orangesite

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by orangesite 4y ago
Historically, a winning practice has been a regulatory environment which discourages certain types of businesses from being established at all. ref: Slave trade, narcotics, gambling, harvesting of body parts etc.
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by orangesite 4y ago
The richer we are the less we can afford.
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by orangesite 4y ago
"You're holding it wrong"
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by orangesite 4y ago
Why? So you can dump it into a stochastic parrot and steal it?
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by orangesite 4y ago
An agreement to take a pay cut is effectively an agreement to commit to an ongoing investment of 10% of your current salary in the company for an unspecified amount of time for no return and the sacrifice of the capital amount. A good bench
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by orangesite 4y ago
But here's the the bugger: Folk don't give you loans when you're insolvent.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Oh it wasn't quick, this has been building for the better part of two decades.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Good jobs have friendly practices, bad jobs have awful practices. I quite like how things work currently. It's easy to tell the difference.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Usable operating systems.
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by orangesite 4y ago
I think the trick you are missing is that AWS competitors do not need to replicate their infrastructure. The model you are wed to is "one service-provider per niche." Yeah, that requires scaling to an absolutely ridiculous extent.
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by orangesite 4y ago
What is that y'all can only perceive success in terms of cornering some market? Adam Smith be rolling in his grave!
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by orangesite 4y ago
Yup, they were up there if you let go - even for a moment - that STEM is the be-all and end-all. Please feel free to disagree.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Hahahahaha!
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by orangesite 4y ago
…and BigTech™ continues to DOS itself out of existence, fine by me!
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by orangesite 4y ago
Thank you for the overdue reminder to finally get round to deleting my old paypal account! (Not that they make it easy, mind you)
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by orangesite 4y ago
One way: Contract work (e.g. fixed allocation of hours every month) gets charged at $ X / hour. Ad-hoc (e.g. emergency work, one-off tweaks etc.) work gets charged at $ (X * 8) / hour. I negotiate my hourly rate depending on how m
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by orangesite 4y ago
Falling on your sword is literally exactly what accountability used to be. …and the stakes are even higher today if you count the number of people impacted by poor decisions.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Your relationship is primarily with your child, not with other parents or caretakers. This may make more sense to you once they're older.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Keep pursuing your passion. It's what will attract other passionate people to you.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Slow down. Connect with your child. These are not questions you can ask of other people.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Golden advice even in good times +1
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by orangesite 4y ago
2010 low tech Google is _exactly_ what I'm looking for. Everyone else in the search space (even paid search - kagi I'm looking at _you_!) seems to be under the impression that it was abandoned because it didn't work but I&#x2
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by orangesite 4y ago
Awesome bread recipe too!
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by orangesite 4y ago
Lovely write-up, thank you for sharing your process!
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by orangesite 4y ago
Rotate them periodically between each other's code. Consensus on the value of simplicity should follow after a few rounds.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Two giants are facing off so the logic is probably something like: Microsoft makes money from services so it doesn't have to make money from a search engine. Google, on the other hand, makes money from ads so it doesn't have to ma
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by orangesite 4y ago
Best case complexity is not discouraged. Worst case complexity is incentivized in more ways than this comment has room for. We live in a society.
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by orangesite 4y ago
Generally you'll want to head them off at Normandy before they make it down to the pub. To put it another way, the problem of Nazis is not a problem of free speech. It's a problem of people who are actively violating other people&
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by orangesite 4y ago
Not since 2002. Irix, HP/UX, Solaris. Correction: It has been pointed out to me that I'm currently using macOS which, Darwin non-withstanding, is technically a proprietary UNIX.
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by orangesite 4y ago
1. Build a social life outside of work. 2. Save enough money to take out a mortgage on a place to live. 3. Fall in love.

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