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by purpleblue 4y ago
I worked at an all-remote company. I've never suffered such poor productivity in my career. This was a company dedicated to remote work, so the processes were streamlined for it, but I found that I spent a lot of time spinning my wheel
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by purpleblue 4y ago
Millenials and GenZ may have no idea who Mudge is. I, however, almost lost my first job out of college at a bank because I ran l0phtcrack against our Windows NT 4 server to see if it could crack passwords. I showed my boss, and he pulled me
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by purpleblue 4y ago
My kid used this all the time because I would give him timelimits on his Minecraft time. When it disappeared, he was in complete disarray but started to rely on Siri. I think he'll be happy to see it back up and running!
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by purpleblue 4y ago
Most people and most drivers are against AB5 and it showed in the polling booth. It's a terrible piece of legislation that singlehanded caused the supply chain issues last year. They tried carving out industry after industry from the l
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by purpleblue 4y ago
This is how Coinbase wins in the crypto space. They are doing their best to do everything by the books. It's not flashy and exciting like FTX but they're playing the long game and intend to be around 20 years from now.
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by purpleblue 4y ago
He's not a journalist. This is literally a blog post on his blog.
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by purpleblue 4y ago
You mean suicide rates skyrocketed during the Pandemic.
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by purpleblue 4y ago
I've worked with a dozen different languages across a dozen different environments during my career. The languages I will never work with again, and would rather quit than use them again are: perl: This is the worst language I've
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by purpleblue 4y ago
I worked with a "brilliant" product manager whose idea was to onboard several of our enterprise customers right after our first major deliverable, ie. midway through feature development. I vehemently pushed back, saying that it wo
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by purpleblue 4y ago
Excellent! A couple of questions: 1) In the case of a network partition, the client that is currently connected to the leader, do they get notified that there's a partition, or that the cluster is not in a healthy situation? 2) If a cl
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by purpleblue 4y ago
I signed up for a magazine subscription, and was added to a ton of spam email offers. So maybe not retailers but there are plenty of businesses that will sell your email. Charities are another good example, they make a lot of their money se
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by purpleblue 4y ago
> Investing in call options on AMD in 2014 or Tesla in 2019 also had huge asymmetric upside. It was clear that these stocks had massive risks, but while the upside wa potentially s huge, the downside was capped at -100%. This is a terrib
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by purpleblue 4y ago
The idea of maintaining a seasoning on cast iron frying pans is too much of a pain in the ass. I wash it with soap and water and use olive oil or butter whenever I need to. The cognitive load is minimal and I don't have any usability i
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by purpleblue 4y ago
I use stainless steel pans, which are great. They are pretty much indestructible and not as expensive as I imagined. I think it's less than $100 for a stainless steel frying pan and I just use butter or olive oil to oil the pans and it
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by purpleblue 4y ago
In the last 6 months SMS spam has increased a lot for me. A lot of it are random messages like "I'm sorry but please don't message me again!" or "Hey, I really had a great time last night, let's make plans for
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by purpleblue 4y ago
Create a subreddit and keep advertising it on places like HN. And don't give up moderating it or make it look abandoned. At some point I'm sure you will get critical mass. There are a lot of people exactly like you.
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by purpleblue 4y ago
I have long time friends who are much smarter than me. I like bouncing ideas off them, and we have good discussions. I would suggest going/presenting at conferences, and networking with the other speakers and form your own network wher
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by purpleblue 4y ago
I had not heard this song (or the original column) until my 30s, after my divorce. My close friend sent me this song, and it was the anthem for my next couple of years, regardless of how cheesy that sounds. It really did help me out of a ba
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by purpleblue 4y ago
Almost 50 here. 40+ is not just an age. It sucks being in your 40s. Things really don't work the same. My brain is slower, I get confused a little bit more, I struggle to find the right words at least 3 times a day. Even worse, your pa