philstephenson

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by philstephenson 10d ago
> “That doesn’t invalidate their mission or overall contribution to the world at large;” Give me a break. Ends to not justify all means. This is a completely appropriate response by the state department.
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by philstephenson 2mo ago
As a Hacker News user and commenter, you are not the type of user he’s referring to.
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by philstephenson 3mo ago
To what end?
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by philstephenson 1y ago
Are you pitching or complaining? Because I can't tell.
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by philstephenson 2y ago
He doesn't know what he's talking about. Don't feed the trolls.
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by philstephenson 3y ago
Absolutely. I’ve had a very similar experience where a bunch of the paddles broke off that push the coffee into the hopper only a couple weeks after we bought it. It was completely our own fault, we had been grinding more coffee than the ho
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by philstephenson 3y ago
Seems like a question you could simply ask the interviewers up front. Establishing expectations about the task is useful anyway.
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by philstephenson 3y ago
I agree with you though about the cries about reverse racism. Not helpful to the discussion. But I also believe that when someone cries out bias or discrimination by some group because of underrepresentation or lack of diversity, they are i
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by philstephenson 3y ago
> Let me flip your quote back on you: how can intelligent people still believe in unbiased meritocracy being the default? Very few people I think would argue that systems based on meritocracy have zero bias. This is not the point. The p
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by philstephenson 3y ago
I understand the HN mods changing titles of sensationalist clickbait, but can we agree that maybe titles of articles in scholarly journals should not be changed?
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by philstephenson 4y ago
It's true that with Datadog, a spike in your usage can have a dramatic impact on your bill. This feels true though of any usage model. We've all read stories about out of control AWS bills. Datadog does at least provide some guard
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by philstephenson 6y ago
Lots of people here suggesting the main benefit of PowerShell is its object model and indeed that is very useful, but there are other great features as well. First and foremost, PowerShell basically has a command line parameter framework bu
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by philstephenson 9y ago
Hi shoenick. I just applied for a Software Engineer position through Nike's website, but your profile says you're an engineering manager. Mind messaging me with your email and I can pass along to my resume directly to you? Thanks!
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by philstephenson 13y ago
Good chefs will always tell you: Use the right knife for the right job. Can we not simply use our kitchen appliances and tools for what they were designed for? The author suggests (and I'm inclined to agree) that using a dishwasher to
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by philstephenson 14y ago
If you've ever spent some time reading some of the really good cookbooks you'll realize just how valuable they can be. While a 'minimum viable kitchen' may be a misleading title, the author is focusing an audience interested in more gourmet