PopeDotNinja

> “Can everyone see this? Good because I can't."

That is a powerful statement that requires no explanation. I love it.

My friend once said:

- B.S. = bull shit

- M.S. = more shit

- PhD = piled higher & deeper

I’m not an expert in this area, and IANAL, so...

When I started a business (is the USA) that had a name that wasn’t mine, I needed to file a DBA (doing business as) form in my city. If GrubHub is representing themselves as SomeRestaurantIncorporated without some legal mechanism for doing so, like a DBA, I don’t see how they can justify it.

What is Live View not good at?

I once cloned a directory for standing up an environment via Terraform. I modified all of the environment variables and config and ran it. It worked perfectly. Except I’d forgotten to wipe out the Terraform state, which meant that in the process of creating a new environment, it completely deleted the environment I had cloned. That was my initiation into very experienced :)

Personally I’d recommend finding better things to do and then canceling your subscriptions when you’re no longer using them. Ripping out a big part of one’s life without a healthy replacement can be suboptimal.

I’d also guess that MagSafe won’t wear out the phone socket as quickly, as one isn’t wearing down the socket with the friction of inserting cables. I’ve had to replace at least a couple phones from the socket being too “jiggly” to trust that the charging cable would retain contact. Nothing sucks more than waking up to a phone at 5% charge on a day when you need your phone.

The feedback was the trigger. Basically the point is it’s worth asking whether the downside of giving feedback and having it go poorly is worth it. A much more common experience is to give feedback, and have the job candidate challenge your feedback and/or share a sob story about how they really needed the job. Trade offs and all that.

I have a candidate feedback once, and they showed up at our office drunk & demanding a second chance. I gave a lot less feedback after that.

I don’t understand why Spotify won’t let me downvote music. At least I haven’t figured out how yet.

One could argue that spending a lot of money on a hyper advanced anything would lead to a bunch of cool technologies, even if the primary objective yielded no results. Why spend many billions of euros on something speculative when one could spend the money on something much more likely to produce both primary and secondary benefits?

I have no idea how the block works, but I learned that WhatsApp video calls are blocked in the United Arab Emirates, along with almost every other video chat app. There’s a UAE sponsored app called Totok that works, although it is/was removed from the Apple Store for privacy reasons. Recently they started allowing Zoom calls to go through.

Further reading:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/26/coronavirus-lockdown-uae-res...

Another way of saying it is the Toyota Corolla was a Geo Prizm that didn’t suck.

FYI, you can choose to backup all of your WhatsApp media. All of my WhatsApp photos & videos get dumped into Google Photos. Works on Android or iPhone.

I interpreted the parent comment as... it's gonna hurt no matter what you do, so you may as well do what you wanna do while managing your condition as needed.

If you didn’t know, you can use Google Voice with Google Fi now. That’s what I’ve been using .

If you want to try something that is the exact opposite of CS, you could look into sales or recruiting. If you do something like go to work for a SaaS company, having a foundation for understanding the company’s product line makes a for compelling addition to your application. You can make a ton of money on if you’re any good at it, too.

I like saying up 3, down 1 :)

And the entire prison system.

I got my first dev gig at 40. The hardest part of getting established was people excepted me to be more experienced than I was because of my age. It can hard to get an entry level job at 40. To compensate I went deep on learning Ruby & focused on finding a job where deep Ruby knowledge was an asset. Don’t be afraid to go straight for mid-level jobs, and just be prepared to be stronger than the average boot camp grad.

> Isn't there some sort of security built-in, like "if suddenly the bill becomes 1500% the norm, kill the instance and start serving 404s"?

How about we call it auto-snailing. "I wanted to grow fast, but not THAT fast! Slow it down there buddy."

I don’t like imprisoning people because just they are poor.

The top of my visit-cuz-remote list is the Kerguelen Islands, if I ever figure out how to get there.

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

Did you make it to La Palma? I did my coronavirus lockdown there. A nice place to be stuck :)

I’m a digital nomad who has been working from Pakistan for the past month for a USA East Coast company . Can confirm. 12 hour time zone difference is suboptimal XD

Send a letter to the CEO saying something like “FYI, you should really hang onto $PERSON. They help me with $THING. I’m telling all my friends about $COMPANY. I thought you should know, too.” For extra impact, write it by hand.

The quality of delivered food is usually pretty underwhelming for me.

If I get to choose the style, I like doing this...

    bar 
    |> decorate() 
    |> some_more() 
    |> case do 
      result -> 
        {:ok, result} 
    end

Speaking for myseld, rebinding variables in Elixir is my least favorite part of the language, and I specifically avoid using the feature.

> Tech jobs that pay more than $300,000 -- maybe $350,000 -- simply don't exist in large quantities outside major job markets

They don't exist in major quantities in major job markets either.