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by whynaut 7y ago
> Can you point to another Amazon produced product where they achieve segmentation by making the same product and then disable features on the cheap one? Prime video, amazon fresh. i believe the latter is no longer available outside of P
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by whynaut 7y ago
> If you have Stadia Pro and you stop paying, you lose access to the free games that are included with Pro, which right now are Destiny 2 and Samurai Showdown. This is the same as Xbox Live Gold and the Free Games with Gold. Games With
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by whynaut 7y ago
> But how do I transfer bitcoins from your main wallet to the new one without having this transaction public so linking your wallets. Don’t transfer between personal wallets: when you purchase BTC, send it directly to the wallet you’ll u
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by whynaut 7y ago
The typical way to go about this would be creating separate Bitcoin wallets for different types of purchases. Many wallet clients support this out of the box. Personally, I generate a new wallet for every transaction.
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by whynaut 7y ago
Does GDPR cover generated insights about that data?
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by whynaut 7y ago
Maybe not much on HN (though I do remember many complaints about MS), but each of these have fostered complaints around the web.
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by whynaut 7y ago
> It's one thing to have extenuating circumstances that force someone to choose between two bad choices, I think that is what was meant by 'prioritizing outgoings'.
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by whynaut 7y ago
If you're going to be sticking around, is there someway you can (perhaps covertly) pivot within the company? You didn't mention what the platform does, but is there some featureset you could work on in your free time, and then sur
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by whynaut 7y ago
> “here it is! <link> its a pretty good resource, the docs are fairly extensive, theyve saved me a couple times in the past” that's in the same vein as what I meant. The smiley face was not literal and of course I would encour
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by whynaut 7y ago
I’m very sorry to hear that. Some people will go to any length to avoid work, even by putting it on us.
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by whynaut 7y ago
I have found that lightly pushing back on such requests makes them value you a little more. Doesn't matter too much since they should've valued you in the first place. I've had a couple processes expedited in this way, someti
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by whynaut 7y ago
Not the rudest but it is basically saying RTFM. I deal with it like, here's the info you're looking for, but in the future you can read here instead of having to wait on me :) The idea being to present it as a benefit for them and
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by whynaut 7y ago
Normally i’d agree, but they had 2 hour sprint plannings.. for a sub-team..
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It says in a few parts that this was agreed on at hiring. Should probably also be in writing, but that doesn’t excuse them from deciding not to honor one day.
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> Unresponsive = the app’s main event loop is not processing events > an app can break in a variety of ways which won’t involve blocking the main thread I’m not saying you’re incorrect, but for the vast majority of users, any input th
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by whynaut 7y ago
> In theory, yes, but not in practice. For example All of those are examples of unresponsiveness..
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juul is considerably more expensive than other products.
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by whynaut 7y ago
In some cities here in the U.S., it's common practice to keep cash on-hand so that in the event of a robbery, you can avoid giving your phone/other valuables or having to say "I don't have anything" and getting shak
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by whynaut 7y ago
Apple says the canned air can damage the connector. I can confirm toothpick + cotton does the trick, though.
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> absolutely not true. There are many many contexts in which I won't talk about what I do for a living because while I absolutely enjoy it and could talk for hours Alternatively, many people will enjoy hearing you passionately discu
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by whynaut 10y ago
For #2 I have thought considerably about this as well. It seems to boil down to two things: 1. Lack of awareness. In many of these environments "software engineering" doesn't really mean anything to anyone, especially if few
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by whynaut 10y ago
> I similarly think it should be impossible for a word to offend someone. I think it's possible for meaning to offend and really only if you respect the person enough to provide some weight to that meaning. This strikes me as curiou