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by rebelshrug 3y ago
Snap Circuits are great: https://www.elenco.com/snapcircuits/ Also a big fan of Legos (and so are my kids). Highlights magazine is great for that age and can fill up some time. Step-by-step drawing books can also be fu
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by rebelshrug 4y ago
My wife was shut out of her paid accounts, and had difficulty reaching customer service. She met many others who experienced the same as paying customers of Google.
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by rebelshrug 4y ago
Paid accounts. She got through to customer support, they just weren’t able or willing to provide any information.
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by rebelshrug 4y ago
We have bad support and customer service experiences quite a bit, and don’t feel a need to “tell the entire world.” Our experience with Google led to a considerable loss of income. There’s also the problem where they disabled every product
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by rebelshrug 4y ago
No. She moved to other services. No more eggs in one basket. I moved my side business off of GCP, and switched my personal email from gmail to another provider.
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by rebelshrug 4y ago
I posted this in another thread, but it’s relevant here: Google disabled my wife's voice number and business account for several weeks, right after she ordered new business cards, signs, and started a marketing campaign. They continued
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by rebelshrug 5y ago
I donate money to some open source projects, and also to the FSF and EFF. I was also able to get previous employers to match my donations. Good reminder for me to see if my current employer will do that.
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by rebelshrug 5y ago
> I do see a lot of people extrapolating from what is essentially individual customer support up to company customer support. It's not far off extrapolating from a bad experience as an Amazon customer to AWS being a bad option – a c
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by rebelshrug 5y ago
Typo, corrected. See edit.
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by rebelshrug 5y ago
Typo, corrected. See edit.
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by rebelshrug 5y ago
edit: typo, changed $700,000 to $70,000. Also note that isn't income, but revenue. > For a certain size of customer this problem does go away > We have an account manager, have received lots of support from Google in setting up,
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by rebelshrug 5y ago
Google disabled my wife's voice number and business account for several weeks, right after she ordered new business cards, signs, and started a marketing campaign. They continued to charge her for Google ads each week. Her accounts wer
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by rebelshrug 5y ago
Several years ago, I worked on some open source projects that involved Racket. The community and Matthew Felleisen in particular were very helpful, and it sticks with me that the project founder took time to teach me idiomatic/correct
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by rebelshrug 5y ago
> One thing Amazon doesn’t bring up is that athletes train for an event with a definite end date. Athletes aren’t competing day in and day out, and they have time to rest and recuperate in between. The comparison becomes even more ridic
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by rebelshrug 6y ago
I can see that story ending like this: "... and that's how our startup failed."
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by rebelshrug 6y ago
> Are you suggesting there might be an issue because they are ‘using your resources’ to do this? Not suggesting, but asking. It certainly feels invasive to me, though.
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by rebelshrug 6y ago
Here's one of a few articles that I found: https://www.npr.org/2020/05/13/854014403/your-boss-is-watchi... Your company might be less intrusive than the norm.
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by rebelshrug 6y ago
Do managers or HR personnel have the ability to dig deeper?
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Ask HN: What can employers monitor while you work from home?
11 points by rebelshrug 6y ago|12 comments
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by rebelshrug 8y ago
interested in this, too
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by rebelshrug 10y ago
Curious about the name - why Floyd?
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by rebelshrug 10y ago
I'm a customer, not a Thimble employee - but here are the instructions for the 1st kit: https://learning.thimble.io/modules/wi-fi-bot-part-1 Should give you an idea of what's included.
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by rebelshrug 12y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with your suggestions. It is meant for people who've never coded before, with the end goal of introducing programming concepts in a friendly, easy-to-understand manner. My hope is that it encourages peo
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Show HN: TryCode.io: A Simple, Interactive Coding Tutorial for Beginners(trycode.io)
9 points by rebelshrug 12y ago|2 comments
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by rebelshrug 12y ago
Great job! When will comment voting be implemented? Also, in comments - would be great if links were clickable, and if the user could highlight and copy text.
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by rebelshrug 12y ago
Very cool - just installed both.
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by rebelshrug 12y ago
>> Perhaps readers are too conditioned by the mathematician G.H. Hardy quote, "math is a young man's game" [1] in which he was talking about about intellectual output. Readers might just be conditioned to taking things
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by rebelshrug 12y ago
No - companies invest a lot of resources into their software development processes, and changing processes often involves a significant investment of it's own, not to mention a slow down in productivity.
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by rebelshrug 12y ago
>> Consider some meanings of "cultural fit" Good point, and I can see how showing a video like this to your coworkers could be construed as a subversive act - particularly if the company has invested significant resources to
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by rebelshrug 12y ago
here's Dave Thomas' blog post on the subject: http://pragdave.me/blog/2014/03/04/time-to-kill-agile/

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