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by mgkimsal 5y ago
reader mode often gets past many 'subscribe to continue reading' overlays.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I had a friend who was put on a PIP at a smallish company. Company had 200+ people, but this satellite office in a different state had about... 8-10, and was run more or less by a single guy. He put my friend on a PIP - which was just...
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
"Why not also require third-party integrations" - it almost has to include that anyway, but.. the skill set required to understand and work with third-party integrations is almost certainly going to be a subset of 'front-end&
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
And someone with 3 years of experience is labelled "senior developer". I agree with your sentiment. I've run in to more than a few people who self-identify as "full stack" developers who do not understand what a da
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
a few shops in town added 'extra fee' notices a few months in to the covid outbreak (may 2020?). "We are having to add a 50c surcharge per beef entree" "Each burger has a 50c surcharge" etc. Later this went to
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Wasn't trying to scare-quote so much as emphasize the idea in the GP comment.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I mostly agree with the sentiment, but other prices which factor in to their operating costs will eke up over time as their suppliers also add on their 4% hikes to get to 'living wage'. Over time prices will go up, but... so what
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I can't get any sort of loyalty discount from big telcos or cable companies either, but they'll gladly give me 3 months free service to switch to them. You been a customer with us for 8 years and want the $10/discounted ra
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I grew up in Detroit, but moved south about 15 years ago. I've got a couple friends from MN, and visited there for a conference ... maybe 8-9 years ago. I loved the downtown - big enough to feel like a 'real city', but not
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
years ago I went further and created a full web app to manage/track. it could manage email templates, send out emails with link tracking, had some ways to keep track of opportunities, let me keep multiple versions of a resume on hand,
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
> and have their every move tracked as they do, we choose to parlay our autonomy into occupying two well-paying jobs at the same time... Some folks are possibly writing the tech that is overseeing others...
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I've never been 'afraid' of numbers/finance as such, but typically have operated on the smaller side of things enough where it hasn't been too much of a burden. I've had multiple financial folks in the family
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Quit perpetuating the tying of these basic things to the standard employment model. Get 'employers' out of the business of managing access to health care for employees. Let people 'pay' for their own vacation. You can p
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Masters of Doom was similar for me - hard to put down. I seem to remember a sense of drama and a story arc. Racing the Beam was not in the same style of writing, but was still entirely fascinating to me. The Atari age (late 70s - mid 80s)
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Whenever this topic comes up, some inevitably points to the book "Racing The Beam". Maybe this time I'll be first? :) https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/racing-beam https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
IIRC, it was because they opted for 8k ROM instead of 4k (or perhaps 4k instead of 2k?). Whatever the choice, it was definitely a big difference.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
You modified the HTML. And... I didn't see the output described in the parent in your fiddle. ?
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
And... the top link I get in google is this hacker news thread... Edit: oh, because the link actually has hacker news in the query filter... duh...
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
It's still not great - you're still primarily talking about changes made to the code, not the net effect change for users. Sometimes that messaging can overlap and serve both audiences (people who want to know code changes vs peo
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I've had bing as a default on mobile for a couple years now. And I have google, bing and ddg as defaults on different browsers (chrome, safari, ff, IIRC). Trying to mix it up decently, and bing for my mobile searches hasn't been
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Had somewhat similar experience... 2014/2015 maybe. Unsolicited call out to me, asking me to interview. I had a couple of questions - one of which included salary range. I was being expected to go take days off and fly to them, but
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Touched on that with "My experience is that many of them aren't terribly good, or were good but are no longer maintained, etc" But... I realize now my comment was edited some during writing, and I merged two different directi
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I don't think the relative ease of writing extensions for VSCode can be overlooked. There's a relative explosion of extensions addressing a lot of niche needs for various markets. My experience is that many of them aren't te
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Thanks. Strange. I did use safari quite a bit (still do - better battery life) but still don't remember it.
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
you're not wrong, but there's a whole class of problems that occur outside 'enterprise' structures. Often it's just a lone cowboy building something for a small business, and the business owner have absolutely no w
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
heh... well... he was a DBA, and wrote all the application code as well. testing on localhost with 20 sample users, what could possibly go wrong? :)
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Occasionally, it is because of that though. If not 'stupid', at least inexperienced. I've had plenty of things I've done that worked, but were, in hindsight, 'stupid' (and have been called out on that). So
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
I understood that mentality, somewhat, in the past, but what is preventing you from purchasing a plan under ACA?
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
It is impossible for everyone to "be a valued employee at a large company". We could all be 'valued residents/citizens of a large country', but we're not. Your "great health insurance" is provided
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by mgkimsal 5y ago
Given that the video and product are about an assistive technology, even moreso.

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