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by reidjs 4y ago
Guilty
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by reidjs 4y ago
I’ve never had to directly use ffmpeg. What do you do that makes it so useful to you? Something in video production?
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by reidjs 4y ago
This reminds me of the Mad Men quote, along the lines of “Love is invented by advertisers to sell stockings to women.” Sounds like she is given so many options she will never be happy with anyone, so she rejects everyone for minutiae.
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by reidjs 4y ago
Have you been to Western Europe lately? Their infrastructure, culture, activities, education, and social values dominate the USA in every way. We have bigger cars, more money, and more guns than them though.
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I work at a full remote company in a similar situation. On the record, yes we work Friday, but it’s silently accepted you don’t make sweeeping changes to our products and organize intense meetings on Friday. And if you take a half day, nobo
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by reidjs 4y ago
Why do you have to stare at a screen all day as an adult?
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I’d like to live where I grew up though.
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Who wants to do cognitive work anyways? I’d rather get paid to dig ditches, at least then I get a free workout in.
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by reidjs 4y ago
Check out SimAnt if you haven't already!
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In his example the G stands for GitHub
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by reidjs 4y ago
They’re not forced it’s more like they are habituated to it. Just like every smoker knows cigarettes are bad for them, every fat person knows a soda and fries are bad for them. But it’s a temporary escape from the rest of their problems so
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by reidjs 4y ago
You can make the point that obesity is correlated with the lack of healthy options. If you live in a poor area where you have to drive to get around safely and only fast food options you are probably going to become fat. many people don’t
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by reidjs 4y ago
Someone might say the same thing about you if they were looking over your shoulder and you were reading HN comments.
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Could be resource limitation, apple users tend to be more likely to pay for products so it makes more sense to target them exclusively
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One of the first "coding guidelines" I introduced at my b2b crud app programming day job is along the lines of "Don't use humor or jokes in our business facing applications and codebase" I assumed it was common know
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by reidjs 4y ago
You can’t just let users paste in 18,000 characters you need to limit the password length somewhere. But I agree a limit less than 255 chars is insane.
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Except that Mount Everest is full of people supposedly.
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Easy to track but not easy for a government to prevent transactions
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If you get a chance visit Amsterdam and rent a bike, fantastic city for biking.
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There are a ton of things broken about our system. If you don’t make enough money, you are entirely dependent on the kindness of your friends and family. If you don’t have a large network of friends and family who can help you out, you’re c
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Localbitcoins is ending their service(localbitcoins.com)
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Just because they support those things does it mean it’s straight forward to use them Our team had a lot of trouble trying to map highly relational data to a noSQL database (mongo) It could have been a failing of our team, but I also think
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by reidjs 4y ago
I’ve never had an issue with it, and found the video quality to be better than Meet, but about on par with zoom
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Fair enough I also don’t give a crap about company accolades or titles, and wish it would all just go towards increasing my compensation. Some people, however misguided they may be, don’t think like we do though
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by reidjs 4y ago
There's more nuance to this topic than "Company bad! They trick dumb labor into a bad deal!" Money isn't the only form of compensation a job can provide. Give a low level worker a $0.43 cent raise, and they won't gi
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by reidjs 4y ago
I don't really agree or maybe I have misunderstood the author's thesis here. Is he saying it's harder to grow a business by building in the open nowadays because so many people have already done it, so now consumers are weary
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In some circumstances,you can also call the bank and ask them to raise your limit
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RIP Markdown Tweet Scheduler [1], you worked great while you lasted. [1] https://github.com/reidjs/markdown-tweet-scheduler
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If you live in the Bay Area check out the "Bay Area Weekend" Podcast
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Disclaimer I’ve never worked in film or TV. This may have potential for a smaller indie filmmakers. Have any celebrity cameo for cheap in your budget film. I like that this technology has the potential to lower the value of being a Hollywoo

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