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811.
by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but how many companies were hiring Senior Engineers with just a phone call? Zoom is definitely less disruptive than having to sneakily drive across town, let alone fly across the country on a weekday or two for in-person interviews.
812.
by noirbot 5y ago
What do you mean by "index plant for light intensity"? I have one and I've noticed that I've had pretty hard time keeping different vines of it alive, but the plant itself has done fine. It's definitely touchier tha
813.
by noirbot 5y ago
For me, it's not even about talking to them, it's often about watching. I often go to a nice place when I visit NYC and I explain to friends that it's similar to why someone would go see a Broadway musical, but with food. The
814.
by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but I think the analogy is more appreciating the difference between the best orchestra playing a piece and a more average one. Or why one Bach composition is "better" than another one. I like classical well enough, but I wou
815.
by noirbot 5y ago
I mean, the answer there is "it varies" and "it depends". Probably something around 3-5 weeks. If you need a precise number to feel ok about the situation, the colloquial meaning is going to be enough to tell you you sho
816.
by noirbot 5y ago
I'm not asking you to "believe" in anything. There are just some companies where you can take 4-6 weeks off and some companies where you can't, and which one you're in depends on which team you work on and who your
817.
by noirbot 5y ago
Sure, but so is letting "unlimited" just turn into looting by the privileged or some sort of toxic "my manager won't let me take more than a week off". Which is what I've been getting at. People love to condemn
818.
by noirbot 5y ago
How is that possibly Apple's fault? Some people are hypocrites. Some people trust themselves more than their children. You're just stringing together random arguments you've had with people who happen to own Apple products an
819.
by noirbot 5y ago
Probably because "unlimited" is the relevant part to the part of the company that cares - HR. If it was limited, it would need to be tracked. I get the objection to the fact that you can't literally take 200 days off or whate
820.
by noirbot 5y ago
I'm sure it's possible to have a system where this is easy, but giving HR more things to track to prove their value to the company does tend to make no incentive for them to make it trivial. I'm sure systems exist for that th
821.
by noirbot 5y ago
To me, the most important part of unlimited PTO isn't the "unlimitedness" but the fact that it's not something I'm having to log in a system. It's that usually I can just take off a Friday or a Monday here and
822.
by noirbot 5y ago
I am very confused what you're trying to imply here? That Apple was intentionally not implementing child safety features before now and that's suspect but no one was questioning them? They've had various levels of parental co
823.
by noirbot 5y ago
That may be true, but that doesn't negate the question I was asking. At most companies I've worked at, most of the technical/developer types had OS X or Linux computers, and the people with Windows boxes tended to be people u
824.
by noirbot 5y ago
How much of this is because the Linux users are more likely to know how to fix their own stuff/not break it in a weird way compared to the Windows users?
825.
by noirbot 5y ago
Personally, a lot of my experience is that my manager knows and understands the issue and is doing their best, but at some point there's only so much "managing up" they can do to prevent larger dysfunction in the org from eff
826.
by noirbot 5y ago
I mean, Australia has been putting forward insane tech bills to outlaw E2EE and demand backdoors for everything for years now. I don't think they're doing this because of the Apple news.
827.
by noirbot 5y ago
Some of the difficulty is that the team may be hiring people because they're currently under-staffed. I've been on teams before where we're 3 engineers on a team that we're trying to hire up to 6 people. It's really
828.
by noirbot 5y ago
That... seems optimistic about the state of the modern average engineer at Blizzard. Which isn't to say that folks are bad at their jobs, but it's not as if it's a company that's done well-received and breakthrough moder
829.
by noirbot 6y ago
While I understand the difficulty of running something like this, I'm sad to lose it. I found it to be a truly excellent search experience that I'd been recommending to friends for a while now. Hopefully there's some way this
830.
by noirbot 6y ago
The crux of the question is, I guess, if a renewed credit card (with a new expiration date) is a "new credit card". Presumably this feature wouldn't work if you changed your card to one with a different CC number because it&#
831.
by noirbot 6y ago
That seems like it's not this situation though? It's not like they're going to refill the gift card for you or somehow guess the new card number.
832.
by noirbot 6y ago
That's good to know. Obviously, with Simple, I was fine with not having a local branch, but I'd worry that signing up at a local CU and then moving, they'd just expect that I could come in to the local branch for things. I&#x
833.
by noirbot 6y ago
My worry with most credit unions is that most of the ones commonly recommended have requirements for who can be a member, or are geographically tied. I'm unlikely to live in the same city for as long as I'd want to keep a bank acc
834.
by noirbot 6y ago
Even crazier, they seem to have un-sent the email? I got a notification that I had an email from Simple, but didn't check it immediately, and now it's completely gone from my email account. I've never seen that happen before.
835.
by noirbot 6y ago
You also have a lot more obvious benefits to having cars be commonly available. Pretty much no one I know with a drone is using it for anything more than a novelty. It's not to say there aren't valid uses for a drone, but there se
836.
by noirbot 6y ago
I used their course as part of training for one of the AWS Certs and found the videos/quizzes pretty informative and useful. Not too long-winded, and an easy enough to use interface. I only did the one course, but from that, I'd r
837.
by noirbot 6y ago
I mostly mean it to be people who try to push for "team events" or "team lunches" or "team happy hours", even when some or most of the team make it clear that they're not interested. Often this is accompan
838.
by noirbot 6y ago
But it is somewhat true. The point of being in the office is to get work done. You're being paid to do work, and in the past, part of that was a requirement you be in the office some portion of the time. You were in the office _to work
839.
by noirbot 6y ago
Sure, but that's not necessarily wrong. Any decision in the model will change Trump's odds in one way or another. The question is if it makes it closer to the (unknowable) real odds. Just because intuition says it should be longer
840.
by noirbot 6y ago
I think the third post in that thread really nails the underlying issue here. We, as humans, know that it would be silly to think that some configurations could happen. We know there's no reason to expect Biden to win Alabama outside o

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