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by lemax 4y ago
As a gay adult not planning to have children, friends are the center of my life and probably will be for a long time. I think gay culture in NYC is an excellent example of the opposite of what this article describes - we all work hard, and
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by lemax 4y ago
I bill by the week only and generally tie it to functional deliverables. E.g, deliver x feature in y weeks. Instead of going back and forth on how I spent my time, it works better for me to invest the time to scope things out carefully ahea
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by lemax 4y ago
I’m referring to NCC group’s pricing, not Dyalog
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by lemax 4y ago
These are a nice way to show larger companies you want to work with that you've made long term considerations for the sustainability of your software. We've brought this sort of thing up later in deal cycles if prospects have conc
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by lemax 4y ago
Around $4k to $10k depending on the number of beneficiaries. Each beneficiary enters into their own agreement with your company and NCC group, and then there is an overarching agreement between your company and NCC. There is a cost associat
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by lemax 4y ago
Writing off parts of your rent as a founder or business owner is perfectly ok with the IRS. Such a space needs to have "regular and exclusive use" for running your business and be your principle place of business (i.e. you do not
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by lemax 4y ago
The handbook says that employees stack rank each other based on value contribution and salary is adjusted accordingly. Compensation is controlled by the initial offer and then adjusted based on peer review.
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by lemax 4y ago
Interesting how this article points out that foods like fish and eggs are high in sulfur contribute to gum inflammation, but that omega-3 fatty acids can help reduce this inflammation. I guess that piece of salmon may counterbalance itself.
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by lemax 4y ago
I use 1001 tracklists for this - you can search by track and it will surface DJ sets where the song was played. https://www.1001tracklists.com/
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by lemax 4y ago
Can someone explain what either of these two companies are actually selling, beyond the cryptic marketing messaging on their respective websites? Someone in this thread indicated that Citrix was the original developer of Microsoft Remote De
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by lemax 4y ago
In my experience we've looked toward this kind of solution in a large legacy single-tenant application that wants to go multi tenant with more safety guarantees.
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by lemax 4y ago
It's possible to implement this without creating new connections to the database for each request by using SET LOCAL and wrapping every query in a transaction. Instead of applying RLS based on the current user, you apply RLS based on t
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by lemax 4y ago
https://archive.ph/pAkDt
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How the Russia-Ukraine War Threatens the Dollar’s Dominance(bloomberg.com)
2 points by lemax 4y ago|1 comments
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by lemax 4y ago
Most people are notoriously bad at saving money. It's fairly well known phenomena that large lottery winners and inheritance recipients also tend to go bankrupt (something like 1/3?). I guess even at the smaller scale - even makin
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by lemax 4y ago
In the fashion buying world, high end brands will force stockists to buy a certain number of units of the logo crap (tees etc) in order to get units of the more desirable/unique seasonal pieces. FWIW, as someone who leans toward a lot
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by lemax 4y ago
China can easily lift its zero-covid policies whenever it wants, but the global supply chain disruption will reverberate long after it does so. Hasn't zero covid just pushed up prices on Chinese goods and services? I question whether t
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by lemax 4y ago
This applies to nearly any team, you ideally always want to have 2+ people at similar levels competing for the promotion.
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CEOs Get a Taste for the Frontline Experience(ft.com)
1 points by lemax 4y ago|0 comments
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by lemax 4y ago
I've used a similar technique on some web pages that get returned from the server with an in-tact redux state object just sitting in a <script> tag. Instead of parsing the HTML, I just pull out the state object. Super
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Ask HN: Does Google search and crawler comply with GDPR?
4 points by lemax 4y ago|1 comments
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by lemax 4y ago
I always clarify scope on non-competes. Even if you can get an email back from an HR person clarifying scope, that should be sufficient. They will take it to legal and legal will come back with what they can do. For example, in the last non
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by lemax 4y ago
This is a great concept. I've often wished I could just pay someone to call me and make me get out of bed when my sleep schedule falls off the charts. Even if people can't physically force you to do something, I think most of us a
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by lemax 4y ago
Noise is also a big part of certain cultures/contexts though. Blanket rules around noise levels could be unfair if they don't provide a venue for noisey folks somewhere . In Brooklyn, for example, there are neighborhoods and enti
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by lemax 5y ago
When I was in middle school a friend gave me a black macbook that she said no one in her house used anymore after my iBook g4 was on its final leg. It was like, the nicest thing ever and I used the hell out of that thing. I was in near dis
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by lemax 5y ago
Doesn't dollar cost averaging avoid the whole issue of timing the market? Index investing feels fairly safe to me with DCA if you can stick with it.
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Containers, the GPL, and Copyleft(opensource.com)
3 points by lemax 5y ago|0 comments
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by lemax 5y ago
I feel no shame sifting through non-fiction books. There is nothing wrong with not reading cover to cover. I tend to skip chapters or long anecdotes for concepts I have already absorbed, and I sometimes also apply speed reading principles (
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by lemax 5y ago
Yes, soybean oil is marketed as vegetable oil, e.g. Crisco vegetable oil is soybean based.
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by lemax 5y ago
They also acquired Indiehackers a few years ago, I think this is part of a wider content marketing / brand halo effort.

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