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by lazerwalker 7y ago
To the parent's point, though, passports ARE checked at the point you exit the Schengen area, whereas they're generally not when you leave the US.
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by lazerwalker 7y ago
I recall doing a science project in middle school where I did double-blind taste tests of tap water with a half-dozen brands of bottled water (in a place with decent-tasting tap water, FWIW). IIRC, people showed no statistically significant
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by lazerwalker 7y ago
Yes, but you also described it as the strictures of "the religion", as if there is a single monolithic Judaism that universally follows that rule. She disagrees with the way they operate; she doesn't need to justify herself e
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by lazerwalker 7y ago
I mean, this is a short blog post on her personal blog, right? I don't know if there's that much more to it than "here's an interesting story that happened to me, including being happy to tell you about how I was able to
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by lazerwalker 7y ago
You say the phrase "exact strictures of the religion", as if there aren't an untold number of different ways to interpret a set of religious texts that are in many places explicitly and intentionally ambiguous.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Location: Berlin, Germany Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes (US citizen) Technologies: iOS, JS (front-end + node), games, hardware Résumé/CV: https://lazerwalker.com | https://www.linkedin.com/in/laz
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
> Unfortunately, our observation is that the ratio of commercial to free users is about 1 to 25. That's a ~4% conversion rate. Anyone have data for any similar OSS software libraries with a free tier?
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Well, "easy" for men who could afford a suit that passed the "good enough" bar.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I dunno if this is still true, but it used to be the case (10+ years ago?) that Costco's pricing model was transparently "charge X% over cost", with X constant over all items. This meant some items at Costco were expensive re
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
In my experience, not so much? You'll need to worry if you're working on tasks that touch the same corner of the codebase, but larger teams tend to correlate with larger codebases, meaning that's not necessarily more likely.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I mean, they're still doing that. Amazon is still planning on staffing up their existing NY offices, just to the tune of 5k new jobs instead of 25k. The big dog and pony show was about asking for major tax benefits. They're still
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I'd be curious to hear your characterization of the reactions to MS buying GitHub. My observation was a bunch of people in places like the HN comments being angry, but no meaningful mass protest, or exodus from GitHub to competitors, e
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I think it's worth distinguishing install time from subsequent launch time. You seem to be describing the time it takes to go from seeing the app to using it for the first time. For an app you use regularly (or even just more than a fe
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I wonder if https://glitch.com has a mobile-friendly IDE and will also let you set up a project to be a PWA? Seems like it'd be a great fit for what you're describing.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I agree the loss of control is unacceptable. I agree that only being able to get commercial apps like this that monetize through advertisements and selling opaquely-gathered tracking data is unacceptable. But I'm curious how much downl
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
This sounds like you haven't had a competent manager before (nothing to be ashamed of, I was there once!) Meetings like weekly 1:1s are supposed to be helpful for you as the engineer. They're a safe space for you to complain, and
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
FWIW, as someone in the process of trying to set up an Electron app to generate Linux / Mac / Windows builds on CI, I found Travis's Windows support to be unusably slow and flaky. I hear Appveyor and Azure Pipelines are the t
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
There may not be much in the article itself, but the "Further Reading" list is a great summary of good work that's been done to date by others.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
The good news is I think this is a problem that goes away (or at least is lessened) as remote work becomes more ubiquitous. When there's more supply of remote employers, presumably some of them will make a big point of paying people th
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Most times Google has issues like that, it's for a free service, rather than something affecting paid customers, yeah?
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
The vast majority of Slack accounts are tied to a paying employer[^1], and yet most of the responses we've seen are individuals (justifiably!) upset they've been barred access from their work tool. I'm curious to see how comp
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
If a specific implementation of a bikeshare or scooter share program is borderline useless because the hardware is junk, that sounds like an implementation detail rather than the sort of philosophical argument you seem to be making. I'
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Only if you only view the scooters as a "hazard" and an "eyesore". An alternate interpretation (even if you're rightfully skeptical of for-profit venture-funded startups like these) is that the scooters are a fairly
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
I believe there's a decent amount of prior art for games supporting cross-platform play across Steam and traditional consoles (PS4 / Xbone / Switch). Presumably you'd need to re-buy a game like Rocket League to get it to
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
The only thing I'd caution (particularly about #1) is that being able to parrot facts — even ones you know cold — on-demand in a high-intensity interview setting can be very different from using those same facts day-to-day. If someone
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
It's not fair to say they "don't want business". They don't want certain forms of business — laptop coworkers — that in many cases are both low-profit customers and actively limit the throughput of total customers.
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
Based on a naïve reading of your description, it's unclear whether those problems are due to some inherent properties of a centralized database, or if they're merely implementation details of the current host. Any thoughts?
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
You’re totally right about options. I was thinking more explicitly about stock itself (e.g. RSUs in the case of employees at companies that issue those instead of options, or founder's stock in my personal case). Separate from that, th
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
FWIW, Germany specifically has complicated tax laws that make equity tricky. Namely: if your equity ever increases in value — e.g. if your startup raises a round of funding and gets a higher valuation — you owe capital gains taxes on the in
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by lazerwalker 8y ago
To flip the question around: what benefits does Tor give me over my existing setup? I can see an ideological argument, and I can see the $5 or $10 a month savings, but — especially given my threat model is well enough served by a VPN — I&#x

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