powvans

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by powvans 7y ago
Google has an engineering office in Austin. Could be someone who took their Bay Area salary with them. Same with Pittsburg. Uber has a presence there and SFBA transplants take their SFBA salaries with them when they move.
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by powvans 7y ago
Your comment about 100 followers immediately made me think of the 1,000 True Fans essay by Kevin Kelly [1]. [1] https://kk.org/thetechnium/1000-true-fans/
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by powvans 7y ago
I think the Fox News brand has probably rendered the rest of the Fox brand somewhat undesirable. At a minimum it's just too quickly associated with politics and divisiveness to use for entertainment products that are meant to be a plea
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by powvans 7y ago
I agree, though I wouldn't say my experience with Azure has been "profoundly awful". Not all that great is more like it. I'm commenting because you mentioned the horizontal blade scrolling thing. For me, that has to be s
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by powvans 7y ago
Perhaps, in this case, the fraction is closer to 1/1 than they care to admit.
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by powvans 7y ago
That's easily solved by disabling the mouse when it's connected to the cable. If what you're asserting is true, at by disabling it they could have avoided this endless mocking.
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by powvans 8y ago
Ha! I do this too. Just the other day I was pair programming with someone who asked "why don't you have those super stupid questions on the right nav bar?"
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by powvans 8y ago
There is zero information about who the heck WorkflowCI is or trust building before the big "INSTALL" call to action. This could be anyone simply asking for the keys to your Github kingdom. This is what Github says: Install
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by powvans 8y ago
Maybe you should have a legally protected right to lie to businesses that ask for your personal information. This is interesting. I almost always fudge my birthday a bit when asked for it. If I'm applying for a loan or opening a bank
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by powvans 8y ago
Googling the Mayotte Island that they tracked it to shows that a magnitude 5.0 earthquake occurred within the last hour: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us1000hwxr...
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by powvans 8y ago
And in the movie the POTUS was Dwayne Camacho an ex pro wrestler... and in real life many people want an ex pro wrestler named Dwayne Johnson to run for POTUS as an improvement to the current POTUS?! I'd say you can't make this
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by powvans 8y ago
I think that last sentence is the key: "you just need to find them." You'll work harder to find career opportunities that fit with the distributed lifestyle, but for me it is worth it because of all the non-career opportunity
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by powvans 8y ago
Site appears to be experience the hug of death, Google cache: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:rCmcbq...
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by powvans 8y ago
I have similar memories from my childhood in the 80's. We lived in Savannah and would make the trek to North Georgia several times a year to visit my mom's family. I can remember the headlights illuminating a sea of bugs like a li
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by powvans 8y ago
Yes, it’s as if they’re pumping for data to prime the shadow account.
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by powvans 8y ago
The machines used in Georgia do not print receipts. Full stop.
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by powvans 8y ago
No, there’s no receipt. That’s what’s so confidence eroding out it. All you have to show for your effort is an “I voted” sticker with a peach on it.
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by powvans 8y ago
I've lived in Georgia most of my life and we've used these voting machines as long as I can remember. I've never felt comfortable voting on these machines. You get the card from the poll worker, you put it into the machine, y
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by powvans 8y ago
The former. I wondered if the comment might be misconstrued. These were cases of individuals revealing their prejudices.
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by powvans 8y ago
I don't know anything about the current architecture or third party trackers. It's been over five years since I did any work with Grindr. I will say that when I worked on Grindr, Joel (CEO, founder) was adamant that we would not t
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by powvans 8y ago
I helped build Grindr, which of course I don't think was unethical. But I've been surprised by some people's reaction to it. It generally comes up in some conversation where someone asks "what have you worked on that I m
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by powvans 8y ago
I grew up in North Georgia, near Athens. My grandparents had a whole home fan like what you’re describing. Extremely loud, terrifying as a child. The house is well shaded by trees and has a full basement. The basement provides a reservoir o
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by powvans 8y ago
Terrorism is just as much, if not more, about theater than the security that protects against it. Airplanes have been targeted specifically because of the spectacular nature of such an event.
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by powvans 8y ago
I love this. It sounds bad, but lowering the bar for expectations and just thinking that showing up and doing something is a win is fantastic for building habits and discipline. I have so many friends who haven't done much with their l
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by powvans 8y ago
They seem to have gotten the racist freak outs under control in my area. In the last year we’ve moved on to animal welfare freak outs. A couple of weeks ago there was a thread condemning jogging with your dog. The OP was pretty upset about
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by powvans 8y ago
If I go home and write in my diary that today hekfu bought lots of broccoli, you don't have the right to come to me in five years and demand that I remove all mention of you from my diary at my own cost. I asked this question in a co
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by powvans 8y ago
Yes, thank goodness that those impudent thugs that usurped the good name of Java are getting their comeuppance 25 years later. This will teach Reddit user imacpro1 a lesson that he will not soon forget!
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by powvans 9y ago
I agree with a lot of what you are saying, but I think GP's frustration is with the pain of the process and not the pain of paying. Think about, there are two pains occurring here: 1) the pain of parting w/ money 2) the pain of pr
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by powvans 9y ago
The bitcoin failure (I think it is) teaches something. People don't really give each other money. It's kind of illegal. Money is supposed to move between people and companies or companies and companies, not between people. There
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by powvans 9y ago
Couldn't agree with you more. Ubuntu was my daily driver from the start of 2007 through early 2014 when I finally gave in and bought a rMBP. Despite missing the "real" nix environment being available right under the GUI, I ha

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