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“We are unable to offer positions to anyone named Jeffrey”(old.reddit.com)
4 points by random_visitor 5y ago|1 comments
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by random_visitor 6y ago
Isn't that pretty standard throughout the internets. Otherwise the sites will be storing your copyrighted material on their domain (IANAL but that sounds like legal troubles for the site): This is from HackerNews' legal page: >
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by random_visitor 6y ago
Haha, can relate to that. After a certain point the Reddit tools become really inadequate. I used to mod a super popular subreddit (the kind that are always on the r/all) and we had 3 bots and two dozen moderators and still the mod que
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by random_visitor 6y ago
> not like they cost money This is why subreddit have a account activity requirements to interact on a subreddit. It could be a threshold of account age, total post/comment karma, comment karma on the subreddit or a combination of t
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by random_visitor 6y ago
Varies from subreddit to subreddit. This is purely anecdotal but on a big subreddit it's usually like 1 in 100 submissions linking to external site get the to "serious traffic" level of traction. You can instead write the sam
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by random_visitor 6y ago
The article can be summarised to: "Use the subreddit where your target audience hangs out" Nothing wrong with the advice, but most subreddits have a no self-promotion policy (and reddit has a "no promotion over 10% of account
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by random_visitor 6y ago
"4 out of 20" was directly mentioned by him, stating that a it's unlikely that you open 20 PR to random repos and every one of them is marked spam in next 7 days. > I request every one of my followers to make 20 spam PRs T
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by random_visitor 6y ago
He did, his statements (translated to English) were: -"Don't send PR to popular repos, they'll mark it as spam" -"Send PR to repo with little activity, it'll increase the chances that it'll sit for 7 days.
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by random_visitor 6y ago
> if there's a cultural pressure to assertively put themselves out there and actively look for jobs in these ways. I am a student so my world-view is highly myopic. That said, in my personal experience, there is a pressure among eng
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by random_visitor 6y ago
I mentioned this because I've seen people bash Indians for ruining sites like Quora and Medium with lot of bad quality content. Spam job offers, freelancing sites with bloated profiles, sending unsolicited messages and resume to people
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by random_visitor 6y ago
Some people are giving him the benefit of doubt because you don't understand hindi. Please don't. This person really did encourage his 600k+ subscribers to spam the PRs in no uncertain words. He explained how developers with swag
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by random_visitor 6y ago
It's not just the t-shirt, the guys goes on to explain how developer "swag" is something you must have, you'll feel more confident and respected if you have a tech related t-shirt. It's really sad that a guy who tea
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by random_visitor 6y ago
This kind of comments are really difficult to get rid of, especially so in a site that doesn't strictly tie with your real self. Also, that kind of behaviour is extremely hard to curb. If moderators lay guidelines on what kind of talk
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by random_visitor 6y ago
That's pretty much what a pi-hole is. According to my friends who use a pi-hole to filter their connection, it makes almost everything ad-free
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by random_visitor 6y ago
I'm in my final year of college and for over last 3 years I learnt a good part of my coding skills from scrimba. I was sold from the moment I found we could pause the video and copy the code (no more rummaging through github and pasteb
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by random_visitor 6y ago
That exactly what Library Genesis and Sci-Hub are. Assuming, you aren't expecting this public utility to be 100% lawful, since the other parties involved here (universities for instance) don't seem too keen on the idea of a having
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by random_visitor 6y ago
Seeing how aggressively all the Big Co. optimize for more profits, wouldn't the reason be something like "Doing this at scale isn't worth the effort"
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by random_visitor 6y ago
While not exactly a fix for your case, Firefox on android has a prompt for opening sites in their apps if it's installed on your device. Match that with its extension support and it makes most of the mobile web far less obnoxious.
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by random_visitor 6y ago
> You could barely rent a dedicated server for that amount of money You can get a Ryzen 5/64G for like $40/month on providers like hetzner. While I get your point about maintenance, it's not right to say that dedicated ser
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by random_visitor 6y ago
My friend started a somewhat similar business 2 years ago. He started supplying RC parts and laterally moved into other categories. He's now dropped out of college and hired 2 more people to get stuff imported. Whenever I talk to him h
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Ask HN: IRL problems in computer networks?
2 points by random_visitor 6y ago|0 comments
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by random_visitor 6y ago
I've first hand, witnessed people having no revenue and a long AWS bill. A direct consequence of using all the hip services when they didn't need any. I'd say you're doing great (to be clear this is not sarcasm)
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by random_visitor 6y ago
No offence, but as someone who has only ever used github and gitlab, can you clarify why it's uncool?
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PHP has completed its 25th year(groups.google.com)
6 points by random_visitor 6y ago|1 comments
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by random_visitor 6y ago
Median income lifestyle in first world country does not equate to median lifestyle in say India or Brazil. For example, In India, fresh out of college students earn ~$6k/yr in TCS and similar companies. They make ends meet by pinching
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by random_visitor 6y ago
> The lawsuit seeks at least $5 billion, accusing the Alphabet Inc unit of surreptitiously collecting information about what people view online and where they browse, despite their using what Google calls Incognito mode. So, just another
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by random_visitor 6y ago
Just my opinion but seeing how compiler behaves with each of them would have been much more interesting, for now it's just a hacky-ish way of getting the ascii codes.
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by random_visitor 7y ago
That actually works really well. When I found out that Notion is completely free for students, I moved from every notes site apart from Google Keep and manage almost everything on it.
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Innovative Invention Lets Student Escape Handwriting Drudgery(nippon.com)
2 points by random_visitor 7y ago|0 comments
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by random_visitor 7y ago
I came across this news article: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/04/aws_power_outage_da... The headline sounded so clickbaity that I ignored it before seeing this thread

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