vinhboy

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by vinhboy 3y ago
As someone who used to work in government contracting, this comment is so freaking true. The whole thing about contractors is so spot on. The only slight difference I would add is that the contractors will NOT hire the best talent, they wil
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by vinhboy 3y ago
Yahoo home page is actually very engaging (in a car wreck kind of way), and they haven't updated it much in years. I definitely believe they are doing well.
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by vinhboy 3y ago
The only site I know that died from instant user migration is Digg. Lots of sites died a slow death from users moving on to better platforms, but rarely does anything die from boycott that I know of.
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by vinhboy 3y ago
oddly specific... Don't know about Azure, but my AWS support tickets have always been answered with very helpful diagnosis.
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by vinhboy 3y ago
I'm curious what is the normal equity share given to board members? Is their advisory worth six years of engineering?
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by vinhboy 3y ago
Curious what is your skillset and experience that Google wants to recruit you so bad?
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by vinhboy 3y ago
That's probably like one of the coolest purpose built machine I've ever seen. In my head I originally thought they did it by hand, lol.
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by vinhboy 3y ago
The wide spectrum of the human experience never cease to amaze me. Reading the stories in this article just made that spectrum a little bit bigger. Just wild. I am too shocked to have any sort of moral opinion about it.
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by vinhboy 3y ago
Similar thing happened to me. Took a long time to realize there was a zombie Heroku instance running jobs. That horror when you delete code but it's still running, you're just so confused... I've forgotten how I resolved it,
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by vinhboy 3y ago
I was expecting a story about an eccentric recluse, but it turns out to be a story about a failing government. Good read nonetheless.
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by vinhboy 3y ago
Yep. Google paid like $2 per download of Firefox. It cost like 5 cents a click, for the "download Firefox" keyword, on Google Ads to bring someone to my website. Profit.
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by vinhboy 3y ago
Fun memory, I made like $40K selling Firefox downloads.... on google ads. Learned a lot about google ads and SEO. That was a lot of money for me as a poor kid from the TL.
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by vinhboy 4y ago
Around the same time, middle school I think, I was in the SF Public library playing MUD on the little terminal they reserved for searching books. We couldn't afford a computer, or internet, at home. The librarians tolerated us. Eventua
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by vinhboy 4y ago
those two things are not always mutually exclusive
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by vinhboy 4y ago
Wow that's an impressive backstory. Probably one of the more useful things I've seen come out of chatGPT
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by vinhboy 4y ago
I am really happy to see a story from Mastodon. A first for me on any social media. This is progress! Also, don't thieves usually turn off the phone immediately so you can't track anything.
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by vinhboy 4y ago
I tried developing on a PC... For whatever reason, my development setup (probably WSDL) crashes the PC every time it goes to sleep. Tried all kinds of remedies and it never worked. Got so fed up I deleted windows and run Linux... it's
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by vinhboy 4y ago
Accrualify | Java Developer | Full-time | Onsite/Hybrid | Sacramento, CA We're a small engineering team out of Sacramento building enterprise accounting software. We're looking for an experienced Java Developer to join our te
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by vinhboy 4y ago
I might get a lot of flame for this, but I would say this is probably true of most Rails project because Rails has a lot of great standards (opinions). I am not sure why people hate Rails, I love it exactly for this reason.
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by vinhboy 4y ago
> You have a handful of examples you're clinging to, which show some people doing something you don't like, so EVERYONE MUST BE DOING IT. I feel like more than 50% of this thread right now is doing exactly this and is unaware t
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by vinhboy 4y ago
> It honestly feels like no matter what you buy, you get more or less the same hardware, and you’re most likely getting a heavily overpriced product just because some company printed their logo on it. Isn't this like a known thing?
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by vinhboy 4y ago
Considering the value fast charging adds to my life, I am fine with it dying faster. I am willing to pay for that convenience. Same with cars. Remembering to plug in my phone at night, or carrying around portable spare batteries is a thing
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by vinhboy 4y ago
Oh weird, I've never heard of this. On my Bolt, the UsbA has Android auto, but no UsbC for fast charging. I bought a UsbC cigarettes adapter which allows me to fast charge, but I lose Android auto. My solution: splice together a UsbA a
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by vinhboy 4y ago
Isn't this only a problem if you use usb-a to usb-c cables? This is why I hate usb-a to usb-c cables with a passion. I wish they would stop making them. I cringe thinking about how many people are missing out on fast charge capabilitie
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by vinhboy 4y ago
Are you me? This perfectly describe something I have been wanting to do recently. I really do wish that everything that connect to "MY" network I can inspect freely. This stupid wireless lightbulb I have want to ping home to its m
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by vinhboy 5y ago
My RDS became unreachable for about 15 minutes.
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by vinhboy 5y ago
Logistically speaking, I wonder how partnering with Amazon was not the cheapest and fastest solution. Or even Walmart. Most of my BinaxNow tests shipped via Walmart within a week.
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by vinhboy 5y ago
Lol, ain't that the truth. When the Whole Foods was still there, the chargers around there were the best. It was close to the green belt, coffee, food, and minutes walk from downtown. You could have a real nice "small town" a
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by vinhboy 5y ago
People around here are not NIMBYS... We are the best consumers American consumer culture has produced. We will shop the shit out of Costco, Walmart, and the hundreds of fast food restaurants you find around here... Shake Shack, Chick-fil-A,
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by vinhboy 5y ago
I don't live in Davis anymore, but I did live there for 10+ years and used to own a home there. I love Davis. As Sheldon Copper from Big Bang theory puts it, it's my "zero-zero-zero-zero". While I don't consider mys

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