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by websap 3y ago
If you want to hire the best talent - engineering and ethics, you need to pay top dollar. 380k is senior engineer comp at most FAANG adjacent companies. It's not a lot.
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by websap 3y ago
iMessage and Facetime are a huge part of this. I don't want to have 5 different apps - Whatsapp, Telegraph, Google Allo, etc. to communicate with different groups of folks. The point of these devices is to make communication easier. Go
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by websap 3y ago
Well artists do charge differently for different areas of the venue. One could argue that prime time dinner is equivalent to watching Louis CK from the first few rows.
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by websap 3y ago
I'll work with whichever team most sounds like you don't want to commit. It takes at least a year to gather enough details about use-cases, issues, expansion opportunities. If the company really needs you to move they will ask you
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by websap 3y ago
So you saved 5 mins? Seems like an overall ok experience?
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by websap 3y ago
This is sad. As technologists we should celebrate folks who tried to build new services and applications. It would be good to document these and explain why they didn't work.
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by websap 3y ago
I've used Github codespaces at work when I wanna make small modification to an open source repo and don't wanna go through the entire process of cloning, building things, etc. It's prety useful. We have our own custom built c
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Ask HN: Why not auto replace paywall links with web archive links?
10 points by websap 3y ago|8 comments
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by websap 3y ago
People are trying to replace family, friends, relationships, hobbies, goals, and sense of purpose, with therapy. Use therapy to learn your blindspots and improve, not as a replacement for living a full life.
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by websap 3y ago
Who is going to prescribe the drugs?
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by websap 3y ago
Yet to see a more honest, transparent and non-posturing discussion board about tech.
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by websap 3y ago
Lol! If you're an engineer and you don't spend even a little time on Blind, you're signing up to get hustled. Learned so many interesting tidbits from Blind that I was able to use to get ahead in my career. Is it negative, ye
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by websap 3y ago
YIKES!
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by websap 3y ago
Haha! Blast from the past! Billions of dollars and users later. Good to know why builders don't always make great business people.
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by websap 3y ago
I'm so worried now, I think there's a bigger problem to be solved here. Sounds like I need to use the Apple Credit Card only with my Apple ID, remove all other payment instruments and make sure my Apple Credit card isn't used
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by websap 3y ago
I know many of my friends who used to work at Meta, Google, Amazon, etc. who have applied for this visa, or Canadian PR to move away from the US. People prefer having the emotional safety of not having to uproot their lives when they lose t
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by websap 3y ago
What a great way to start an article. Insult your audience. > If you haven’t been under a rock, you may have heard about Google’s evil Web Environment Integrity “proposal”. Supposedly, this is to make sure a browser environemnt can be “t
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by websap 3y ago
Too bad for the unhoused I guess?
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by websap 3y ago
> Just moments ago, an NGO called U.S. Right to Know released heavily-redacted U.S. State Department cables that it obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. One July 2020 cable reads, “Initial Outbreak Could Have Been Contained in
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by websap 3y ago
Wrong on many counts. > However, in recent decades, the U.S. drinking rate has consistently registered near the long-term average of 63% When you further slice the data: > According to the 2021-2022 data, 80% of adults aged 18 and old
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by websap 3y ago
> There is are good reasons why the leisure class and the leisure class lifestyle exists. Conspicuous leisure and Conspicuous consumption serve specific purposes. Look them up. Care to link to an article? I actually don't even know
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by websap 3y ago
I just don't get the idea of drinking all those calories without the added benefit of the intoxication.
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by websap 3y ago
> If you want to be alcohol free, then just don't have another drink. Do you live in America? American social life is built around drinking together. > Maybe save the weed for the social events but not at home I find getting hig
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by websap 3y ago
I wish your friend the best, but starting a beverage company seems like such a huge lift. People consume beverages mainly at 3 places: 1. At home 2. At work 3. At a restaurant / bar Each of these require a completely different distribu
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by websap 3y ago
What software do you use for meetings?
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Ask HN: How to live a alcohol/drug free lifestyle?
3 points by websap 3y ago|14 comments
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by websap 3y ago
Yikes! What a cynical take and I wonder if you bring this degree of skepticism to the world. From the article: > The end product was an eight-minute video called “1,000 Blind People See for the First Time.” This is a huge quality of life
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by websap 3y ago
Well this didn't age well rather quickly. https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/12/23758002/reddit-crashing-...
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by websap 3y ago
I'm not normally emotional, but reading this invoked a rather visceral reaction. I'm from India and spend the first 25 years of my life in India. It's hard for me to parse the truth between the stories not lining up between t
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by websap 3y ago
So the TikTok part of Reddit is still open for business?

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