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3maj

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About 3maj

Tech and Finance. I like to learn new things and then forget I know then until on a long road trip. Pop/Rock/Rap/Punk Retired Virgin.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #31971398

    pretty much, or if you're put in an extremely quiet room you'll start to lose it.

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    Comment #31970685

    I thought this too until I learnt what tinnitus actually is. Tinnitus isn't your ear ringing, its you losing hearing from loud noises and the loss of said hearing fucking with your…

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    Ask HN: What are some companies you refuse to work for?

    Saw this question on the reddit r/cscareers subreddit so I figured I would ask it here to see what the HN community has to say.

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    Comment #31728995

    Couple of comments. Hedge Funds don't invest in trailer parks, if they did they wouldn't be hedge funds they would be PE firms or REIT's. While the US Industrial Complex is a cance…

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    Comment #31728868

    For the last 5-10 years one of the most popular strategies for mid-sized PE firms has been the dental clinic roll up.

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    Comment #31720269

    Laughs in Northern Canadian

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    Comment #30381980

    Looks at wahoo kickr in corner Hello old friend, we meet again.

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    Comment #30091616

    Project/Product Manager.

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    Comment #29958282

    There is a lack of cybersecurity investments in almost every industry. The issue is that the executives making the decisions 1) Usually aren't knowledgable about CyberSec and 2) do…

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    Comment #29834763

    I generally suggest that all dev teams send at least one person that's in the trenches daily to the steering committee meetings and any other decision making meetings. This way, th…

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    Comment #29834670

    I agree. If they sent me a home test with a custom programming language I would laugh and tell them to withdraw me from consideration. I'm busy, I'm not learning a new language so …

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    Comment #29834599

    I'm looking at this from a PM's perspective and not a devs perspective so take it as you will. >he basically tells me this project should have been finished a long time ago and he …

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    Comment #29834488

    Shoutout to the Slavic Homie Nikola Tesla, was one of the greatest inventors of all time but died in poverty.

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    Comment #29771329

    Probably a big one. Drug overdoses have killed more 18-54 year olds in Canada than Covid has. Hell, in British Columbia there have been more drug overdoses than Covid deaths across…

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    Comment #29699158

    Government of Ontario (Province in Canada) published data months ago showing that young men were at higher risk from heart issues. Nobody cared and the all the local and federal ne…

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    Comment #29676544

    This is complete nonsense. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259785v... In Israel (I use them because they have a fantastic dashboard) not a single individual un…

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    Comment #29597670

    Worse, FB doesn't care about the facts and neither do journalists anymore. All that matters is clicks and political leanings.

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    Comment #29595020

    Happens in manufacturing allll the time, especially if you're contracting our work to companies in India/China/Vietnam/etc.

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    Comment #29578057

    As far as I'm concerned they're recreating Club Penguin.

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    Comment #29578052

    Here's a wild idea, meet in person.

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    Comment #29567300

    We're going to get to a point where instead of advertisers paying per click they'll pay per look since the glasses will be able to track eyeballs. Hell, there might be a premium th…

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    Comment #29397202

    Twitter will never replace bbg.

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    Comment #29397187

    Twitters Revenue/Employee Headcount (not counting any contractors) is currently around 636k/employee. As far as FAANG companies go Twitter has an over bloated workforce.

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    Comment #29165626

    To be fair, this is one of the few non-profits that benefits most people and that is actually used day-to-day by the majority of people with an internet connection.

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    Comment #29127447

    >Firms like GS, JPM, etc have fatter margins (I think) and can afford to pay devs/strats/etc. From what I've seen on my end the Insurance firms have started paying somewhat of a pr…