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by skizm 7y ago
I'm a generic backend Java programmer (plus a smattering of other languages, but mostly use Java). I've worked with a wide range of tech: from you're basic web stacks, to more complicated stacks, consumer facing stuff, all th
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by skizm 7y ago
I don't generally click the links, but if I see something I like, I'll google it or go directly to the site. As for if advertisers "see" their ad being blocked: it depends on the way the ad is being blocked / served
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by skizm 7y ago
Which is nuts when you think that something like ~70% of twitch users have an active ad-blocker.
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by skizm 8y ago
Where do I apply?
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by skizm 8y ago
Google shuts services down left and right. What large business would trust google with all their documents / spreadsheets / etc. when there is a pretty good chance they just shut the service down in a few years? Microsoft on the o
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by skizm 8y ago
As a low level individual contributor, unless the micro-promotion comes with a pay raise, the title changes are just patronizing IMO.
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by skizm 8y ago
Or you could just use it occasionally when you want to give your kids a bit more freedom than normal, but you're still a bit of a worrier. There is a state between complete lack of oversight and Black Mirror's Arkangel.
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by skizm 8y ago
Can you just search Google for “<term> remote site:craigslist.org” for similar results?
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by skizm 8y ago
The worst part about taxes is that I never know if I did them correctly since the feedback loop is up to 3 years. Just shoot them off into the ether and cross your fingers you don't get a giant bill next year. The first time I filed, I
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by skizm 8y ago
For each of the three locations I mentioned, you also need to contact the portable ECG with your finger. The finger is being used to create a closed loop. It is not a measurement site.
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by skizm 8y ago
One thing to note: portable ECGs are <$100 on amazon. Not as feature rich as the apple watch, sure, but the watch only measures from one location, normally you want to measure from a few, usually at least 3: leg, arm, and chest.
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by skizm 8y ago
On a related topic, what are people's thoughts on most lucrative niche / products to consult for? Salesforce, Oracle, Atlassian, etc? I feel like being a general programming / web development services consultant isn't go
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by skizm 8y ago
True, but that's why I'm saying it doesn't sit right with me. I'm not debating what the law is. I'm saying, in my opinion, businesses should be allowed to refuse types of payments.
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by skizm 8y ago
This doesn't sit right with me. If someone comes in with thousands of pennies am I allowed to refuse that type of payment? As a business, if I don't want to deal with the overhead of handling cash, I shouldn't have to. It fee
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by skizm 8y ago
In NYC I have had the exact opposite experience. Cashiers routinely process 2 or 3 card payments while they politely ask the odd person rummaging around their wallet for cash to step to the side. Plus they have to mess around with change on
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by skizm 8y ago
I wonder what would be cheaper for Google, et al.: paying lots of engineers to bug hunt all day, or simply going out and buying a bunch or all of the high profile bugs from shady websites and then just publishing them.
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by skizm 8y ago
I mean, if you ban the largest manufacturer of any highly addictive substance, the next companies in line will obviously thrive, right? If you banned the sale of soda, local sodas will still thrive.
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by skizm 8y ago
JC Penny almost went bankrupt when they tried to stop doing sales all the time and just charge fair prices. People want sales, even if the item isn't really cheaper.
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by skizm 8y ago
Student loans don't go away in bankruptcy, even private ones. There is no risk even if you loan a poor student $150k to go to art school since you have the rest of their life to garnish wages from them.
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by skizm 8y ago
I assume I can still use jQuery in conjunction with v5 of Bootstrap, right? I just don't need it now?
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by skizm 8y ago
https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by skizm 8y ago
IIRC the android revenue is rolled into the x-box revenue under some nebulous category when they break out revenue in their earning (forget the exact title). This hides the massive losses they are taking on x-box and all things x-box relate
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by skizm 8y ago
I feel like there is less of a stigma for older contractors. Might be a good idea if you’re getting older in a tech career to shift from full time to contract work?
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by skizm 8y ago
So they got an exclusive deal with a Counter Strike league (ESEA?) and I decided to watch some matches... Horible experience. Just god awful. Forced chat showing, emojis everywhere, no theater mode, like 15 FPS and choppy as hell. Pure crap
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by skizm 8y ago
+1 for autonomous. I bought the standard one offered on their site for $300 and I have two vesa mounted monitors and a desktop tower on my desk. Nothing wobbles. Extremely stable. Very satisfied with the setup.
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by skizm 8y ago
More than 50% of commuters drive to work alone in NYC? That seems insane to me. I don't know or know of a single person that drives to work in NYC. Tolls and parking alone would eat around $10k per year, plus even if it was free the tr
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by skizm 8y ago
FYI: If you cover it with scotch tape some light gets through and the phone/laptop can still use the auto-brighten feature.
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by skizm 8y ago
I can't believe 23andMe isn't free yet. Or more accurately, that a competitor hasn't come in and offered a free version which would force 23andMe to make their product free. The fact that they can get away with _charging you_
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by skizm 8y ago
What the heck is the trivial one liner to check who will win a chess game given both players play perfect?
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by skizm 8y ago
Lots of comments about improving Siri here. This is interesting to me for several reasons I won't address, but I will ask this: Do people really use voice commands for, well, anything? From a purely functional standpoint, they seem sup

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