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“The Correct Way to Speak Bristol”(futilitycloset.com)
1 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments
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Password-stealing Chrome extension smuggled on to Web Store(malwarebytes.com)
3 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
I'll approach this from a "general tech career perspective" ... but here are some I can think of that either I missed 'early', or was told early: - finding friends at work - it's SUPER easy to ignore maki
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by warrenm 3y ago
>Older, more experienced people don’t have this tailwind of ignorance. No, older people have a tailwind of experience that can ignore most failure paths
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by warrenm 3y ago
Spotlight'll search inside files, too As does Windows search I'm all for great new tools ... but I still don't see what you're adding over native functionality?
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I Will Never Use the Metric System [video](youtube.com)
9 points by warrenm 3y ago|35 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
to be fair ... so dot not-short URLs
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by warrenm 3y ago
Don't use WhatsApp ... or deal with their crappy (ie nonexistent) privacy and data use rules
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by warrenm 3y ago
maybe maybe not If you check the links I provided, you'll see "startups" are included in those metrics And successful (by whatever other metric you want to count) startups (and businesses in general) are relatively rare ...
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Thou Shall Not Snoop Our Searches – Searx Installation and Discussion(grahamhelton.com)
2 points by warrenm 3y ago|1 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
What "changes"? You can already customize your bar color at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=<username> What do you want to see different from how it is now?
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by warrenm 3y ago
Buddy of mine had a startup a few years ago that tried to do this Neat concept But I can do that already just with local search on a computer that has OneDrive, Nextcloud, Dropbox, Slack, Teams, etc installed Honest question: How is this
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2023 Registration – OLF Conference(olfconference.org)
1 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments
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by warrenm 3y ago
of course you are a "year behind" ...because a year will have elapsed between now and a year from now :) I started programming in the early 90s around age 10 And I was 10 years behind everyone who started in the early 80s. And 2
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by warrenm 3y ago
Most [successful] business founders are around 40[0][1][2][3] (or higher) - meaning if they are going to have a family, they probably already do ------- [0] https://hbr.org/2021/12/dont-let-age-get-in-the-way-of-
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by warrenm 3y ago
Waiting is itself an opportunity cost - you could spend the next year learning/experimenting/doing ... for, say, $1000 - but be a year ahead Or you can spend a year not learning/experimenting/doing for $0 - saving $100
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by warrenm 3y ago
I was also single - which puts you in higher brackets than married :) but ... ~8% in FICA (SS & Medicare), >6% in state, and then ~20% in Fed income taxes (15% on the amount from ~8k-~30k, 25% to where I was salarywise) - comes out t
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by warrenm 3y ago
well, my friends there are not lying to me and you say you are not being lied to which means ... you apparently know people who are OK with being taken advantage of as employees (or, they are making beaucoup overtime / comp time :))
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by warrenm 3y ago
depends on where you live - 16y ago, my pretax $60k/y was just over $3k/mo take home ... between state & fed, I was paying >35% in income and payroll taxes :\
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by warrenm 3y ago
Ever think maybe you're the one being lied to?
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by warrenm 3y ago
$3k per month (post tax) is in the ballpark of $60k per year If you're talking $3k/mo pre-tax , that's in the neighborhood of $18.75/hr If you're "not quite old enough to draw Social Security", surely you
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by warrenm 3y ago
The folks I know at Amazon (in development and/or AWS client-facing roles) all work "normal" salaried hours - 40-45 hours a week, starting between 0700 and 1000, and ending between 1530 and 2000 Who are these people you know
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by warrenm 3y ago
that's pretty cool .. don't suppose you've thought of turning it into a QR reader mobile app so you can see what the code's trying to do before it does it?
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by warrenm 3y ago
I gave up on Medium years ago - to the extent I added them as a custom block in uBlock Origin
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by warrenm 3y ago
Flip the scenario: you are offered $X to do a speaking engagement that is not speaking against your company (if anything, it is promoting your company) Why should the company get paid for what you are doing off company time ? So lo
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by warrenm 3y ago
First, ask them Second, get a few (not too many) to do in-person usability testing - yes, it is almost 100% artificial (I did that with IBM a few times in college), but it is better than nothing (but only if you use a few people) Third,
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by warrenm 3y ago
I thought they were using some kind of Zebra (or similar) embedded computer now?
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by warrenm 3y ago
>* At least two 3.5" bays for floppy and zip Floppy and zip drives? >* At least 4 5.25" bays for optical and floppy drives. a 5.25" floppy drive? Are there even any motherboards that still support floppy drive cabling?
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by warrenm 3y ago
You put your laptop to sleep in the middle of a backup?
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The Line, Saudi Arabia(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by warrenm 3y ago|0 comments

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