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by jelling 5y ago
Someone in the industry told me that they don’t renew shows after a couple of years because they would have to pay more for them. Basically, they’re operating like a sports team that relies on rookie contacts to maintain profitability.
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by jelling 5y ago
ITT: people that are high wage earners in the industry with the highest potential upward mobility that want to argue about the basis and percentage of tips for people doing the work with the least possible upward mobility. Tipping, at a min
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by jelling 5y ago
That's cat's balance is the key here. I tried this with a hairless cat - whom also have very little in the way of whiskers - and the poor thing just didn't have the balance to handle the final steps.
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by jelling 5y ago
This. And as much as I love listening to music, going without any headphones and just hearing whatever it is you are in the middle of can be centering.
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by jelling 5y ago
Reddits revenue per user is terrible compared to Facebook ($0.30 vs $7): https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/11/reddit-users-are-the-least-v...
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by jelling 5y ago
Then you'd probably love "Powerbroker: Robert Moses and the Death of New York" by Robert Caro. Long, but he's a master.
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by jelling 5y ago
> If a man can expect to meet exactly N eligible women in his life, what strategy should he use to maximize his chances of choosing the very best one? If you show her this article and she's still into you, that's the right one
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by jelling 5y ago
Counterpoint argument based on the Japanese/Korean story structure called kishōtenketsu: > The necessity of conflict is preached as a kind of dogma by contemporary writers’ workshops and Internet “guides” to writing. A plot without
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by jelling 5y ago
While some see this as a marketing stunt, I think it's a successful founder that now dramatically over-estimates his personal importance: > "I'm not willing to expose my customers to this harm, so it's time to take it
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by jelling 5y ago
“The Winged Energy of Delight” by Bly is an excellent selection of translations he did of poets from around the world. Rip, Mr Bly.
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by jelling 5y ago
Blitz.js is a superset of NextJS that should do what you want
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by jelling 5y ago
If the dev machine is the fastest horse and the dev is waiting on the CI, wouldn’t it make more sense to have an option that optionally self-hosts the CI process on the dev machine when desired? I could be wrong but I’m concerned about th
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by jelling 5y ago
Previous comment was a quote from the song “Losing My Edge” by LCD Soundsystem. The genius of the lyrics is in sardonically complaining about the new generation but also admitting the real problem is that the singer is growing old.
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by jelling 5y ago
Blitz.js is worth a look as it supports both out of the box
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by jelling 5y ago
One thing that might help with the leaning: get a standing desk with a horizontal cross bar. This gives you another position where you can put one foot up and prop yourself backwards from the desk. The leaning itself is a function of TimeSt
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by jelling 5y ago
You definitely have a place in open source. Good teams have a variety of skills so if public-facing communication isn’t your thing, partner with at least one person that likes doing that.
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by jelling 5y ago
At a minimum, GraphQL skips the problem of having one or few engineers re-invent the wheel of how to pass queries to an API. Or if you’re lucky, how to document it. REST Api design is probably one of the least value-add activities a company
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by jelling 5y ago
This comment smells like mead and dwarves.
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by jelling 5y ago
All I want is to never have to look for the right window again while switching apps. Such a tiny but constant tax on focus.
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by jelling 5y ago
The first episode (the “pilot”) of most dramas isn’t a great measure because they have to do so much work to a setup the world and the characters. So they can be very workman-like as they’re intended first and foremost to sell executives on
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by jelling 5y ago
Also ProtonMail's only reason for being is that they are supposed to provide some higher level of privacy. If they don't, how are they any different than a commodity grade SMTP/IMAP provider? I will withhold judgement until
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by jelling 5y ago
I did an interview with Reddit - whom I hope sees this comment - and they not only provided zero information about the context of the tech interview in advance, or whether it would be one, but also the interview itself was like playing a ra
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by jelling 5y ago
Curious, is SLOBS not architected to run OBS separately as service? Electron has its issues but, for example, a Slack client crash does not take down the service.
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by jelling 5y ago
Given unlimited AprilTags, how would this approach compare to a depth camera and Xsens/Rokoko mocap suit?
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by jelling 5y ago
Is there evidence that the CIA as of recent had an inaccurate view of the situation in Afghanistan? I couldn’t find it in the article but it could be. What happened in Vietnam was that the CIA had a very accurate view of the situation but t
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by jelling 5y ago
Knowing how to code prepares you to deal with lawyers that say something is complex but then you verbally break it down into an if-elseif-else in 5m and they get flummoxed. And when you find a possible bug / loop-hole / fuzziness,
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by jelling 5y ago
Shout out sleep, bc that ~33% of our lives is actually not wasted time in any way.
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by jelling 5y ago
Every top comment on HN is someone with an unprofitable use case complaining that no one serves them. Change my mind.
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by jelling 5y ago
My friend works there and said that virtually everyone gets dropped a rank on the way in. It’s so common that people commonly introduce themselves as “I’m an X but pre-Amazon I was an X+1”.
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by jelling 5y ago
The main reason Amazon has kicked the crap out of their competitors is that they built a multi-billion dollar fulfillment platform that is better than anything out there. Whatever degree of effect that building shipping costs into pricing h

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