sosodaft

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Ring hackers reportedly watching and talking to strangers via in-home cameras(theguardian.com)
2 points by sosodaft 7y ago|1 comments
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by sosodaft 8y ago
noble but futile
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by sosodaft 9y ago
The 10,000 year is very convenient for Discordians.
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by sosodaft 9y ago
I was going to suggest that the author was in marketing and didn't know the difference, but the article seems too in-depth for that. Maybe it's hybrid and devs wrote the more technical sections.
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by sosodaft 9y ago
When I lived in London roughly 40% of my salary went to rent. London was actually more expensive, at least for a 1BR with roughly the same distance to the city center, as NYC.
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by sosodaft 9y ago
>Why do you want to replace everything with Javascript? Because a huge number of devs already know it, so you can have your web devs work on your mobile application. That said, my company tried Fuse out around a year ago and went with Io
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by sosodaft 9y ago
Things like "The bad news: joining Stripe is still a risky proposition." also make me cringe... don't tell me that anyone reading that sentence doesn't realize it's meant to entice them. Maybe it's not a fair c
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by sosodaft 9y ago
I'm a currently-employed web developer (bootcamp grad) and I'd love to see a part-time (nights and/or weekends), cash up front offering to deepen my CS knowledge. Just throwing that out there in case part-time something you g
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by sosodaft 9y ago
This is another area where technology is hugely beneficial. Not everyone can move to a city, but people who drive to work could work remotely one day a week. Hell, let's make it Friday, who wouldn't like that? There are few office
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by sosodaft 9y ago
What we really need is WWII-style, society-wide action on this count--remember the days of Meatless Mondays, saving your cans to make bullets, mailing your binoculars to the Navy. Even if it's confined to the parts of society that actu
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by sosodaft 9y ago
I think if drag and drop builders find an audience it will be in a sweet spot between engineers and clients, maybe used by support engineers or customer success to build and modify applications to client specifications. Technical users will
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by sosodaft 9y ago
I'm an effective altruist ;) https://www.givingwhatwecan.org/
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by sosodaft 9y ago
Online photos of oneself in foreign countries have become a fashion accessory. Bonus points if you spent cash to travel to help the poor in a developing country instead of donating it to people who could use it more effectively.
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by sosodaft 9y ago
Visual Studio seems like an odd choice...
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by sosodaft 9y ago
Off of Morgan Ave stop on the L
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by sosodaft 9y ago
TOS acceptance box and "you can send me emails" box combined. Classy. All I wanted was a bacon egg and cheese icon...
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by sosodaft 9y ago
You're a bit low on the salary front. I started at £44k (including bonus) with no experience; Senior dev roles here that I've seen seem to be around £65k. Of course it still doesn't compare to a Silicon Valley or New York dev
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by sosodaft 9y ago
London is as expensive as New York, where I'm moving. In fact, I will be paying roughly the same rent: $950 before bills in NYC, £850 including bills in London. In both cases I'm around 30 minutes from the city center. My company
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by sosodaft 9y ago
Anecdotal: I moved to London for my first software engineering job nine months ago. The week after I signed my contract, the country voted Leave and my salary was literally worth $15k USD less overnight. I'm going back to the US in two
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by sosodaft 9y ago
I'd love to know how it became popular, which the article doesn't really address. It seems like a fad, which would just be dumb (bad) luck. But if Hasbro, who had decided not to produce it, intentionally sat on it for eight years
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by sosodaft 9y ago
This, exactly. I use Huel to replace the meals I eat at home. As a consequence, it is the only food in my apartment. Removing the possibility of eating junk has helped me improve my diet a lot, and I still get to have a takeaway meal for lu
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by sosodaft 9y ago
Looks great. I've been using Huel, the British Soylent knockoff, for 1-2 meals per day (much healthier than the 4oz bag of chips it replaced), and now that I'm moving back to America I'm looking for local alternatives.
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by sosodaft 9y ago
I shortened it from a three minute read to a one-second one: Someone will find it.
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by sosodaft 9y ago
This is why the only startups I'll work for are B2B. Trying to sell an "app" to the masses? Uber is losing money and they're a household name, good luck with your Tinder for dogs or whatever.
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by sosodaft 10y ago
Reminds me of James C. Scott's "Seeing like a State", which chronicles how various attempts to make complex, organically developed institutions organized and intelligible has historically made things much, much worse, from pl
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by sosodaft 10y ago
If you think mech keyboard prices are outrageous you should see what nice keycaps will run you. I'm pretty sure they're worth more than gold, by weight.
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by sosodaft 10y ago
Alphabet as innocuous is ridiculous. Guess their elementary school name and bright primary colors are working. You realize that your search results are topped by people who pay Google right? That they use your browsing activity to sell thin
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by sosodaft 10y ago
Relevant (a statistical look at internet stories): http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/12/12/might-people-on-the-int... (Autoplay is the scourge of the internet and sites that autoplay audio or video should be tre
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by sosodaft 10y ago
Well said. It always pains me to see people criticising capitalism for easy points, when despite its flaws it has brought us an age of unprecedented equality and prosperity. That's not to say it's necessarily the best "system
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by sosodaft 10y ago
Seconded. I found his style genuinely delightful. People are more likely to comment about things that piss them off though, right?

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