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by scarface74 3y ago
You do know that Apple was a major contributor to the USB C standard? Would other companies really use Lightning even if it were a standard? Did PC manufacturers embrace FireWire even though it was better? Sony did and Dell did on their hig
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by scarface74 3y ago
That’s just it. My friend from Seattle did move for a job. The other poster said that because of rising home prices, someone who owned a home couldn’t afford an equivalent home. My argument is that their current home probably also went up
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by scarface74 3y ago
Neither will any AI innovations if another proposed regulation comes into affect. AI based companies just won’t do business in the EU.
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by scarface74 3y ago
Would it have helped consumers when the EU was trying to force the micro USB standard which was worse than Lightning in every way? What happens when a company wants to come up with a better charging method then USB C?
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by scarface74 3y ago
- most of the carpet is covered by “stuff” and doesn’t get vacuumed, - it took maybe an hour to take care of the hardwood. - having a larger house doesn’t mean you have more to wash. How much you have to wash is a function of how many peop
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by scarface74 3y ago
What “maintenance” do you think is more for a 3000 square foot house than a 1500 square foot house? I just mentioned it. 1. Master bedroom 2. Son’s bedroom 3. Gym with three pieces of cardio equipment and weights 4. Office 5. Guest bedroom
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by scarface74 3y ago
I can guarantee you right now I could send a few emails out and tell former coworkers who are now managers or former managers who have moved on that I’m looking for a job and someone would find a position for me or worse case hire me as a c
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by scarface74 3y ago
I had two properties. It was a second job.
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by scarface74 3y ago
And that still doesn’t take care of vacancies and long eviction processes.
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by scarface74 3y ago
I would rather have an anal probe with a cactus than ever be a landlord again. Vacancy, slow payers, maintenance, evictions that take forever, etc. Being a distant landlord is even worse. Yes you can get a property manager. But, then you
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by scarface74 3y ago
The average size of a new build in the US is almost 2600 square feet. https://www.nahb.org/blog/2022/03/new-single-family-home-siz... The smallest home my builder was building when we were looking was 3100 sq
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by scarface74 3y ago
> Most people I know could not afford their house if they were buying it today How is that true if you moved to a place with an equivalent cost of living? I had my house built in the suburbs of Atlanta for $350K in metro Atlanta. It’s n
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by scarface74 3y ago
Yes and we should also have EU regulators at every design meeting for every company. They did such a good job with the GDPR making the user experience better on the web
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by scarface74 3y ago
Doing what Siri is doing is not rocket science. It’s a simple intent based system where you give it patterns to understand intents and you trigger some API based on it. Once you have the intents parsing, it should be just a matter of throw
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by scarface74 3y ago
I only work on open source code that I either am getting paid for or that I have gotten paid for in the past, I genericized and gone through my employer’s very straightforward open source process. By default the license we use is MIT. If
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by scarface74 3y ago
In that case, they by definition aren’t “employees at Dell”.
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by scarface74 3y ago
> i wanted anyone and everyone to make whatever use of it they could. > didn't foresee this use So you really didn’t want any use. You just wanted the use you found acceptable? So you didn’t really want it to be “open”
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by scarface74 3y ago
it’s really not that hard to git clone git set origin… It’s much harder to copy Google’s index.
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by scarface74 3y ago
Do you really need to be part of “this space” to know that Microsoft has a 90% share in PCs and most of corporate America and even personal computers are running Windows? Even the people who like tablets are still buying Surface laptops - r
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by scarface74 3y ago
No you can’t. But the odds are better for not having layoffs if they are actually profitable.
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by scarface74 3y ago
And how many employees at Dell would risk working for a small struggling employee in this market? Would that small employee pay as much? This is my third time seeing this type of job market (2000, 2008 being the other two). This is the tim
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by scarface74 3y ago
And that’s good enough for that company. It’s a problem when they get ready to get a new job.
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by scarface74 3y ago
Junior developers do “negative work” almost by definition. They can’t work independently without guidance. If they can, they are inappropriately leveled and should be at least mid level developers.
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by scarface74 3y ago
Before Covid, if someone was constantly being interrupted in meetings because of child care responsibilities when they were allowed to work from home, it was seen as a bad thing. WFH did not mean you didn’t pay for childcare.
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by scarface74 3y ago
Easy, in todays market, there are plenty of experienced developers who are being laid off so you don’t have to hire juniors. There is no statistic longevity in tech. It’s well known that the quickest method to make more money especially wh
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by scarface74 3y ago
You mean all of the “remote first” companies that are profitable and not struggling?
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by scarface74 3y ago
People are still acting like the current job environment doesn’t suck. Where are these trustworthy companies currently that aren’t also announcing layoffs or that you can count on not to have layoffs?
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by scarface74 3y ago
And what exactly is taking Windows place on PCs? Microsoft’s market share hasn’t budged in decades.
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by scarface74 3y ago
I haven’t done in “development” projects since ChatGPT became a thing. It’s mostly DevOps these days. My specialty in consulting is combining App Dev + DevOps + cloud. I’ve mostly been using it for helper scripts and JSON and Yaml wrangl
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by scarface74 3y ago
And Europeans wonder why no major tech company ever came out of the EU.

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