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by jehb 5y ago
At some point, over tracking metrics becomes effective gamification. The only way I've seen it promote positive behavior are when the goals are shared, and when everyone's participation actually meaningfully contributes to the goa
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by jehb 5y ago
I agree, this is the sort of statement that should be backed up by... something. But we do use Bitwarden where I work (large enterprise software vendor). Adoption is not consistent, but it's the IT supported solution here.
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by jehb 5y ago
The watermark literally just fell off of the document when I opened it in Inkscape. Everything else (except the watermark) rendered there, so it was completely clean just by opening. (Sorry, OP.)
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by jehb 5y ago
It seems to be, although one could argue the default behavior on HN is a short answer poll.
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by jehb 5y ago
I can't tell if you're joking, but your name kind of checks out.
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by jehb 5y ago
You might be surprised at how many companies are running 10+ year old technologies that were designed around the constraints of the 10+ year old systems that they replaced. If that's your thing, you can build a pretty strong career aro
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by jehb 5y ago
This sounds like a great case for a decentralized web infrastructure like Mastodon uses. Each cat server can be exactly as reliable as the owner feels like making it, and each user can choose a cat server based on their needs, and the whole
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by jehb 5y ago
> Recipes would ultimately be a list of ingredients, concise instructions and maybe a picture or two. So, if Google altered their algorithm such that "recipe" content had to be shorter-form in order to perform better in SERPs,
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by jehb 6y ago
I wish I could say I'll choose an electric car that is built on FOSS so I can actually have the source code to the thing I own. I don't see that being terribly likely, but the next best thing would be one with software that isn&#x
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by jehb 6y ago
I'm going to instead see this as an opportunity for something better to emerge. My biggest problem with Unsplash is that they did not use a standard license that would easily be compatible with a Creative Commons or open source licen
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by jehb 6y ago
Alternative view: "Soft" skills like writing are actually critical to the success of companies, but companies hiring practices and retention practices are so terribly broken, particularly in tech, that most can't seem to iden
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by jehb 6y ago
Can you mount the remote server over SSHFS or NFS or SMB and do the work locally on a file manager of your choice with a remote filesystem? Or, if that's not a good option, what about a installing a TUI remotely that you can use in the
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by jehb 6y ago
I promise small towns have plenty of NIMBYs and people who believe the slight delay they are experiencing is a traffic jam as well.
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by jehb 6y ago
I tend to use *nix for things that are UNIX-like. I think of un*x in the older sense from the other parent "it's not actually UNIX and f*ck the trademark" but I'm not sure that dichotomy in my mind is useful anymore.
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by jehb 6y ago
Can you provide a citation that an IFR estimate for the early days of the pandemic at ~2%, prior to the development of current treatment protocols, was "entirely wrong"?
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by jehb 6y ago
My wife was trying to make us pumpkin pancakes this weekend, ended up an egg short, did a Google search for "egg substitutes" and ended up trying a dollop of mayonnaise, alongside traditional pumpkin spices. Mayonnaise is, after a
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by jehb 6y ago
> I can't for the life of me find a job that pays to write a new framework or some piece of interesting software because opensource completely devalues code. Could you put some more color around this part? I don't understand th
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by jehb 6y ago
I made the same assumption about what the link was going to be about. My solution to terrible music algorithms this year has been to, well, give up on them entirely, and go back to the world of curated music. When Google Play Music died, an
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by jehb 6y ago
Question: Does anyone have a good list of alternatives for the tracking and synchronization bits Google provides, except where you control them instead of Google? I actually rather like having my search history available to me , along with
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by jehb 6y ago
There seems to be a damned lot of obsession with monetary efficiency in this thread, and very little concern with output per acre, output per ton of carbon spent in production, or whether the farming practice is one that will allow the land
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by jehb 6y ago
A sample size of one, but, I was able to pick out the correct penny immediately, and coincidentally, I work in marketing (but more technical marketing than anything brand-related). In defense of the brand folks I know, I don't think an
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by jehb 6y ago
Generally soil health is measured by a number of things, from the easy to quantify like pH and percentage of organic matter and the availability of certain nutrients, or even simple physical measurements like depth, compaction, or water sol
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by jehb 6y ago
Shop was heavily discouraged for college-track students when I went through high school, both by the administration in terms of guidance counseling and timing of the classes, as well as through heavy social reinforcement by peers.
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by jehb 6y ago
It can't be understated what a huge impact the Lynx Blue Line (light rail) had on Charlotte's ability to shape and concentrate their growth in the past 15-20 years. Developers started planning and building around it well before it
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by jehb 6y ago
One common thing I've noticed from working in web publishing for the past couple of decades is that design is often created to serve the frequent homepage reader who is familiar with your publication, not the first-time entrant who cam
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by jehb 6y ago
Counterpoint: The butter we often buy comes in tubs. So we measure by weight when possible, and approximate the volumetric conversions.
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The top four open source ERP systems(opensource.com)
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Experimenting with Docker on a Raspberry Pi(opensource.com)
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15 must-follow Twitter accounts for daily DevOps insights(enterprisersproject.com)
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4 open source alternatives to Slack for team chat(opensource.com)
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