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by thedz 4y ago
I don't know that replaceability (true or not) should have that much of an outsized impact on the expectations of humane treatment I realize capitalism rewards scarcity here, but imo this is a piece explicitly about the tolls that tend
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by thedz 4y ago
i've never seen a company take action from someone leaving, and any push for change has to be sustained by people still at the company. i'd be curious if anyone has ever seen it happen
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by thedz 4y ago
i think there's also a fallacy there that you can't work on billion dollar cases while also pursuing million dollar ones even if they were the same people, relatively simple cases like this probably helps provide some sense of clo
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by thedz 5y ago
like art, not all software must be commercial
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by thedz 5y ago
Pretend Wordle was an open source MIT licensed game that someone created and released online. Or pretend Wordle is one of the countless examples of freeware ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware ) that exist online. W
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by thedz 5y ago
> Being an engineer who wasn’t happy with a situation like this, I gave my manager a piece of my mind. She brought gender into the equation and said that I couldn’t speak to a girl like that, so I decided to hang up the phone. I'm
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by thedz 5y ago
Talk about property taxes next tim
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by thedz 6y ago
(this was published back in dec)
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by thedz 6y ago
This article is focusing on user customization in the wrong places. OS window chrome is mostly invisible to most users nowadays. The places where customization happens is within apps. Custom emojis, sticker packs, browser themes, slack th
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by thedz 6y ago
> They've solved the trust and the brand issue, and _that_ is their moat. I think they've solved it better than their competitors, but I'm not sure that they've solved it broadly for people using hospitality services.
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by thedz 6y ago
teachers at your school are able to directly effect organizational budgeting and spending?
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by thedz 6y ago
> $1 per mask to $10 per mask would still be very much affordable for everyone who really needs a mask teachers and many essential workers who need masks the most are also most vulnerable to unexpected expenses like PPE costs. and the or
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by thedz 6y ago
I've started using IFTTT to sent RSS feed updates over to my email, and I think I've finally found my preferred way of consuming feeds. My email client is actually much more powerful than most readers in letting me capture read st
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by thedz 6y ago
> Epic, btw, has the exact same kind of agreement with Sony, Microsoft, and Google, for access to their gaming platforms. All three of those companies are extracting the same 30% fee that Apple is. You don't have to agree to Epic&#x
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by thedz 7y ago
Interesting to also compare and contrast to his post on the initial acquisition by Yahoo: https://ma.tt/2013/05/yahooblr/
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by thedz 7y ago
> I was against banning Alex Jones > However, encouraging violence hmmm
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by thedz 7y ago
It's ironic to me that useplaintext.email uses formatting and design to communicate intention that would be impossible in a plaintext email
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by thedz 8y ago
Did some of y'all stop reading at half of the first sentence? The article isn't a parody, and is expressly saying that SF/Silicon Valley can be a pretty bad place to live, specifically with regards to the author mental health
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by thedz 8y ago
Did... you read the same article I did? The author describes a hyper competitive childhood that explicit took a mental and physical toll on the student body
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by thedz 8y ago
Ignoring for a second what should or shouldn't be allowed... now the moderators are just subjected to constant child porn or potential child porn, which, let's be honest, is still essentially the same issue re: their mental health
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by thedz 8y ago
Whatever the semantics of security by obsucrity, it's still not ideal that an unintentional screengrab or screen share could reveal the fully editable path of a doc (i much prefer the google docs method of being able to limit to specif
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$1.3M: the average bonus Juul employees get after a deal(vox.com)
1 points by thedz 8y ago|1 comments
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by thedz 8y ago
I actually feel a big difference when I upgrade, usually on the same 3-4 year cadence. Admittedly, the most recent cycle felt somewhat the same, but generally I see a boost in quality of life. Not things like how fast a script runs on a lar
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by thedz 8y ago
As with any other big cultural shift (I see some parallels with remote working), it looks like there must be processes and other practices/support systems/safeguards in place to make sure it runs smoothly.
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by thedz 8y ago
That's fair enough, it sounds like as with any other big cultural shift (I see some parallels with remote working), there must be processes and other safeguards in place to make sure it runs smoothly.
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by thedz 8y ago
It's important to note that the CEO makes pains to specify that it created a lack of work ethic in him : https://youtu.be/CJcTdA55aWA?t=65 Whether or it meant his employees were delivering less work wasn't mentio
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by thedz 8y ago
If it still gives a manager the last word though, and requires the employee not be present, that hardly seems fair.
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by thedz 8y ago
The initial analogy made me cringe, and to be honest, the rest of the post didn't change that impression too much. Reading past the prose and paeans to loyalty, a couple points stick out to me: > "we discovered that the speci
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by thedz 8y ago
(2017)
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by thedz 8y ago
I've talked to many otherwise perfectly rational folks who get worked up about avoiding MSG when it comes to Asian food — but still go out and buy liquid aminos or eat foods that are caked in it.

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