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by libria 7y ago
> and the, what, 20g of daily antibiotics 20,000mg, am I reading that right? According to my non-medical background that's a shitload of drugs. Good to be reading this knowing you came out of it ok.
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by libria 7y ago
If remote work proponents want remote work to become a thing, downvoting the parent into oblivion doesn't make their case to the managers and Marissa Mayers out there who are against it. Address the concerns that some people are far m
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by libria 7y ago
No clue. I thought for sure Mercurial would come out ahead, it had some proponents: * Bitbucket provided unlimited free private repositories and they were exclusively Mercurial. Github had limits for private repos. * Google evaluated both
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by libria 7y ago
> Zork was updated about a dozen separate times between 1980 and 1984, to add polish and/or to fix bugs. It's funny how my first passing thought was "pushed-to-clients", but no, they had to batch bug fixes, QA, regres
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by libria 7y ago
> nested for-loop problem > > No puzzles, no trivia-pursuit style questions. I swear HN technical interview threads are the poster child of talking past one another. First, for-loop is nowhere near a trivia-pursuit question. Seco
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by libria 7y ago
Public, private, whatever, doesn't matter. I thought Google was going to beat everyone to the cloud after I/O 2008 but ... nothing but slow progress. I don't know how The Book Seller and The OS Maker could leave Google - ma
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by libria 7y ago
The rendering on that 42s is close enough that I can almost feel the buttons. Never thought I'd describe a calculator as sensual, but HP's of that era had such a distinct look and feel.
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by libria 7y ago
Do female->male USB-USB power-only passthrough adapters exist? If I could buy a few from a trusted source like directly from the Apple store, I could use it to firewall my cables (never thought I'd have to do that). As an added bon
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by libria 7y ago
What irks me about this is I like to ride as close as I can to the fantasy of SDE == 8 hours of problem solving. Meetings, sprint ceremonies, interruptions I've come to deal with as baggage that comes with the territory. But when I ha
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by libria 7y ago
I'll give you 999 guesses.
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by libria 7y ago
Github blog https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-c...
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by libria 7y ago
Well where the hell was this guy when Perry's team was building their defense? It's apparent what his position is, but he presents well, sounds sincere, and AFAICT has better evidence.
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by libria 7y ago
> I'm pretty sure this is performed to avoid liability and replacement due to theft.
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by libria 7y ago
Good response; I've dwelt on this more. > I also don't recall them banning businesses on a Sunday afternoon because Jeff Bezos was in a bad mood. I was trying to be generous by assuming the real reason was economic pressure, bu
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by libria 7y ago
The Google alternative to Yelp is Local Guides: https://maps.google.com/localguides You can earn points and level up for your contributions (reviews, photos), but they don't have anywhere near the incentive structure a
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by libria 7y ago
Hence the quotes. And if you read the arstechnica article, it's understood the CEO himself realizes he had to make an exception from that position. You and the poster I responded to are picking nits with absolutes. Aside from pedanti
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by libria 7y ago
> The problem was that other Cloudflare customers started calling and threatening to cancel their service if Cloudflare didn't cut the Daily Stormer off. "The pressure to take it down just kept building and building," [the
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by libria 7y ago
It's like a house alarm that tells the burglar "Hey you seem shady. But you can come in if you promise you're a good guy."
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by libria 7y ago
While you're at it, move it to active sprint, add CEO to the watcher list, and under Related Issues pick "This issue causes - " {this HN thread}.
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by libria 7y ago
(following this tangent) My impression of QR's problem was: 1) High ergonomics barrier; the user needed to install a QR app from the appstore or find the icon for it and start it. 2) People who are not on HN don't know what it is
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by libria 7y ago
Good on you, mate; this is just a bump in the road. Keep on giving bootcamps a good name.
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by libria 7y ago
Someone at Google should check in a Bitcoin hashcash library into the tree and watch HN go wild.
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by libria 7y ago
`Gmail` appears to be trending down but exhibits local maxima right around Spring and Fall equinox: https://trennd.co/trend/gmail Now why would that be...
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by libria 7y ago
To his credit, Pichai rejected significant stock awards [1]. Seems genuine to me, though I wonder what Mrs. Pichai's face looked like when he floated it heh. https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2019&#x2
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by libria 7y ago
"Listened to" is colloquial for "engaged with". They engaged with people who represented the `try()` option and declined to implement it. It is impossible to implement every proposal their ears listened to so obviously
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by libria 7y ago
> But I do not have cancer. From my limited understanding, cancer comes from an unlucky combination of particular kinds of cell damages. Based on that, I'd say we all have some level of cancer-inclination that is non-zero and incre
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by libria 7y ago
*she, but yes it's nothing more than a well-timed personal anecdote to generate clicks. All the comments here are also anecdotal. It's a shame our readerbase is that susceptible to shallow clickbait.
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by libria 7y ago
Another big one is the "Surprise! Valet-only + parking garage" fees. shrug The whole shady passing-fees-to-willing-consumers thing is just business. I can appreciate T-Mobile creating their identity about not doing this (final
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by libria 7y ago
How about 2 Google Homes: The $100 Privacy version and the $30 Opt-in Testing version. That way some people get their privacy and I get Chicken Little to subsidize my cheaper IoT products. =)
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by libria 7y ago
Yeah, he was pretty disconnected. You're not making the grade if even Dan Quayle is chuckling at you.

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