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by zebraflask 6y ago
There are now anti-domain squatting laws on the books, aside from more conventional trademark, etc., protections. If any of the big names found someone using a clone domain and objected to it, the domain owner - I'd expect - would find
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by zebraflask 7y ago
This is clearly a troll post. Mods, please remove.
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Exactly! The "lock it all down" attitude has a heavy streak of unthinking authoritarianism to it that makes me very uncomfortable. Reasonable precautions? Of course. Going nuts and disrupting everyone's lives and businesses l
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by zebraflask 7y ago
This is cool! Tickets to live shows are usually pretty pricey, and these are some of the best performances in the world.
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Glad to hear that you don't buy into the myth that longer hours are better for their own sake - I agree. Realistically, I've never met any programmer who has more than 4 to 6 (on a really good day) hours of solidly useful work in
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by zebraflask 7y ago
There's an easy rule of thumb ... is there an upward trajectory in the responsibility or stature of the roles, or are the moves mostly lateral? A series of quick lateral moves - this obviously excludes freelancers and consultants who s
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by zebraflask 7y ago
I have run across the same attitude and it can be very irritating, and often a pretty reliable signal of someone who, if hired, would be a real pain to work with in general. These bootcamps must be pushing the "fake it until you make i
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Well, I suppose we can all add U-Haul to the list of companies that make absurd decisions that damage their brand. Not dinging anyone who works there, but if you work for a budget trucking company and can't have a cig after what, I am
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by zebraflask 7y ago
"No guardrail environment" is a great way to put it. I've worked in a large corp IT department and for start ups. I'd say the most value in working for a start up comes from being in the core group of founders and first
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by zebraflask 7y ago
That all sounds very sensible to me. You might have seen the same thing, but any title that sounds managerial in some way - even if in the day to day work, it's completely meaningless - goes a long way toward jumping the line and convi
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by zebraflask 7y ago
There's a glut of resumes that have something web dev on them, and a scarcity of reliable ways to filter for the candidates who legitimately have the skillset(s) needed for the job. I've done a lot of these tests and interview pro
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Agreed! There's always more work to do, no matter how much you automate. I run my company's admittedly very small IT. If I could automate everything on my list, that list would immediately fill up with even more stuff that needs t
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by zebraflask 7y ago
It's largely a game or done for the novelty value, I think, for many of them - kind of like buying a certificate that says you named a star or an asteroid. I ran across one that had my name as a .com (something I'd obviously want)
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by zebraflask 7y ago
If the boot camp is used as a get up to speed mechanism by someone with a previous technical background of some kind, even tangential, I guess it could work out sometimes. I tried to look for a junior dev recently and was flooded with boot
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Anecdotal, but I used to work in an IT department where some areas had good, or at least tolerable, ventilation and some very clearly did not. The difference in moods and productivity between teams in each was distinct enough to notice, but
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by zebraflask 7y ago
I think it's a very reasonable decision. Instagram's claim to to fame is the quality of its content.
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Think about it this way - what if you post something you know is well made and people will like, but it might take some time to gain some traction? If you have a post sitting there with only a handful of likes, that might prevent potential
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by zebraflask 7y ago
This sounds like a very sensible idea. Why not move it to its own area where the tourist crowds can have their selfies and, if they're done at that point, go do something else without clogging things up for the rest of the visitors? Fr
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by zebraflask 7y ago
I think the tenor of what you're trying to express is that smart kids shouldn't be abused for being smart. Not a controversial opinion. Making them unnecessarily cut off from everyone else who isn't quite as "gifted&quot
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Just wanted to chime in that your site is a go-to when looking for new color variations and palettes.
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by zebraflask 7y ago
It is a great book for its genre - modern fantasy without the cheesiness that I think Bloom didn't like about popular fantasy series. I didn't know he hated Harry Potter. Raises my opinion of him.
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Very true. Everybody used to grouse at those 7 AM PE classes when I was in high school, which have since been cut from what I've heard, but they really did get kids in the habit of assuming that regular exercise is just an expected thi
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by zebraflask 7y ago
I find excuses to take short breaks during the day where I can walk somewhere. If there's a choice between the stairs or an elevator - the stairs. Little things like that are low impact, but they add up.
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Well, of course, this all makes perfect sense. If a company pushes out a bad product or service or other generally subpar what have you, the first line of defense is to make it as difficult as possible for customers to have any good resolut
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by zebraflask 7y ago
The "show pony" remark in the article, I think, has a large grain of truth. There is something cringeworthy about being singled out in that manner.
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Exactly this.
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by zebraflask 7y ago
I agree with this view. Technical precision only goes so far, and it's very easy to tell the difference between a performance that is technically precise but essentially lifeless, versus one that is also technically "precise enoug
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Interestingly enough, I recently received a bulk email from GEDMatch.com about exactly this subject. They changed their TOS so that now users need to explicitly opt in to sharing their data with law enforcement. That's good for user pr
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by zebraflask 7y ago
I'm in that age bracket myself, and have fortunately avoided most of the abuses described here. Like the other posters are saying, the real problem is that learning how to develop good software (or any other technical product) takes ti
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by zebraflask 7y ago
Depends quite a bit on how much the "freelancing" brings in, doesn't it? There's a potential self-contradiction to this view that I'd like to tease out. Say you're "freelancing" and doing well enough

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