In this case it refers to Atlanta, but it could just as well be Denv
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by jacurtis 3y ago
So this is a crazy story, I was aware of the growing problem of home squatting, but have never heard anything of someone turning it into "a business". The story never explains how they get the keys, which was the part I was the mo
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by jacurtis 3y ago
> And Prime doesn't even mean two or one day delivery anymore, just free shipping and we'll get it to you when we get it to you. I laughed at the final sentence. My wife and I were talking with friends last week and both of us
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I was interviewing with a company a year back. I had gone through 3 interviews and there were 2 more left of various song and dance required. The process was going well and I liked the company, but I was getting burnt out with the process a
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I agree. This is a weird reason to discontinue interviewing someone. This is the type of factoid that can easily be learned by someone on the job. If you want to reset db connections after 500ms instead of 15 seconds, then fine. But its the
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by jacurtis 3y ago
Yeah this is always something that has bothered me. Profile image bias is 100% a thing. But if you don't have an image on LinkedIn or put a generic image (of your dog or something) then it hurts you in job searches. People will deny th
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by jacurtis 3y ago
I didn't know they officially got rid of quoting for exact token searches. I was trying this the other day and i felt like it wasn't working but there was no way to know other than the fact I still wasn't getting results I wa
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by jacurtis 3y ago
So I'm not sure why this is on HN. There is nothing new on here and not even much information. It is documentation of fips-compliant AWS API endpoints. As someone who works with AWS every day in the Government space and needs to have s

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