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by muttled 4y ago
Your comment made me think of when I used to work on desktop computers, and you couldn't uninstall the pre-installed McAfee Antivirus because it says it can't be uninstalled while it's running, and there was no way to kill it
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by muttled 4y ago
Some places try housing-first. Others go for the hot potato strategy.
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by muttled 4y ago
Small claims court seems to be one of the only options at that point. While it's still a valid tool, it can be a big pain to go through with it and I'd bet a lot of people would just take the loss. It also assumes a lot of things
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by muttled 4y ago
Especially if you have a moody boss where you find yourself tip-toeing around them until they're in a good mood to put in the request.
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by muttled 4y ago
I've heard so many times "We'll get back to you on that." And then at my current company, I heard that, and later on in the day we received an email response with all the questions they weren't able to answer live a
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by muttled 4y ago
I think moats can also come if you have a cross-section of skills that another solo developer might lack. If you happen to have intimate knowledge of a super-specific niche industry, for example. Not just the knowledge, but the connections
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by muttled 4y ago
That's crazy! If that happened in a movie I'd think the writers were being lazy.
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by muttled 4y ago
In the US, for a while, car manufacturers could void your warranty over modifications. Something happened some-odd years back that made it so that they had to prove that the modification is what caused the issue to refuse service.
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by muttled 4y ago
And your health. Getting woken up often is not good for your heart!
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by muttled 4y ago
Or it's incentivized in the wrong direction, in the case of something like an MSP that bills more for out-of-hours calls so it's actually profitable to have events happen.
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by muttled 4y ago
I used to work for an MSP. They billed 2-3x the normal rate for on-call to clients. We, however, were simply paid our hourly rate plus overtime. It created a perverse incentive to have as many on-call events as possible as it was very profi
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by muttled 4y ago
I had an awful manager who insisted I needed to "see if I can find someone to cover" for me for a funeral.
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by muttled 4y ago
T-shirt printing, leather craft, 3d printing long-tail plastic parts for things where spare parts are no longer available, small-scale electronics manufacturing, hydroponic production of fresh ingredients for local restaurants, embroidery,
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by muttled 4y ago
It's the 5 satanometer process
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by muttled 4y ago
Asking to see the pager log can be quite revealing as well. I worked at an MSP where you could expect 1-5 pages per night while on-call. It was definitely hidden during the interview process and I bet they never would have been able to hi
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by muttled 4y ago
Pretty good site. I like that it's not just an article shoveling you towards a particular product, promising to solve all your problems but not telling you how.
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by muttled 4y ago
I misunderstood the title and really thought this was going to be someone converting a tank to be an RV. Instead, it's about how people who bought a bus found out driving a bus is expensive nowadays.
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by muttled 4y ago
If you could put constructing straw men on your resume then you'd be competing with tons of internet trolls.
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by muttled 4y ago
I was thinking the other day that there had to be a better way of storing API keys than just in a file that's not sent to source control but I really can't come up with something that isn't just security by obscurity or basic
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by muttled 4y ago
Yep. It costs a lot of money every time they make that mistake.
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by muttled 4y ago
Speaking from personal experience: just seeing what unsolved needs you have yields a lot of ideas. I had coworkers who would go to email something confidential to someone and click the wrong auto-complete contact and then we had a full-blow
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Open Offices (A Satire)(jiminyclick.com)
2 points by muttled 4y ago|0 comments
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by muttled 4y ago
I had a rig on Vast. It wasn't 100% utilized. It mined crypto when it wasn't rented for ML applications.
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by muttled 4y ago
I wish there was a setting to turn the silence unknown callers feature off for x hours. As it stands, I'll manually toggle it during periods where I know I might get an unknown call I actually want to answer. Leaving it on 99% of the t
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by muttled 5y ago
https://www.jiminyclick.com Made an Outlook plugin to warn you when you've put the wrong recipient into an email through machine learning.
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by muttled 5y ago
Depends which language I'm using. This is probably due to my own failings rather than any failing of the language, but I've ran into race conditions with Python that didn't happen with C# when doing very similar tasks.
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by muttled 5y ago
I think you hit on something here. In phone situations where I'm able to help, I've found them to be generally positive, even if the person started off a little angry. It's the ones where you're stuck between company pol
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by muttled 5y ago
Finding someone skilled enough to fix complex technical issues and is willing to pickup the phone each time is incredibly difficult. By the time you're skilled-up, you're done dealing with the abuses of the general public.
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by muttled 5y ago
>These ATMs are no different than the shenanigans that Uber got up to: deliberately skirting or outright violating not just the intent but letter of the law in order to "disrupt". To play devil's advocate: they might not e
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Show HN: I made an Outlook add-in that warns when emailing the wrong person(jiminyclick.com)
6 points by muttled 5y ago|0 comments

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