jami

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by jami 12y ago
Meetings.
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by jami 13y ago
I bet they did occasionally check. And leaving it at, "Hm, that's weird. Oh well!" was where it went from problem to disaster.
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by jami 13y ago
It sounds like he's had money for most of his adult life, but he clearly still remembers that not everyone is as lucky.
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by jami 13y ago
It's great that this author's upbringing was such that a robotics class for girls wasn't needed. My mom also taught her daughters that we're people, so of course I wanted a computer like the other smart kids at school (i
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by jami 13y ago
In a world of unlimited bandwidth, I'd prefer to leave my wi-fi open (I won't live in fear of terrorists war-driving on my specific block), but I saw this framed QR code for wi-fi password idea on Pinterest: http://www.
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by jami 13y ago
I don't know how many other people track their book collection this way, but the ability to import a Goodreads shelf would be useful to me. I have an "own" shelf on Goodreads to track what I have in my home/Kindle. A one
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by jami 13y ago
This is a good visualization of drone strikes in Pakistan: http://drones.pitchinteractive.com/ Edit: I don't completely love focusing on the technology behind killing innocent people in war. Whether the planes are pilo
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by jami 13y ago
Whoops, I thought Hacker News' standards were generally higher than "whatever Google barfs up when I type in my prejudiced view point." But you're the one with the karma here.
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by jami 13y ago
At least 40% of the wage gap isn't explained by the factors you cite. http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/labor/news/2013/04/09...
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by jami 13y ago
"All available evidence supports that notion." Your citations for your assertions that feminists are liars and women like to be paid less are awfully thin.
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by jami 13y ago
So much wisdom. I don't know what the author does for a living, but I hope if it's product management, he get the piles of cash for it he very clearly deserves.
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by jami 13y ago
We had a fareless area in downtown Portland for many years. It was no sketchier than the routes going to the 'burbs, and it wouldn't have made sense as a "makeshift homeless shelter", since the free part was only a few m
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by jami 13y ago
I'm experiencing extreme envy at these private room stories. I had my first child in a great hospital with the same room all to my family for our full two-day stay. For my current pregnancy, I switched care providers, but I chose the new mi
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by jami 13y ago
Yeah, I have HTML for Babies and have tried it on my kid a couple times. Very fun idea, not a fun read.
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by jami 13y ago
I opened the article in hopes of advice on improving my "hacking strength". Alas, it was about actual weightlifting, which... maybe I'll have time for again some day. But I clicked the "my son" link in the post, and might.net has a free pas
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by jami 13y ago
I disagree with the suggestion that the American minimum wage is in a better place because it is lower. Keeping working people poor so wealthier people can afford more things (whether they are things the likes of me understand like bread (.
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by jami 13y ago
I don't think you mean to suggest that working families should live in poverty (America, heck yeah!) so the leisure class can spend less on video games.
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by jami 13y ago
I think disclosing ahead of time is the best advice. Think of the interview as an opportunity to start working with your company on how to get the most from you. With three years' experience, you may still be very young, so you may not have
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by jami 13y ago
Whoops, I meant that judging by c.o.'s username, we're all on Team More Ladies In Tech Good. I recognized her username because with more time, I would have liked to use her company's API on a project I worked on.
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by jami 13y ago
Judging by the username, you are preaching to the head of the choir on women belonging in tech. Her point about getting attention for the wrong reasons is a fair one, as is yours about role models. Who knows what's ideal, besides continuing
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by jami 14y ago
I would not have reacted the same way in this set of circumstances -- I feel sort of bad for those dudes wondering why their picture was being taken -- but I am far from "furious" with Adria. I will, on the other hand, never do business wit
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by jami 14y ago
If you're looking to marry a woman who is the equivalent of a diamond -- a pretty thing to have with you always (well, until she gets old and decays, on a much shorter time scale than the diamond) -- and she wants a diamond, give her the da
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by jami 14y ago
The answer to the first half of your question is no, so the whole question evaluates to false, whatever the second half may be.
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by jami 14y ago
Hilarious. It wouldn't take much "research" to find out that Automattic is the Acquia of WordPress. Poor kid.
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by jami 14y ago
Agreed! An MBA type at a hackathon abruptly told me that writing code (the thing I do for a living and often for fun) was too boring. I said that if you want to make something bad enough, you'll figure it out. He told me at the end of the d
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by jami 14y ago
Everything that goes online is kind of online for as long as the Internet Archive and Library of Congress decide it should be. But I started worrying about where my account info might end up (I should really worry about that before signin
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by jami 14y ago
I've only been to hackathons that last eight hours tops and usually involve terrific beer and food (ahh, Portland...). Especially as a mom with a full-time job, I love the focus on getting things done at hackathons, as contrasted with other
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by jami 14y ago
Awesomely honest and painful story. This happened somewhat in reverse to someone I worked with. He was restoring from a backup. He didn't notice the "drop tables" aspect, assuming, as one might, that a backup would simply supplement new stu
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by jami 14y ago
Pur claims to remove 99% of pharmaceuticals and Brita something like 97%. Whether autistic fish have implications for human children or not, getting unnecessarily dosed with hormones, antibiotics, and psychiatric drugs doesn't seem like a g