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by mmmmmbop 4y ago
I don't think it's true that their last decent game was almost 10 years ago. Overwatch is a really great game and it came out 6 years ago.
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by mmmmmbop 4y ago
> It's just short term planning with complete disregard for the long term health of the company. How the board of directors doesn't see this is shocking. I wonder if milking the company's reputation like this perhaps actua
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by mmmmmbop 4y ago
Interesting. So why is something like this [0] possible, but the one in the first picture not? [0] https://theglassroom.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/23f059...
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by mmmmmbop 4y ago
> it's speculative proactive defense, which is something just about any startup advisor would caution against True, but at that point, Facebook was not a startup anymore. Playing defense as a startup might be silly, but as a large t
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by mmmmmbop 4y ago
Not GP, but I've been using the GL.iNet Beryl (GL-MT1300) and I'm really happy with it.
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by mmmmmbop 4y ago
That's true, but also not the criteria the original poster proposed.
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by mmmmmbop 4y ago
Which are the two dictatorships you are thinking about? Your proposed rule might be unpractical, since it would disallow the U.S. government from from saying anything about free speech for at least 30 more years (see [1] and [2]). [1] http
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
That's true for the mathematical definition of number, but not for the commonly used definition of number as "a numeral or combination of numerals or other symbols used to identify or designate" (4b at [0]). A common example
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
It's not difficult to customize. IMO, it's actually easier to customize yourself than bash/zsh because I find the fish syntax much more natural than bash, but YMMV. That said, I believe that zsh has a bigger community, and th
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
> Always recommend people to use fish if they're not the "customize everything everywhere to my liking" type. Fully agree. It feels like fish is the Apple of shells, in that regard. Unless you really love to tinker with yo
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
I switched to fish about 7 years ago and never looked back. It feels so much more natural to use than bash. With all the hype (and better ecosystem) of zsh, I once genuinely tried using zsh, but eventually came crawling back to fish. Using
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
These are really interesting maps, but I'm missing a few important data points. For the cancer one, I feel like it's misleading. E.g. Russia and Central Africa might be low in cancer because of their low life expectancy, and Centr
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
> (I will avoid the more complicated subject of the maid...) I'm really curious now. Why is the maid a more complicated subject?
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
> While I do know a lot of people with remote FAANG jobs, it wasn’t easy. Basically years of working their way specifically into those positions with hard work and building a reputation to warrant it. This _used_ to be true. Post-Covid,
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
For what it's worth, I didn't read thefourthchime's comment in a way that would suggest that software engineers are making 100x a living wage. The way I understood it, they meant that the total cost of all engineer hours spen
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
This is a different article.
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
$250k is a decent new grad offer at FAANG in the Bay Area. Assuming that you're at L5 level, you should be easily able to clear that with a remote position.
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
$9/mo is not going to cut it. Google's domestic annual revenue per user in 2019 was $256. [0] That's $21.33 per month. Not all of Google's revenue is from Ads, of course, but the vast majority is. (Let's ignore for
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
So, Snapchat?
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
Exactly. If I was hiring for a tech position and had to choose between an engineer with a few years of experience and strong analytical skills proven through coding & system design interviews, and a person who prides themselves on 10 ye
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
Where did you move after Zurich?
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
It all comes down to U.S. tech companies being much more successful, mainly because of the scale of the U.S. market. Any U.S. startup can immediately address a market of $21T (GDP) without any regulatory overhead or language considerations.
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
In a testament to how powerful product placement can really be, the image of James Bond using a VAIO laptop while sitting on a boat is still burned in my brain.
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
Imagine you're standing on a set point on the surface on the outer coin, e.g. the one touching the inner coin. As the outer coin rotates around the inner coin, your experienced reality will be that you see n-1 rotations. In the example
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
I disagree. For example, I've found Google Docs' offline functionality extremely useful, since it allows me to continue working on documents while traveling on a plane or a train with no data connection.
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
Do you have more background on this? What's the best way to approach a feeling like this, in your experience.
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
> We now know that Poe's imagined account is a far cry from the reality of the Antarctic continent, but he could have been "right" in that there are people living there. Which people do you mean?
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
About 800km. In theory I guess visiting every weekend by plane would be possible, but to me that doesn't sound like a good life.
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Ask HN: How do you weigh off life satisfaction against income?
13 points by mmmmmbop 5y ago|16 comments
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by mmmmmbop 5y ago
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