reading-at-work

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by reading-at-work 6y ago
A coworker had his work Macbook synced up to his iPhone messages app, and was getting blown up during a meeting by his friends in a group chat ranting about Trump. It could have been way worse. I've never understood why people sync the
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
That's weird, that's not the case for me. Mine still goes through the length of ringing with the call on the screen.
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
That's pretty funny, and would be better without the old "blonde" trope. I forgot that was ever a thing.
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
Not surprised. Tech companies (Facebook and Google in this case, and probably others) have been known to retain Pinkerton agents to monitor employees. Yes, those Pinkertons. “Among other services, Pinkerton offers to send investigators to
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
> My company is generally behind the curve so now people have been bitten by the REST, JSON, Microservice bug. They don’t know why or what it really is but things have to be done that way. This resonates with me. My first job out of coll
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
> At the end of the day Uber/Lyft will be just another taxi company, albeit with a less professional set of drivers. What city do you ride taxis in? Because the taxis I've ridden have spanned a range of tolerably annoying to do
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
I think the point of the person you're replying to is that there are other methods of assessment which would render plagiarism ineffective - such as in-person presentations and conversations. But, teachers don't have the time and
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
> we all know the project will fail unless someone develops well-perfoming, human-level AGI before Q4/2020 This is hilarious, and makes me wonder how many similar corporate AI initiatives are under way in the world right now.
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
Surprised I had to scroll this far to find this - same here!
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by reading-at-work 6y ago
WorldMaker's answer to this comment is great. I would TL;DR it by saying that while there are always multiple phone companies to choose from, there is usually only one cable or fiber internet company, which is what matters. In every st
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
> If preserving wildlife and forests can be equated with preserving suburban lifestyles and property values It can't, and shouldn't, be equated to that. Denser urban living, i.e. building more housing in cities, reduces suburba
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I wish I had enough karma to downvote this. Snide comments like that are not helpful to productive discussion. Save it for other sites.
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I disagree that it's an automatic red flag. 8 hours? Yeah that's too long. But I would rather do a 2 hour take-home project than a 2 hour whiteboard coding interview. Edit to add: as far as getting paid, nobody expects to get paid
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
Yup. When the State wouldn't help communities who needed protection, the Mafia families stepped in to serve that purpose. Of course, that's not to lionize them, but it explains why and how they came to power.
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I think the underlying point, as expressed by the author, is that trendy new architecture patterns will never be a panacea for bad engineering, though that's often how they're implicitly sold as ideas.
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I disagree. If that were the case many of those smaller species would have gone extinct ages ago due to natural predation from wild foxes and ferrets. Domesticated cats are a new issue because they often hunt with the same voracity of wild
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I tend to agree with you, but I think this lends itself to a bigger philosophical debate of how much social responsibility a company has when it wields the incredible amount of power that Amazon does. And to that I have no answer.
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
The linked article heavily implies that legal action could be taken against Amazon for this, by bringing up other antitrust investigations that are happening. Hence the debate about legality.
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
No one is saying you should be compelled to like it, they're saying that the fuss over it is moot because it's not as big a deal as it's made out to be.
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I'm honestly not sure if they're entitled to fairness. Sure, I guess they choose to use Amazon so they could just as well choose not to. But Amazon's massive market presence means that small sellers could take a huge hit by n
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I agree with your sentiment that their gadgets are mostly glorified surveillance apparatus. However, that's not a valid reason to bar them from promoting those products. It doesn't really have a bearing on the scenario I described
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I don't like it, but I don't fault them for it. My exact thought when browsing their Cyber Monday deals was: "Oh, looks like they're mostly promoting their own stuff. Meh." close tab I don't get all the fuss
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
To be the devil's advocate, what if those deals really were the best? What if Amazon sold those items at such a loss that no other deals could compare? (That's probably not the case, but just thinking hypothetically). Also: > T
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
Same here. The big areas where I find DDG lacking and Google to really shine are technical questions (e.g. "what's wrong with my code, I'm getting stack trace X"), live sports coverage, and of course anything to do with
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
This activates my existential dread pretty hard. The idea of never existing again after I die and there being no afterlife is pretty scary by itself, but the idea of this life repeating infinitely is somehow even worse. Though I guess each
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
Part of me suspects this is an over-correction against decades of prohibition and negative misinformation coming from D.A.R.E and other such programs. The legalization movement has been touting myriad medicinal benefits for a while, but tha
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
> Not because agile is bad, but because the people in charge of agile are usually bad. That's the crux of it. Currently working at an org which is "Agile" and has Scrum masters, but management still insists on measuring wo
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
I couldn't agree more. I learned so much from that interview, that literally no other interviewer would ever talk to James about. Besides beekeeping, they also talked about hunting and other outdoorsy stuff that I had no idea James did
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
If you think 8chan and 4chan haven't made it uniquely easy for groups like this to spread their message, you're being deliberately naïve. It's not about eradicating the behavior entirely, because yes, that's not truly po
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by reading-at-work 7y ago
Don't forget the Google Fi outage from a short while ago: https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/3/18650851/google-fi-service...

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