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by ksenzee 11y ago
It may well be amazing engineering, but $399 for a hair dryer? The only scenario I can imagine in which I would spend $399 for a hair dryer involves USD hyperinflation.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The news here (if you can call it that) is that Frazelle seems to have left because Docker was tolerating her being harassed, instead of supporting her like they said they would. You have to read between the lines to see it, because she&#x2
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Young people who are middle- and upper-class have the mom and dad safety net. That's often why they can afford the kind of passion project you're talking about. It would be very interesting to see what people of other ages and cla
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> short but brutal DDoS > blog was deluged with thousands of comments > the target was the shared hard drive It would be nice to know what the actual attack here was. Was it really a DDOS? Did they take advantage of an out-of-date
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Is suffering all you see in Pieter's post?
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The idea of bringing in ‘adult supervision’ is one that was pervasive in the minds of Seattle’s investors, at least up until a few years ago. Sounds good to me. If the Seattle tech sector appreciates the value of experience, maybe I'
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by ksenzee 11y ago
My husband has spent most of his career as an association executive, which means he's often the only man in a room full of women colleagues. He's had some eye-rolling experiences. We keep thinking we should start a joint blog.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Frankly, I'd find it more surprising if you had witnessed this sort of behavior. Put yourself in the place of a harasser. Are you going to say or do something creepy in front of the decent guys you work with? Or are you going to pick
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by ksenzee 11y ago
"Honey"? Who on earth do you think you're talking to? Please tell me this post is performance art and not the way you actually talk to women in your real life.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
One reason: It's dangerous to shout it from the rooftops because a lot of people will accuse you of lying. Being branded a false accuser can be fatal to your career.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
He says he's recovered almost all the data. FWIW. https://serverfault.com/questions/769357/recovering-from-a-r...
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The article describes how the SEO firm specifically targeted Google search results, so yes, I'd run that search with Bing too.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Some states aren't spending as much on higher ed as Utah. In Washington, where I live, in-state tuition averages ~$10k.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
We BYU alumni have the advantage of an education that was massively subsidized, down to the point where you can actually afford to work your way through. State schools are supposed to do that too, but they don't anymore. That's wh
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> This is pseudoscience/creationism marketed to scientists. It's not science at all, pseudo- or otherwise. It's philosophy. And I see no link to creationism. If we're in a simulation, it's not turtles all the way
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by ksenzee 11y ago
The only hard requirements are a good headset and decent Internet. And when I say "decent," I don't mean "fabulous." I worked remote for five years, three time zones away from headquarters, and never even thought of
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> its portal used by customers to access sensitive data was run on a three-year-old version of Drupal, 7.23 Drupal 7.23 is vulnerable to https://www.drupal.org/SA-CORE-2014-005 . Anyone who's ever read a Wikipedia ar
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> all walmart has to do is increase prices and workers would again be forced to work for basic sustenance Walmart is not the only retailer in the United States. You're positing widespread collusion on the part of everyone who sells
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by ksenzee 11y ago
I don't know exactly how you're picturing the US, but it's not as dystopian as you seem to think. We do in fact have soup kitchens and volunteer opportunities and people with Down's Syndrome who contribute meaningfully t
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> I'm just an individual, and was able to figure all this out. Getting something to work one time is not remotely the same task as getting it to work for every user, every time. Getting the setup you described to work correctly is d
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> Because they offload all processing to these machines to retain control of them. That makes it sound like their primary concern is keeping control of the devices. In reality I think it's just laziness. We all know how much easier
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Two out of three developers who answered a survey on a self-teaching site are self-taught. I see this is yet another article assuming the SO survey is representative of developers in general. It is not. It is representative of people who
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Convincing other people of things that are false is standard practice every April 1. I believe that whole Exxon article is an April Fool's joke. ...although looking at it more carefully, the doxing article is not dated April 1, and it
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Like I say, it's impressive. I might have to try it myself this Friday.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> Don't make the mistake of pronouncing "Exxon" like "exon"; you will appear unsophisticated. This is some really advanced trolling, on the level of the emperor's new clothes.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
IFTTT has acted throughout as if they were doing Maciej a favor by letting him implement their API, which makes no sense at all. But! According to zacwest[1], the access they're offering him to their "platform" costs $3000 if
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by ksenzee 11y ago
Sorry, I should indeed have specified "jump right up" as "a few days of recovery." Thanks for clarifying.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
And sorry, I missed the reference to the nursery in the post.
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by ksenzee 11y ago
> Bluntly, I assume a woman will be far more involved in childcare than a man. That's a fair assumption across an entire population, but I doubt it applies very well to the population of women looking for funding. They're going
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by ksenzee 11y ago
It's a pretty wide distribution, which is my whole point. Also, "recovery" can be defined in a lot of different ways. A lot of people feel pretty decent at their six-week checkup, if they're not too sleep-deprived.

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