waylandsmithers

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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
..."and as a result I have decided to step down and hand the company over to someone more capable of navigating today's challenges" /s I think we'd all like to imagine a world where company's are run like sea f
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Yes- what Coinbase doesn't have is trust. They can pay all the marketing dollars they want but without any regulation or oversight they'll never have it from me.
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
What you're describing goes _way_ beyond what I think most would consider to be the responsibilities of a Lead Developer. I wouldn't say your attitude is childish- you're allowed to have personal preferences. I don't thi
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Maybe it would have muddied the site's data but it gets a bit better when you factor in dividends and dividend reinvestment
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
> Sure, I'd love a drug that lets me eat more calories and not get fat I think the deal is that the drug suppresses your appetite so you do actually eat less
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I agree with many here that this is heavy-handed, but my experience suggests that the symptom it's treating is very real- once a recurring meeting is created it never really goes away (in my experience sometimes it does if the meeting
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I would guess some number of people in these newsrooms either: 1) Don't understand anything about bitcoin 2) Own bitcoin and don't want to do something that would push the price lower
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
As a developer it's easy to forget how insanely hard it can be to run a business. After all the time, effort, and energy that goes into actually making and selling something, you still have to go through all this additional nonsense ju
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
As a former (briefly, due to an acqui-hire) consultant at one of the big companies mentioned, this was a really interesting read. I never thought anything the company did was morally wrong per se, it was just a different business model that
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Hm. I've been a facebook user since the beginning. My silver lining here is that the company has a history of making very unpopular decisions that end up being very profitable. Deservedly or not, people love to hate facebook, even peop
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
> I've never seen anybody show up to a gas station and buy more than a few dollars worth of tickets It's easy to wonder how it could all add up, if it's $1 now and then to enter Power Ball whenever it gets big, which I&#x2
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I remember hearing about "orgo" from my pre-med friends as the one specifically hated/difficult class, to the point where some would just take the class at a local state school over the summer and transfer the credit in to av
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Is there any magic phrase you can say to this person to get them to stop? I've leased 5 or 6 cars from the same dealership which is all around great except for this one part. For example the green energy clipboard person trying to get
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Well, welcome to my neuroses- because you asked now it's not as "thirsty" to do that. There was a fantasy sports game in the late 90s and early 2000s called wall street sports, where you'd buy "shares" of prof
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Maybe not exactly what you were asking for, but getting to 20 or 30 users for my latest project. It's not meant to be a start up or anything, it was more just "I wish this thing existed and think it would be fun" So this time
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I have a project that I want to get people to sign up for and it's kind of free marketing/advertising
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I'm an uncool dad but thought the check mark was like, this account really is the famous person the account claims to be, like Brad Pitt or Oprah. Now it's always someone I've never heard of.
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
> Challenges too great for a mere startup to accomplish. It's probably also too boring for any tech entrepreneur to even try, but disrupting the space would seem to be the white whale of startups. You never know. At one point in tim
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
This isn't actual advice; I'm sure many of us get plenty of emails from recruiters, and I've always wondered if you could build a book of business as a freelancer by replying to them that you're looking for contract work
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
My theory on why Google does this (and follows the same pattern in so many areas) is that having one person simply use common sense and reasonable judgment would be something of an admission that their software, created by the best and brig
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
> It's amazing how "solutions" never seem to actually get around to simply paying teachers more, and maybe not expecting them to be child-rearers, in lieu of parents. In a neighboring town parents tried to set up a "h
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
My anecdata- friend last year just crossed $100K in about her 15th year teaching in Boston suburbs. She didn't have to do any of the "add-ons" like sports team coaching, curriculum work, tutoring, etc. to get to that number.
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I’ve noticed what I think is a trick to hide the negative reviews with default filters. When you first go to the reviews page it will say something like “Showing 30 of 35 reviews” and the filters are “English” and “Full Time”. Sometimes re
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I couldn’t agree more. The schools I got into were ranked something like 12, 13, 25, and 30. I went to 12 for only that reason and always regretted it. Was it my own dumb fault? Of course. I was 17.
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
I honestly hope this starts an upheaval against the US News and World Report college rankings. That stupid magazine has way too much power in higher education for no reason .
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Brings back memories of a pre pandemic office where half the people were on the road at any given time so there were no assigned seats, but no reservation system either because it was never close to full. Some seats were better than others
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
Boston too is switching some lines permanently onto weekend schedules with less frequent trains
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
A client who was on version 1.13 (which was the current version when they started the project in 2018) being forced to upgrade by the aws managed kubernetes service. I'm not sure what they ended up doing but they were facing the requir
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
My observation is that this is just how fashion works, especially for women. Trends come on extremely strong for basically anything related to appearance all the way down to nail color. And it's designed that way to make it obvious whe
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by waylandsmithers 4y ago
> Why is "node.js" listed here? Isn't node.js a runtime? In this context this almost always means node.js with express

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