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brookside··on Want to live in a van down by the river? Ford has a new vehicle for that
Do you have photos of your workstation, or setup in general? Sounds great!
brookside··on Lowest “Who is hiring?” Post Count in 30 Months
Financial Samurai strikes me as sadistic. His post about Mr. Money Mustache's divorce is pretty horrible example of soulless SEO headings kicking a rival blogger when down https://www.financialsamurai.com/mmm-divorce/
brookside··on Wearing flashy/status clothes makes people less likely to cooperate with you
I would buy clothes with no distinctive marks if I could find them.

Uniqlo

brookside··on I took a job at Amazon, only to leave after 10 months
I completely agree and see red flags in how the parent describes their interview technique.

Interview questions with one solution "that’s pretty clever" are IMO, bad. Even cliche "easy" fizzbuzz. Ok...so you know modulo.

Rationing out hints towards that "one weird trick" sounds slightly like a cat toying with a struggling mouse.

brookside··on Tech debt is not a burden, it's a strategic lever for success
I bristle against most articles that posit "x isn't y, it's actually z"

(Speakers like Simon Sinek have made entire careers out of this specific rhetorical approach.)

In almost all cases, x is both y and z. Such is the truth about tech debt. Tech debt can but a strategic lever for success but is usually simultaneously a burden.

I don't find the examples in the article very on point. Twitter using publicly available storage systems until 2014 doesn't strike me as a form tech debt at all. Rather it is is a logical system design decision based on Twitter's business and organizational focus at the time.

brookside··on Ask HN: Apple revoked developer account for 2.5 years and counting
Small claims court is for what it sounds like - small claims (< 5-10k depending on state).
brookside··on MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
Apple isn't sacrificing any battery size on the 16" at least. 100-watt-hour is the standard max size for TSA.
brookside··on Show HN: Medusa – Open-source alternative to Shopify
Something about the landing page invoked Team Treehouse visual style: https://teamtreehouse.com/
brookside··on The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
Ah, I see "linked" profile not "linkedIn" profile as the input label.
brookside··on The data brokers quietly buying and selling your personal information
Great idea for a service and I am interested!

Couple questions and observations:

What are you asking for in the "Linked Profile URL" field. "https://gosauber.com/register" A link to one's profile on truepeoplesearch or the like? It isn't clear. (And it also might imply a user's info would only be removed from that site).

The navigation links on the top ("features, "how does it work", "plans", etc) only work at the root url of your page. They don't function on /register or similar because they point to html IDs on the landing page, not a full or relative url path.

Again, great idea!

brookside··on E-Scooters roll into New York
I'm very glad Revel exists for scooter transport on demand (and really miss car2go for on-demand cars), however:

1. The Revel scooters feel somewhat sketchy to ride 2. Prices have crept up significantly. A 14 minute ride I just took was 10+ bucks, which isn't too much different than being chauffeured in an Uber/Lyft. I'd guess Revel is still operating at a loss, there is just less VC capital funding the rides now.

brookside··on The Deno Company
No. Ryan Dahl was the initial individual creator of Node.
brookside··on Tesla's new steering yoke isn't retro, it's a safety risk
Tesla low injury rates per mile could partially be due to wealthy / environmentalist(?) owners being better drivers
brookside··on A Porsche Taycan Just Beat Tesla for the Fastest EV Cannonball Run Record
I've long maintained that "spirited" driving on public roads is "jackass" driving.

The best thing we can do is keep each other safe.

I'm guilty of driving fast in in the past. I'm glad i aged past it and found other sources of identity.

brookside··on How to waste your career, one comfortable year at a time
120k at Apple? I know you say remote - are you US based?
brookside··on Advice to my young self: forget side projects and focus on your job
Likely unintentional, but your language around hiring is quite gendered. Guys / dudes ?
brookside··on Frugality Is Non-Linear (2019)
The problem for me is that living normally in a dev job gives 15 total vacation/sick days a year.

One can surely take mini-retirements between jobs, but realistically, it's harder to get salary bumps when you NEED a job and you don't have the luxury of choosing to stay at your current spot if an offer isn't an increase. Also one normally needs to stay at jobs for two years or otherwise can look like a risky hire.

Five years of semi-monastic living with a good dev salary can be enough to buy freedom to work as little or as much as one chooses for the rest of life.

brookside··on Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution
| I drive 'spiritedly'

please don't

brookside··on Tesla worst for reliability in American driver survey
Consumer Reports relies on elective responses to their reliability survey. Doesn't this make their rankings problematic and statistically invalid?
brookside··on IBM looking for 12 years’ experience in Kubernetes administration
I learned why my boss puts “extra” years of experience from what he is actually seeking.

Doing so enables him to get higher pay band set for the position and get better candidates who might accept, even if they have less experience.

brookside··on Apple unveils biggest update to Logic since the launch of Logic Pro X
This is, of course, the far-too-common "appeal to antiquity" fallacy.
brookside··on New 13-inch MacBook Pro
Is the headphone jack still on the right? (Rhetorical question.)

Still an insane choice as headphones have their wires on the left ear so when on my work macbook i have a wire either under or over my wrists. (Or behind the display, which shortens cable length significantly and pulls a sharp angle which will ruin my Sony MDR 7506 soon enough.

brookside··on Uber Bookings Now Down 80%
Working together in the kitchen, I assume the comment above means.
brookside··on Fear of an impending car-price collapse grips auto industry
Trucks are wildly impractical. No way to secure your cargo from ne'er do wells.

I am doing lots of volunteer work with my car - and a Prius hatchback seems to be an ideal vessel for deliveries and transporting goods. If you need to haul more, a minivan or cargo van could be the way to go.

brookside··on Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers
I joined a community group that is doing just this, and as an hour ago have a list of older neighbors to check in on, and possibly help with obtaining food and medications.

I do wonder if at 39 i am in fact young enough to be in the most-likely-to-survive-if-exposed group.

brookside··on Peacetime CEO/Wartime CEO (2011)
Looks like we've got a badass on our hands!

Seriously though, looking at your linkedin profile, you have been out of school for less than 2 years. There's a lot more to learn about other people.

brookside··on U.S. will suspend all travel from Europe for 30 days
NBA season suspended after an Utah Jazz player, Rudy Golbert, preliminarily tests positive.

This shortly following Golbert jokingly (ugh) rubbing all of the mics at an interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qxtxIVtOZE

brookside··on Psychedelic therapy has a sexual abuse problem
I have the most critical eye towards psychiatry, but your claim about shootings being linked to previous antidepressant use would seem very difficult to prove true.

We would almost expect to see an antidepressants<>shootings correlation:

- mentally unwell people are given drugs

- mentally unwell people shoot other people.

That isn't causation.

brookside··on Taking Someone Aside (2018)
Indeed. The first paragraph jumps straight to "and now it's time to talk to the person in question to get them to stop".

If you get a complaint about somebody somebody in your organization, the first thing it is time to do is listen to both sides with your best critical thinking hat on. Going into a conversation with the accused party with the intention of getting them to do anything, before hearing their side, is an injustice.

brookside··on Mom and pop investors are on a stock buying spree, fueled by free trades
When the market turns sour it will be largely irrelevant if you own a collection of individual stocks or a packaged mutual fund, which is of course just a larger collection of stocks (or other securities).
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