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by poink 4y ago
In isolation, I don't think there's much reason to buy an iPhone right now. I have an iPhone 12 Pro and a Pixel 6a and they're interchangeable as far as I'm concerned. I also have a Mac, AirPods, and an Apple Watch, thou
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by poink 4y ago
It's been a long time since I've worked in a support-adjacent role, but IME it was always less about "keep[ing] the idiots at bay" and more about covering the ass of the help desk. Things that take a support person 5 min
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by poink 5y ago
The exception to the cash flow argument, if you’re willing to stretch the definition of “collectible” a bit, are rare items that can be used to generate revenue by skilled artists/artisans who might be willing to pay a premium to rent
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by poink 5y ago
Your host isn't likely to care unless it causes them grief. There are so many scans happening at any given moment I doubt any of the targets will notice yours. I do vaguely remember one of these, "I scanned the whole internet! It&
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by poink 5y ago
This is fair. Most of the bad mentioned can be worked around trivially, and even turned into a strength with third party apps (a lot of the window management stuff, especially, has more/better third party options than Windows), but Mac
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by poink 5y ago
I think the reason nobody open sources a competitor is because most people in a position to develop such a thing don’t think the solution to the overarching problems the Atlassian tools supposedly solve is a similar suite of tools. I’ve lea
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by poink 5y ago
Since this entertaining article is profiling a fraud by using at least one criminal profiler as a source, it’s worth pointing out that whole discipline is of rather dubious merit.
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by poink 5y ago
I think the issue they were getting at is code like this: function doSomething(doSomethingElse) { internalState.setUp(); doSomethingElse(); internalState.tearDown(); } Right now, you can safely assume this who
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by poink 5y ago
> But there's a dissonance between the positioning here vs. the audience it is intended for. I don’t think so. I think they’re running the same playbook as most investor-backed dev tool companies. They just forgot you’re supposed to
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by poink 5y ago
That’s not how this works. There’s an extreme bias toward butts-in-seats. “Everyone should do what’s best for them” is a nice sentiment, but not how the world works at all. There are a lot of people currently enjoying remote work who are ri
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by poink 5y ago
I think there’s a lot of WFH folk who are worried less about promotions than they are the availability of WFH jobs in general. People who favor that style of working viewed COVID as a transformational event, and are going to push back hard
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by poink 5y ago
In 2022, when Congress is insider trading in full view of everyone, is anyone trying to pretend like the people going to jail for corruption are the ones who really deserve to be there?
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by poink 5y ago
The particularly interesting thing here is that this isn’t an effort by a larger, established union. This is a self-organized Amazon employees union spearheaded by a fired Amazon worker who Amazon spent a lot of money smearing over the past
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by poink 5y ago
> I suppose the best practice solution to this is to try to keep company Google Play accounts as "sterile" as possible? This is probably "best" practice, but Google has randomly closed accounts for our mobile test dev
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by poink 5y ago
The big ticket item is obviously that Fossil includes all the stuff that people constantly whine about being locked into Git{hub,lab} over, e.g. issues, as part of the tool rather than some external vendor-specific thing you have to worry a
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by poink 5y ago
Because 1PW has managed to place themselves on the “wrong” side of multiple issues that the HN user base is passionate about in a kind of piss off nerds speedrun. Transitioning to subscriberware + converting your beloved native apps to Elec
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by poink 5y ago
This will bite our startup. Regardless of the percentage affected, this seems to run counter to their previously-stated strategy of charging based on who wants a feature, and looks more like an attempt to purge large/unusually active p
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by poink 5y ago
> Toxic is requiring evidence over feelings I’ll concede some of the things you listed could simultaneously be considered both toxic and “good business,” but you got out over your skis here
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by poink 5y ago
Am ex-home inspector. Almost everyone has a recirculating vent IME
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by poink 5y ago
My 30+ year appliance repair guy quit last year because he said everything is planned obsolete and you can't get a good appliance at any price. Pay extra for Speed Queen or whatever if you want, but when it inevitably breaks you'r
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by poink 5y ago
People will stop bothering with FLAC the instant they care about the specifics of the file format more than saving even the most trivial amount of space on their devices. Never, in other words.
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by poink 5y ago
They bootstrapped Steam by forcing it on CS players, and many of us oldschool players boycotted it by playing on old servers for months. I was probably one of the last of those to give in and install Steam because I feared what would happen
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by poink 5y ago
I have the Gigabyte FO48U, which uses the same panel as the 48" LG C1, and... it's a beautiful TV. That's what I wound up using it for, because I couldn't stand it as a monitor and went back to my old 27". Image ret
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by poink 5y ago
I'm WFH and will never go to an office again, unless a team convinces me I'm missing something by being there, and I seriously doubt that will ever happen at this point in my career.
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by poink 5y ago
That's not at all clear.
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by poink 5y ago
Just interested because you're in this business: do you genuinely think 30% keeps being the number? Seems like that's not long for this world from my limited perspective. Hard to disrupt Steam if they're taking 10-15%, and I
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by poink 5y ago
AppCode's great for what it does, but you still use Xcode a lot for things AppCode doesn't do. You can probably reduce the Xcode dependency by replacing parts of its functionality with stuff like XcodeGen if this bothers you. I al
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by poink 5y ago
Annoyance 4 is the biggest one for me, with the additional annoyance that "only one works sometimes" extends to charging, too. One of my AirPods will be dead when I go to use them ~10% of the time.
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by poink 5y ago
Considering the other things we rely on, does it?
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by poink 5y ago
I love my AirPods Pro because I can take them on a run with my Apple Watch and be able to listen to music + do guided runs without having to carry anything else. Glad I bought them just for that. They suck otherwise. I have these wired earp

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