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scottmcf··on I Created a $60K/Month App That Collects In-Person Payments Through Stripe
That would be my concern for this business. It'll disappear instantly when they do (and it's got to be a when, right?) but he's getting good value for moving quickly. Or maybe they get acquired.
scottmcf··on U.S. Workers Show Little Improvement in 21st Century Skills
More of the funding needs to go towards teacher salaries, in the first place. They start on $18 an hour here, you can make more in a call center with no responsibilities.

Also, we spend a lot, however it's extremely unevenly distributed making it much more likely the scenario we're discussing comes about (someone making it through school without a useful education).

scottmcf··on Australia’s Darling River is running dry
So, no evidence of your claims, gotcha.
scottmcf··on Paypal Withdraws from Facebook's Libra Cryptocurrency
It was illegal to privately own actual gold anywhere in the world as a US citizen between 1933 and 1975. That's absolutely an approach they could take.
scottmcf··on Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says
Dating apps are creepy enough as they are.
scottmcf··on Some tea bags may shed billions of microplastics per cup
Very clear lesson on the value of knowing your customer, there!
scottmcf··on Ask HN: Are you ok?
Taking time for yourself is very important as a parent. Good for you!
scottmcf··on World of Warcraft Classic Relase
Overwatch and Hearthstone have been hugely, hugely successful for Blizzard. The Diablo mobile game is going to be a license to print money too, PR snafus or not.
scottmcf··on 15 states are trying to make the electoral college obselete
The recent electoral record in Louisiana doesn't exactly make it seem that high a priority for them.
scottmcf··on Black Beekeepers Are Transforming Detroit’s Vacant Lots into Bee Farms (2018)
That's why they are so cheap.
scottmcf··on Ask HN: Your favourite tutorial for total beginners?
Absolutely. Learning about microtones was an absolute game-changer in my mental appreciation of music.
scottmcf··on At what time of day do famous programmers work?
Absolutely this. Working on something else entirely is often the best way to resolve difficult logic problems that I get stuck on.

Just throw it on the "subconscious pile" and let my brain chew away on it in the background.

scottmcf··on Ask HN: How to deal with constantly getting cut off in work discussions?
Scottish guy in the US here, I've had to train myself out of this habit here (still working on it). Not always well received in the South!
scottmcf··on DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
Coffee shops gets me 3 results in my city, coffee shop gets me 4 results with the closest 45 miles away. Totally useless.
scottmcf··on DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
Would people continue to use it if that happened? I feel like that would defeat some of the point of the service.
scottmcf··on DuckDuckGo Expands Use of Apple Maps
My address also kicks off this issue in Apple Maps. I live on XYZ Street, it will send you off to XYZ Road on the other end of the city.

I never reported it as I just immediately went back to Google Maps, but I'll do that now, good suggestion.

scottmcf··on Your nines are not my nines
This was extremely evident in the slow response and poor communication during the recent Salesforce outage.
scottmcf··on What's Salesforce?
They did improve on this a couple of years ago by including some sandboxes with the standard tiers, but yeah, it's excessive.
scottmcf··on Salesforce enables ‘modify all’ in user profiles
This is absolutely disastrous for healthcare companies.
scottmcf··on Remembering the burglary that broke Cointelpro
I've wrestled with this. The only solution I've found to balance out these two conflicting ideas (justifiable outrage vs living my life) is to run for office myself.
scottmcf··on Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
I agree, that's a good point in many cases. Personally, I used my SE in combination with an iPad. The bigger phones made the tablet unnecessary, I can comfortable do what I need on my phone screen now.
scottmcf··on Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
Yeah, I moved from an SE to an 8+, then an XS Max. I love the new phones, but if they brought out a premium SE I'd swap to that in a second.
scottmcf··on Cisco ‘secured visas for foreign workers instead of hiring US citizens’: report
Maybe they should just pay the correct amount for the position, according to the job requirements?
scottmcf··on Is there a fix for impostor syndrome?
If you're asking for C with 4.5 hours of work (as per example above) that's fine if you're paying for their time.

Cheaper than a bad hire, stops you missing out on good hires who think "fuck that".

scottmcf··on Canada to Scrap IBM Payroll Plan Gone Awry Costing $1B
Machine learning aim assist project gone awry.
scottmcf··on Uppy: let’s teach an old dog some new tricks
Not much, how 'bout you?
scottmcf··on Have I Been Pwned? Data breach master list with API
bob@bob.com is hugely popular for the same reason.
scottmcf··on WhatsApp is blocking Telegram links
I'd say MSN had the edge over AIM in Scotland too, although the populations overlapped heavily (i.e. most people I talked with had both).
scottmcf··on GoogleFeud
I got the same question twice, answers that were right the first time (and obvious) weren't included the second time. Fun concept, though, it'd be interesting to play multiplayer.
scottmcf··on FCC Passes Strict Net Neutrality Regulations on 3-2 Vote
It's not always easy to pick up sarcasm in a second language.
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