3maj

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by 3maj 4y ago
pretty much, or if you're put in an extremely quiet room you'll start to lose it.
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by 3maj 4y ago
I thought this too until I learnt what tinnitus actually is. Tinnitus isn't your ear ringing, its you losing hearing from loud noises and the loss of said hearing fucking with your brain and then due to that your brain creates that rin
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Ask HN: What are some companies you refuse to work for?
4 points by 3maj 4y ago|4 comments
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by 3maj 4y ago
Couple of comments. Hedge Funds don't invest in trailer parks, if they did they wouldn't be hedge funds they would be PE firms or REIT's. While the US Industrial Complex is a cancer to the system I don't think they'
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by 3maj 4y ago
For the last 5-10 years one of the most popular strategies for mid-sized PE firms has been the dental clinic roll up.
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by 3maj 4y ago
Laughs in Northern Canadian
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by 3maj 5y ago
Looks at wahoo kickr in corner Hello old friend, we meet again.
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by 3maj 5y ago
Project/Product Manager.
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by 3maj 5y ago
There is a lack of cybersecurity investments in almost every industry. The issue is that the executives making the decisions 1) Usually aren't knowledgable about CyberSec and 2) don't justify the investment because it's not s
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by 3maj 5y ago
I generally suggest that all dev teams send at least one person that's in the trenches daily to the steering committee meetings and any other decision making meetings. This way, there's always someone that can keep expectations in
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by 3maj 5y ago
I agree. If they sent me a home test with a custom programming language I would laugh and tell them to withdraw me from consideration. I'm busy, I'm not learning a new language so that you can pat yourself on the back, others migh
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by 3maj 5y ago
I'm looking at this from a PM's perspective and not a devs perspective so take it as you will. >he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he can't believe it's taken this long
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by 3maj 5y ago
Shoutout to the Slavic Homie Nikola Tesla, was one of the greatest inventors of all time but died in poverty.
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by 3maj 5y ago
Probably a big one. Drug overdoses have killed more 18-54 year olds in Canada than Covid has. Hell, in British Columbia there have been more drug overdoses than Covid deaths across all ages.
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by 3maj 5y ago
Government of Ontario (Province in Canada) published data months ago showing that young men were at higher risk from heart issues. Nobody cared and the all the local and federal news outlets refused to report on the numbers.
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by 3maj 5y ago
This is complete nonsense. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785v... In Israel (I use them because they have a fantastic dashboard) not a single individual under the age of 19 has died of cov
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by 3maj 5y ago
Worse, FB doesn't care about the facts and neither do journalists anymore. All that matters is clicks and political leanings.
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by 3maj 5y ago
Happens in manufacturing allll the time, especially if you're contracting our work to companies in India/China/Vietnam/etc.
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by 3maj 5y ago
As far as I'm concerned they're recreating Club Penguin.
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by 3maj 5y ago
Here's a wild idea, meet in person.
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by 3maj 5y ago
We're going to get to a point where instead of advertisers paying per click they'll pay per look since the glasses will be able to track eyeballs. Hell, there might be a premium that pays "x" per every millisecond spent
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by 3maj 5y ago
Twitter will never replace bbg.
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by 3maj 5y ago
Twitters Revenue/Employee Headcount (not counting any contractors) is currently around 636k/employee. As far as FAANG companies go Twitter has an over bloated workforce.
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by 3maj 5y ago
To be fair, this is one of the few non-profits that benefits most people and that is actually used day-to-day by the majority of people with an internet connection.
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by 3maj 5y ago
>Firms like GS, JPM, etc have fatter margins (I think) and can afford to pay devs/strats/etc. From what I've seen on my end the Insurance firms have started paying somewhat of a premium to compensate for the lack of "
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by 3maj 5y ago
If you haven't figured out that you should be quiet while robbing someones house after 13 attempts you deserve prison.
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by 3maj 5y ago
How many guys are there in North America that can be considered "experts" in Autonomous Driving? It can't be that many... Theres probably a couple at each of the major auto companies, a few at the major tech companies and the
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by 3maj 5y ago
100% Agree. I'll take the initial phone screening, learn more about the role and the team, but the last question I always have is something along the lines of: "I know you're extremely so in an attempt to not waste anyones t
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by 3maj 5y ago
When my father was diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer his sister, my aunt who is also a Dev, explained the situation to her team and took some time off here and there to help out. Even if theres nothing your coworkers can do they will be mo
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by 3maj 5y ago
The Day trading quant gets cold sweats as he reads this.

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