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by noxToken 7y ago
Sometimes saying "Yes" or "No" is the difference between having a job the next day or being unemployed. It would be different if everyone was declining unethical development, but there is surely someone to replace you. 3
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by noxToken 7y ago
> Thinking back to it, I wonder how I was able to use ssh and tools like grep, ps and kill but did not know how to operate basic vi ... This has become a recurring thing for me to the point where I sometimes feel like I'm not as in
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by noxToken 7y ago
I'm interested about your entire interview experience, but I really would like more info about this bit: > I've been asked to do push-ups in an interview What?
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by noxToken 7y ago
I've done it twice (since moving residences). I received paper spam almost daily at the first place. I contacted around 15 different companies to get it all sorted. The second place was only 5 or so.
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by noxToken 7y ago
About 8 years ago, I wondered the same thing. I looked at the footer of the first or last page of those to find a company name or website. Opting out was very simple for all of them. Most websites asked for an address only. Some asked for a
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by noxToken 7y ago
Then you're likely in a very different situation. A condensed version of the US situation is that telcos here were incentivised through subsidies to upgrade and update the networking infrastructure to deliver more speeds and bandwidth
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by noxToken 7y ago
At the core of it, MLM is a legitimate business strategy to get a relatively unknown product distributed through a network effect. I create a meal replacement smoothie. Some friends want to try it, so I hook them up. Then friends-of-friends
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by noxToken 7y ago
My point is that everyone else, even people who aren't related to me, are now paying the price too. Take the park example. A group is protesting against my business decisions, so they follow me to the park where I run at 6 every evenin
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by noxToken 7y ago
> Start picketing their house, where they eat, everywhere they go. This sounds so obnoxious and short-sighted. If I own a business that doesn't align with your values, it's one thing to boycott and protest my business. It&#x27
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by noxToken 7y ago
Am I going to pay $100/year for the same services and still get ignored when I get locked out of my account? Enterprise users already pay for Google services. It seems like recourse for them is no different than a free tier user (aside
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by noxToken 7y ago
> No shit sherlock! I admit that this is a contrived example, but you get my point. Not a contrived example. There are an absurd amount of libraries that do this and call it documentation. There will be a nice, tidy example of how to u
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by noxToken 7y ago
I don't know the intimate details of Windows SmartScreen, but aren't these basically the same thing? This seems to be a welcomed change while SmartScreen seems largely hated.
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by noxToken 7y ago
I understand what you're going for, but this is a legitimate complaint for console-to-PC ports and ports/remasters of older games. There are some ports that I have bought that never ran after multiple troubleshooting sessions. I d
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by noxToken 7y ago
This actually makes a lot more sense now. I was trying to figure out how this wins in comparison to a standard bar graph with markers. It says information density in the OP, but it never gives an example of how it consolidates information w
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by noxToken 7y ago
I once mapped my commute to work using multiple applications. 11 minutes via car, and 14 minutes via bike. However, there was no way to safely get from my house to my office. Even if I bit the bullet and spent 26 minutes on back roads, ther
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by noxToken 7y ago
This isn't necessarily about Gimp, but this is a general problem with software developers creating tools for their domain. It is easy to create a tool that is specifically tailored to your workflow, because for parts that may tough to
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by noxToken 7y ago
This is one of the main pain points of health insurance policies in the US that makes it nearly impossible to see if you're getting true value. A monthly premium, a copay per visit, a deductible, co-insurance/cost share and out o
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by noxToken 7y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but that's how I feel about Sublime Text 3. It's fast. It's snappy. It handles MB-sized files with ease. I use it for text editing, small scripting (shell scripting, JS), repetitive text transformations th
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by noxToken 7y ago
Very expensive. When you leave a lot of major metro areas, housing costs way less. There are 3+ BR homes on ½ acre of land (approx half an American football field or half a soccer pitch) in the South roughly 15 minutes from downtown areas f
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by noxToken 7y ago
I'm going to made a broad assumption. This is the only leverage that device manufacturers have to get people to upgrade. The tablet experience doesn't degrade the same way that phones do.
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by noxToken 7y ago
> That's impressive. Which Android tablet from 2014 or 2015 is still supported nowadays? Nexus 7 owner here. No support, has always needed a better battery, and the sensors need a power cycle occasionally, but I still don't re
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by noxToken 7y ago
> To be credible, it would be especially true for a competitors product. At this point, I don't think it matter much to the typical consumer. Both camps have their fair share of zealots, and short of a press release stating someth
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by noxToken 7y ago
You can but not necessarily will. It can be valuable (to an extent) to abstract certain parts of process away from new users or employees to aid in bootstrapping. That's the message that I get from GP's comment. What these tools c
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by noxToken 7y ago
Not everyone has nefarious plans. Some people want to simplify the process for both parties. You have valid points, but there's no need to be so aggressive.
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by noxToken 7y ago
> if you dont want to have a ton of traffic dont buy a house on a major road. You're not wrong, but Waze directs traffic down roads that aren't considered main thoroughfares. That's part of the issue. There are paths to w
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by noxToken 7y ago
Sometimes it isn't a matter of people getting along. People don't want to see their pet project take the blame for a failure or completely replaced/defunded, Instead of rationally looking at root causes with facts, people may
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by noxToken 7y ago
> Because as far as I can tell, conditions in the world are better than ever before but I have all these signals telling me that I’m totally wrong about it: I’m surrounded by fear and anger and depression. I have a hypothesis comprised
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by noxToken 7y ago
I'll add in my two cents. I had a sneaking suspicion that Amazon's product quality overall was in the toilet due to low qualify manufacturing and co-mingling genuine products with knockoffs in the warehouses, but I didn't rea
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by noxToken 7y ago
Their algorithm change really killed the recommendation engine for me. I don't mind new content for channels I'm subscribed to. I don't mind similar content to channels I'm subscribed to. I don't like revisiting You
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by noxToken 7y ago
Beneath the title of the submission, you should be able to see an option labeled past . That will highlight all of the duplicate entries.

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