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by ponker 6y ago
The core expertise in a consulting company is getting the clients. Half of the consultants have absolutely no idea what they're talking about and do fine, domain expertise is 1/10th of the job, getting clients is 50% of the job, a
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by ponker 6y ago
What would be even cooler is if there was an easy way to turn your own server into a Wayback machine, so that when your server rendered a webpage, it would use the original link if available, or its own cached version if not.
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by ponker 6y ago
I've found that web pages have so much dynamic content these days that even something that feels relatively static generates two different hashes almost on every pageload.
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by ponker 6y ago
There’s also a different mix of music by listening scenario. I mostly listen to Top 40 and similar garbage while I’m commuting because I’m not that discerning. But the people who are true music aficionados are probably continuing to listen
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by ponker 6y ago
Well an industry can form only when there’s a name, otherwise people can’t identify themselves as the target market or seek out the vendors.
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by ponker 6y ago
I’ve heard it ascribed to Oscar Wilde, although according to Whistler he probably stole it from someone himself.
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by ponker 6y ago
You wouldn’t need good speech to text. The purpose would only be to establish synchronization between audio and text, and where you don’t have synchronization you could assume that the speaker is carrying on at their normal words per minut
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by ponker 6y ago
Is it just me, or does Japan have more of these subcultures like “jouhatsu” and “hikikomori” simply because they give the behavior a name? There are people who do this everywhere but it seems like it’s exoticized when Japanese. Or are these
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by ponker 6y ago
Since audiobook enthusiasts might be in this thread ... does anyone know of a product (outside Kindle Whispersync) that can ingest an audiobook and the corresponding e-book and using speech-to-text keep them roughly in sync so you can quick
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by ponker 6y ago
I mean I can understand both points of view. I can understand thinking, as I said, that "nurses are not paid like crap," but I can also understand that watching a nurse work for a day one could think "there's no salary t
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by ponker 6y ago
Nursing is hard work but it is not paid like crap.
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by ponker 6y ago
Area Man Rejects Social Media, Prefers Discussing Topics With People on the Intern————
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by ponker 6y ago
I’m ~40 and my wife and three kids are living with my parents. With the pandemic it was very isolated to be by ourselves and we could WFH anywhere so are moving between my parents and my in-laws every few months. Kids are getting lots of gr
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by ponker 6y ago
Boeing was, making profits selling unsafe planes.
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by ponker 6y ago
Not that different than the Republicans passing a tax bill in 2017 specifically designed to increase taxes on Democratic constituencies.
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by ponker 6y ago
I don’t agree on your “user hostile” examples outside of Intuit but agree with your take —- founders know what VC is. The reason they started the company in the first place is to get rich.
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by ponker 6y ago
Yes, someone who’s made it as far in a relationship as intentional pregnancy should “save” their relationship by suggesting remedial education to their partner...
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by ponker 6y ago
For people wondering why this is bad: Let’s say you have a DNA test that’s 99.9% accurate. If you find a suspect through normal investigative means and then test his DNA and he matches, you‘ve almost surely got the right guy. If you geofenc
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by ponker 6y ago
This pandemic has taught me that I personally detest WFH. I’m glad that going forward there will be more WFH options for those who prefer it, but I am not one of those people.
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s very different. Sure I can still use Winamp but it’s not like my friends and I are exchanging skins. The market is now an enthusiast’s one.
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by ponker 6y ago
He literally lives in an ivory tower?
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by ponker 6y ago
I imagine that 90's software was like late 1800's Western United States... pioneers going west and just doing whatever the fuck they wanted, now you need a permit to replace your window in San Francisco.
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by ponker 6y ago
I can't find the "Yellow Submarine" skin that used to my favorite. I expect that if I found it I would be overwhelmed by a frisson of Proustian nostalgia.
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by ponker 6y ago
If your job requires you to do something, yes it should be paid. Including walking from your car, at some reasonable pace.
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by ponker 6y ago
I expect that in many places it’s not legal to sell a new car that doesn’t drive out of the “box.”
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by ponker 6y ago
The idea that they wouldn’t is laughable/horrifying.
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by ponker 6y ago
I’d be willing to spend some extra money on a one-time artisanal steak or loaf, that doesn’t mean I can or will spend that every week.
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by ponker 6y ago
This is what is happening to a lot of US Chinese restaurants. The parents slaved away at the woks for 40 years but made sure to get their kids well educated so there are no kids to take over, the kids are doctors or engineers. This is the o
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by ponker 6y ago
Why would you assume that his experiences and yours are the same?
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by ponker 6y ago
I use exclusively custom domain emails but use Gmail to manage all of them.

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