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5y ago
And so I learned of mktemp today. Just was intrigued, googled it, read about it and know it solves a problem I had elegantly. Some new tool in my belt from now on. Thank you.
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I'd rather have this as taxed bonus income than as a ski trip. Bei g crowded in with all my coworkers (whom I actually like by the way) still doesn't sound like a perk to me. And I like skiing. Or at least snowboarding. I still wo
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5y ago
Milli Vanilli, Boney M. just to name two. This isn't a modern phenomenon. It might not have been so easy to pull it off. Or maybe it was. It was the time before people played or sang live on TV. So there was less risk then in the years
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Or to make people believe they had actual input and ensure a stronger commitment that way. Because a team that committed to something is more likely to see it through. Even if it means unpaid overtime and all the other crap management uses
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5y ago
As much as I agree with your sentiment, I think you could just as easily quote from the first paragraph of the linked Wikipedia article to find a counter point to your (seemingly) rhetoric question: > Walton cofounded the Children's
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While I agree with the Soviet part (or any political system for that matter) I doubt the pro capitalist generalization would stand to scrutiny: > At least in capitalism you become rich by providing value to other people. One could easily
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5y ago
Designers use it to visualize the look (or mood) the would be going for in a design. They collect examples of images that all go into the same rough direction they could be going for in a design and collect those into one moodboard. Then th
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I know a lot of designers that use Pinterest to create moodboards for client projects. Search for images fitting a specific mood/look they are going after and ordering them into collections (or however Pinterest calls it) is their most
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5y ago
The text surrounding the images stated that the author was sharing a recent travel experience before her health deteriorated even further. So no, not Scotland.
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I know other western countries were people in their 60ies regularly receive transplants. This is in itself nothing sinister and cause for questioning. I don't know about the regulations in mainland China that govern organ donations, so
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5y ago
Notion has a very nice feature set. I like to use it for my freelance side business. Currently it is sadly the best set of features within one tool for me (at least the subset I use). I would love to switch to an open source variant to self
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5y ago
The difference is, that a lot more people know Prime Video, Netflix and the like. Most people, when asked, might be able to say that Microsoft also has a search engine. But for a majority of people Google (or Facebook) is the internet. To t
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5y ago
Why must I'd be necessarily either/or, black/white, Google/Spammer? Why couldn't it be that reasonably both sides are to blame. Google enables the commodification of search results. Yes they claim that they want to
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5y ago
Let me quote the whole part: > But it's also important to not project your own previous potentially ego-driven activities towards everyone else in the world. Yes, I'm sure there are other people that had the same insecuriti
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5y ago
> The comment you’re replying to is kind My definition of kind is somewhat different, then. The comment I replied to clearly stated that OP was missing "clarity about yourself, your own motivations" when OP had made that perfec
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> important to not project your own previous potentially ego-driven activities towards everyone else Or onto OP. You are basically doing exactly what you accuse OP of doing. OP described their experience and asked others for their view.
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Well. I bought the comparable Bose speaker. It can be used as dumb but-speaker as well as integrated into a system (if I remember correctly - not a feature my mom was looking for). Easy setup. Great sound. Just works and I could walk her th
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I love people victim blaming. I wouldn't have bought this crap if it were advertised as such. I bought an advertised small portable Bluetooth speaker. It didn't tell otherwise on the packaging. Nor at the store. You might blame th
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This made me laugh. Until it didn't. Great satire is biting and just a bit too close to reality. Not too long ago I wanted to just setup a Bluetooth speaker for my mom. It wasn't possible before I not downloaded the vendor's
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> Seems like your place of employment have a bunch of cultural and work process issues to sort out, to be honest. The place and direct team not - the corporate mothership probably. It would be easy if I could at least filter out (interna
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I am one of the most senior members of the team I am in. I receive around 50 to 70 mails per day (on a slow day). Most of them corporate noise from the mother ship. I still need to at least skim them as sometimes parts or single mails are r
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I don't question their team. It at least sounds mightily impressive (just checked). My problem was, that this Form of marketing claim put me off. Might be a cultural thing. I wasn't even interested in spending more time than looki
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I remember a colleague had every document and a lot of stuff she was working on littered on her desktop. Nearly every little bit of desktop real estate was occupied. Once, when again she left for lunch without locking her computer, a collea
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After clicking through endless marketing speak on multiple pages I still wasn't able to find anything remotely substantiating the claim "the world's most powerful'. As it is running on cloud machines as a SaaS business t
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I agree that verbal contracts are valid. But difficult to prove.
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> [...] the job opening didn't say remote, the agreement they signed didn't say remote. I don't understand. Do people sign a contract that states something differently than they were being told verbally before? Imho what
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What I missed from the article was the question if the author measured the goal performance of their advertising. Also the ROI. Additionally it is (or should be) common knowledge to check if you are canabalizing your SEO results because in
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The moment I saw the domain name I remembered having visited it more than once after reading the initial piece "Simplify". I visited that particular post many times, but also really, really enjoyed your photos and the way you pres
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5y ago
I stumbled onto this by chance. It was a great positive surprise (the only positive vomit surprise ever).
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5y ago
Wow. What a great list. I really loved it. Here my two (German) sites: - https://schriftrolle.de (personal site) - https://moorwald.com (freelance side-gig)
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