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by zippergz 5y ago
Sam's is more upscale than Wal-Mart, but in my experience it is very much the "Wal-Mart of warehouse stores" in that it feels less nice than Costco in the same area. I'm sure it varies, that's just based on the ones
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by zippergz 5y ago
PMP is about project management, not product management. Not really related.
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by zippergz 5y ago
I hope Peter Norton got paid enough to be worth enduring this running of his once good name into the ground.
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by zippergz 5y ago
This reminds me of something I have been wondering. If my goal is to programmatically create beautifully typeset documents (on par with modern high quality books or magazines), are there any great options? I don't care about mathematic
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by zippergz 5y ago
Yeah, this is a bummer for me. I don't really like crew cab (either how it looks, or how it compromises bed length vs. overall truck length), and this really doesn't need it.
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by zippergz 5y ago
First, there is a difference between precision and accuracy. I’ve had cheap thermometers that are 10-20 degrees off. That does make a difference. Second, for the thermapen it’s really about very fast readings and durability more than accura
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by zippergz 5y ago
This is all well and good if you build your product from the beginning with the vision that it will some day be sold by sales people to huge companies. But if your expectation is that it will always be self service, a bunch of design and en
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by zippergz 5y ago
The board of directors replaced a founder CEO with an external CEO, new CEO hired a new exec team. Edit: To clarify, things were going well, but the company was scaling and the founder did not want to be CEO of a large company because he wa
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by zippergz 5y ago
I have some direct experience with this kind of thing on the vendor side and here is how it happened: 1. Launch a SaaS app that people like, with self-service signup and monthly billing by credit card. 2. Continue to grow and become more su
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by zippergz 6y ago
It's a testament to how well it was done that these people can buy the computers and not have to know anything except that it's new and fast.
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by zippergz 6y ago
For me a touch screen as a remote is even worse than the terrible Apple TV remote. I like being able to pick it up and use it without looking at it (and without lighting up the dark room if we’re watching a movie or something).
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by zippergz 6y ago
These apps do not intercept the calls. All they can do is call an API to tell the OS a list of numbers to block. This is good from a privacy standpoint but bad from an effectiveness standpoint, because apps can't do any real-time analy
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by zippergz 6y ago
I've attempted this transition a few times, and keep failing. It's not so much that the apps are inferior than that my habits with Adobe are so ingrained. It's very hard to force myself to keep using Affinity long enough to g
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by zippergz 6y ago
"Relax" is right up there with "no offense, but" as a way to start a message to someone.
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by zippergz 6y ago
FWIW I have never had upnp enabled and I don't recall any cases where it's caused a problem for me. Certainly my wife and I are on videoconferences all day and they work fine. I am completely with you that I can't have networ
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by zippergz 6y ago
The prices we are comparing against are Meraki, Aruba, Ruckus, etc. I would be shocked if Ubiquiti was similar in price to those even in the UK.
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by zippergz 6y ago
This aspect was so frustrating to me. He's far too dismissive of the reasons people spend money and buy things. Yes, some people spend money on Louis Vuitton bags and fancy cars to show off. But other things people spend money on do le
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by zippergz 6y ago
Correct. I have a hierarchy of priorities, and pretty much the top of the list is avoiding stops/layovers/plane changes. If Southwest has a nonstop flight and the others don't, I will fly them regardless. That's the case
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by zippergz 6y ago
I have a lot of friends in SF. At least in the tech industry, it seems that the main reason people live in SF despite the significant downsides is for career options and pay. So I'd guess that the SF dating pool is already strongly ske
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by zippergz 6y ago
The main thing I don't love about backwards seats in both planes and trains is it feels much more intimate/invasive with the (presumable) stranger on the other side. Even if in reality they are further away than they'd be if
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by zippergz 6y ago
I fly Southwest quite a bit (well, did before covid...) because their routes and timing work well for me. But I absolutely despise their boarding system. Or, at least, I despise the lack of seat assignments. I care a lot about what seat I g
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by zippergz 6y ago
I'm happy for this person if this works well for them. For me, no thanks. One of the reasons I feel much more productive as on my solo project than at work is that I don't have this kind of overhead. I don't need to write tes
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by zippergz 6y ago
Maybe that is the statewide average, but I've haven't paid anything close to that low in years.
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by zippergz 6y ago
I almost bought a WSJ sub during a recent sale, and decided against it specifically because I checked and it said I'd have to call them to cancel.
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by zippergz 6y ago
I was on Twitter early, and my experience is no, it was very different. It's possible that stuff existed in some circles I wasn't running in, but I didn't see any of it. Facebook was so different (pretty locked down to just y
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by zippergz 6y ago
I know this is kind of the opposite of the (mostly joking) point I made that you replied to. But the thing I find bizarre is that people can't understand why other people oppose change in the place they live in. Most people choose plac
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by zippergz 6y ago
I've lived in several US cities over the course of my life, and the only constant is that whoever you talk to, the problems are caused by the people who moved there after them.
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by zippergz 6y ago
I think people are also assuming that the "market" rate for tech jobs in these "low COL" areas keeps up with the cost of living. I am here to tell you that it does not, in the cases I'm familiar with. Especially in
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by zippergz 6y ago
To be clear, there is an implicit limit because there’s an overall limit on how much you can contribute to a 401k each year...
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by zippergz 6y ago
The companies I worked at had sourcers and resume screeners who did exactly that. Mostly but not all contractors. Not necessarily well-paid, but humans nonetheless.

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