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by lj3 10y ago
Most companies I've worked at and spoken to would rather we not record our meetings. Paper trails and law suits, etc.
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by lj3 10y ago
Then don't answer it in the traditional fashion: turn it into a joke. "What did I do this weekend?" "I gave birth to a live baby zebra." It'll make people laugh (or at least smile), they'll think well of y
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by lj3 10y ago
It's both. They're focusing on the sourcing part, which is commendable, but I'd still like companies to engage a better filter. The one most have now is the equivalent to trying to hammer square pegs into round holes with bit
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by lj3 10y ago
Do you code for your day job, though? Your profile suggests you may be a technical manager. I'm guessing you don't code for 8-10 hours a day, then come home and code for 1-2 more hours[0]? That's the argument the parent is ma
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How Journalists Tried to Suppress the News(wsj.com)
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by lj3 10y ago
There are some interesting options coming out. Both of these are fully funded and should be out sometime in the next year. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/paperlike-world-s-first-e... https://www.indiegog
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Fast Iteration Tools in the Production of the Talos Principle(gdcvault.com)
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One year later (followup to “I quit the tech industry”)(eev.ee)
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by lj3 10y ago
Are you an American or a Canadian? As an American, every time I talk to a Canadian company they assume there must be something wrong with me. They don't understand why anybody would choose the cold and less pay over someplace like SF.
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by lj3 10y ago
Precisely why the MLB banned the use of aluminum bats.
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by lj3 10y ago
The argument is it fundamentally changes the nature of the sport. Imagine if somebody came up with a baseball with a magnet in it that was attracted to the catcher's glove. The catcher now has most of the control as to where the ball g
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by lj3 10y ago
They are hiring you to effectively be an office decoration, not a productive worker. So open-plan eye candy is rational so long as the workers themselves refuse to stand up for being treated in a minimally healthy way and refuse such compa
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by lj3 10y ago
> There's something deeply alarming here You need to broaden your gaze. In the wider world, this follows a very familiar pattern of defamation mixed with mass accusations but no legal involvement. It fits a narrative.
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by lj3 10y ago
Any advice for doing this when you're in the middle of nowhere? I've heard of patio11 doing something similar via skype, but it just seems odd to invite people for coffee via skype or hangouts.
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by lj3 10y ago
> 2. Maybe this estimation thing is impossible to get right, let's not put too much trust in being able to estimate accurately, but rather find ways of working that don't require estimating all work up front. Isn't agile t
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by lj3 10y ago
The difference between an electric bicycle and an electric motorcycle is academic these days. Take a look at this video[0]. Luke Workman, the lead battery designer at Zero Motorcycles, built an electric bike capable of out drag racing a Tes
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by lj3 10y ago
Great! Maybe I should remove it and re-install and see if I can trigger that.
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by lj3 10y ago
> In most cases, nobody is actually looking at what those feeds look like, with terrible results. The results look fine to me. It's pretty rare to find one that's completely mangled. For the most part, even embedded videos work
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by lj3 10y ago
> Definitely worked with just apt-get for me. The install worked, but running it was a different story. It would spit out an error after every command. Like I said, this was a while back. It's probably fixed now. > Huh? It does n
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by lj3 10y ago
> Its innocence doomed it in a very poetic way. And yet, virtually every single site on the internet has an RSS or ATOM feed. I think I've come across a whopping 5 that don't and those are mostly tech guys who made their own bl
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by lj3 10y ago
I've been using it for a while now. There are lots of small annoyances, like every file appearing with a green highlight because it doesn't know how to deal with NTFS (for some reason it thinks everything is other-writable). Also,
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by lj3 10y ago
Yes. :)
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by lj3 10y ago
Business, especially marketing and sales.
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Ask HN: In an alternate world, how would you re-create the web browser?
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Why hiring is broken and how to fix it(medium.com)
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by lj3 10y ago
At what point does fiddling with the DOM get complicated and unpredictable enough that WebGL and/or Canvas starts to look like the saner alternative? On that note, I just stumbled on an old framework that's been out of development
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by lj3 10y ago
> I think there are still tons of options out there for people who like writing lower-level code, but it's moved into areas like embedded systems and scientific lab tools. All the coding work for most of the common stuff has been ba
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by lj3 10y ago
ManicTime looks slick, feature filled and usable, but the visualization it chose is confusing. I look at all those little lines and it reminds me of the windows XP defragger.
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by lj3 10y ago
It's certainly more difficult to pirate a PC game than an android game. Maybe the difficulty of figuring out how to run cracks and the fear of accidentally downloading a virus is the X factor. The whole process is much easier, less ris
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by lj3 10y ago
Do you even read the posts you're replying to? Nowhere did I say I preferred closed platforms to email. I don't. I used the word "battle" in my previous comment for a reason. You're preaching to the choir. > I ge

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