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Neopets is still around(dualshockers.com)
134 points by novia 3y ago|107 comments
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by novia 3y ago
"Real time" but they don't have it in the EST timezone...
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by novia 3y ago
Uber actually encourages their drivers to drive Teslas, so even though it seems out of touch for him to say, "and then I bought a Tesla," it's more likely that he was going through the standard routine for an Uber driver. He
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by novia 3y ago
Today is actually my last day. If any sane companies have openings, please hit me up.
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by novia 3y ago
> Naturally these were team-based metrics, because software development is a team activity. Applying those same metrics to individuals is too tempting for a subpar manager. The data is right there!
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by novia 3y ago
My company uses scrum to try to track engineering output. My boss looks at metrics like line counts. It is extremely stressful to be on a team of people who are all worried about losing their jobs and will accidentally (?) commit your chang
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by novia 3y ago
Glad your team is not ridiculous. My team treats the daily as a report up to our boss, and our boss treats the daily as a time to go on a long monologue
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by novia 3y ago
it's because the 15 minute daily becomes a 30 minute daily
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by novia 3y ago
If your food is good enough, people will drive to your restaurant and pay money for it even if they don't work there. I don't know about Minneapolis, but in Atlanta the downtown food courts that cater to all the business people ar
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by novia 3y ago
Thank you for the clarification! I didn't even see the linked journal article. https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/29/9/23-0351_article
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by novia 3y ago
> researchers are exploring whether a preexisting medical condition that caused her to be immunocompromised could have led to the larvae taking hold. I really wish this bit of the article was better written! Are they finding out whether
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Sam Bankman-Fried (1992 –)(utilitarianism.com)
1 points by novia 3y ago|0 comments
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by novia 3y ago
A poverty mindset mixed with a surplus of things available to people creates hoarders. When someone without a lot of money gets something for free or very cheap, even if they don't end up using it very often, they don't want to th
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by novia 3y ago
Japanese women in particular can be locked out of career growth once they are married. The expectation is that after they get married they will quit their job and become a housewife. Add that to the issue that having children out of wedlock
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by novia 3y ago
Better source: https://schmidtocean.org/scientists-discover-new-ecosystem-u...
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by novia 3y ago
I use habitica - and it suffers in a major way from the "tasks disappearing after you complete them" thing. I think that they disappear after 30 days if you don't pay for their membership, and after 90 days if you do. There&#
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by novia 3y ago
https://archive.ph/nDk8n
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The Math Problem Stymieing Small Businesses in Rural America(wsj.com)
1 points by novia 3y ago|1 comments
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by novia 3y ago
It did mention the Librem.
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by novia 3y ago
I followed the link to the volcano study, and it said the opposite of what the author said that it said. The adults who were displaced had worse outcomes than the other adults who were not, but the children of those adults did better, and t
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by novia 3y ago
You've missed the point. The GP is saying that consuming data at random does not contribute towards the things they personally prioritize in life.
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The Founder – Disrupt the World(thefounder.biz)
1 points by novia 3y ago|0 comments
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While stuck in a backlog grooming meeting – /r/ProgrammerHumor(old.reddit.com)
4 points by novia 3y ago|1 comments
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by novia 3y ago
Interesting discussion happening in the comments on Agile/Scrum
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Microsoft crunches some data: Finds out Teams is the biggest productivity killer(goingconcern.com)
5 points by novia 3y ago|1 comments
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by novia 3y ago
https://archive.ph/00DRm
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by novia 4y ago
> In the latest experiments in mice whose hair was physically aged by plucking and forced regrowth ... edit: The researchers in this case decided to pluck hairs from young mice repeatedly until it started growing in grey instead of just
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by novia 4y ago
There's a company that does this log analysis in real time for you called Zebrium https://www.zebrium.com/
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by novia 4y ago
Uhhh... Feelings do something in the social sphere, which is where we all live. An individual person feeling feelings and not adequately suppressing an emotional response is akin to an individual neuron firing.
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by novia 4y ago
The argument for banning children from social media could equally easily apply to adults. I think everything that's available on the internet, short of pornography and beheading videos, should be equally available to all children, and

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