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by pyre 10y ago
This reminds me of people calling out DeviantArt several years ago in Who's Hiring posts, and their hiring practices. Which culminated in this blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3061860
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by pyre 10y ago
I went through the interview process with them several years ago (when they were still called Top Hat Monocle). I basically got very positive feedback from the interview process, until I had to interview with the CEO. Apparently the reason
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by pyre 10y ago
At least in the date check.
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> TV's with Roku built into it I'm guessing that this doesn't just mean that it comes in the same box as the tv set.
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by pyre 10y ago
I think the more important information is how it affects most people, not specifically how it affects you. For all we know, you have some sort of genetic mutation that allows you to drink that much green tea without any side effects. Ma
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by pyre 10y ago
That's why I break out things that are platform-dependent. E.g.: if-shell "[ $(uname) = 'Darwin' -a -f ~/.tmux.macos.conf ]" "source-file ~/.tmux.macos.conf" Technically `reattach-to-user
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by pyre 10y ago
Not every protester is doing that though. If you go to a peaceful protest that turns into a riot, you may be arrested even if you did not commit any acts of vandalism or violence. Basically just because you were there. Is this the world you
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by pyre 10y ago
4 spaces is Markdown, HN only requires 2 spaces. https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by pyre 10y ago
That really seems like the sort of thing that the compiler should be optimizing, the rest just being a case of coding style. It really seems (to me) like saying that `i += 1` isn't as "optimized" as `i++`.
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by pyre 10y ago
Are you saying that the causes can't be different from town to town or region to region, or that such actions couldn't be justified and rational in one region, while not justified and irrational in another region?
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by pyre 10y ago
> (2) I don't like buying into a cult of personality, no matter how benevolent The reason to follow many developers is could be due to their useful output (e.g. informative blog posts). You don't have to agree with everything t
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by pyre 10y ago
At the same time, his justifications for how this "only hurts the insurers," and not the end-users aren't exactly right either.
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by pyre 10y ago
Light hitting the skin also affects melatonin levels, so just using a sleeping mask isn't a full solution.
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by pyre 10y ago
I think that @agentgt was talking about "coming down" from the high (or effects of the drug), and not withdrawal symptoms.
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by pyre 10y ago
While there may be no legal entity making a decision on the question "how much is enough," people are allowed to make value judgements on the actions of others based on how much they personally think is "enough" for said
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by pyre 10y ago
This sounds like the sort of thing where you have to sue someone to force the court to sort out legalities. Sort of like the RIAA/MPAA suing Joe Does that are associated with an IP to figure out who is on the other end of it. If Zuck
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by pyre 10y ago
Well, "they just didn't know," is different than, "they were directly warned and didn't listen because they though they knew better." In the latter case, working all weekend to fix the mistake isn't neces
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by pyre 10y ago
It _could_ be better in that the "desktop" client is just a Chrome app. Personally, I would find even a standalone Electron-based app to be a better choice UI-wise.
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by pyre 10y ago
I remember there being an Reddit AMA from someone that was going to winter in Antarctica and that's where I got that from. So maybe that's the 'official word' or people doing different jobs have different amounts of care
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by pyre 10y ago
Even if there are members of whatever sex you're interested in, I think that there is a general rule (official or unofficial) against getting involved (romantically/sexually) with others when you're in that sort of environmen
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by pyre 10y ago
> "This is pretty shit, but I'm getting sick of these hit pieces on Asian countries when a lot of Asian countries (China/Japan/Korea) score higher than America on most metrics of gender inequality I talked to a woman
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by pyre 10y ago
The problem is that every issue that is escalated costs more money to resolve, so there is pressure from managers to make sure that the number of escalated calls is minimal. The reality is that this is a horrible metric to go by. The issu
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by pyre 10y ago
They shut it down? I thought I remember reading something about Nintendo saying that the Switch wasn't meant to replace the Wii U or the 3DS. I took that to mean that it would run in parallel.
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by pyre 10y ago
While the wording may not have been the best, the "Indian call centre" is just a place where people have been turned into drones (these exist in the US too, but the fact that it's been out-sourced to India reflects more on th
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by pyre 10y ago
Interesting. My path has been Windows -> Linux -> Windows -> Mac -> Linux -> Mac -> ?
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by pyre 10y ago
Signal is built with Electron? I thought it was a Chrome App, not a standalone app.
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by pyre 10y ago
My issue with Alacritty is that it is attempting to be a GPU-accelerated terminal in the space that urxvt operates in (bare-bones, few configuration options, etc). One of the things I like about iTerm 2 is the ability to configure so much
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by pyre 10y ago
I know that there are extensions to accept XBMC/Kodi-style .nfo XML files for metadata. I would think it possible to use those to tell Plex to use whatever you explicitly set as the title.
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You're tilting at windmills here. The original post did not say this, yet this is what you are continuing to rant about.
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by pyre 10y ago
> Why do people reject the idea that Americans are allowed to have their own culture? reply No one said that they are not allowed to have their own culture. Read the post you are replying to again. It is implying that American are lacki

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