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by snapetom 3y ago
Right to get pissy at a customer question? Try explaining it to the customer instead of summarily dismissing it and asking the customer why they were asking. A couple of locations didn't survive COVID. With their crappy attitude, not
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by snapetom 3y ago
Slashdot also did a few things that allowed this to work. They limited how many votes you had. It made you think of whether something was Insightful, flamebait, or funny, etc. If you give people unlimited votes, 1) Would the bother to ca
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by snapetom 3y ago
Absolutely. My local and much beloved (by others) repair shop got really pissy when I started asking them if they participated in the authorized repair program. Why? Because the battery replacements always sucked. Sure they “covered” the
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by snapetom 3y ago
> More like someone needs to save the Internet Archive from Brewster Kahle. Can't vote this enough. As flawed as the rules are, you know them. The rules should be changed, but you don't change them by blatantly breaking them i
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by snapetom 3y ago
I was relocating from California to NY/NJ and packed in a bunch of interviews over one day. They were all startups, and the first two or three were great. Very professional companies and people. The last one, the guy was twenty minut
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by snapetom 3y ago
Wow, this strongly resonates with me, especially the tieback to Asian cultures. I was both told many times, and shown by example many times, that it was rude to put someone in awkward positions. I still carry that to this day in personal
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by snapetom 3y ago
> and every time it has been a solution in search of a problem. More refined to this, in my experience at the last two jobs, the queue problem is there, but the Kafka solution is based solely on "enterpriseyness" of Kafka, not
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by snapetom 3y ago
That would assume there is a correlation between Alzheimer's and income. In some quick googling of studies, there appears to be. However, with often differing results from US vs. European studies (and studying different things like e
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by snapetom 3y ago
I finally was able to upgrade my 5-node P4/4GB cluster to an 8GB cluster these past few weeks. Took a mish-mash of vendors, but I'll finally be able to run more complicated Spark jobs.
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by snapetom 3y ago
My company is kind of unique and I just urge you to throughly research the company, culture, and situation. I'm a hybrid product/engineering manager, while everyone else is strictly product manager with engineering counterparts.
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by snapetom 3y ago
Dragon's Lair in the arcades. In an 8-bit world, it was like staring into the future.
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by snapetom 3y ago
I view recruiters the same way as product managers. Most are terrible and cause more headaches than they solve, but a good one is worth their weight in gold. Full disclosure - I am a mediocre product manager. First PM role after 20 years
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by snapetom 3y ago
You're clear with no restrictions from about Downtown to North Lynnwood. Even then, as you approach Paine and SeaTac, you can fly with altitude restrictions (300, 200ft, etc). On the eastside along 405, permissible areas are even gre
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by snapetom 3y ago
No, you're right. HHVM was the 2nd iteration. I was thinking of the first project, which was for C++. Looking at wikipedia, that was called HPHPc.
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by snapetom 3y ago
Was there a separate initiative for assembly, or are you thinking about HipHop? HipHop was for C++ and got a lot of attention back when it was released.
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by snapetom 3y ago
Forsyth's work was submitted here on HN four years ago, if you want to read the study. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001393511... They found no elevated lead in Indian samples in the
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by snapetom 3y ago
> Current employees are afraid to say anything as spez reads Blind LMAO. Of course someone so sensitive as to edit comments against him on his own site would obsess over comments on Blind.
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by snapetom 3y ago
Dumb you're getting downvoted, because the charging infrastructure is bad. I was "EV curious" and recently rented a Kia EV with a 250 mile range for a trip to Northern California. I had two purposes - drive to/from San
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by snapetom 3y ago
I got the Bower Wilkins PX8 about 6 months ago and love it. I originally went with the PX8 over the Focal Bathys due to it being $100 cheaper than the Focal Bathys, more compact form factor, and the reportedly better noise cancellation. M
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by snapetom 3y ago
Too much of that here on NN. "The state of x is terrible... so here's my new startup." "Increasing the performance of y tenfold.... with our new product."
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by snapetom 3y ago
I'd say this is a company red flag if they are still having these people around. About four years ago I was at a company that still had someone like that. Useless and highfalutin, he obstructed many projects thanks to an archaic dire
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by snapetom 3y ago
Stupid you're getting downvoted. Veterinarians have some of the highest suicide rates. They go into the field wanting to help animals but instead end up dealing with the worst in human owners.
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by snapetom 3y ago
I would add that vet techs in many states (most maybe?) are licensed and require training in associate degree programs. Most these days have bachelor's and I've even known someone with a master's who volunteered in ecologica
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by snapetom 3y ago
I am inadvertently part of a PE cleanup, being a PM hired by a guy PE brought in. I am of the opinion if PE destroyed this company’s culture and strip/sell it off, it’s certainly deserves it and will be better for everyone involved. Th
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by snapetom 3y ago
My wife is a vet for a corporate owned hospital and our circle of friends are naturally very vet centric. They run the gamut from PE vets, corp vets, and private owners. We know GPS, specialists, dogs and cats only, large animal, exotics.
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by snapetom 3y ago
I'm getting close to a similar situation. I live in Washington and negotiating with my employer about doing a weekend MBA program in Texas. Most, if not all, tuition is covered, I'm staying with family there. However, it's
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by snapetom 3y ago
It's a great story with many lessons in government over-reach and freedom. Keep repeating these Uncle Rico stories because future generations need to know what was at stake.
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by snapetom 3y ago
I made a comment on the original article pointing out a cultural and historical reason for the generations of cyclical abuse. JK generalized this, which clearly makes a different argument for root cause of abuse. Is filial piety a part of
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by snapetom 3y ago
I appreciate the fine line HN does at moderation, so feel free to delete the comments. I'm not going to delete them myself because OP's original comment is incredibly insulting and trivializes the cultural roots of abuse suffered
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by snapetom 3y ago
Again I said the symptoms of abuse might be the same but the root causes are different. You blatantly ignore that.

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