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by kohanz 10y ago
This is true, but the hoops you have to jump through to prove a defect and get said return varies greatly between companies. I think the point of the Apple story is they do it without asking any questions. From what I've read, Dell for
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by kohanz 10y ago
I was very close to cancelling and probably should have. I guess I'm greedily hoping the machine is fine and if it is, at that price, I can't complain too much. I'm assuming the ebates is a lost cause. I may try to briefly pu
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by kohanz 10y ago
I totally agree, my current machine is a 2013 MBP and other than me outgrowing it, I've had no complaints. And it was a refurb to boot! If this doesn't work out by some miracle, I'll happily pay the Apple premium. In a moment
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by kohanz 10y ago
It's not, really. The salesman claimed no affiliation with the Ebates site/company, which is of course true, and that I was getting the machine as close to "at-cost" as possible (I call BS), but I'm fairly certain t
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by kohanz 10y ago
I just ordered a (non-2-in-1, Kaby Lake) 13" XPS yesterday. To be honest, I was against ordering from Dell after reading about all of the quality control issues (just see the Dell subreddit for the sheer volume of problems), but got su
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by kohanz 10y ago
> What if their "hobby" is to work for a political interest? What if it is religious in nature? Would those really be considered a "hobby"? Generally a hobby is an activity done for pleasure during leisure time. You c
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by kohanz 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote or based in SW Ontario, Canada LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/zamkhan Recent client: "As an academic entrepreneur, I have engaged in a number of out-sourcing processes and truth be told,
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by kohanz 10y ago
This post had a lot of thought and effort put into it. I have no idea why it's downvoted. Regardless of whether you agree or disagree with the premise, it's put forward in an excellent manner and that's what we should strive
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by kohanz 10y ago
I recently stopped working from home and moved into a co-working space out of necessity (rambunctious children at home). However, I don't want to talk about the change in setting, but part of this is that I added a walking commute to m
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by kohanz 10y ago
Professional (code): mostly taken care of by client infrastructure as I'm a freelance developer, but I basically rely on cloud source control (BitBucket, GitHub, etc.) Personal (photos, etc.): Don't really trust the cloud, so I ha
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by kohanz 10y ago
I did this once at a previous job. Was able to bundle all of the installers (including C++ redistributable, driver updates, etc.) into a single installer that ran off a single click, first in a Setup & Deployment project and then ported
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by kohanz 10y ago
I don't know where you live, but in my area for each female-specific coding event there are 10s or 100s without restriction that are male dominated. Again, this is like claiming that the existence of women's only gyms infringes on
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by kohanz 10y ago
If you think girl coding camps are about "male hating", then I think you've shown your true colours. You think I'm supporting discrimination and I think you're feeling threatened and aggressively defending your priv
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by kohanz 10y ago
> Any time you create an event restricted to some group unrelated to skill level, it makes it sound like something inherent to the group makes their abilities different Not at all. That is completely you bringing your prejudices into th
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by kohanz 10y ago
On most of your points we are not too far apart, but I really have to take issue with this: > Like if the event in question was basketball camps and you put your child in "Basketball for Short & Slow People". All the femal
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by kohanz 10y ago
First, I assure you my daughter is very real and ceased to be a hypothetical about a year ago ;) As I said earlier, I don't think gender-segregated events should exist in a balanced world, but I don't have a problem with them when
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by kohanz 10y ago
That's totally fair. Thanks for explaining. I'm on the opposite side of that, but I can see where you're coming from. I could see my daughter or some other young girl benefitting from this type of instruction so I wouldn&#x27
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by kohanz 10y ago
Thank you for taking my response in the right way and responding thoughtfully. I do think we have a difference of opinion, but I respect the level of thought you've put into your stance. I've mentored at "Ladies learning code
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by kohanz 10y ago
I'm not advocating that exclusion is the main solution (see my last paragraph), but it boils down to: do you think these events are a bad thing? Do they have a net-negative effect when it comes to balancing the gender inequality in our
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by kohanz 10y ago
No, you just missed the point. You're exactly describing the difference between explicit and systemic discrimination. I will agree that they are "massively" different, because the systemic version has had an effect that is or
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by kohanz 10y ago
I presume that you also refuse to do talks or workshops where all the speakers, panelists or mentors are of one gender or race? If so, good on you. Look, you sound like a nice guy, so I don't mean this as a personal attack, but your ta
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by kohanz 10y ago
The most prejudiced among us are always those quick to make the issue about themselves (poor me!) when someone tries to do something good for an underrepresented group. I assume you've never been to a "Girls who code" event
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by kohanz 10y ago
You're basically asking: how do I do successful marketing, right? I don't have the answer to that, but I'd presume that despite many flashy resources out there claiming otherwise, there is no secret sauce, you have to put in
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by kohanz 10y ago
Are you talking about solely evaluating the technical ability of the candidate? Because that's only part of the equation to making the right hiring choice.
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by kohanz 10y ago
Yeah, the "passion" term is a loaded one and I regret using it. I don't require someone to be "passionate" about the product we're working on to see them as a good fit. In fact, as someone who works in medical
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by kohanz 10y ago
Your reasoning makes perfect sense, but the answer is a bit dry and, I don't know how to describe it, robotic? As someone who has sat in the hiring chair, if I heard "You'll make more money from my work than I'll cost in
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by kohanz 10y ago
Not the OP, but I also didn't know what GraphQL was/is and had to watch your video before fully realizing what you were offering.
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by kohanz 10y ago
This looks really interesting. Thanks for sharing! I checked out the Projects page, but they look mostly like tutorial or hackathon types - is anyone running scaffold.io in production?
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by kohanz 10y ago
Telling the truth is unethical?
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by kohanz 10y ago
And what about when the dollar was on par not too long ago? Difficult to factor in exchange rate.

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