thesmallestcat

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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Insecure defaults are a footgun.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
TIL "top comment stop (sic)" can be taken at will be intrepid HNers.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Maybe capitalists are more likely to tell pollsters to screw off.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Related, Here's a script I wrote a year ago when I was looking for a position pretty aggressively. Used like `python hiring.py [-l LOC] [-s SKILL] [-o OTHER] *.html`, where you've saved each page to your cwd. It outputs the commen
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I wasn't aware that there were classes of drugs that could not be mailed. Researching this now, all I can find is that the mailer and recipient have to be authorized, but nothing about restrictions on painkillers, amphetamines, cough s
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
> I don't see Walgreens or CVS to be any more competent than Amazon. The places with people behind the counter holding Pharmacist degrees? You trust LAZR shipping and the rest of the supply chain as much as them? Wow. Also, selfishl
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Is HN now a cryptocurrency ticker?
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
> My interviews and resumes get rejected from this gap in knowledge. > Perhaps I need to create a much more functional resume, and less chronological based one. No, do something about that skills gap.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
[I] should be less ambiguous [in my comments] :)
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
I'm not sure who you're arguing with, like I said, Phillips blundered by giving them her real name. WP is definitely allowed to publish it.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Providing her real name was quite the blunder. Gave WP what they needed to make sense of the unraveling story, and permanently attached her identity to clumsy deceit.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
No it isn't. NK can arguably hit the western Alleutians, if you trust a Russian source. That's what they mean when they "continental US," stretching that reach is plain fear-mongering. Second, due to the planet's sh
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
They made great coffee table tops too.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
This is horrifying. And they only applied a bandage as a fix.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
In the '50s, when the computer industry was young, some people (weasel words, grasping for the source) floated the idea of having prisoners write the actual code. The thinking was that they would tolerate the drudgery and being stuck i
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
If you want to live in a dense city with high culture, a good economy, and nice weather (debatable of course), SF is one of the only games in town. Yes, many want to live in the Bay Area, it's not as if the army of developers there are
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Not all Dems support Net Neutrality, not all Republicans oppose it, which contradicts your point.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
And so you could have a single-party system and you'd end up with a split of conservatives and liberals. It's not about party, at least not about blindly voting for one party.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
What a delightfully simplistic view of politics. You know about the Blue Dogs, right?
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
> fake labels like "senior engineer" - and yet have never actually talked to a single user. You lost me there. What about that title is "fake"? To be clear, people pursue titles because they come with raises. Or rathe
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Why? Because of you and your horse sense?
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
It's exactly the sort of place where you'd find the baddest pokemon in the game.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
That's an unfortunate domain name if I've ever seen one.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Could that induce a heart attack? Like drinking a glass of ice water after mowing the lawn in hot weather.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Think carefully about the consequences of this automated scan info leaking before enabling it in your private repositories.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
And the US' per capita GDP is a fraction of Luxembourg's.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
> the USA is merely a player whose ability to interfere in the outcome is being carefully managed. (And the same is true about Russia, incidentally.) Agreed. The world rests on China's and soon also India's shoulders. They alre
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Minor quibble but Chicago's elevated and commuter rail systems are all heavy rail, not light rail.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
Bugs, fat-fingers and misclicks don't care that you're the president.
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by thesmallestcat 9y ago
An essay about how the web is dying that leads with a click-bait title? Is this satire?

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