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TooCleverByHalf

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TooCleverByHalf··on Justice Department withdraws FBI subpoena for USA Today records ID'ing readers
Sure. But that's not the point.
TooCleverByHalf··on From apes to birds, animal species that “laugh”
We may never know...
TooCleverByHalf··on The Octopus Teacher’s Student
Their intonation was tough to get past I will say that.
TooCleverByHalf··on Modern Javascript: Everything you missed over the last 10 years (2020)
?? - returns right side operand if left side operand is null or undefined

|| - returns right side operand if left side operand is any falsy value

TooCleverByHalf··on IBM employee forced to stop kernel work under personal email address
This implies that handling it well is aligned with keeping ones job. I don't agree with that mindset myself. I'd say they handled it poorly. But, then, both of us are at least half wrong regardless of which one is right.
TooCleverByHalf··on Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Robinhood in the State of New York
What they did is the antithesis of their name. What a time to be alive.
TooCleverByHalf··on FreeYourMusic lets users migrate their playlists off Spotify
Oi, same. Cliché or not, Obi-wan said it best:

> ...as if millions of voices cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced

I've since created a playlist dedicated to those lost songs, long forgotten fossils, as I randomly re-find or re-remember them. Sadly, there's fewer than 20 songs in there even after all this time.

TooCleverByHalf··on Catalina VM
> I’ve been considering building a “Hackintosh” system. But with Apple’s plans of going to ARM possibly by the end of this year, I don’t want to invest a lot in hardware that’s going to be obsolete soon.

This argument doesn't make much sense to me. While not all hardware works with the goal of building a hackintosh. Plenty of top of the line hardware does and will run Windows just fine if ARM becomes an issue.

TooCleverByHalf··on Portland adopts landmark facial recognition ordinances
> Presumably nothing would be stored about you in that interaction

Given how prevalent the tracking of users is, anonymous or otherwise, I'd be extremely pessimistic about this assumption.

TooCleverByHalf··on Hiring Without Whiteboards
> One candidate even thought they should be able to bill us for their time spent applying (We passed)

Ironically, you passed on the smartest applicant of the bunch.

TooCleverByHalf··on Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
The problem here is that the average end user would not know which one to use and when to use it.
TooCleverByHalf··on Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com
On one hand I appreciate how elaborately the parent comment made their point. On another, I appreciate how succinctly you made your point. A conundrum within a conundrum, indeed.
TooCleverByHalf··on Maybe we shouldn’t use Zoom after all
I have had the exact opposite experience with BlueJeans :(
TooCleverByHalf··on Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?
Can layer 0 be sources supporting the content?
TooCleverByHalf··on Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?
You use your bare hand?
TooCleverByHalf··on Redwood: An integrated, full-stack, JavaScript web framework for the JAMstack
If I remember correctly, React was only part of it. Lack of support for relational databases was a big issue as well. On top of that, people realized that they didn't need real time functionality and the overhead (and scaling) of mini-mongo et al was a difficult venture. Take with a grain of salt. This was all very long ago so my memory may not be accurate.
TooCleverByHalf··on [dead]
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TooCleverByHalf··on Ask HN: What were your most impactful podcast episodes from 2019?
I enjoyed this episode greatly and learned a whole lot about the NHL that I did not know (or intend to know).
TooCleverByHalf··on Phoebus Cartel
Planet Money ran an episode on the Phoebus Cartel not too long ago. Really interesting listen.

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2019/03/27/707388981/epis...

TooCleverByHalf··on How to Find Consulting Clients
> professional services firms that subcontract work to me

How were you able to create these kinds of relationships with the professional services firms?

TooCleverByHalf··on Ask HN: Going from 12 years of self-employment to tech job?
Would you mind giving an example of the type of value based pricing you're talking about? What kind of metrics do you use to determine the value you provide to the client? Is it as simple as "this feature has increased sales by X%"?
TooCleverByHalf··on Ask HN: Going from 12 years of self-employment to tech job?
Haha the most exciting questions OP will ever hear!
TooCleverByHalf··on Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
Not really my product to defend. It does more than sleep tracking for $30/mo, however.
TooCleverByHalf··on Ask HN: Going from 12 years of self-employment to tech job?
Apologies for being off topic, but I'm looking to attempt the opposite transition. Go from Big Co to self-employed consultant and would love to pique your brain about your journey if you'd be willing to field a few questions of mine at some point?
TooCleverByHalf··on Alphabet in bid to buy Fitbit
[Whoop](https://www.whoop.com/) has a lot of buzz right now and offers some interesting looking sleep insight. I haven't used one myself yet so I can't speak from personal experience.
TooCleverByHalf··on Mark Hurd Has Died
I love HN for the fact that tired, low effort, comments like this are far less common.
TooCleverByHalf··on Eat, Drink and Be Wary: Ex-CIA Officer Reveals How Eateries Are Key to Spycraft
Or maybe it's a clever ruse.. checkmate adversary
TooCleverByHalf··on Amazon’s Consumer Business Turned Off Final Oracle Database
I'd guess it goes something like, "We have 75 petabytes of data to move over and would like to use your services but are concerned about costs. What kind of prices can you give us?".
TooCleverByHalf··on Ask HN: How do I make the move to consultant?
If you wouldn't mind sharing, I'd be interested in hearing what kind of work you provide to clients when hired to consult.
TooCleverByHalf··on Private Instagram Posts Aren’t Private
Nothing on the internet period?
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