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by nkingsy 8y ago
The practice of shipping empty boxes to shill reviewers is fairly widespread https://www.geekwire.com/2015/amazon-files-first-ever-suit-o... "According to the suit, the site operated by Gentile offers to provide f
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by nkingsy 8y ago
Lately noticing 3 big agendas being pushed in a more obviously biased way than I've ever seen before: 1. Look at how evil the tech majors are. 2. Save American institutions from Trump (worst offender was the lockstep outcry about troop
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by nkingsy 8y ago
Not a great way to increase diversity, and totally incompatible with referral bonuses. A hidden cost here would also be exposing perceived statuses (eg an engineer who isn't as well respected would have their recommendations denied).
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Slow CI and/or Code Review makes concurrent work a bit of a necessity. Context switching certainly has a cost, but it's cheaper for my employer than paying me to wait for tests to run.
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Cloning from a template would be the what, but I was wondering if there are tools designed for this. It's the kind of thing that could spike complexity and I would want an established pattern of delivering html solely for the purpose o
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In my most recent job search, I was really surprised to find that about half of my initial calls were with engineering managers, not recruiters. They're certainly in a better position to sell the company, but I found that I was uncomfo
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by nkingsy 8y ago
I have a list of widgets and a button to create a new widget. I don’t want a full page reload when I create a new widget. What are some elegant strategies for handling this with SSR? I’ve used turbo links and found it rather clunky. Haven’t
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This is my schedule exactly. Cutting coffee made it so much easier to just crash out at 10, which shifts “me” time to the morning when I’m more in the mood to be productive.
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The proposed solution: close loopholes that allow subsidiaries to book profits at the lower tax rates of other countries. How do you tax a subsidiary based in another country? What’s the difference between an Irish company with an American
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The article touches on a cultural shift in business leader salaries, saying that they didn’t demand as much because it would all go to taxes. Not sure how accurate that is, but if it were the case would that explain some of this phenomenon?
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Lexus came in #1 followed by Porsche but that didn't make for as good of a headline I guess.
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So far it’s totally legal to advertise on direct searches for your competitor. As of a few years ago it wasn’t uncommon to spend five figures or more monthly just to protect your brand. Looks like google has started regulating this just fro
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by nkingsy 8y ago
I think mindless and complex might not be the right words to use here. I find google searching to be similar to writing. If I distill the question down to the crucial elements and use clear english, I get great results. If I throw all the e
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by nkingsy 8y ago
My question is, would Apple default to different search engine if they weren't getting paid? Given Google's utter dominance in search, it would likely be seen as anti-user behavior to default to something else. This one and the fa
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by nkingsy 8y ago
Dreading needing reading glasses. Night vision subjectively feels worse. Random yellow spots in changing light conditions that I don’t remember having before.
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by nkingsy 8y ago
Great. Another reason to regret my lasik.
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Sounds like they do both. Further down in the article they mention selective breeding over generations.
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Was funny seeing the BBC article on "Office Space" yesterday talk about the switch to open offices without mentioning the backlash. Was sure HN would be up in arms.
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by nkingsy 8y ago
As others have mentioned, it seems all backwards that each bulb is converting AC/DC internally, and does not appear to have much in the way of heat dissipation for the converter or the LED chip(s). I've built a lot of LED lighting
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It's a bank account. If I notice the company often needs bursts of work, I'll leave a little early every day so that I have reserve funds to pitch in extra time when needed. If I'm working 40 hour weeks already, there's
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by nkingsy 8y ago
Much love for Stylelint. My last company had some unique style guide rules, and I was able to encode all of them in Stylelint with only a few custom rules. The custom rules were very easy to write and plug in, and everything auto-fixes. Abs
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I got fight and flight but wasn’t lucky enough to inherit the vim key bindings. Darn parents!
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The cited survey was from 2012. The questions were mostly in this vein: x 64% of Americans say their likelihood of voting for a candidate they support would decrease (37% say decrease a lot, 27% say decrease somewhat) if they learn a candid
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by nkingsy 8y ago
Looks very nice. Couple of nitpicks: 1. Tooltips go into a flicker loop when you hover over the tooltip arrow ( the triangle hanging off of the tooltip box ). 2. Dropdowns should close when you click a second time on the dropdown toggle.
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by nkingsy 8y ago
In my experience, conspicuous displays of tech passion are a strong signal of incompetence. Edit: obviously in social or interview settings this is appropriate. I meant among co workers.
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Duke energy and Facebook have identical P/E ratios. Don’t have time to dig deeper but given that I don’t see regulation destroying shareholder value, the market sees them on a utility trajectory going forward. Edit: name a utility with
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by nkingsy 8y ago
TR was punted to the vice presidency to get him out of New York because he was too radical. Johnson and JFK pushed through some of the most progressive civil rights and anti poverty measures this country has ever seen. By today’s standards
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by nkingsy 8y ago
It seems to me that US trust busting in the past was: 1. Seen as radical at the time, and odious to all private industry. 2. Able to leave shareholder value somewhat intact because they were simply splitting physical assets. While I think 2
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by nkingsy 8y ago
My former boss (front end web) had a similar rationale for forcing the team to use old MacBook airs. I think it’s reasonable if you have cloud everything. We did not. We had to deploy directly from our machines, which basically made the lap
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I think it’s as simple as biomass produced vs biomass consumed, and I agree a 4x4 garden is not going to fully replace O2 for two sleeping adults. I’ve experimented with building tower setups which would allow 3-5 times the biomass growth i

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