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by lemax 6y ago
National security, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (Cfius), has gone as far as requiring the repatriation of Grindr after it approved a deal for it to go to a Chinese company. https://www.ft.com/content/30
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by lemax 6y ago
Susan Sontag sums up the ultimate social achievement of the artist well. It's about the Aesthetics of Silence . The more withdrawn an artist becomes, the more celebrated. The ultimate level according to her, is not communicating, and
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by lemax 6y ago
PM is all about impact and effort. Priority goes to the high impact low effort stuff first, and low impact high effort generally goes the way of the bin. Strategic alignment is also import whenever priority is evaluated. > Hint: good PMs
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by lemax 6y ago
Until recently Japan had very few foreign nationals, on the order of 1% even in 2005 [1]. Compare that to 10-12% in the US. That has recently been changing as Japan tries to bring in more foreigners to address its shrinking workforce [2]. [
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by lemax 6y ago
Open Street Map is a nice analogy for what could work. Aside from the open source maintenance of the map, there's also tons of corporate help in the background. Companies that are delivering OSM as a service or relying on it for their
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by lemax 6y ago
Sorry but no. The dominant perspective on writing in academia teaches people to do exactly what you are saying. This is what is taught in undergraduate English classes. The unconventional wisdom is to Write Like You Speak. So it's more
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by lemax 6y ago
I have used similar editors in the past and since stopped. But, I found that the way these tools tend to train you to write has a long term impact. One of my newer colleagues often seems to choose the most complex words possible. I'm
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by lemax 6y ago
I can cook quite well but honestly living in NYC and going to the grocery store to serve my partner and I ~2 meals a day every day of the week is nearly impossible with our work schedule. If I wanted to do nothing else with my day but work
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Global hipster culture is spreading to even the world’s poorest countries(economist.com)
3 points by lemax 6y ago|0 comments
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by lemax 6y ago
The Economist recently had some great analysis on Ant Group's evolution and how it does internal credit scoring https://www.economist.com/briefing/2020/10/10/what-ant-group...
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by lemax 6y ago
If build includes a git pull, maybe it did.
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by lemax 6y ago
Ahh... labor alienation. One of the great drawbacks and geniuses of our primary modes of production in modern society. As we become more and more separated from the things we actually work on, what are the drawbacks though? The general tren
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by lemax 6y ago
Azure devops was the first to offer Windows based self-hosted runners - if you’re stuck in the drudgery of building Windows software, because your customers only run Windows servers, it was pretty much the only modern devops option for a wh
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by lemax 6y ago
Is this really any less ethical than a more sophisticated marketing scheme? "Black Hat Firm" vs. Expensive Growth Marketing Firm: – unestablished writer vs credentialed, domain experienced writer (with a salary?) – spammy Medi
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by lemax 6y ago
People love to throw around the big "Break up" but what they really want is probably much more nuanced. What do break ups achieve? To use an example from Benedict Evans, suppose Windows and Office were broken up... at the end of t
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by lemax 6y ago
I was driving through south Brooklyn a few years back and passed a few teenage boys on bikes. We heard them talking to each other and, if I didn't see their faces I would have thought we were listening to a broadcast from the early pr
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Apple Shipping ARM Based Macs to Devopers(macrumors.com)
4 points by lemax 6y ago|1 comments
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by lemax 6y ago
I've had so many challenges with this, to the extent that at some point it began affecting my throughput at work. If I never switch "on" or "off", at some point I run into a place where I feel like I'm always w
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by lemax 6y ago
I work for a small distributed company (~600 employees) that compensates everyone based on their location. I live in NYC and receive a pretty solid salary given my experience / region. When I was hired, HR made it clear that if I move
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by lemax 6y ago
This feels similar to Glitch, FKA HyperDev, Fog Creek's developer playground.
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by lemax 6y ago
ACM doesn’t talk to EC2. AWS Enterprise Support will tell you with a straight face to let them handle TLS termination on the ELB/ALB, and keep things unencrypted in the VPC. Their claim is that the VPC has much more sophisticated secur
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by lemax 6y ago
It would be nice if this didn't function like a virtual panopticon. Being able to manually set your status, just in case you haven't typed a character on your computer in the last 5 minutes, would be a nice feature to bring back f
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by lemax 6y ago
It's called Intercom
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Using Raspberry Pi for Networked Time Machine Backups(mudge.name)
2 points by lemax 7y ago|0 comments
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by lemax 7y ago
Expensive as they may be, restaurants have terrible margins. James Beard nominated, objectively successful places with >$1M gross are netting the annual income of someone who washes dishes [1]. They are operating on a fine line and I wou
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by lemax 7y ago
The automated copyright filter isn't going to pass revenue onto the artists YouTube and the rights holding giants want to claim that it will. This is a system that Youtube essentially poured $100M into building to keep the big licensor
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by lemax 7y ago
From my observations, for data vendors "anonymization" generally just involves replacing a name or credit card number with some other identifier. That's the reality and that's all they are required to do by regulators. P
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by lemax 7y ago
I’ve been using S3 static hosting and CloudFront for all of my static sites recently and it’s fantastic (and nearly free). This is not a hacky solution by any means, S3 buckets support static file hosting out of the box and CloudFront sits
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by lemax 7y ago
This sort of journalism feels capricious. Is this supposed to be surprising? The way it’s presented makes it seem like something should really be questioned here and that readers should walk away with some kind of unnecessary ideological re
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by lemax 7y ago
Services with absent engineers should be breaking left and right this month due to changes to SameSite attributes on cookies that hit browsers in early Feb. The intention of the change is to provide some long overdue changes to defaults on

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