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I thought private equity was going into the single family rental business. In a big way.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/04/magazine/wall-street-land...

Cd00don Job hunting while day-jobbing (2021)

Note that COBRA can be retroactive. If you're taking time off you don't have to start paying COBRA until you have a medical expense. If you avoid injury during your gap you don't have to pay.

Cd00don Ask HN: Have you created programs for only your personal use?

Really clever idea - thank you for sharing!

Cd00don Jimmy Carter's White House Solar Panels (2019)

If climate change were a bipartisan issue, I'd expect more diversity in the sorts of bumper stickers I see on trucks coal rolling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

Cd00don A dirty dish by the sink can be a big marriage problem

Why doesn't this article skip down properly?

I use the space bar to page down on longer articles. But on this one it scrolls one sentence too far. The scroll doesn't know about the top banner....

Surely I'm not some super rare whacky outlier in this, and surely the webdevs at The Atlantic are proud professionals - so why doesn't it work correctly?

Chrome on Mac.

Cd00don Inside the longest Atlassian outage

ZenHub looks really interesting - thank you for pointing it out.

How good is ticket search? I have to be honest, JQL is the superpower that makes or breaks for me.

Cd00don Inside the longest Atlassian outage

Interesting take.

Personally, I like JIRA. I think it adds a ton of transparency in our org, and while I've used Trello for personal and home projects, I don't see how it's good enough for business. Trello doesn't even allow for time estimates (last I tried), which for us is part of planning. Search in JIRA is also really good, so no ticket is ever just lost to the ether.

Sure, it's not perfect, and waiting for a board to load is annoying, but for distributed work and visibility, I haven't seen something as professionally useful.

Open to exploring though.

Cd00don Inside the longest Atlassian outage

Why not just clone the ticket?

Cd00don US sentences crypto expert to 5 years after North Korea blockchain presentation

You're implying that he's helping the citizenry directly and not the state itself. I think that's a dubious claim when it's a conference hosted in Pyongyang.

Cd00don I'm a scam prevention expert and I got scammed

I'm blown away that Amazon has phone support! I had no idea!

Cd00don Waymo begins driverless rides in San Francisco

How do you achieve this? I feel like every time I'm crossing the street windshield glare is so severe that I couldn't even be convinced the driver was in their seat.

Cd00don My own phone number is now spam texting me

To clarify: I think you're saying they don't know your name, but at least as important they don't know your actual contact details (phone, address, email).

TBH, this a system that if it's opt-in only, I don't have much of a problem with. If it's opt-out, I'm annoyed. If it's required, we should change policy.

Cd00don We can do better than “same, but electric”

My electric leaf blower is actually not very loud - I stopped bothering with ear protection even. The 2-stroke models the professional crews use are a bane.

Cd00don My own phone number is now spam texting me

I don't think OP indicated the carrier shared personal information - only that they provided a way to connect a 3rd party company to a customer. That transaction doesn't need to include any information beyond the defined demographic.

Cd00don My own phone number is now spam texting me

Ask to borrow a stranger's phone to get in touch with someone.

Watch their terror as you open their text or email app and get snippets of their private communications.

I'm not sure about your plan, tbh.

Cd00don 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home

Is office space really that cheap?

That actually sounds like a LOT of space compared to a 2-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn that would cost quite a bit more....

Cd00don 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home

That's actually a lot to ask of people with children or other dependents in their care.

A quarterly 2-day off-site is far more digestible. Which I agree is still a great compromise in expense and f2f to an office.

Cd00don 37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home

The serendipity point is interesting.

A few years ago I had my team's desks moved to be next to our sales team. I wanted to overhear their conversations and phone calls to get a deeper understanding of client feedback and how clients used our product. It worked out well, and we got into a much better place in terms of feedback and requests.

During covid I've also had a very strong indicator of how clients view our product - the entire sales team quit over time.

Cd00don I let a baby bird nest in my hair for 84 days

That is the most click-bait headline I have ever read that actually delivers content both relevant to the headline and interesting!

Cd00don A new tool for finding dark matter digs up nothing

With a molten core I'd be surprised if the earth didn't emit it's own light.

Cd00don Predicting Best Picture winners using coughs and sneezes

I accidentally turned this on at the beginning of Toy Story 4. The narration had me convinced that the movie was taking place in a future where Andy was in film school and we were watching him working through his first film based on his childhood toys.

Felt like a fool when I realized it was really super caption for the visually impaired.

Cd00don Thefuck: Magnificent app which corrects your previous console command

Maybe I'm weird, but I find naming like this really off-putting. It's startlingly unprofessional, unnecessarily aggressive, somewhat immature, and just doesn't feel nice.

Why do something great and then put a less than best foot forward when naming it?

Cd00don Doctors who use Google Translate to talk to patients want a better option

I had experience with the charades act. Got food poisoning or a stomach bug in Sofia, Bulgaria and had to act out vomiting and diarrhea at the chemists desk. Eventually they got the drift, opened a box of pills and gave me a sheet of them with no further instruction.

I think I could have been successful if I knew some French, but alas, I opted for Spanish in high school. At the time it seemed Bulgarians over a certain age had French for their second (or third) language, and the younger folks had English.

Cd00don The FTC’s new enforcement weapon: “Algorithmic destruction”

Ha! And can we please stop calling curve fitting a "statistical regression"?

Cd00don It’s your friends who break your heart

I think you misread the parent's post. Your response is strangely antagonistic and defensive, and is nearly non-sequitur.

Cd00don A short conversation with a bank

I don't think Gmail is the company that drove Amazon to this practice.

Source: I have a data provider that scrapes your email when you use their 3rd party email app, and sells your purchase receipts downstream. Google has no reason to do this to you, but the industry as a whole is shady.

Cd00don A 2030 Self-Driving Car Bet

Great user name!

Cd00don The cold hard truth about electric vehicles in winter

But enough people do it for comfort that my last two cars came with remote start as standard.

You're being too negative saying starting your car early is the same as taking care of a horse, which undermines your point - it makes you look anti-EV and less sincere.

Cd00don What happened to Russias Air Force? U.S. officials, experts stumped

I appreciated the check on the unnecessary condescension

Cd00don Map of Surnames in Europe

our ERP software used the name as a primary key for employees

As someone with a common first name and common surname, this drives me bananas.

I still get emails from my graduate university to email: first.last@uni.edu meant for some undergraduate in a sea of 50k students, and have to reply that I've had that email for 20 years and they have the wrong person with a very common name.