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by expathacker 8y ago
How exactly does "SF: dirty, and full of angry people with extremist positions who've never had to reflect on their own opinions." add anything to this conversation? This is just typical right-wing bias complaining that the
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by expathacker 8y ago
Sure. In the meantime, please leave the bay area since you hate it so much. If you're not from here, please don't visit, you'll be happier.
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by expathacker 8y ago
I definitely worry about this, I've had this phone number for almost 20 years now.
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by expathacker 8y ago
Google voice has been all but deprecated at this point. The form for buying credits has been broken for a year, and calls calls to my google voice number no longer get forwarded to my phone / google hangouts.
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by expathacker 8y ago
The problem with co-working spaces is that there are too many techies there. Sometimes they're fascinating and you want to engage with them, which destroys concentration (in a semi-welcome way), but more often-than not they're po
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by expathacker 8y ago
2038? Does this have to do with Epoch time ending somehow?
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by expathacker 8y ago
So essentially the republicans are trying to force (telephone pole) rent control onto cities ? Commies.
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by expathacker 8y ago
I recently began a new position at a company which has had a bit of turbulence in the past year. While getting up to speed someone said, "We had this other guy a while back who was great, but he ghosted us and we didn't realized
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by expathacker 8y ago
Glassdoor does provide the ability to review the interview process itself which somewhat fits the bill.
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by expathacker 8y ago
Considering Israel is increasingly succeeding in making it illegal for Americans to protest them, I would answer your question with, "A minute ago?"
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by expathacker 8y ago
You just described what it's like to work for all global arms contractors, not to mention Palantir. Cash Rules Everything Around Me -- Wu-Tang.
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by expathacker 8y ago
With my logging setup right now (ELK + Fluentd) org-wide we have ~120 dashboards, and the overall setup costs us about $750 per month in resources. This would be a 700% increase for us. A 2x-3x increase would be worth it I think, but not th
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by expathacker 8y ago
This is also one of my complaints about Duolingo to be honest, in that they only give you information about the lessons you're doing if you navigate to a specific page before starting an exercise (on the web interface, I haven't u
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Ask HN: How much more should I ask for as a full-time contractor?
2 points by expathacker 8y ago|1 comments
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by expathacker 8y ago
> A muslim shot up a gay night club, we don’t ban Islam or mosques or deplatform Muslims from the internet for holding similarly antisemitic views. To suggest such an action would be roundly decried and the person drummed out. This is a
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by expathacker 8y ago
Location: Istanbul (US Citizen / Digital nomad) Remote: Only Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Systems/Cloud Engineering (DevOps, buzzword of the day), Chef, Puppet, SaltStack, AWS, GCP, Terraform Resume/CV: https:/
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by expathacker 8y ago
Interesting choice of garments actually. Wearing a hoodie in America, especially if you're a young black male, gets you instantly profiled as a criminal. Whether or not the law says you're legal until you leave the store, if a cl
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by expathacker 8y ago
Hrm, thinking through this more, one of those guys from IT, Ryan, a big-hearted (literally) lumberjack of a guy died of congestive heart failure. Then our CEO died on his bicycle a few years back, and there was also a suicide of one of the
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by expathacker 8y ago
Absolutely, in America we tend to assume everybody is out to rob / harm everybody else and are always on guard. Especially if you're young, just having your hands in your pockets will get a store clerk following you around. My p
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by expathacker 8y ago
This reminds me somewhat of a non-profit retail store in San Francisco where I volunteered to pay off a pile of parking tickets. The store itself sold local artisanal housewares to help support a number of local AIDS/HIV-related charit
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by expathacker 8y ago
> Mr. Halligan, how was Napster back in those days? Like, do you have a blog about that time period? I was the "only" sysadmin when I was at Napster (We had 2 people in desktop support/it, one of whom actually died a few y
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by expathacker 8y ago
The real answer: I try to primarily type with my keyboard set to Turkish, which means autocorrect always changes this to the native spelling.
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by expathacker 8y ago
Well, I have an active social life, and I'm not a big fan of working in the evening, so sure I can adjust it, but it's frustrating. Turkey is a bird. The Turkish word for Turkey is Hindi (which is funny, because the Turkish word f
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by expathacker 8y ago
Türkiye did this a few years ago. Working remotely from here for a California company has been less than fun during the winter as my work day now ends at 21:00, severely hampering evening social / music outings.
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by expathacker 8y ago
If you've ever been to the San Francisco Bay Area, you'll find that this never happens. Quite the opposite in some cases, the influx of thousands of upper middle-class young techies has priced out families (and teachers). This low
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Turkey's Intelligence Agency Opens Digital Museum of Espionage(hurriyetdailynews.com)
1 points by expathacker 8y ago|0 comments
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by expathacker 8y ago
Can you please tell me whose abortion you've actually paying for lately? The laws around Planned Parenthood's funding are quite clear, and government money does not pay for abortions, which is misfortunate. Planned Parenthood is a
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by expathacker 8y ago
I would argue that all religious tax-dodges are scams if you're an atheist. My businesses and lack of faith don't get a free-ride, but I have to subsidize that of somebody else's? By this logic, it's a cool business hack
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by expathacker 8y ago
Sure I guess. tl;dr: Christian organization scams tax payers, recent conservative trends on Hacker News somehow makes this interesting?
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by expathacker 8y ago
What relevance does this have to Hacker News?

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