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by ohsnapman 4y ago
Racism in auto manufacturing seems to be as rampant as sexual harassment and discrimination in tech. Without even trying that hard: Ford: https://www.hometownstations.com/news/ford-employees-say-rac... GM: https:&#x2F
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by ohsnapman 8y ago
Does the word "long term" have no meaning, then? I agree it would be better to say "within the few 2 decades" or slap a timeframe on it. But this characterization is silly.
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
At Google there is a peer bonus benefit. You can peer bonus someone for doing something awesome. Each peer bonus is $150 before tax. You can list your peer bonuses on your promo packet. You can give as many of these out as you want ... with
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
Whoa, taxis showed up 2 out of 3 times for you? The official study has it at 49%: https://archives.sfmta.com/cms/rtaxi/documents/2005TaxiAvail... I even remember when the number was lower ...
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
Saw a lot of speculation about what ISIS does or does not do without actual links. Here are a few good ones I've seen in the past: https://www.wired.com/2015/11/isis-opsec-encryption-manuals-... This podcast
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
I've been using this on Android for weeks. It's super fast, blocks a lot of annoying ads (think jumpy mobile overlays). No bookmarks or tabs, so if you're looking at a recipe for a dish you're making, there's always
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
What's up with reductionist posts like this every time a company announces layoffs? Scaling out a global business takes a lot more work than it does to run a no-SLA side project. And you hire people to build out businesses that don&#x2
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
> I lived a couple of blocks from Uber's HQ's on 10th/Market and I went to lots of meetups there. People I met were happy and proud of the company. I'm not really sure this is a good measure of the toxicity of a compa
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
> It reminds me of Thomas Edison sabotaging Tesla, and yet, here we are, on A/C. Dangerous position to take. This is pretty much saying that the ends justify the means, given enough time. That because winners write history, that in
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
This is incorrect. Ask anyone who has had an insider peek of any on-demand company's finances. The largest cost to all of these companies is employee acquisition, which continues to rise. Take your own advice and do the unscientific th
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by ohsnapman 9y ago
I chose to read this author as someone who very much believes in the black-and-white lines of the letter of the law. He's an interesting guy, for better or for worse. On the one hand, he's the guy who is willing to put his own nam
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by ohsnapman 10y ago
Ah, yes, @dpp, creator of the Scala web framework Lift: https://blog.linkedin.com/2009/06/15/video-linkedin-scala-te... (Video is offline) To which Twitter's Nick Kallen replied on stage, incredulously,
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by ohsnapman 10y ago
> The deal will mean the Pebble stock held by employees is worthless, two of the people said. The money will instead go to debt holders, vendors, some of its main equity investors, and Kickstarter refunds for the Time 2 and Pebble Core o
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by ohsnapman 10y ago
I made the mistakes of backing a number of smartwatches on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. The Pebble, for its faults, was still the most stable, polished item out of all the crowdfunded items I've ever back. Separate note: I don't cro
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by ohsnapman 10y ago
There's a lot of disinformation about martial arts in any online discussion, especially because people are obsessed with determining which martial arts is "the best". That's a sort of reductionist argument that never tak
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by ohsnapman 11y ago
There's a circle here that you left out: More riders = more drivers. More drivers = more riders opening that app first. I have personally learned to check Uber first before Lyft because I know Uber drivers are closer and the fare estim
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by ohsnapman 11y ago
The Roman government at least paid for the bread and circuses, right? They didn't ask the populace to pay for the right to pay for circus season tickets ...
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by ohsnapman 11y ago
N=~10, my friends are about 70/30 Uber/Lyft usage. Sometimes one will have lower surge pricing. Some have Lyft for Work and that drives a lot of usage. UberPool for longer rides with no time urgency that would otherwise be much mo
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by ohsnapman 12y ago
I'm not convinced CIOs are thinking about Reader or Wave. Before entering a big deal, it would make sense for people to read the deprecation policy. Unfortunately, the Cloud Platform deprecation policies are unclear. The terms of servi
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by ohsnapman 12y ago
michaelochurch is many things, but I don't have any doubts in my mind that one of his talents is writing a lot, and writing it really fast. http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/
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by ohsnapman 12y ago
Wait, really? Maybe if you come from writing Bash scripts.
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by ohsnapman 12y ago
An Apple Genius at an Apple store told my in-laws to kill their apps. Wish I was there in person to law down the law on that guy.
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by ohsnapman 12y ago
I suspect this isn't as big of a deal as you think it is in terms of making Android more successful. I'm not saying it wouldn't be nice, I'm just saying: why should this be a priority in the grand scheme of things? A bet
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by ohsnapman 12y ago
Because The Wire is not about instant gratification. It's layers on layers that pay off in multiples by the time you're into the later seasons. Even season two, by far the weakest season, is a total treat the second time you watch
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by ohsnapman 12y ago
Questionable - remember that interest over the life of a 30 year loan often dwarfs the principal itself. Depending on how long you live at a place, whether the price goes up or not if you sell and various sales costs, your tax "savings
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by ohsnapman 13y ago
That's worse than disheartening to me. That's straight up disgusting. I haven't seen the threats yet but it doesn't surprise me.
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by ohsnapman 13y ago
My gut tells me there was probably sexism at GitHub, drama with founder's wife, AND she was probably not blameless either in this whole mess. It was disheartening to me to see people rally to her on Twitter and immediately cry for the
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by ohsnapman 13y ago
I agree that Valleywag was more neutral, but I disagree that the quality of Valleywag has gone up. Does anyone remember the old Owen Thomas/Nick Denton era of Valleywag, when they would actually get insider scoops? Sam Biddle and Nitas
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by ohsnapman 13y ago
This is something that works in theory, but not real life. Internet is becoming a utility, and most people only ever have experienced one utility in their life. People in the SF Bay Area choose between AT&T DSL and Comcast cable interne
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by ohsnapman 13y ago
A blue light is also good for dealing with jet lag. Here's one from Philips that has a rechargeable battery and is portable: http://www.truesunmedical.com/blue-light/53-philips-golite-b...

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