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by zatkin 9y ago
I agree. The only way to justify a good idea is to have people argue that it is a bad idea. It's up to the person behind the good idea to prove the arguers are wrong.
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by zatkin 10y ago
>We've held that hiring bar constant through the years, even at times when it's been very hard to find people, and there's been a lot of pressure to relax that bar in order to increase hiring volume. We've never chang
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by zatkin 10y ago
They supposedly didn't even fully pay the company that made that video on their homepage from over a year ago. >According to a different unnamed source, the company who made the video, CMI Productions, has also not been paid in full
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by zatkin 10y ago
No need to feel ashamed. I set up my own email server in 2016 and use mutt, squirrelmail, and iOS Mail very frequently.
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by zatkin 10y ago
I think OP meant physical objects, but nonetheless, I agree with you. You know a product is very well designed when people are still missing it years after its closure.
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by zatkin 10y ago
I think that the "undocumented component" is undocumented for the very same reason that companies have an undocumented component with technical interviews - they're trying not to get themselves into a potential legal situatio
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by zatkin 10y ago
Not to stand in Uber's defense, but it wouldn't surprise me if they end up not firing anyone over this. At the end of the day, they run a business, and one misconduct like this could make investors unhappy.
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Verizon reintroduces unlimited data plan as competition rises(reuters.com)
1 points by zatkin 10y ago|0 comments
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by zatkin 10y ago
I'm confused as to why this piece was written using LaTeX.
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by zatkin 10y ago
They did a pretty terrible job of getting the logo dispersed across their entire website. Just visiting the About page will lead you back to the old header: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/
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by zatkin 10y ago
Unrelated to the material, this is a bit silly because you can just brute force the quiz then write down the answers after and refresh the page to get all the right answers. :)
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by zatkin 10y ago
I got redirected to the subscription page for NYT upon clicking this link.
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by zatkin 10y ago
Removing the audio jack also removes a whole market of products that were taking advantage of the audio jack for non-audio purposes (e.g. the Square dongle). Now that the audio jack is gone, companies like Square will have to pay Apple a li
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by zatkin 10y ago
Let me describe my experience with the application process. I did not accept the job. I applied to be an Amazon Fulfillment Specialist (or whatever they're called) back when I was without a job in Silicon Valley a few months ago. I app
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by zatkin 10y ago
Observe what happened with the United States presidential election.
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Ask HN: Things programmers should get rid of in 2017
17 points by zatkin 10y ago|28 comments
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by zatkin 10y ago
I did this for a while and ended up expanding out to setting up my own email server, calendar server, and contact server. Needless to say, I'm a happy customer. :-)
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The impossible task of removing my DigitalOcean IP from AT&T’s RBL(medium.com)
1 points by zatkin 10y ago|0 comments
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by zatkin 10y ago
Infinite growth is infeasible. Perhaps Twitter will be one of the few tech companies that will stabilize. Or get killed by a competitor.
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Silicon Valley Linux Users Group's last use of Symantec(lists.svlug.org)
45 points by zatkin 10y ago|30 comments
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An Analysis of the Labor Market for Uber's Drivers in the US (2015) [pdf](s3.amazonaws.com)
1 points by zatkin 10y ago|0 comments
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by zatkin 10y ago
Upwork looks awesome. Thank you.
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Ask HN: Are there ways to make money online while I search for a salaried job?
1 points by zatkin 10y ago|3 comments
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by zatkin 10y ago
>It is not, strictly speaking, an interface compatible “drop-in” replacement for both, but the feature sets are far more similar than different.
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by zatkin 10y ago
I understand giving an incentive for captions, but for flagging is a serious mistake.
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The Marginal Advantage(web.archive.org)
1 points by zatkin 10y ago|0 comments
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by zatkin 10y ago
Is it better to use certificates or keys? If certificates, how do you set those up? I have SSH keys setup right now.
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by zatkin 10y ago
https://www.xkcd.com/936/ I recommend reading this XKCD comic for how to come up with strong passphrases.
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by zatkin 10y ago
TL;DR: dependencies are a difficult problem. When you use two distinct dependencies that subsequently have the same dependency but separate major releases, you may encounter breakage. The author simply prefers Bower because of how it handle
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by zatkin 10y ago
Is it legal to have their logo and brand next to a product that they don't make? It is still funny, nonetheless.

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