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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I wasn't fooled, I returned them saying they were counterfeit and they shipped out a new pair. Three different times they were fakes and then I cancelled my order. The seller was Amazon, not some weird 3rd party- but because of the co-
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Exactly this. The article mentions that they basically take all the same products and put them together. So seller B's fake item may be sold as seller A's real item and seller A gets blamed for their fake stuff. It's gotten s
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I generally agree that the brightest and most enthusiastic engineers I've ever met hated big enterprise tech teams, but it doesn't mean that someone isn't good at their craft because they've spent a long time in enterpri
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I've only ever come out of an interview one time thinking that the guy I was talking to was a real jerk and I'd never work with him. I've come out of most pretty meh, just as you said. For a stretch we probably did 70 intervi
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
All one can do is go by what they say. There is a third option that I've been on both sides of as well: they think you're too expensive and/or you'll be a flight risk. I've had a number of occasions where the feedba
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Getting reasons for why you're not getting hired from companies is basically not an option- even if they tell you anything it's likely safety speak BS unrelated to why. As a guy who's been on both sides of the metaphorical ta
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I worked on a demo experience for the Vive unveiling and for the first time in my career I felt like VR was more than a gimmick. We were working with beta (maybe more like RC) hardware, had no controllers, and only one tracking cube. I had
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I can't stand trying to use reference books, especially with diagrams, on my Kindle. My bookshelf is full of all kinds of reference material and my favorite books. I generally buy it for the Kindle or Audible first and if I really like
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Funny timing... I just bought an LG LFXS30776S refrigerator and the first thing I noticed was that all of a sudden I had a new WiFi broadcast. Turns out that according to tech support there's no way to shut this off.
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
It's not that easy. I stick with brands/products that are reviewed by people I trust or have seemed to pick up some momentum. My general rule of thumb is I NEVER buy anything IoT that is WiFi based. Zigbee or Z-Wave based devices
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Although I have repeatedly in my life set up and configured BIND servers, and manage DNS zones monthly if not weekly, I disagree that a could developer should have to know these things very well if at all. As a developer you should know the
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I started my career at a very large insurance company in 2005 and for 9 months wrote no lines of code. I was documenting COBOL systems, sitting in disaster recovery planning meetings, all kinds of megacorp stuff that was soul crushing. My n
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
In 2012 (the hack which this came from) their passwords were encrypted with SHA1 and not salted. I have a feeling that today things are better than that, but who knows, maybe not.
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
The biggest thing that I'd say about shifting from a developer to a manager is that you better like dealing with people, if you don't you will be burned out very quickly and you'll be a sub-par manager. You're going to b
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
That's valid, I'm sure I've done the same more times than I know. My general rule is if it's from a brand or site I know I've interacted with or generally recognize I'll spend two seconds to check the unsub opt
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
At least from a MailChimp perspective at least those emails all come with unsubscribe links and such in them and I have found MailChimp to actually honor those. It's the ones that aren't from MailChimp, et al that I think twice be
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Use an external logging service. You can run your own if you like, but there are plenty of people that offer pretty good services for not much- assuming you're not generating more than a GB or 2 a day. I have personal experience with P
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Well, maybe that's part of why some people seem to always move from thing to thing and never seem to succeed or finish. Maybe you find something that is mentally/emotionally close enough. Maybe if you're 'naturally'
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I agree with the premise that not being born into extreme poverty and having a strong connection within the activity/field that successful people are in are important. To me it just seems like if you don't have to worry about how
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
Funny, I just happened to listen to the Freakonomics podcast with Angela Duckworth on it this morning... It also goes into a better definition of grit, why they measure what they measure, etc. Grit basically boils down to (me paraphrasing t
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
It's kind of scary how quickly doctors seem to prescribe it. I've had a doctor prescribe me some for everything from the flu to a mild ankle sprain. That being said, I always used to wonder if it was because I can't take any
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I actually grew up in Portland, in SW- and having been outbid by 10 and 20% on multiple other houses I got to experience the heat from that housing market. For us, we're moving back home. So maybe when I moved to Seattle I was the assh
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I was extremely privileged to have good parents. My parents were very young when they had me and I got the privilege of living in a war zone as a child just old enough to remember it. My privilege is that I experienced life events that many
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I'm buying a house right now, and while I don't feel it's rigged- it sure is a pain the butt. You realize rent control isn't just about baby boomers, right? Pretty much all the minority advocacy groups fight for more ren
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
This is why I think it's both important that there are places people can go to avoid free speech (safe spaces), and also why we shouldn't just blanket label entire buildings/campuses/cities as safe spaces. If you were, s
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
The greater point I was alluding to is that we (at least the US) generally try REALLY HARD to do things to keep our kids happy and safe. Not because we want to lobotomize them, because we love them. I'm a dad, I feel it every day, ever
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The thing is, you have no idea what I've experienced- nor am I going to start comparing life stories. Nor do I know what you have experienced. You are assuming that everyone has actually experienced trauma, I'm saying that what a
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
> Yes, people who were raped or abused or assaulted could have PTSD, and yes it does mean we're doing something VERY wrong to them. Yeah, I would expect some of the worst possible things that could happen to someone would leave a me
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
I said I am for safe spaces in general, though I feel they're being abused. What I decried was trigger warnings and the failing of the adults that brought up people that think they need a trigger warning.
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by manyxcxi 10y ago
While I agree that there should be some places that are safe spaces, especially for people at risk of harassment/worse, it's become a tool for silencing dissenting opinions on the worst campuses, and simply overused in general. Tr

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