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by sokoloff 1y ago
You’re arguing that Apple’s App Store, even with its commission, is a better business proposition. I agree, and from that conclude that Apple’s earned their commission/fees.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
To give them enough money to buy that $30 meal as a personal expense, you need to pay them around $50 in marginal comp expenses. It can be a win for both sides for the employees to work an extra 30-90 minutes and have some team bonding and
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I suspect people who look for annoyances in travel readily find them, while people who look for the positives readily find those. I used to hate business travel, then took a role that required a fair bit of it. Getting used to the routine,
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In the mid-90s, I remember computers being expensive enough that the game company I worked at offered 0% interest, payroll deduction loans to help employees buy them. Submitting a spreadsheet of parts I intended to use got me the loan money
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I read GP as implying GCP would be inclined to negotiate aggressively to be sure to secure this deal, due to the factors they list. Both companies need to get something out of the deal. Listing the benefits to only one side is probably miss
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I've always thought of it (and seen it defined) as media where the content is generated, liked, and commented upon by users (i.e. socially) rather than the media being controlled by a small group serving in an editorial role (tradition
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by sokoloff 1y ago
In American Mech E, the 4th through 6th derivatives of position are snap, crackle, and pop. Since graduating over 30 years ago, I’ve only ever used or cited crackle and pop on internet message boards or as trivia, never in actual engineerin
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If I’m deluded, so be it, but I see a massive gulf between the content on LinkedIn and HN.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Hacker News is social media. It just lacks a pretty UI and is overall less vapid.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The irony (or at least difference) here is that KiCAD is way better than Eagle ever was (or whatever the Fusion name is now). FreeCAD isn’t better than onShape, F360, or SolidWorks (and not even close, IMO).
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You get over it by making your hourly rate numerically the same as your annual salary divided by 1000. If you can pull it off, quote only a day rate (that figure times 8) rather than hourly. Companies readily pay more per hour for contracto
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Global software dev, off-shoring, and out-sourcing have been going strong for decades. The tech market was extraordinarily strong for most of that time.
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I’ve had cars that burn/use oil. That doesn’t significantly change fuel economy though.
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Do a lot of people sell a car that’s never once left them stranded at under 175K miles out of concern? Sure. But I think most people who daily drive 175K mile cars would rely on them for a road trip without much consternation.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
We road tripped our 2005 240K+ mile CR-V 750 miles each way every Christmas without a worry. We’d still be road-tripping in that if a negligent Subaru driver hadn’t rear-ended us and pushed us into a Prius ahead as the middle car in a sandw
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I track gas added to all of our cars (because my dad and his dad did). I’ve driven several of them to over 130k miles and one to 242k miles. I’ve never seen even a 5% degradation in mileage from wear. (I did see the ~3% drop in mileage when
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> My wife and I have been holding Treasury bills for the past few years waiting for mortgage rates or home prices to come down, but neither have. So, we keep rolling Treasuries until the right moment arrives. Ouch. Holding T-bills instea
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I tried to buy an Ioniq 5 when Hyundai had attractive lease offers published. A dealer near me had a car that showed as qualifying and I emailed to verify that it was in-stock and qualifies for the lease offer. That started one of the most
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Having terrible security just helps sales! Until it’s banned by regulators or made uninsurable…
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The number of SWA customers who needed wheelchairs to board (earlier than able-bodied pax) and were healed enough mid-flight to be able to walk off at the destination was astounding. It’ll be sad to lose all those miraculous recoveries.
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SWA is phasing in assigned seating and will be fully cutover by this coming February.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I find it interesting (in a dismaying sense) how many people are perfectly comfortable or even in favor of government oversteps by “their” team that are aligned with outcomes they like but act shocked and indignant when the “other” team doe
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Suppose you created the original prior art and want to get your original design manufactured on China. The Chinese manufacturer might the best in the world and cheapest source but unwilling to defy the Chinese patent. Your tiny order isn’t
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Did you try SendCutSend? They are in the US and this type of thing is their main line of business.
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> Because instead of writing code, they’re spending - wasting? - a ton of time fixing AI coding blunders. This is not a productive use of mid-level, never mind senior, programmers. It’s amazing to think that humans have been writing blun
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think the “wanting more” you describe is less driven by wanting more purchasing power but rather as an outcome of seeking the accomplishment of measurable goals. It becomes about the number rather than what the number represents. Why does
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He’d have found great success by his own measures if HP just let do more of the things he found interesting. Those measures wouldn’t have shown up in his bank account, but I think he’d have been happy.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think GP makes it sound far easier than it really is, but there’s also clearly not “exactly zero” such roles. (I have team members based in EU working remotely. Retention is high and we get a lot of applicants when we open new roles. Thos
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I would bet more transactions are done in exchange for literal home-grown vegetables this month than over Bitcoin Lightning Network, yet no one claims a payment method needs to compete with bartered vegetables.
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I had D. E. Shaw ask for SAT scores in the interview process more than a decade after I took the test, but I also have to admit that was the highest density of talent I’ve had the pleasure to work with.

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