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by rplnt 9y ago
What's with the use of female pronouns? I've seen it third time this week I think, referring to an imaginary/unknown developer as a woman. Isn't the norm to use "they" if one wants to avoid using specific gende
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by rplnt 9y ago
The thing is, willing to live in a bungalow might be a competitive advantage, all other things being equal (and maybe even if they are not, sadly).
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by rplnt 9y ago
No, you actually pay as little as possible to keep the employee happy and working for you. The living expenses move with this lower bound. More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16051409
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by rplnt 9y ago
If I were to look up salaries for those positions in bay area, they would be equal to those in rural Montana? If that's the argument you are making, I have no data to disprove it, so I would have to believe you, but it doesn't see
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by rplnt 9y ago
If there's an equally qualified dev willing to take $1494/day less, employer would take that one. But if the only available people live in resorts, then the employer has no choice.
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by rplnt 9y ago
> You pay your developers, or any staff come to that, what they're worth to you. It's not that easy. What they are worth to you is your upper limit. What they are willing to work for is the lower bound. It's composed of ma
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by rplnt 9y ago
> the work you're doing is exactly the same regardless of where you do it from But the "bay pay" isn't for your work. It's so you can work - i.e. cover your expenses associated with working at that particular p
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by rplnt 9y ago
I seriously need a browser extension to not render "characters" in color. How the hell did this happen anyway?
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by rplnt 9y ago
One local news website I sometimes use was covering elections - news reports, partial results, the usual. It's a very high traffic day for any news outlet like this, so it would be a shame not to monetize it. They had this huge backgro
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by rplnt 9y ago
> As I've said many times I don't mind ads Have you seen the web without an ad blocker though?
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by rplnt 9y ago
I was finally about to buy one this week, and the price was double from a week ago. For me it was from 59EUR to 109EUR.
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by rplnt 9y ago
Not to mention how fast this industry moves. What 10 year old tablet would one use today?
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by rplnt 9y ago
Ah, I see. Well that might be the cause for the Samsung device. It has an SD card slot, but I don't think that will help much now (good to know for future I guess). As for this > which doesn't exist on Android it's simply
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by rplnt 9y ago
My Samsung is definitely slower than it was few OS upgrades ago. It's becoming an annoyance. My at-the-time-google-owned-Motorola did't receive any updates. My Google Nexus tablet became completely unusable (like, really, really u
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by rplnt 9y ago
> My experience has been that upgrading the OS results in degraded performance 100% of the time. I have the same experience on Android. Of course I rarely received OS updates, but even that's better than Google making the device pra
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by rplnt 9y ago
Is this from off -> on or a reboot? I think I've noticed huge difference between the two on my Samsung in the past.
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by rplnt 9y ago
What does a website really do if it does nothing? What money does it consume? What else can you do with the machine it's on? Wouldn't moving VMs around accomplish the same goal? Sidenote: some customers might use monitoring :)
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by rplnt 9y ago
I was actually surprised (some) online booking agencies actually vet the locations they sell. So there is significant cost to scouting and vetting the hotels, i.e. to protect the customer. They also offer some various guarantees which have
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by rplnt 9y ago
You are right, I missed that, sorry about that. After quickly skimming through the main page I went to getting started, skipped first paragraph where it's written AGAIN and red just this https://doc.bytearena.com/guides
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by rplnt 9y ago
> we support every programming language that has networking features If that's the case it should be highlighted in the docs, a short guide would help as well I guess. Just by quickly looking at the docs I assumed it's javascr
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by rplnt 9y ago
The tourist layer (default on mobile) is great with all the data OSM has on bicycle paths.
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by rplnt 9y ago
Maybe they have the same ad with a different picture for older people? Or have researched that it's only worth targeting this group - from the CTR point of view? There are so many legit possibilities where it would be absolutely OK to
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by rplnt 9y ago
I'm pretty sure the batteries and motors are cooled by air (directly or not).
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by rplnt 9y ago
I explicitly said it's for one specific country...
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by rplnt 9y ago
What do you mean less detailed? Any examples?
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by rplnt 9y ago
> Many people don't realize why Google maps are so much better than anything out there. Absolutely not true. I don't use Google Maps in Czech Republic at all as there is a solid local map provider[1] - (they offer whole world t
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by rplnt 9y ago
I would guess the issue was the emojis themselves. I had to disable them on slack as it caused unbearable (read: fan spun up) load when someone overused them.
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by rplnt 9y ago
The books are gone now. Anyway, I would prefer the server to give me the book page by page (or some sort of segment) as I had to wait for it to load completely (which took some time in this case). I also lost the UI, the listing was differe
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by rplnt 9y ago
It works with the epub book in the demo, but with the pdf one, it just opens the whole pdf file in my viewer.
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by rplnt 9y ago
Or the millions that work in soon-to-be-obsolete jobs should.. create different value?

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