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I'd find this question frustrating because it feels like a trap. I was looking for the trick -- was I missing something in the question that made the obvious approach untenable? No, the answer is simple, just add a way to multiply numbers with the multiply operator.

Apple News is kind of garbage, unfortunately. Hidden sources still take up space which (in my case) makes the home screen an ugly mess.

I doubt the product/ad/business team sees any benefit when page content shifts around and Google downranks the site for it.

Ars Technica is on my shitlist because they chose to make their site content shift around as you scroll, to make way for ads or email lists or whatever. I don't know why devs and designers at these companies don't fix this.

I hate that feeling. The real me is kind of an asshole. I let a lot of people see that at a previous job and now I can't be around any of them any more. I've worked hard to be someone else where I'm at now and I've been mostly successful. When I let my guard down I caused a minor shitstorm with my peers, but I was able to tamp it down.

It's absolutely imperative to keep my real self away from work. I'm hoping I can keep this up long enough to retire early, and then I can just be me.

Maybe we need to figure out how to give feedback to people giving feedback. And that feedback will need to be structured such that it doesn't just get dismissed immediately.

> In the future, you won't just have to watch an overly long video or scroll three quarters of the way down a story to find a recipe, you'll have to travel through portals to different worlds!

And then one day Google will create little info cards that are snippets of the recipe VR sites. You'll still have to swoop and fly your way there but it'll be a smaller space.

Oof, only now do I realize I need to record account deletions somewhere independent of my database backups so I don't accidentally restore accounts I shouldn't if something goes horribly wrong. Not sure why I didn't think of this before.

> You are thinking in absolute terms and not on the margins. If the marginal income tax beyond a threshold jumps by %10, then even discounting the increasingly marginal value of each additional dollar earned I will value the return on work less when I hit that tax threshold.

And given you don't want that dollar, and given the dollar is still on offer (the work's still gotta get done) someone else will earn it instead. This is probably a net gain because you got to do something else with your time and the other person got money they (probably) needed more than you.

> The position of non-voting shares is quite precarious I think, because a voting majority in the company can simply dilute shares and render the STAK-owned shares less valuable.

I figure this is probably the case with most employee stock grants -- it's unlikely they'll give out enough shares that even every employee working together could sway elections.

It looks like they weren't just posting quotes. They often added some anti-liberal/anti-gender/etc quip. Lying in the title of an article critical of Twitter is a really bad look.

I haven't gone to an offsite meeting with my coworkers yet (we're 100% remote) so I don't really know what to expect of them. I do know that when I worked in offices there was a lot of bullshit going on every day that only happened because the barrier to interruption was lower. What goes on at these offsite meetings that makes them worthwhile?

> The comradery you used to have in mining villages where all workers had a tightly shared heritage and all grew up together was probably the strongest workforce you could hope for.

It was certainly good for the owners of the mines and other extractive businesses to have their workers feel some sense of loyalty to each other based on where they were born. Not so much for the workers themselves that had fewer opportunities for growth, nor their families as the mines closed and the towns died.

> But workers with those kinds of strong bonds do scary things like forming unions and going on strike, we don't want any of that!

There are plenty of unions made up of people from all sorts of backgrounds. Some of them span states (or are at least affiliated with organizations that span states). I don't know where you got this idea that there's a connection between birthplace and unionization.

Yeah, that's a risk. They could mitigate it by allowing you to revert all branches/tags back to the pre-private state, but we're getting more and more complicated here.

It's funny they manage to have resource quotas but folks around here claim they couldn't possibly add spend quotas.

I think it means there were 502 duplicate submissions. We're down to only 200 so it should be smooth from here on out.

So the "design limitation" in the chip can be overcome by updating apps to support Apple's TBDR tile memory system that was presumably created to maximize processor performance? Am I understanding the design limitation correctly?

There's a weird culture around reporting problems without reporting names. You see it a lot here on HN and occasionally in media. I'll never understand. Why bother talking about corporate misbehavior (or etc) and not back it up with the basic, minimal data you could provide?

JIRA is generally fine software that is good enough for most folks, especially if you're willing to adapt your workflow to it. Where it goes wrong is where tools like Jenkins go wrong: folks add too much customization.

That means the tool is often the wrong one for the job, but instead of picking something that's a better match out of the box folks stick with the easy choice (extend what they have).

FWIW "Little Free Library" is a trademark and its owners have been aggressive in its defense. I don't know what folks should use as a generic name.

Tongue in cheek: at what point is it cheaper to send three sizes (exact and +1/-1)?

They'd have to be built with cow-catcher like devices to push all the horseshit out of their way while traveling down the road. It'd be a different kind of awful.

I decided not to as well.

It's also one of those companies built by acquisitions.

Terraform is roughly the equivalent to a Makefile. If anything it reduces complexity by encouraging operations to be run in a reproducible and testable fashion. Is it a layer? Sure, but little more than a shell script is a layer.

I usually read the comments first and then read the article second, but I almost always read the article before writing my own comment.

I usually don't even read the comments on those posts. I think I need to start making better use of the hide button.

What is the problem they are a part of, and what makes them part of that problem? They don't seem problematic to me.

The main reason I haven't tried this yet is I am concerned what would happen if every result is one of these spam sites that has fooled Google engineers for so long. Do I get a suspiciously blank page?

The other reason is I started using a search engine that cracked the code to let users rank and block sites (kagi) so I don't have to worry about it.