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by jt2190 5y ago
> I prefer developing everything locally because it feels snappier to me, even with a good internet connection… oarsinsync’s IDE is sending each keystroke from his local computer to a cloud machine, where the source code lives. That sour
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by jt2190 5y ago
It wasn’t a medical emergency. He visited his Primary Care physician, who recommended an MRI, which was performed at a hospital. In the U.S. it’s possible (but not widely known) that you can shop around for medical imaging like MRIs. (My w
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by jt2190 5y ago
> During their commentary shows they just throw outrage after outrage at the wall and see what sticks. Yep. We’re all addicted to “rage-ahol” [1], but it gets eyeballs which means they can charge more for ads. What’s worse IMHO is that
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by jt2190 5y ago
> I think the employment gap is hard to explain for either role. What percentage of each week was spent: • designing, coding, or otherwise building the product • selling or marketing • researching the market and interviewing customers •
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by jt2190 5y ago
(2013)
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by jt2190 5y ago
> BBQ is for poor people... This is really not true anymore. BBQ has become a high-ticket item thanks to “Craft BBQ” and growing demand https://www.khou.com/mobile/article/news/brisket-prices-are-...
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Everybody involved is taking some fraction of that risk. I think that by "that risk" you're talking about "the overall increased risk of investing in a new company". I deliberately use the word investing be
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by jt2190 5y ago
> Years of time and money. Exactly. Additionally, any of that money that you could have saved during those first two years would have had more time (obviously) for interest to compound than any savings you make today [1], so that "l
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by jt2190 5y ago
[Here's my best summary of what a "fierce nerd" is, according to this essay] Most non-nerds think of nerds as: * quiet * diffident In fact some nerds are quite fierce. "Fierce nerds" are: * small
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by jt2190 5y ago
OT: Here’s a little bit of Russia and Canada for you ;) https://youtu.be/BXqKkYYALMU
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by jt2190 5y ago
Not to be confused with a Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine in the U.S: > There is a distinction between osteopathic physicians trained within the United States and those trained outside of the United States. Osteopathic physicians, or DOs,
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by jt2190 5y ago
> ... if we stopped treating our users like 12 year olds... This is not what the OP is suggesting. He's paraphrasing a well-established usability guideline [1] to use text that has a readability score of 5th grade or lower, becau
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by jt2190 6y ago
> I live in a semi-rural area that's close to a high-income metro and there's always been a constant stream of people retiring from city life to go live in the "country" and farm, in most cases they have savings or ot
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by jt2190 6y ago
> we should explore the boundaries of the paradigm by making a popular language that's based on prototypes, or that privileges composition over inheritance, or pulls apart the various pieces of OOP into standalone concepts that can
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by jt2190 6y ago
> Launch the user's browser where there is a slightly higher chance that they will be able to spot that things aren't legit. Some sites allow and encourage the user to customize their login page. The attacker the must reproduce
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by jt2190 6y ago
Unfortunately this is not correct. The IP clause is in effect regardless of your intent to make money. So when the contract says “everything you create while employed here belongs to us” that’s the deal. If you want to own something you cre
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by jt2190 6y ago
Consider: > ... [F]inance is fundamentally about moving money and risk through a network. [1] Your employer has taken on many, many risks as part of their enterprise. If every risk is addressed the company likely can’t operate profitab
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by jt2190 6y ago
Indeed! Looked at another way: A company seeking to sell a customer an automatically-renewing subscription to its services, that grosses n 000 USD per period, that comes with considerable legal protections against non-payment, might spend a
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by jt2190 6y ago
Not quite sure how to craft this into a headline, but this is the gist of the article: > Indie journalist live streams taken down due to “lack of moderation” and “non-authoritative content”
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by jt2190 6y ago
You’re describing a behavior that is highly frowned upon in the Israeli Defense Force, here described to Joel Spolsky by Tamir Nitzan: > As for the expressions (pronounced “rosh katan” – little head, vs. “rosh gadol” – big head). This ex
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by jt2190 6y ago
> ... the real problem was a poorly skilled team with bad leadership... Given this kind of team and leadership, why does that still make React the best choice for them?
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by jt2190 6y ago
Hmm... I’m not sure the article is correct. It seems like the Standard Serialized Container Code (emphasis mine) is meant to track an individual box or palette, not a “type” of box. [1] It seems to be useful for processes that require an
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by jt2190 6y ago
Portions are now massive . McDonalds, once upon a time, had small and large sizes of french fries; the little white paper pouch or the red cardboard sleeve. Today I believe they have two even larger sizes. The smallest size of soda doesn’t
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by jt2190 6y ago
“Productive“ here means “put to work on tasks that produce high returns”, not “output more than average”. It’s really a function of a willingness to make “big bets” that, when they pay off, pay handsomely.
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by jt2190 6y ago
Your second point is the main reason. A company that can generate more revenue by hiring more devs is incentivized to hire more devs. [1] As an investor this is a no-brainer. There are plenty of US companies that hire devs that do not have
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by jt2190 6y ago
> If they haven’t violated laws, and there’s no injunction then Salesforce is serving in the role of punisher. They very likely violated the terms of service of ExactTarget, their bulk email sender.
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by jt2190 6y ago
It appears that mass emails inciting violence and sent from contact@victory.donaldtrump.com were somehow flagged by the bulk email sender, ExactTarget (a SalesForce company): > To send its emails, the Trump campaign uses infrastructure f
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by jt2190 6y ago
What’s interesting to me about BTC is not the price, but whether a fiat commodity can sustain itself long-term (fifty-plus years). I liken it to collecting modern art: There are enough people who like it and want it that there is a reason
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by jt2190 6y ago
“Customers may have trouble loading messages or connecting to Slack” https://status.slack.com/2021-01/9ecc1bc75347b6d1
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by jt2190 6y ago
> I think it helps... Not necessarily. Teaching too much, too fast can distract a student from mastering each step; from properly “leveling up”. Teaching materials (including online courses like this) need to start with a theory of the l

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