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by meritt 7y ago
I know these feel-good anti-whiteboard blog posts are in vogue right now, but the harsh reality is we're entering a recession. If you refuse to do whiteboard interviews, or complain about employers who want you to work hard, or only lo
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by meritt 7y ago
Unless we want to take a permanent hit to overall productivity and profitability, yes, most people will return to the office real quick. Trying to be efficient while hunched over a 13" mbp at your kitchen table while your children and
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by meritt 7y ago
Credit card chargebacks are going to put that company out of business.
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by meritt 7y ago
> That's slightly horrific. I'd argue that the contemporary infatuation with mastery of complex toolchains as being the only possible solution to modern technical problems is far more horrific. Smart businesses focus on simple,
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by meritt 7y ago
Laying people off isn't necessarily a sign of distress. It may also be aptly observing the marketplace (e.g. the article suggests the layoffs were mostly in recruiting roles), and taking preemptive action. There are many of us who thin
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by meritt 7y ago
> which is totally doable at even half the salary you’re talking about. Half that salary? That's $150k, or after taxes, about ~$8k/mo. or $3k/mo for everything else after your alloted $5k/mo. Yes, people can survive o
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by meritt 7y ago
For sure. I'd just hate to be someone who thought signing a 30-yr note on a modest $1.5M 3-bed/2-ba home was a sustainable decision, and is now faced with the almost certain deep recession we're heading into.
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by meritt 7y ago
> big leagues and land that $300k FAANG job that allows you to buy a home and raise a family in the bay is infinitesimal. $300k/yr is nowhere near big leagues to buy a home and raise a family in the Bay area, just fyi. It's mor
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by meritt 7y ago
Zoom should have just called it 'Autopilot' instead of end-to-end and HN would have defended it to the death, despite that not actually being what was offered.
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by meritt 7y ago
Yeah, just shouldn't be solely a moderator job. You'd think the userbase would stop upvoting the same damn story and/or not flagging the dupes.
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by meritt 7y ago
Another Zoom article, and it's a dupe with one already on the front page! This is insane. I haven't seen HN so virulent over a topic since their blind faith defense on any criticism of Tesla.
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by meritt 7y ago
Correct. When a given user downloads chat history, it downloads everything they can see: public chat and their own 1:1 conversations. Zoom has plenty of security and privacy issues, but this is not one of them [1]. [1] https://su
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by meritt 7y ago
In addition to the healthcare workers, we're going to look back a few years from now and recognize all the delivery drivers, package handlers, and grocery store cashiers as the "First Responders" of this crisis.
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by meritt 7y ago
If it wasn't for the reselling market, there wouldn't be the same level of demand for sneakers. They're just shoes.
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by meritt 7y ago
I have about a year of near daily anecdotal evidence to the contrary. So, in my experience, yes it works extremely well. I'm not saying it's better than Teams at all, I've never used that, and it looks pretty awesome from the
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by meritt 7y ago
It works really well. One that has been a total game changer for my company is when I'm hosting a conference call, I can simply "Invite by Phone" my participants. They get a phone call, are prompted to "Press 1 to enter
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by meritt 7y ago
Can NPM not just override "core-js" when performing dependency resolution and point to a maintained fork?
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by meritt 7y ago
JS and php are perfectly suitable general purpose programming languages these days. And given they're both turing complete, they implicitly cover advanced use cases too. So that leave us with "sound in its design" and I'
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by meritt 7y ago
MySQL 8 has ANY_VALUE() [1] to do just this. Also your example does not work any longer unless that now-deprecated behavior is explicitly enabled. select a, any_value(b), any_value(b) from table group by a https://dev.my
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by meritt 7y ago
My bet: remote-only for most companies won't last. If there's one thing I've learned over the past 8 years running this company, is most people really struggle at remote. They don't have the dedicated work space, they la
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by meritt 7y ago
As the owner of a fully remote, revenue-funded, and profitable startup that wants to hire, my concern is one that won't be particularly well received. I don't want to hire people, yet , because they're still thinking that h
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by meritt 7y ago
I understand this stuff is "cool" but this is only one step removed from db->query(input[sql]). I'm not talking about SQL injection either, I'm talking about wholesale data exfiltration of your entire database because
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by meritt 7y ago
I think you're reading far too much bias into this. The only individual being attacked here is McConnell and the primary target of criticism here is "the government". The article specifically mentions there are opponents on b
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by meritt 7y ago
This is a great move but I hope everyone is ready to hear a lot of "those west coast liberals are suppressing our freedom of speech!" for the foreseeable future.
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by meritt 7y ago
The US has major public leaders [1] and news organizations actively suggesting to people this is overblown and that they should go continue about their normal lives. We are so completely far from that step happening on a national level. Edi
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by meritt 7y ago
Nothing exists yet [1]. Verily (an Alphabet subsidiary but essentially "Google" for all intents and purposes) is working on a triage website with a limited focus on the Bay Area. Ultimately it's going to be a slightly more co
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by meritt 7y ago
Let's not forget that retailers are making their parking lots available, Google has deployed 1,700 engineers to build a flowchart website, and the US is buying up oil reserves. I think this epidemic is pretty much solved, don't yo
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by meritt 7y ago
Forget how they're going to learn remotely, who is going to watch and feed those kids? A very significant portion of US lower and middle income families depend on the public school system do those exact things while the parents work. T
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by meritt 7y ago
> WHO's excuse of not declaring it before was that it didn't reach Antarctica yet You're going to need to cite a source because there's no chance anyone remotely educated would make that statement.
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by meritt 7y ago
> shows MsgPack is more space efficient While I see the same numbers as you do, there's no way a format that includes plaintext keys alongside the values is going to be smaller than a format that only includes a packed field number+

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