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limeyx··on Ask HN: Why won't you quit a job you hate?
Had a similar experience especially as I age and moved farther from the "Big city" where the cool jobs are and I refuse to commute that far
limeyx··on Ask HN: Why won't you quit a job you hate?
Been there & got the scars
limeyx··on Ask HN: Why did your startup fail and what did you learn?
#26 on this ugly list

https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/2012/10/the-50-worst-int...

limeyx··on On Semicolons and the Rules of Writing
Shouldn't that be "On Semicolons; the rules of writing" ?
limeyx··on What's the history behind 192.168.1.1?
Or your home is in a hotel but you walk down to the cafe ... should you renumber ?
limeyx··on Defeat your 99th percentile with speculative task
Wonder if for certain requests that are guaranteed to return smallish data sizes, having Redis support UDP would make sense and remove the TCP issues ...
limeyx··on SCOTUS: Patent Rights Over a Printer Cartridge Are Exhausted When It Is Sold
So now the companies will start selling "leases" to printer cartridges ?
limeyx··on Plastc will cease operations and will not fulfill any pre-orders
All I want is an automatic popup on my phone when I approach the register to scan my card details with samsung pay rather than have to slide up apps, use my thumbprint to unlock and wave the damn thing around madly

Currently I use it because of the novelty but it's actually more difficult for me than a physical card

limeyx··on An Alternative Approach to Rate Limiting
The racy code can behave very poorly based on some tests I did of my very first attempts at this !
limeyx··on The rise of super-voting shares has given founders the ultimate job security
Probably the founders took millions off the table at each funding round while denying this opportunity to the rank and file
limeyx··on Tesla Ships 25,000 Vehicles in First Quarter, Beating Estimates
Slightly up
limeyx··on One month after launch
Yeah "pay what you want" definitely makes me feel uncomfortable
limeyx··on How much does employee turnover really cost?
This has I think been known for a long time and can be seen @ the bottom of Maslows hierarchy of need
limeyx··on The .NET Core 2 Wave
At least as of a month or so ago it was plainly obvious that Mac is a third level supported platform here.
limeyx··on Alexa: Amazon's Operating System
I will never say OK Google (except when saying I will never say OK Google). Gross
limeyx··on About Those Air Cushions in Amazon Packages
It's more like

Don't recyclers have to sort submissions anyway? It's expected that citizens will "completely fail" to adhere to recycling instructions and submissions must be sorted anyway.

limeyx··on Why I Studied Full-Time for 8 Months for a Google Interview
He's definitely not fictitious as I've met him and have seen a presentation from him and his co-founder about one of their startups...

The motivations I couldn't speculate on though

limeyx··on Bill seeks to put porn block on computers sold in SC
Funny that he didnt suggest the computer have a blocking function for anything that mentions guns either ... I'm sure there's a big problem with that upstate too...
limeyx··on Apple removing battery life estimates following MacBook Pro complaints
Customer: My keyboard isn't working right Apple: Give it here (takes it and doesn't give it back) Customer: My Mouse isn't working right Apple: Give it here (takes it and doesn't give it back) Customer: My laptop isn't working right Apple: Give it here (takes it and doesn't give it back)

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limeyx··on Waymo: Google's self-driving car company
And what is Trumps so special plan for them I wonder ?
limeyx··on American Express will give all parents 20 weeks of paid leave
This seems like a pretty short-sighted view of the issue. Take a look outside the US for many ways this can be and is done
limeyx··on What Makes a Senior Software Developer?
To me, the chain from developer to senior to lead to principal etc is mostly driven by the desire to change from being "reactive" to "proactive" and offloading other people (higher and parallel etc) in the chain.
limeyx··on How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud
I think when people say "Add more machines to scale" they more often mean more worker-type machines all doing independent tasks or smaller pieces of a large

Not continuing to link ever-increasing sets of machines to each other in a big glob ... thats much harder to make work in the cloud

limeyx··on I Won $104M for Blowing the Whistle But Was the Only One Who Went to Jail
If I had $104M in the bank I'd put it as the caption on the top of my resume "Spent three years in federal prison..."
limeyx··on All you wanted to know about ‘all-hands’ meetings
I dont have time to schedule that right now. Check back in a few weeks
limeyx··on Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Time (2012)
Not sure for sure but August is probably the least rainy/nasty month in England
limeyx··on What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers
Or maybe people in India wont put up with the sort of crap we somehow do here in the US
limeyx··on Now it’s exploding Samsung washing machines
"What more could reasonably be expected of Samsung?"

Goodness knows, I'm sure making a noisy beeping sound, printing "Load too heavy/unbalanced" on the LCD and refusing to run would be totally unreasonable ?

limeyx··on Sony announces the Pro, a more powerful PlayStation 4 with a $399 price tag
Yup. Canceled my pre-order when I saw this and got a $60 regular DVD player for now
limeyx··on Washio on-demand laundry service shuts down operations
You're only a creep if you wear the underwear around the house :)
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