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Re:Ask HN: What game do you wish existed? on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:33PM (#31509414)
X4: Foundations, gets closest to this for me.
A personal anecdote: as soon as companies starting paying these salaries to remote workers, I found myself a company willing to pay me for my experience. Now I get to reap the benefits of lower cost of living, higher quality of life, and higher pay. I don't know how long this gravy train will last, but I suggest anyone with the experience to hop on get their ticket immediately.
Re:Norway convinced Japan to love salmon sushi (2015) on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @05:50PM (#31254073)
Oddly enough it is illegal to serve raw wild fish that has not been frozen, in the United States. (Though, there are exceptions for some farming scenarios and some Tuna species)

Anyone trying to tell you they are selling you never frozen sushi is likely lying or violating food code.

See FDA Food Code 2017 3-402.11 Parasite Destruction.

Re:Let's work remotely and travel together on Tuesday May 03, 2022 @04:03PM (#31252879)
I really wanted to do this when I was younger, but the complications of filing taxes always turned me off the idea.
I'm in this business too, and it's not just the direct features supporting the law, its the law driving out time and talent trying to make things better. We don't have time to improve systems because we are all too concerned with meeting the latest regulatory pipe dream of interoperable systems.

Systems that nobody has ever asked us to use. Entire APIs with full access to key data, that nobody uses.

Re:A 21st Century Software and Ethics Manifesto [pdf] on Monday April 25, 2022 @04:49PM (#31160406)
I read the first two pages and still had no idea what this was supposed to be about, so I stopped reading it. Needs an abstract at the top to get me to commit to 78 pages.
Re:Show HN: Make your PDF look scanned in browser on Tuesday April 19, 2022 @12:47PM (#31085597)
This project reminds me of another way to avoid dealing with taxing corporate policies that are nonsensical; receipts. If you are interested in this, you might also be interested in https://makereceipt.com/
Maybe "more politically correct" or "easier to get away with" would be a better way to phrase what I meant.
Howard Gardner's "Intelligence Reframed" (1999)
It's similar but it also brings in a challenging problem: coding tests costs candidates far more than it costs employers in terms of time. I am currently interviewing and two of the companies I am otherwise excited for sent take-home tests that just exhaust me, especially after a long day of otherwise productive work. I've got 12 years of experience under my belt but somehow great references and a killer resume aren't enough to convince them I can find a security vulnerability.
SAT scores correlate with IQ test scores. SAT is just a 'legal' thinly veiled version of IQ test.
“The devices have been confiscated and their answer sheets were seized. They were given new answer sheets,” he said.

Unbelievable. They should have been banned forever.

I don't really know about source code, but at the very least, you should have access to any crypto keys, code, passwords or other such thing needed to modify it. Furthermore, reverse engineering any aspect of the thing and sharing the specifications you have discovered should not be illegal.
Re:IRS to adopt Login.gov as user authentication tool on Tuesday February 22, 2022 @01:59PM (#30432024)
Not that this should be necessary by any means but I usually right click the password input -> inspect element -> paste my password in the value from my password manager. The on screen keyboard is so ridiculous.
Re:Biden to Present Plan to Cut Cancer Death Rate in Half on Thursday February 03, 2022 @12:19PM (#30195334)
If you want to contribute to ending cancer, there are opportunities in tech. Flatiron Health works on both clinical software and research data.
If you can get it to the moon isn't it almost as easy to just shoot it into the Sun?
I think a third real issue is also important, the 'undue hardship' burden necessary to get rid of student loans through bankruptcy needs to be dropped.
How is it illegal?
Re:Business Essentials on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:42PM (#29177599)
You just wait, I am sure that after Apple tests this plan, knows it works reasonably well and can make money, they will start crippling JAMFs' capabilities and slowly take over the market.
Re:s/bash/zsh/g on Wednesday October 20, 2021 @04:21PM (#28935942)
The first thing in install with oh-my-fish is bang-bang, which fixes this issue for me.

https://github.com/oh-my-fish/plugin-bang-bang

Re:John Carmack on Hiring on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @03:24PM (#28448774)
One of the few actually useful functions recruiting companies can do is get the job salary range in agreement with the candidates desires before wasting anybody's time.
Found a transcript here for those who prefer to read

https://review.firstround.com/podcast/episode-32

Re:Ask HN: How do I get my brother into programming? on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:27PM (#27694728)
Maybe offer him a job?
Re:Ask HN: Do Smartphone Apps get audited? on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:22PM (#27694691)
They don't do anything really, besides ensuring they get their cut and cover their ass.
Re:Asshole Driven Development on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:15PM (#27694647)
Yup. Though sussing out these guys is very difficult, as they also often seem to actively weed out anyone who challenges the petty tyrant or even other assholes moving in on their turf. So their teams become loyal to the asshole's little fiefdom. I spent my entire exit interview at my last company just blasting this one guy, in a vain attempt to get the company to recognize he was cancer.
Re:Asshole Driven Development on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @07:12PM (#27694623)
Get Me Promoted Methodology (GMPM)

This is the one that I see so often and wish my managers' would recognize faster. Nobody picks up the ticket in the queue that actually needs to get done, but when hackathon comes around somebody's shitty barely working code becomes a huge win for the company instead of recognized for a giant loan of tech debt. Debt that will be paid from the poor schmucks that will actually need to maintain that thing. But hey "I won't be here, you won't be here" is the cornerstone of hockey stick growth.

Hi Cliff,

I want to buy your books, but suddenly I don't want to buy them through Amazon, is there a better website for me to buy them from?

Indeed, though now I am thinking that messaging people directly can be construed as "breaking the rules", which may somehow or probably is related to women not applying for jobs.

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