dirtybird04

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by dirtybird04 2y ago
10+ year resident of Vancouver (the Canadian one, eh) here. Saw a similar increase in both Van and Dallas during that time period, knew something fishy was going now. Now we know it was a coordinated attack on all housing and equity using d
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by dirtybird04 2y ago
As another Canadian (who is living in the US and working in tech), this is just naive on so many levels. Firstly, unicorn valuations does not necessarily mean innovation. There is nothing innovative about the Salesforces and Zendesks of the
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by dirtybird04 3y ago
I've used Retool and absolutely love it. It's a godsend for folks like me who want to create quick internal tools without delving into frontend frameworks and code. It's very drag-and-drop, intuitive, and easy to use. I descr
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by dirtybird04 3y ago
Just say "Eid Mubarak" with a warm smile, should be good. Could be followed by a friendly hug and a gift of sweetmeats but that's mostly for family & friends. And for the curious: the proper response to an "Eid Mubar
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
You sound like a hoot to be around. Hope you find some peace within yourself and stop telling others how to live their lives.
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
Thank you for the recommendation! These guys sound hilarious and I am really looking forward to listening to the whole series
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
> ‘The Wire’ Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60 > My Struggle Session at Stanford Law School > Two gifts to Trump family from foreign nations are missing, report says > Michigan Is Becoming The Anti-Florida On LGBTQ Rights ― And A Lo
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
Lookup Marvis app. It's an Apple Music replacement UI meant for heavy album listeners, really improved my everyday music listening experience
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
Look up SongShift app, might be of some use. I was able to successfully migrate my playlists out of Spotify and into AppleMusic seamlessly.
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
So we're just going to pretend that Season 5 of The Wire never happened? Because that story sure stuck out like a sore thumb. My point is, all shows have their ups and downs. Sopranos/BB/Wire were great and definitely kicksta
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
You're not wrong about things as they stand. However, you do conveniently leave out that it was the US toppling the Shah of Iran that resulted in a religious wave taking over the whole region. And it was the US, again, that armed and t
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
I recently read there that someone waited 9 months to go through Google's hiring process. That's a LOOOONG time to be waiting around for one job offer, it's ridiculous! Tech hiring in America has been broken for about a decad
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
>Amazon basically put malls out of business which are hugely environmentally destructive. I'm all for tech doing good but this is a hugeeeee stretch
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
That was when silicon valley was still run by computer nerds. Those days aren't coming back buddy, time to move on
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by dirtybird04 4y ago
The comment you're referring to blamed "capital flight from Asia" and "local or foreign millionaires". How did you get to "literally blaming Asians"? That's a pretty big jump there bud. Also, capital
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by dirtybird04 5y ago
Is Apple Music really crap? Their UI isn't the slickest but their service, audio quality, and music catalog is top notch. And unlike their Swedish counterparts, they aren't trying to push crappy podcasts on me to up their revenue
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by dirtybird04 5y ago
I bought an Apple Watch and Powerbeats Pro headphones just for my morning walks/runs. When it works, it works like a charm and gives me the perfect start to the day. Bluetooth and I are best friends on those days! But once every two we
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by dirtybird04 5y ago
Yes, it's entirely soft skills. But they work very hard at using their soft skills to solve trivial business problems. Every worked a marketing or revops job? It's mind-numbingly trivial, the likes of you and I wouldn't last
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by dirtybird04 5y ago
Some beliefs and values are personal, and thus, intangible. Try to recognize that not everything good in life has to be (or even can be) quantified.
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by dirtybird04 5y ago
At least it's static. Spotify keeps pushing music videos as cover art for singles and it's annoying as hell. If I wanted to see a video, I would've used other platforms.
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by dirtybird04 5y ago
Went through interview rounds last year and I was asked a recursion questions for a DS interview. Been doing this for 10 years and have never come across a data problem that only recursion could solve. But I remembered it from university da
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by dirtybird04 5y ago
>Broadband is the single wire that delivers free speech, a free press, free assembly, education, family life, employment, health, opportunity, civic and political engagement, and every other necessity for a decent and dignified life in t
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by dirtybird04 6y ago
Real tv fans have come to accept that the last season of The Wire and the last episode of Breaking Bad are pretty blah. We just shake our head and move on.
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by dirtybird04 6y ago
A wise man once told me "Never count another man's money" and I'll pass that on to you. Figure out what you want in life, stop comparing to the Adam Neumanns and Jeff Bezos of the world, that's a surefire way to los
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Lessons in Constructive Solitude from Thoreau(nytimes.com)
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
Whippin' the llama's ass
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
I don't know or care much about Stallman and the situation, don't really have a dog in this fight. What I do know is that "It's been like this for decades" is never an appropriate defense.
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
Kinda off-topic, but an interesting comment in response to a particularly engaging thread: "Usually AMA subjects ignore questions that aren't softballs. Props to you for actually going through and answering. Thanks!" Yeah, th
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
The first time I heard of "Florida Man", I thought that shit was made up. Now I'm incredibly fascinated (and perhaps a bit scared) by it.
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by dirtybird04 7y ago
These are nice achievements. Impressive, even. But that's a very low bar for a "hero" imo.

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