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by sigfubar 8y ago
If we all got to seeding, surely we’d have the oppressors bent over a filthy toilet in no time at all.
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by sigfubar 8y ago
We'll pull ours back as soon as yours are gone from Moscow.
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Electric scooters/skateboards and e-bikes are a menace to society. I'm a NYC cyclist whose travels went from terrifying to death-defying ever since e-bikes became commonplace here. These things travel at a flat 20mph in total sile
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Is no one else going to say this? Fine. Most so-called "journalism" is in fact a rush to capture as many eyeballs as possible for the purpose of displaying advertising. These patterns make a lot more sense once viewed through the
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Bloomberg excels at many things, but most of all it squarely nails the UX for users who're getting things done for a living. I really miss my BB keyboard; but I'm happy to still enjoy the Bloomberg font in my regular Unix terminal
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by sigfubar 8y ago
It's a shame that all these years later nobody else knows who JSZ is.
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Such real-world concerns can and should be modeled using types. Your comment reminded me of taint mode in Perl. https://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Taint-mode
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Color me unsurprised: life sucks for most Americans. The country is divided against itself. Our economy favors a few professions the members of which guard fiercely against entry by outsiders. Pollution, climate change, rising costs of livi
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by sigfubar 8y ago
I have a HyperX Cloud II - http://a.co/1Uh0q9o - plugged into my USB hub. I like the USB audio thingamajig because it has a hardware kill switch for the mic, which I use all the time instead of on-screen mute controls. The
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by sigfubar 8y ago
My goodness, how could I have been so far off the mark? Then my point is even stronger: this doesn't matter !
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Numerically you're right, but you're showing a distinction without a difference. In the kinds of neighborhoods where Airbnb has a foothold (gentrified, desirable, centrally located) rents are already so high that an extra $68 does
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by sigfubar 8y ago
So, I'm paying an extra $68/month because of Airbnb. Alright.
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by sigfubar 8y ago
I’ve been in your shoes. Hats off to you for trying to do right by your team. I’ve had success with coaching my employees to refuse any meeting invite that would not directly help them do a better job. We’ve come up with verbiage to help re
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Apparently there isn’t a stick big enough to prevent abuse by employees. What a surprise! This is human nature, plain and simple. The threat of job loss did very little to alter human nature in other settings. How can this go any differentl
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by sigfubar 8y ago
Try this neat trick: disable push notifications for email, Slack, HipChat and any other communications except emergency channels such as PagerDuty. This will do wonders for your productivity. I’ve faced some blowback from people who expecte
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by sigfubar 8y ago
The “Decline” button is there for a reason. You can configure Google Calendar to delete declined events from your calendar. Your response will show up on the other participants’ calendars as well, so they’ll know that you’re not coming and
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by sigfubar 8y ago
There’s only one day per week when I get absolutely nothing done: the day I have to leave home and spend half an hour commuting to work. The sense of dislocation caused by this journey is palpable. I lose context and my thoughts become scat