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Why do some companies allow dogs? Some people are allergic to them, don't want to get licked by them, bitten, or want to step on dog poo. I've seen all that happen to other people in the company.

Don't get me wrong, I love animals and I have my own. But where do we draw the line between personal and professional? How do we tell John that his dog is OK, but Bob that his dog needs to stay home?

Kind of a metaphor, but: hiding under the sheets because I was afraid of the dark. One day someone helped me realize that if something were to happen because of the dark, it would serve me better to know about it (and see it coming) rather than live in denial and wait for something to suddenly snatch me out of bed without warning because I was hiding with my eyes closed.

This has helped set the tone for my life. If something bad is going to happen, I'd rather know about it and see it coming.

Exercise often - keeps me sane, makes me look good

Cooking from scratch - keeps me healthy, is delicious, rewarding, impresses others

Not letting job define me - keeps me from getting disappointed when companies make decisions that doesn't align with what I want, removes emotion from decision making, my life on my terms (I'm moving forward whether or not the company is)

Here's a previous discussion of the same person, but different source. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11589703

My comment at the time, and still stands: It's also not 250k in cash. It includes stock which may or may not be worth what he thinks they are worth when he cashes out. My take away here is that base salary is comparable from company-to-company, but stock is given away like free lunch. Also, it takes a certain personality to go out in public and brag about this kind of stuff. I think he's trying really hard to build his online persona. :)

Also available from Microsoft: https://github.com/ReactWindows/react-native-windows

Seems to be only Windows 10 and xbox though.

If they do it in CSS, I bet you can remove the animations by setting the animationduration property to 0 seconds.

Or if you want to aggravate users, override it so that each animation takes 10seconds. :)

I definitely wouldn't replace my Macbook Pro 15" with one.

I feel it's one of those items where it makes sense at the right price. At less than $100 it's barely disposable. And you go in expecting a cheap computer. At $200, why would I get that vs. a $200 Acer laptop at Best Buy? (And I don't want a $200 Acer laptop either) At $300, I might as well put it towards a better main computer.

What this has been useful for is those times when I just needed a Windows computer for testing in Edge, etc. But it might also be a gateway drug to deciding if I want to get a Surface for my main computer.

No I haven't, but I'd imagine it would work. It's an x86 machine and you can plug in USB devices, HDMI, etc. I'm guessing if someone got it to work with the Intel Compute Stick, it would work here because the hardware is pretty much the same.

I never use the Android side. It's not really up-to-date and I have an Android phone. Definitely don't buy this for Android. :) The Windows side is great since Windows Update keeps it current.

The MiPad2 with Windows 10 looks nice. Really just looks like they copied the iPad. Aluminum body, 5ghz wifi, 2k (?) display. But it's ~$250. More than I want to spend for something without a warranty.

I've been using a Chuwi Hi 8 Pro. 8" 1080P screen, 2GB ram, latest Atom processor. Fits in some of my pockets. $90.

Bought it from a store that shipped from China. They also have tablets that have cellular and higher resolution screens. Runs for $200-300. But I'm not sure I'd spend that much for an offbrand.

At that point I feel I'd just get a Surface or Galaxy Tab Pro S to get the warranty, peace of mind, etc.

Still, a Windows tablet is incredibly useful! Especially for dev work.

Michigan Fiber

FiberOne

FiberHand (playing off Michigan looks like a hand)

How important is it to have fiber or relations to fiber in the name?

I feel if you haven't figured out where "home" is, you would be a lot more open to the idea of moving. But as soon as you add family to the mix, "home" becomes more defined.

When you're younger, you switch jobs a lot more often to figure out what you want to do and to try something new. I wouldn't be surprised if that extended into moving more often. E.g. I want to try city living, then suburb living, etc.

Funny thing about the Bay Area, though, is that it can get hard to move around because if you've lived here for more than a couple years, you are now renting or owning a place so cheap (in comparison to market prices) that you can't justify moving.

So those of us with side projects can spend the long weekend upgrading. :)

I have a DIR-505L ($15) I use for traveling. Has OpenVPN and SSIDs setup to bridge to the VPN (on layer 2). So when I connect to that special SSID it's as if I'm still onsite. It's also just a wallwart, so it's easy to travel with and doesn't look suspicious.

I also have a DIR-835 ($20). Also use it as a VPN router (both client and server). It's a lot more powerful than the DIR-505L and does 5ghz.

I used to use a WRT54GL, but then 802.11N came along and I also wanted 5ghz. So I got a Linksys E3000, but I later bricked it during a botched firmware upgrade. The uptime on that thing was like 400 days until I had a power outage.

Unfortunately, I'm having trouble finding a OpenWRT router that will support gigabit routing for the WAN. So now I use the AT&T supplied router/modem. Unfortunately with AT&T, bridging just does double NATing (and the box has a connection limit of ~2000 for ipv4).

I second this! I have never done a project that I fully regretted or gone to a job wishing I had stayed at a previous job. While I have gone to a job that I hated almost immediately, I still didn't see returning to the previous job as a viable option.

Every new venture I take, I feel I couldn't have done without the accumulation of all my past experiences (both professional and nonprofessional).

Where you are is also a function of where you've been, which can be hard as the human mind sometimes likes to dwell on regret.

"We had just come out of a long experiment with self-management"

Why do startups do these huge management experiments? My company did the flat thing too and they spent a few months trying to get people to understand it. Probably burning up 5hr/wk for each person. Until they almost ran out of money. By then people were really confused. I think it almost killed the company due to the politics and red tape it created (strange, it was supposed to eliminate it).

My opinion is that it's hard enough to run a startup, let alone trying to invent a new management methodology. Best to go with what people already know. It may not be perfect, but at least there's some prior experience with it.

Just like how most would advise using the programming language and platform you know to build your initial product, rather than trying to to learn something that you think might be better.

How do companies like Google come up with the sample text?

Being able to self-sustain myself so I don't need my full-time job. Either through contracting work, my own startup, or my job's options being worth something.

I usually notice that if a company is not doing well, coworkers stop hanging out as much. If the coworkers are really friends, they might talk about how they are getting out. But generally, people get more distant.

The one big benefit I see over Let's Encrypt is the wildcard certificate. This allows me to use virtual hosting to host my sites over a single ip address. The domain name doesn't matter as it's only used for backend.

I do wonder how trusted the root certificate is. Will I be able to access my server directly without that big red screen?

There was a person at work who was clearly not enjoying their job. My colleague looks at me and asks, "why doesn't he just quit?" I almost responded, "well, I would want the unemployment!" Personally, I was kind of shocked at how he thought that was just a matter of fact of what people do. :) And this was coming from a guy who would disappear for weeks and weeks of vacation to go play team beach volleyball. He got laid off and the guy who wasn't enjoying their job left for a new job.

Due to impending funding issues, bizarre founder decisions, and lack of team work, I recently passed the stage of my startup job from "this feels like my baby" to "this feels like a job". What's been helping me a lot is building something on the side. It's helped me gain new skills, give me ideas of what I want to do, blow off steam, etc.

It's also helped me realize that if I find something I want to do I should do it, but there's also nothing wrong with just having a job as long as I have other things to make up for that. Plus organizations can change too. Sometimes for the better.

Sorry for this nonsense. :)

When women take over, does it grow the number of people in the field? If so, does pay drop because there are more people willing to do the same work?

"Salary is not the number one motivating factor for me in this decision."

Why is it that every article about compensation has the author saying some variation of this? It seems so cliche to tell the company this. Yet, in this article, it seems like the salary was very much a motivating factor. So much so, she had to practice, then write an article.

It's also not 250k in cash. It includes stock which may or may not be worth what he thinks they are worth when he cashes out. My take away here is that base salary is comparable from company-to-company, but stock is given away like free lunch.

Also, it takes a certain personality to go out in public and brag about this kind of stuff. I think he's trying really hard to build his online persona. :)