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by twelve40 3y ago
> Managed properly What makes you think it's being managed properly? Fertility rate 0.78 in Korea signals uncontrollable plummet to 0. TFA: 1.2 million small businesses have owners aged about 70 with no successor, prime minister Fum
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by twelve40 3y ago
No, i haven't. (not OP but) The last decade or more 90% of people i collaborated with were on the same operating system. Which moves the docker development setup solidly into "nice to have" category for me, especially when wo
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by twelve40 3y ago
I keep hearing that trope that evil China is going to rip poor Africa to shreds, but not really seeing it so far? they have been building railroads and mines, and haven't even dropped a single bomb so far... unlike those who tell us ho
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by twelve40 3y ago
for all this talk of tragic failures, it is an extremely rich country, and Toyota is #1 automaker in the world. So compared to wars and true craziness elsewhere, they are still facing just the first-world problems.
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by twelve40 3y ago
thank you for a thorough reply, but extrapolating from anecdotal hypothetical search that wasn't even tried seems pretty comical. My counter-anecdote (which I've actually tried) is that Google works for most of my searches. I have
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by twelve40 3y ago
> I couldn't give actionable advice to someone who, for example, "wants to get in shape" beyond what are essentially tautologies like just eat less and exercise more but that doesn't even sound right. there are a mill
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by twelve40 3y ago
ok. didn't even think about that use case because I'm never logged on while searching. More bizzarely however, with 300 million domains out there and more added every second, you are in for quite a chore! even more delusional
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by twelve40 3y ago
nope, they get a lot of crap from customers and reputation damage. It's a p0 incident in places where I worked (not stripe, but i can't imagine why they alone would be glad to repel customers for a couple bucks), and everyone abso
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by twelve40 3y ago
if people link to Tom's hardware for new laptops (i dont, but maybe it's popular), is that bad? and a sign of googles demise? what would you like to see instead of those results that made you so unhappy? what else should have been
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by twelve40 3y ago
> People pay Google to game Google results are you referring to ads? cuz Im not aware of a way to pay Google to game search and it doesn't make any sense. Is there some dark alley in Mountain View where I can drop off a bag of cash?
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by twelve40 3y ago
Michael Jackson sounds pretty good too, there is him and then some VC dude apparently
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by twelve40 3y ago
disappointed, title hints at how to become ungoogleable as a person, was hoping to see something like the right to be forgotten which doesn't work in the US and would be useful, but instead just a bunch of whining and deindexing a webs
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by twelve40 3y ago
haha you should see the code review comments at my <current job>. Random people spend hours bickering over variable names, while completely overlooking real issues in the code and rubberstamping their friends. It's like a friggin
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by twelve40 3y ago
bin attacks and card attacks plague many different payment providers, first-hand experience. I'm not aware of much that can be done about this at the payment provider, they also suffer.
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by twelve40 3y ago
> It's so weird that Google still hasn't created the ability to block spam domains by who??? Google itself "blocks" or downgrades spam websites all the time. If they open it up to "the people", the same SEO
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by twelve40 3y ago
awesome, good luck!
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by twelve40 3y ago
I really like this idea, but. I've been thinking about this, and also the fact that Pingdom, etc. seem to consolidate. Is there really a big market for "simple monitors"? If you are small, you probably don't care much&#x
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by twelve40 3y ago
probably had a caf there + bring a box from home (always hated that). IBM was really into that too, just build in the middle of nowhere. They still have two locations around where i live - almaden and bailey avenue, pretty intentionally iso
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by twelve40 3y ago
Sounds pretty terrible : ( i really thought they might have a chance with this... Out of 10k's of people who are still working and making crazy bucks there, isn't there anybody who could stand up and say, let's stop propagati
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by twelve40 3y ago
uh... so you're saying hypothetical coinbase cares more about security than hypothetical robinhood or fidelity, or even the good ol' google/apple? (i'm having a hard time thinking of a successful "crypto" compa
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by twelve40 3y ago
If taken at face value, the TLDR of this blog post is: don't work with abusive idiots, and a collection of random anecdotes from this person's life when they chose to work with abusive idiots and it didn't end well.
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by twelve40 3y ago
sorry, confused > their terrible public safety record whose public safety record? the politicians'? or, who would even be materially interested to lobby against robocars and Google? honest q. automakers seem to be generally onboard
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by twelve40 3y ago
> documenting one more flavour of throw doesn't tell the caller anything but it does, in cases when there are errors that can or should be retried. Like a whitelist of documented cases where recovery and retry are possible, and of c
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that can be somewhat addressed with decent unit test coverage
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by twelve40 3y ago
> you can bet someone higher up the stack will do try catch Exception e But that's laziness on the caller's part. If I offer a method but the caller decides to do reckless lazy crap with it, there are many different ways to get
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by twelve40 3y ago
Just plan out the time and reflect it in the grants and vesting schedule. Like, you get low x% grant for the first year because part-time, then after that first year, you become full time with another grant (with vesting, of course) that wi
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by twelve40 3y ago
i'm assuming the author can't just pay them cash for contract and needs their help, what else can they do but equity?
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by twelve40 3y ago
This and the parent thread sound kind of simplistic. In any non-trivial-size company, there are many managers, and the space on top is always limited. So lower and mid-levels have to compete with each other for that limited space, they can
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by twelve40 3y ago
holding up people's wages to get the company through a bump or two would be another bold gamble and a savvy business move until it was made illegal (luckily for all of us non-sociopaths)
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by twelve40 3y ago
the floor is now covered, the upper levels are closed off to visitors. it seems to be working just like any other mosque, which you can also visit (like the one in the article, for example)

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