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by w0mbat 5y ago
Glock did crazy deals early on, letting US police departments trade-in their existing used guns from other makers for new Glocks at minimal or no cost. Glock could afford to do it because Glocks are cheap to make due to the brilliantly simp
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by w0mbat 5y ago
DKIM == Domain Keys Identified Mail, i.e. a mechanism so that email can prove it comes from the domain that it claims to come from. (I can't be the only person here who has never heard of this acronym before.)
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Easy to indentify because it's all of them. Not everyone burns out at every company and some people really do switch for a better opportunity, but burnout is very common and is everywhere.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
The article actually doesn’t tell the true horror of the situation which is this: Companies burn out employees and then deal with the consequences by firing them or bullying them into quitting. Employees lie about how their last job ended a
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Hey, we users built the knowledge-base. Where is our cash? (Only half joking).
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Stefan, if you are reading, dude, this nasty hostile approach will ruin your life. Nobody cares if you are right when you act like this. Be nice, submit patches, become a hero.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Some companies (e.g. Amazon) have a policy to fire the lowest performing x percent every year, even if the whole team is good, which makes churn inevitable. It also leads to odd situations like hiring low quality talent just to provide the
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by w0mbat 5y ago
After growing up in central London, Silicon Valley was awesome. No more waiting for the bus, just drive everywhere, parking is easy, everywhere is safe. If you live in downtown Mountain View or Sunnyvale you can walk down the street to pub
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Apple is not incentivized to promote your app given that their percentage cut of "free" is $0. Why are you giving this app away for free? You know that various other indies like James Thompson are trying to SELL alternative calcul
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by w0mbat 5y ago
22,000 downloads of a free app at launch is no big deal. It's free and he's having to pay for hosting for the backend. I can stand on the corner and give away dollar bills too.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
> You will never get a promotion or raise > if there's no formal performance review > process and career ladder. Well that's obviously not true. Chaotic rapidly growing startups with little process, promote people at a
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This is very timely as I downloaded that art bundle yesterday to make an icon for a new Mac app. Can someone tell me how to use that Apple Photoshop template for app icons? I've been using Photoshop since version 1.0, I understand lay
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I heard the problem was not theft, it was big guys showing up at store opening and bulk-buying the whole stock of cards, threatening staff with violence if not allowed to do so. Then the supplemental problem of normal customers complaining
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Because the hedgehog won’t share the hedge.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but if a problem gets reported more than once, you don't close ALL reports as duplicates and ignore the problem. Whether the original security breach was the user's fault or not, Amazon Support
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by w0mbat 5y ago
That cheap Canon 50mm lens is great. I use a Canon 5D mk something and carry a 28mm, a 50mm, and a 100mm, all of them ƒ/2.0 or 1.8. For a lot of shots I want the specific look of ƒ/2.0 on a decent prime lens. I don't actuall
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by w0mbat 5y ago
In HyperCard 2.0, yes. There was a color HyperCard 3.0 in development at Clarus which never shipped. Then there was the HyperCard/QuickTime hybrid that was demoed at WWDC and never shipped.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
I bought the first edition when it came out, read it straight through like a novel. This is what ignited my change in career direction from a photographer who dabbled with his dad's Mac SE to programmer. I eventually learned many lang
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Coal causes more radioactive contamination of the environment than nuclear, in addition to increasing CO2 and acid rain. The fact that it encourages damaging changes like the one in the article is another reason why Bitcoin needs to be bann
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Is navigation not part of the infotainment system? I'm imagining a hack that puts the empty parked car into self-driving mode and makes it drive away, effectively stealing itself.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
This is true, but irrelevant to discussion of AirTags. AirTags give much finer grained location once you are close, as it uses the new iPhone's ultrawideband hardware to give you accurate bearing and distance to the tag, based on live
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by w0mbat 5y ago
Why has nobody at/leaving Basecamp posted the "Best Names Ever" list so we know what we are talking about? I make up my own mind what is funny and what is offensive.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
It's a shame people took that speech seriously. It was a very funny speech particularly from someone who was not a trained comedian.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
If there was an easy mechanism to temporarily hand over tracking of stolen tags/iPhones/iPads to police, with the nice ultra wideband tracking that gives an arrow and direction, police would go and get a lot of stuff back. The pol
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by w0mbat 5y ago
All these stalking counter-measures make it useless if your device is stolen rather than mislaid. If my bag is stolen I want it to contain a hard to find device, not one that gives away its position (by warning the thief). I also want an ea
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by w0mbat 5y ago
It's misleading that the docs cite 1991 but Mac OS 8.0 actually came out in 1997. I suppose they are talking about the manufacture date of the emulated hardware, not the OS.
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by w0mbat 5y ago
WebTV did this in the 90s. Web pages were reformatted and rendered on the server, then sent down to the WebTV box (originally over modem). Microsoft bought the company, called it MSN TV.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I don't use CocoaPods because a) they are a gaping supply chain vulnerability and b) they lead to bloat as people routinely pull in a whole package for one routine. I manually import and rewrite snippets of 3rd party code when needed
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I was just riffing on a joke, but much as I love Hacker News, it's a bad place for that. Too many people who take everything too seriously. But yeah, there was a pinch of truth in what I said too.
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by w0mbat 6y ago
I think this guy might be on to something. Every time you add a person to the team who is more stupid than you, it pushes you further up the stack rank. Why hire people with loyalty when you can hire people who can't quit because they

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