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by milquetoastaf 7y ago
Not sure if you've ever actually taken those certs (I have those + Sysops Associate) but they're just glorified multiple choice quizzes. In my experience hiring, they reveal relatively little about one's abilities to do meani
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by milquetoastaf 7y ago
Maybe for small stage startups or deliberately tiny, private ventures. Otherwise, yeah, might as well just apply via the normal channels since the employees will forward your request to HR/hiring anyway. OP's advice is wishful thi
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by milquetoastaf 7y ago
I mean if you take a reductive tack like that then you can say the plot of Moby Dick is just that a certain sea captain chases a whale around and some poor simp is along for the ride. The plot isn't the sum of these works, it is the sc
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by milquetoastaf 7y ago
The branding. You can hold out for a high "orthodox" lease like storefronts in the West Village in NYC are doing (lots of famously ritzy streets dotted with vacancies) or you can hand the problem to We and use their network effect
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by milquetoastaf 7y ago
He still makes fold-ins for every issue!
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
Professional actors and actresses can also be in-demand and are often 'recruited' constantly for different projects. They get paid sometimes millions of dollars. They're in a union
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
Support - in the long run - is pretty cheap (I think I pay around 300) and 100 percent worth the tradeoff. The web chat offers the fastest resolution times in my experience once you are out of the queue
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
Does anyone besides pop psychologists actually believe that?
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
I remember seeing the fail whale constantly until around 2010 and honestly, as an almost daily user of twitter, i don't think I've seen it since and the site is one of the most stable I visit (via mobile.twitter.com). Reddit could
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
BeOS is the silent master we can all learn from
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
That's so awesome. The NextCube is one of my dream machines, along with an SGI Indigo and Amiga 2000 Cool challenge too - maybe ill give it a whack
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
Tell me more about your Next setup!
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
How do the Uruk Hai - or orcs for that matter - know what a menu is?
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
Reddit's data isn't that valuable (as you cannot key it back to a real human), a huge swath of their users adblock, and it has tons and tons of pornographic content which - and i do not necessarily agree with - will lower ad value
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
The French are known for their...unique appetites https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Lotito
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by milquetoastaf 8y ago
Europe is filled with communes. There's a huge one right in Copenhagen. Brussels also has plenty of squats and coops run in a similar fashion.
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Ask HN: Was hired to improve company's devops, founder won't listen to my ideas
79 points by milquetoastaf 8y ago|73 comments
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
Shot of espresso in the morning. Probably like 10-12 beers a night?
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
Postgres is awesome and thankfully is much easier to get set up with high availability and replication baked-in (remember pgpool anyone?). AWS Cloud Formation Docker Swarm stack + postgres primary/replica compose file + datadog and you
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
You clearly have never read any political comments on this site. Just look at the Chelsea Manning comments for a look at how "intelligible" and "thoughtful" the community is
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
Trump DID fire Comey to stop an investigation. Turns out that you can actually have multiple investigations ongoing, including ones done by Congress that Trump can't just fire away. >I simply cannot keep up with the 180 narrative
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
If gizmodo is reporting on it, then it's already happening
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
The virtual world exists in nature, made from natural elements - where else would it be? The whole notion of a virtual / reality divide is a farce
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
Start a consulting service, charge people by the hour
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
Investors poured millions into a juicer too
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
You mean going big to fool investors and the public? They have no sales, no functioning tech demos, nothing but hype. Give me a fucking break. So few think critically on HN anymore, it's just hype cycle after hype cycle. Remember when
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
This company is a laundering scheme for millionaires
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
Aren't many/most IEDs utilizing cell phones? Where's the rationale in banning a laptop if you can make one out of something even smaller and more ubiquitous? Hell, I bet you could stuff plenty of explosive material into one o
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
I see - so almost like you could have a macro that knows certain changes / scales and just hit :dorian or whatever? That's interesting...
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by milquetoastaf 9y ago
>Also the note input process and experimentation is extremely time consuming and the DAW never helps What is so arduous about plugging a midi keyboard in?

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