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by samcheng 4y ago
You're right; I'm sorry to have spread disinformation! Looks like Apple switched from Chiat/Day to BBDO in 1986. Around the same time Steve Hayden made the same move... and Steve Hayden didn't move to Ogilvy until 1994.
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by samcheng 4y ago
Worth reading "Ogilvy on Advertising" if you're into this stuff. I know Ogilvy & Mathers (famous advertising firm) had Apple as an account in the mid 80s.
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by samcheng 4y ago
This is the origin of the term "mall ninja" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Mall_ninja
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by samcheng 4y ago
This is basically the point of Martin Fowler's seminal book Refactoring. The book struck me as a book on unit tests much more than a book about refactoring itself, for exactly the same reason as described in the article.
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by samcheng 4y ago
What a ridiculously opaque landing page. Does that stuff work?
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by samcheng 4y ago
It's just shorthand in an old-fashioned slightly racist/ignorant way - they can't say "Yellow" or "Oriental" any more, and want a word to parallel "White" and "Black." I look forward to
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by samcheng 4y ago
There was a nice discussion on Mondragon, and co-ops in general, in Kim Stanley Robinson's recent book Ministry for the Future. That book is chock full of ideas - a fun read!
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by samcheng 4y ago
Heroku - if you're listening. Please do NOT migrate IPs / load balancers here for a little while. You might also do some work to detect those of us who have bypassed your DNS, and give us some nudges individually to move back to
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by samcheng 4y ago
> We will be providing updates on a 1 hour cadence. Ouch. Not a great look, Heroku!
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by samcheng 4y ago
If anyone out there is in a similar situation, building a new computer, especially if you have a lot of parts from an old computer to cannibalize, is actually quite easy and much less expensive than buying a new pre-built PC. Don't be
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by samcheng 4y ago
It's pretty interesting - if you talk to a lifelong vegetarian, they have very little interest in the various meat substitutes. The taste and texture and nutrients of a balanced vegetarian diet are sufficient; why go through the extra
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by samcheng 4y ago
Honestly I think it works best inter-functionally. Many engineers won't volunteer for a meeting, even (maybe especially) if it's just for chit-chat. Maker's schedule and all that. http://paulgraham.com/maker
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by samcheng 4y ago
One related technique that I think works well is to hold "Office Hours" at least once a week. Just schedule a regular meeting, and attend it - then advertise widely that you are available at that time and that anyone is welcome. I
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by samcheng 4y ago
Watts are a measure of power, not energy, anyway.
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by samcheng 4y ago
Hmm, these days it's the security update that you want. Avoiding all updates will leave you with a vulnerable system. I agree regarding staying well off the LTS bleeding edge, though. I usually wait around 6 months. Back in the earl
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by samcheng 4y ago
I agree that laughing at China isn't a wise action, but I don't see how Russia's actions in Ukraine were hinged on diplomacy with the US. It seemed like the European NATO countries in particular were a key factor in failing
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China's Final Warning(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by samcheng 4y ago|4 comments
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by samcheng 4y ago
RINSE | REMOTE or San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, or Washington DC | Software Engineer | Full-Time | https://www.rinse.com Rinse (www.rinse.com) is building the first and largest national, and eventually g
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by samcheng 4y ago
Unless you moved to Boise or wherever when the pandemic started, it's still perfectly reasonable to meet your coworkers for lunch. Try it!
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by samcheng 4y ago
It's amazing - the weekday lunch date with the wife while the kids are at school was never possible when I worked an hour from home.
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by samcheng 4y ago
RINSE | REMOTE or San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Boston, or Washington DC | Software Engineer | Full-Time | https://www.rinse.com Rinse (www.rinse.com) is building the first and largest national, and eventually g
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by samcheng 4y ago
Thanks for being here with timely updates! I knew to come to Hacker News once the alert triggered and a few users started complaining.
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by samcheng 4y ago
I think it depends on the tides / blooms. We visited that same spot on a moonless night, and swam in it - there were sparkles in the water when you disturbed it, and a diffuse green glow all around. I've also been on the beach at
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by samcheng 4y ago
It seems like "hard" IP phones are becoming obsolete at this point. I definitely haven't included them in any new office I've spun up in the past five years. WFH during the pandemic really sealed the deal - it's n
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by samcheng 4y ago
Some US news commentators talk about supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. That doesn't mean it's official policy. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tucker-carlson-russia-ukrain...
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by samcheng 4y ago
What do you want them to do, lay-off existing employees instead?
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by samcheng 4y ago
You can participate by actively seeking to avoid purchasing products made in China.
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It's remarkable that anyone would classify something like a change of passport or a color on a map as "aggression" toward China! Especially when the Chinese aggression discussed here is airstrikes and missile barrage, follow
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Even if Russia manages to level a few more cities, it's hard to see the past three months as anything but a humiliation of Russia's military might. The damage to Russian military international respect (fear, even) has already bee
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by samcheng 4y ago
I'm not convinced the equivalence you mention - "aggression from both sides" - is really there. The current Taiwanese government's only stated goal is to defend itself; there is no serious surviving political will in Ta

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