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jamaicaheston Cats, lasers and Raspberry Pi

Indeed. Please do not do this to your cat. It will frustrate him/her, if you don't believe me, ask your vet.

jamaicaheston Draw.io: Online Diagramming Website

To any business, $10 / month is literally nothing. If you pay $10 / month as a person, then I can see why it matters, but to a business that amount is nothing.

jamaicaheston Show HN: Switch from Medium to your own blog

Or just skip the GIF and create an MP4 file? No need to try and shoehorn GIF into what MP4 can do perfectly well.

jamaicaheston Ask HN: Tools or sites you use to scope out a workplace before taking a job?

The difference is that for a lot of people, a job is just a way to pay the bills and for them, it matters very little what a potential employer's future plans are, beyond knowing that they will still have a job in a year.

jamaicaheston Going Solo, Successfully

"Read contract yourself then get back to company and request to either remove all one-sided clauses or make them equally two-sided."

I did that not too long ago, to a potential client. The client's response was "Well we have used this standard contract with other freelancers and they have never complained about it. Take it or leave it" I left that client.

jamaicaheston GoDaddy injecting JavaScript into websites and how to stop it

Sure you could probably win a lawsuit. However what about the lost business you will incur until the lawsuit is done and Google decides to follow the court order?

jamaicaheston An open letter to FB, Twitter, Instagram regarding algorithms and my son's birth

There is a big difference in letting these companies control your mental well being, as in the letter, and letting them know intimate details about you. The first is well within your control:. don't use Facebook/Instagram/etc., then their algorithms will not affect your mood, because you won't interact with them at all.

jamaicaheston Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

What do you mean if: https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...

jamaicaheston Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

> Actually, Microsoft's insistence that IE or Edge only run on Windows has been the main reason why I don't test either.

I'm sorry, are you developing for your own personal pleasure or for a business? If it is the latter, keep your opinions to yourself and do what is in the best interest of your employer/clients.

jamaicaheston ‘I’m Broke and Mostly Friendless, and I’ve Wasted My Whole Life’

Indeed, real love is a choice you make, not a magical feeling that persists throughout life without any effort on your part. Even though that is how it is portrayed in all movies.

jamaicaheston How my sexual health searches ended up in the hands of big tech companies

Did you read the article? Author says he searched using DuckDuckgo.

jamaicaheston MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday

>As you said, the issue is that founders will usually get a moderate payout (a couple Million$), while even early employees will get almost nothing.

How is that an issue? To quote Robert T. Kiyosaki's book "Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant: Rich Dad's Guide to Financial Freedom": "Your boss' job is not to make you rich. Your boss' job is to make sure you get your paycheck. It's your job to become rich if you want to."

jamaicaheston Show HN: Learn how to work remotely from people doing it every day

Here in Denmark, the market rate is about 80-120 EUR/hour, so the same as Finland. I would speculate that across Scandinavia the rates are fairly similar.

jamaicaheston Show HN: Learn how to work remotely from people doing it every day

Minimum wage here is on average $17 / hour, across all industries. I say average because there is no law about minimum wage here in Denmark, but unions are very strong and almost all employees are covered by a collective agreement, which dictates a minimum hourly salary.

jamaicaheston The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea

>there are lots of alternatives. assign rooms to projects and have the principals mostly hang out there. couch areas and pub areas and cubby areas...rooms where you really aren't supposed to talk or hum or do anything out loud.

Having worked at a company, where they had couch areas: Management will place the couch areas in the middle or adjacent to the desks and it will all be done in an open floor. A couch area with no walls is an invitation to have loud conversations/phone calls in the middle of the office.

jamaicaheston The open-plan office is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea

That's a nice sentiment, however a lot of people have notifications turned on in both their email client and in Slack, so you end up interrupting them anyway.

There was a study done on the interruption effect of e-mail https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/abs/10.1108/1328726018000...

jamaicaheston Thailand cave rescue: all 12 boys and coach successfully rescued

I'm grateful they were rescued, but how is this Hacker News material? I can go to Reddit if I want generic news articles.

jamaicaheston A 64-year-old put his life savings in his carry-on, and U.S. Customs took it

Here's a version without the paywall http://archive.is/osFHm

jamaicaheston How to Come Up with Profitable Business Ideas

If you can solve a very specific issue for any enterprise, there is usually money to be made. Enterprises have very specific problems, often problems that only exist in that that enterprise, and they have huge amounts of cash to throw at solutions.

jamaicaheston Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

>It boggles my mind that two of the richest companies on the planet can't fix this stuff.

You're suggesting that they want to fix it at all, rather than build new, shiny things.

jamaicaheston Google, please fix Android's slow, bloated share UI

For some software engineers, a management position is considered a promotion.

jamaicaheston Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

In this day and age, with trustworthy online review sites like Consumer Reports, I find it is fairly easy to find quality products at a price somewhere in the middle.

jamaicaheston Heart surgeons refuse difficult operations to avoid poor mortality ratings

I could say you're wrong, but then it would simply be my opinion vs your opinion, and the discussion would end there.

jamaicaheston Be likeable or get fired

>While I know I made many mistakes, I believe I was not the only one who did... but I was the one on probation... so... so long and thanks for all the fish.

Author seems somewhat arrogant, one of the worst personality traits in my opinion. Hard to be liked if you're arrogant.

jamaicaheston To Change Habits, Try Replacement Instead

Reminds we of https://www.npr.org/2012/02/27/147296743/how-you-can-harness...

jamaicaheston Apple SIM

Obviously Apple would have to comply with local legislations, just like any other company has to comply with local legislations. So no, Apple SIM would not provide anonymous mobile access.

jamaicaheston Ask HN: How do you find freelance work?

Not sure if relevant, as I'm in Denmark and I don't know where you are located. But I charge $100/hour plus VAT and that is pretty much the standard rate here in Denmark for freelance work. I'm a .NET developer doing only backend work and I am currently working for a client 40 hours/week at $100/hour. Pretty much same as a regular employee except I'm self employed and my paycheck is 2-3 times that of a regular employee.

Regular work is not hard to get, I used an agency to get me this client, so they add a percentage on top of my rate when they charge the client, but if you have a good network of acquaintances, you can get work that way.

jamaicaheston Why is it hard to make friends over 30? (2012)

>It's more important to be authentic and true, even if that means having less friends, than a phony with a lot of fake friends. All this has the result of making it more difficult to randomly find real friends.

And this is where Facebook tries to seduce you. I'm going to go ahead and say that 90% of your Facebook friends aren't friends but rather they are acquaintances. Being friends means actually doing something together. Rather than liking your Facebook friends' vacation pictures, why not go on a vacation with them?

jamaicaheston How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Job Hunt

Another company asked me to create a web application based on a short specification. I liked that I was able to pick any language and framework I wanted to. Furthermore, the project was related to the company's business and was described very well.

So basically they asked you to solve a problem for them, without compensating you. Personally I would have either rejected the task or asked for compensation. But then again I'm a freelancer, so I know what my time is worth.

jamaicaheston AI-assisted fake porn are being used by people on Reddit for self-completion

> I just read the post and there are points where it flat out lies about what a source said.

Thank you. I was just about to comment the same. But I suppose accurately quoting the Wired article didn't support their opinion, so they decided to make up their own conclusion in the Wired article and ignore the one actually written in the article.