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by mekane8 7y ago
Yeah that is hairy. And I would say that for many organizations, if a group decides to attempt the extraction and reuse of a module, they should be prepared to adopt the mindset and working style of a library maintainer. Because once you ge
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by mekane8 7y ago
I definitely relate to this. Just recently I had need of a printer and I was thankful I had stashed an old Canon inkjet printer in the attic. It technically is new enough to have wifi, but it was one of the first of that generation so it&#x
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by mekane8 7y ago
My thoughts exactly!
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by mekane8 7y ago
This is an amazing collection of advice and experience. I'm not a woman in tech but I have worked with and managed plenty. I really appreciate this list being shared and publicized. Hopefully it helps some people stay in the field long
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by mekane8 7y ago
This is neat - I live in Champaign near the University where she works. Every year for the past decade or so I visit the annual native plant sale that a local preservation group puts on. I've been slowly building up a patch of native p
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by mekane8 7y ago
http://annyas.com/screenshots/warner-bros-logo/
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by mekane8 7y ago
I made something very similar, but the device I'm controlling is an RGB LED attached to the GPIO pins on a Raspberry Pi zero. https://github.com/mekane/Node-API-for-Raspberry-Pi-GPIO I made some bash scripts that
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by mekane8 7y ago
In my first office job I remember thinking that I should take up smoking, not just because my coworkers were heading downstairs all the time to take breaks, but because the HR higher-ups were smokers too. My office-mates who smoked always h
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by mekane8 7y ago
I recently went to renew a domain I own that I was getting notifications about, and discovered that my other two versions of the same domain (i.e. the .net and .org ones) had already expired but I wasn't getting any emails about those!
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by mekane8 7y ago
The part where a big social media outcry got their put reinstated sounds so much like the stories we see on HN about developers who get their accounts suspended and resort to Twitter to get their issues resolved.
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by mekane8 7y ago
That's a really crappy policy if I'm understanding it right - not provide a mobile device but insist on completely managing one if they choose to use it for company business? What a shitty way to treat people working for you.
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by mekane8 7y ago
I feel exactly the same way. Why on earth would I invest any time or money into a product only to have it disappear out from under me? Lately I find myself putting more and more energy into preparing for my eventual departure from all thing
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by mekane8 7y ago
Man, that is bleak. Insightful and probably true, but really depressing to think about.
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by mekane8 7y ago
I find this terrifying because I have worked with county-level government organizations in the past, and have seen some truly horrendous and ancient systems. But they have such a high level of control over important things in one's lif
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by mekane8 7y ago
Not weird
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by mekane8 7y ago
I'll admit that the announcement gave me hope and made me feel positively about AirBnB - I'm sure it was carefully crafted to do just that. But I'm glad I came across your comment because it gave me the cold splash of realism
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by mekane8 7y ago
I absolutely pay better attention when I can give my hand and the rest of my brain something mindless to do. Doodling helps me listen and retain a lot more than if I'm forced to just stare at the subject - in that case I get fidgety an
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by mekane8 7y ago
I'm very interested in knowing more, but even as a current subscriber I am really uncomfortable with the pressure this form is putting on me to sign up, just to see if it's available!
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by mekane8 7y ago
Coverage in my town is fine, but indoors is terrible!
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by mekane8 7y ago
+1 for IntelliJ here! I switched to Linux exclusively and I used Atom for a little while. It didn't take too long before I ponied up my own money for IntelliJ products though. I care mostly about the features and reliability of the pro
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by mekane8 7y ago
It took me like four years working in a consulting agency to finally realize that I should refuse to give any estimates when I couldn't be pretty close to certain of the accuracy.
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by mekane8 7y ago
"senior human acquisition engineer" - what a gross and inflated thing to call someone who sends out emails and shuffles people into recruiting pipelines.
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by mekane8 7y ago
I noticed that effect a few times - some wording just wasn't quite right. I was terrified of the times I guessed it was a machine because the words didn't make sense and it was real. I also got 80%.
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by mekane8 7y ago
Yes, and I only felt slightly guilty while skimming it! (a.k.a. looking for the point)
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by mekane8 7y ago
Came here to say that I bet that wasn't part of the original site!
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by mekane8 7y ago
I was an undergrad in CS as the bubble burst (graduated Dec. 2002). I was planning to attend graduate school in CS when I graduated but the market was flooded with people laid of from their dotcom jobs going back to school. I went abroad an
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by mekane8 7y ago
I noticed the "browse as guest" link as I was about to (begrudgingly) sign up. Thanks for adding that. After poking around a bit, I felt like I could use a very brief introduction, like "what should you do first" suggest
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by mekane8 7y ago
There's a book called "Toxic Charity" that really changed my views on giving, charity, and helping others in general. The upshot is that most of our quick-hit solutions like this just end up creating more problems and leaving
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by mekane8 7y ago
I lived in Central America in the early 2000's volunteer teaching. Many of my students were on Hi5.
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by mekane8 7y ago
What does "time cube" mean in this context?

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