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by wastedhours 4y ago
The whole email was just so off - I know they build up to these things, but am sure the announcement of the re-org could have waited, and could have led with the most pressing news, especially since it came in the middle of day and people h
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Seems like an apt analogy - adding in friction for the small minority of instances where someone would undertake an action you don't want them to. Not literally "if I don't make someone choose 5 firetrucks out of 9 pictures t
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by wastedhours 5y ago
What use-case of YouTube would you want a competitor to though? Personal video hosting? Independent creator video distribution? Social network for video? Music video streaming? One of the greatest achievements of YouTube is basically servin
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by wastedhours 5y ago
It depends on the context - but each time I've interviewed someone, the "we" is important, but the "I" is important-er. It's almost implicit that everyone works in a team to achieve big goals, but the reason I&
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Although influential, surely Twitter's recent run isn't because of Jack himself, but the new culture he instigated? Him leaving doesn't change the dynamic there now, just another person who's been influential in the proc
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Even in the mid-2000s, photography classes were still teaching through B+W - as you mention, developing is easier (and therefore faster). The film and photo paper were also cheaper.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
It's akin to post-purchase rationalization and sunk cost bias rolled into one - likewise I think it's a specific bias in its own right, but a search hasn't turned up anything yet!
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Depends where you draw the line on "platform". There's still the old-school cPanel shared hosting types out there where you can drag and drop through a file manager. But then you usually have to pay a gatekeeper to get one, a
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by wastedhours 5y ago
And getting in front of it means they get to dictate the pricing structure - you can bet your spare parts will be beautifully packaged and sold at a decent markup.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
You can also seed with the cocoa butter you add in, seeding with pre-tempered chocolate tends to require more added as far as I remember.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Also used to do it too - amazing how far you can get with a £15 coffee grinder and a bag of beans. Like anything that goes through multiple step processing (same when I roasted coffee), it's the small percentage improvements at every s
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by wastedhours 5y ago
It's very difficult as you need a lot of pressure in order to squeeze the fats out from the mass - there were some small batch machines for doing so, but a homebrew approach would be marvelous to see.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
> most men take only a fraction of the allowed time I truly don't understand this, and each time I see the stats on it sit in even greater disbelief. Why would anyone turn down the opportunity to spend, for an awful lot of companies
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by wastedhours 5y ago
You also tend to pay for the privilege of a 5 year fix (as a first time buyer) - about a 0.4% increase for a 5 year vs a 2 year for us.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
> the best thing I could have done with my money would have been to buy the most expensive house in the best neighborhood I could possibly manage Usually the best thing to do is to buy the worst house in the best neighbourhood. That way
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by wastedhours 5y ago
I edited the hosts file on my Mac to send all these sites to 127.0.0.1... doing something means you're quite likely to know how to reverse it too though, hence why I'm writing this comment during the working day.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Also keep in mind the flip-side of this is that if you leave before 6 months, some hiring managers will see it that you "failed" your probation and the previous employer took the easy way out to let you go for sub-par performance.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Very good! About 7/8 years ago I did the same to make HN look like some PHP code - did a looot of "code reviews" back then.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
As a developer I want the option of App Stores taking their cut - them being the Merchant of Record takes out a monumental admin overhead from selling apps globally for a small developer. I also work for a global tech company whereby that
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Was coming here to say exactly this - you're not really being paid for the work itself, but to have access to you for a certain amount of time. Sometimes there's as much value to the company in your 2 minute Slack response to a qu
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by wastedhours 5y ago
A hard +1 to Jumpstart. I stan Chris a lot in the comments here, but Jumpstart combined with Hatchbox[0] is a pretty awesome mix to get started. Especially with the recent upgrades, the whole process of getting the framework up takes minute
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by wastedhours 5y ago
I'm not sure we're going to get much further here if you're arguing on the dichotomy of checked out employees punching a clock vs exploitation by the employer. Suffice to say, this crap has impact on real people, in the real
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by wastedhours 5y ago
> So urban cities are anti-child? Thus we will see cites change or depopulate? Or, people now value cities more than they value having more children, leading to depopulation due to replacement rate reduction, rather than people leaving t
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by wastedhours 5y ago
> Employees are being paid by hour, so they wouldn’t care at all Sorry, but that's just not correct. It's always someone's job to clean up this mess, and that falls on individuals. If they have to clean up a stressful me
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by wastedhours 5y ago
> Companies are not people. No, but employees and customers are, and they feel real, human costs as a result. Just because a management team has underfunded security is not an excuse to cause pain on other people.
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by wastedhours 5y ago
Depends on the tool and the usecase - our contractors always had proper pro-level drills and powertools, but their handtools (especially more consumable ones that get lost during day to days when they're mobile, like screwdrivers and s
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by wastedhours 5y ago
I don't think you're arguing the same thing - the "idealised" version of a communistic state is what the OP is referring to. The "actual" version of a communistic state is what you are. They're correct tha
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by wastedhours 5y ago
I used to try and miss the start of episodes so I wouldn't know exactly who did it. It's usually very easy to guess throughout in any case, but it's still an enjoyably journey even if you're almost 100% clued in.
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by wastedhours 6y ago
This seems similar to KDP as well - the overhead for the submission of the information through that process was (surprisingly, and perhaps naively legally speaking) simple. Will be interesting to see what (if any) knock on effect it will ha
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by wastedhours 6y ago
Same, I'm not too far from releasing an MVP mobile game built in Godot, and the "time to game" as well as the burgeoning plug-in scene make it quite fun to get something working.

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