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by rogerdickey 6y ago
The Roman biographer Suetonius claims that Julius Caesar mastered the art of dictating letters from horseback, and used to deal with his paperwork while attending the circus games (thereby annoying the people at large, who saw this as
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
I didn't RTFA but assuming the requests were excessive, it's great to see Facebook defend themselves. Sad to see how beleaguered this company has become despite (IMO) having good intentions in an impossible situation where you can
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
I can't count the number of social interactions, big and small, that built my character and maturity. Not to mention life-long friendships formed, romantic relationships, and more. It's a unique and critical time when you are fina
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Flagged, as this is clickbait. Quibi has not failed or "crashed", it has simply not met early (and very ambitious) targets.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Prediction: repeat business will be low and service will have a reverse viral effect where the more people have used it, the less special it will seem. Fad will die out in a year.
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
Google faces $5B shakedown for allowing JS to work in incognito mode
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by rogerdickey 6y ago
OP here - Miss traffic?? I do! Check out Traffic City to relive your frenetic commuting experience. This is a gameplay test. If it gets sufficient usage I might build a higher fidelity version. Let me know what you think :D Features - Dri
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Show HN: Commute to work in this retro browser-based game(traffic.city)
2 points by rogerdickey 6y ago|2 comments
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
For everyone, lockdown means relative captivity.
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
We were definitely on Ryan Island :) It's very easy to get to. The trip from Ryan Island back to Rock Harbor is another story... Don't try to do that all in one day and half in the dark.
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
No. That's when I started to get suspicious.
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
I'm not sure if we were there but given the small scale of the island that looks to me like the border of a rock feature
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
Funny idea but I don't think Atlas Obscura was in on it. Pretty sure they thought the boulder was real.
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
Hah, good idea but IIRC drones are banned in the park.
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
"Son" here. AMA! Fun to see this on HN. A few replies to some good questions: 1. Per @JdeBD, that was the Wikipedia edit that started everything. After 30+ hrs of online research, all roads lead back to this edit. I read 3 books o
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
Understatement of the century
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
Dr Sausage has had this technology for decades
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
Nothing? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli...
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by rogerdickey 7y ago
Then leave Facebook?
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Ask HN: Does your company offer a referral program for engineering candidates?
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by rogerdickey 8y ago
Is this supposed to be sinister? They need to QA the product they are building so it's a better experience for customers.
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by rogerdickey 8y ago
So the implication is that 2/3 of workers at this pay level will turn over 2x/year? Why publish these “survey” results when that is obviously false?
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Gigster (on-demand developer teams) is hiring commercial sales reps(jobs.lever.co)
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Gigster, on-demand developer teams, is hiring senior full-stack engineers(jobs.lever.co)
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Gigster (on-demand developer teams) is hiring a Controller(jobs.lever.co)
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Gigster (on-demand developer teams) is hiring commercial sales reps(jobs.lever.co)
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by rogerdickey 9y ago
couple of trucks should do it
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Gigster (on-demand developer teams) is hiring sales engineers(jobs.lever.co)
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Gigster (on-demand developer teams) is hiring sales engineers(jobs.lever.co)
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Gigster (on-demand developer teams) is hiring for sales and sales engineers(jobs.lever.co)
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