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by larrik 5y ago
> The problem with your argument is that because the law is ambiguous with regard to this situation, the labor secretary is effectively making law by choosing a particular interpretation of the law. As a member of the Executive branch, t
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by larrik 6y ago
> One company said "uses Windows so we don't think he'll be able to integrate into our OSX based workflow". Ha! As someone involved in hiring, Windows IS a red flag (unless you are a .NET developer). Any sort of open
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by larrik 6y ago
I'm not seeing any reason on the site to think otherwise, can you elaborate?
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by larrik 6y ago
I'm glad to hear this. My desktop I use for both gaming and work is over 5 years old, and I worry about having my job tied to such an old machine. Since I couldn't source the components I wanted (Ryzen 5800 basically, which did be
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by larrik 6y ago
Are you saying if you have a wife and kid you should pay 3x the price?
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by larrik 6y ago
This seems like a lot of words for "I wish I was brave enough to try Linux"
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by larrik 6y ago
> Either use the tzdb name like America/New_York, or use an offset from UTC, depending on what you want. I bet storing an offset is far more pain, given that anyone in a DST area will have 2 offsets per year.
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by larrik 6y ago
This advice is fine for programming languages, but not for data stores. Using them incorrectly (or in MongoDB's case and sometimes MySQL's, correctly) could lead to things like data loss or crashed servers. Simply building your pr
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by larrik 6y ago
> Octagonal shape so I can lay it down on its side instead of having to crane my neck up to check the time when lying down (I really did think of everything). I actually didn't understand this part. Why an octagon? How does it help
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by larrik 6y ago
In the USA, the Disney Channel is mostly like this year round.
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by larrik 6y ago
IT Crowd isn't BBC, though...
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by larrik 6y ago
> we have four or five companies - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google - that suck up the enormity and the overwhelming majority of all talented, technical human capital. (Genuine question) Is Apple sucking up a lot of talent? I&#
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by larrik 6y ago
I think spending smartly is more important than simply being frugal. For instance, when you are buying equipment, you don't buy the cheap stuff just because it's cheap. You buy the best stuff the first time, because you will usu
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by larrik 6y ago
> since at least 2015 disguised in pirated (cracked) games and software such as League of Legends LoL is free, though. Why would anyone use a pirated/cracked version? What would that even mean?
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by larrik 6y ago
For a custom built, mission-critical database? Seems cheap to me.
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by larrik 6y ago
Honestly, selling the company the right to yell at you and a promise to not disappear and take the software with you is probably enough for some of them...
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by larrik 6y ago
It's to penalize AirBus for being propped by France and Germany, supposedly. Wine and liquor got caught up in the mix somehow too.
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by larrik 6y ago
I personally think the problem most people run into is starting exercise and dieting at the same time. You should exercise to get healthier, and you should diet to lose weight. I'd start with one long before the other. For myself, I ne
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by larrik 6y ago
On the other hand, lots of places have people who they _think_ are this guy, and who are actually just a bad dev who is good at building an impenetrable moat for job security...
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by larrik 6y ago
And then you DO put your files in the cloud, and they scan them and ban you because they don't like your files. (Note, this actually happened a while back)
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by larrik 6y ago
Fair, I'm only using it on one account. Also, I have a special Firefox plugin to make notifications louder.
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by larrik 6y ago
My comment was really only about Outlook itself (using the web vs the desktop version, I prefer the web version). that said, I hate Adobe products with a passion. When I build identical computers for my wife and I, the moment I install the
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by larrik 6y ago
The web version of Outlook has come a long way, and in my opinion has become the superior product (for my use cases, at least).
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by larrik 6y ago
> The Network panel is now able to handle unexpected crashes and render useful debugging details such as a related stack-trace. Users can also easily file a bug report by clicking on the available link to help improve the stability of th
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by larrik 6y ago
This is true. I mean, no one I know has ever admitted to purchasing a book through iBooks.
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by larrik 6y ago
> The programs for coca eradication each year cost four trillion pesos ($1 billion). Buying the entire coca harvest each year would cost 2.6 trillion pesos ($680 million). It costs less to buy the harvest than to destroy it. Yeah, I don&
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by larrik 6y ago
As a heavy Jira user, I absolutely want my screen to update when someone else updates a ticket. That doesn't actually happen, though.
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by larrik 6y ago
We had an AWS outage, I wonder if it's that.
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by larrik 6y ago
The subways have even more of the "auto shop" effect!
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by larrik 6y ago
Every time I go, I think the entire city feels like the inside of an auto repair shop. Thick layers of car exhaust over everything.

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