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by sbarre 4y ago
I can't believe this is still a thing.. Been complaining about this for a decade now but web design is destined to reinvent the same flawed UIs over and over forever.
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by sbarre 4y ago
If I had to guess, account people who can work with employers and future employees to get deals done once the platform does initial matchmaking. Not everything, particularly employment, can be self-serve through a website.
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by sbarre 4y ago
One reason that I've understood is if you're a smaller company that can't afford the whole IPO process, this is a way to get access to public markets in a simpler/faster/cheaper way.
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by sbarre 4y ago
And that's a possibility for any business... Private businesses are run into the ground all the time, including those that raise funds through friends & family or angel investors... (Not saying you're implying otherwise here,
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by sbarre 4y ago
I've been running a pi-hole for years and played Halo on Windows 10 and had no problems. If you add a bunch of extra-aggressive blocklists maybe you'll have issues but if you stick with the recommended OOTB lists, you'll be f
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by sbarre 4y ago
Can you share which extension you use? There seem to be a few of them out there.
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by sbarre 4y ago
Yeah but again, it's most often not about the money... I work for a large enterprise and we pay or retain vendors to do things for us all the time, at a much higher cost than it would be to do it in house, because we cannot find&#x2F
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by sbarre 4y ago
> Big companies are starting to learn that free open source can be supported in house Sure but the problem here is can you find and retain the people who can do that work, if you are a big lumbering "un-interesting" company whe
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by sbarre 4y ago
It takes time because maybe you want to go through it all, to either learn and understand more about your parent(s), or to judge for yourself what is "valuable" and what is "junk" - both very subjective terms (with excep
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by sbarre 4y ago
Yep.. This is a classic example of how many subscription services have embraced user-hostile design, and focus on trying to force the behaviour they want, rather than adapt to the behaviour a paying customer wants. I will never use Spotify
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by sbarre 4y ago
Another more turnkey (but commercial) option is EpocCam by Logitech. It's a free driver download for MacOS and Windows and then a paid app for your phone (6 dollars I think) and you can use your phone as a webcam, either over wifi or U
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by sbarre 4y ago
Of course, saying "I got lucky" is not the story most successful people want to tell themselves.. I am not implying it is all luck, but there is never no luck involved in success.
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by sbarre 4y ago
> The American dream is to make it through hard work Now that's the actual con, or at least a pipe dream. Hard work is never enough. Luck plays a huge factor but few who get lucky, and then rich, will ever admit to that part.
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by sbarre 5y ago
Is the main benefit of this the cross-framework support? Or does it provide something beyond the state management of the existing frameworks that it integrates with? Is the encapsulation of computed values (formulas) something that trades
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by sbarre 5y ago
Yeah, my apologies for not spelling that out better, or using the wrong word here... It was shorthand for "everyone else is doing it and having success, so lots of people jumped into the same boat to also make money".. Advice was
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by sbarre 5y ago
I forget how pedantic HN can be.. You're the third comment to latch onto that one phrase in my overall comment, and it's not even that relevant to the topic being discussed. My fault, I really should have phrased that differently.
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by sbarre 5y ago
Yeah I guess I am not trying to provide a super in-depth explanation of how finance works here, since that's not the topic we're discussing. I am not a financial expert, but I have been told by professionals, and read in credible
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by sbarre 5y ago
Very true.
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by sbarre 5y ago
Because it increases the risk of default. I say "banks hate this" as unsubtle shorthand here. Obviously they don't hate it enough to refuse people additional mortgages (it's all secured by tangible assets at the end of
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by sbarre 5y ago
The root cause in Canada is that a lot of the older generation, existing home owners, have put their investments in buying second or third homes as income properties, and for a lot of Canadians (I read that 1/3 of Canadian home owners
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by sbarre 5y ago
> I’d see it as a magical period between WW2 and today where the belief was in fairness and universal rule of law. Even this, I would say, was manufactured, and not as widespread of a belief as the "winners write history" camp
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by sbarre 5y ago
I agree with the latter part of what you're saying, but as for the former, you'd be surprised how many people I've met who really do think a lot of this surveillance and "our government does bad things" stuff is a r
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by sbarre 5y ago
I mean, this was all happening before too, we just had less visibility into it. If you think that the governments of 'western democracies' weren't spying on their own citizens or going against their own laws - even in collabo
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by sbarre 5y ago
So two wrongs make a right in your mind?
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by sbarre 5y ago
Yeah where I live (Toronto) the turn-by-turn is the problem often. There's no adjustment for traffic or temporary closures, and combined with part-time drivers not knowing what roads should be avoided at certain times of day, and you
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by sbarre 5y ago
> Both drivers had been doing Uber for a long time, which would be surprising if they were getting ripped off Did you happen to ask if this was their full-time gig, or if they were doing it as supplementary income?
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by sbarre 5y ago
Sure but that's not what I'm talking about and you know it. I mean large well-known and easily accessible versions of those.
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by sbarre 5y ago
Balance that against the fact that most taxi drivers know the city by heart, including where there is construction, habitual traffic jam, and transit congestion.. I'll take a better drive-to-destination experience over being able to st
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by sbarre 5y ago
> The next financial crisis is gonna show us just how fragile this system is, whenever that is. For now, a lot of the gig economy (but not all of it) is focused on non-essential services (food or other delivery, vacation rentals, private
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by sbarre 5y ago
Not going to lie, this sounds like classic projection to me. You must focus a lot on blaming in your life if that's what you mostly noticed when reading that article. There's no way for either us to really know the author's i

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