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allenp

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    I'm genuinely curious about this - my best guess is there may be some measurement on the manager's employee retention numbers or similar that would make the manager look bad to hav…

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    Comment #36800381

    As others have mentioned there is a large Intel fab (and other smaller fabs) in the area. I suspect this gives them insights into the feasibility of success there and also means th…

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    Comment #33670970

    Reasonably similar and slightly easier to find is Chestnut Crab - Moore's Orchard in Pomfret grows them. https://adamapples.blogspot.com/2018/08/apple-of-week-chestn...

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    Comment #31123870

    For anyone with trouble remembering/conceptualizing this - it follows the opposite convention as bitwise operators in javascript, so it is counter-intuitive. https://developer.mozi…

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    Comment #30911581

    Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read…

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    Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read…

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    Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read…

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    Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read…

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    Comment #29074903

    Archipelago | Engineering, Product, Marketing, Sales | San Francisco or REMOTE (US, UK, and Netherlands (NL) only) | Fulltime We recently announced our $34M Series B — you can read…

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    Comment #23845559

    Although not a direct answer to 'when would you not wear a mask anymore' there are objective criteria guiding some of the decision making around phased re-openings (of which some p…

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    Comment #13321855

    Emergent gameplay perhaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergent_gameplay

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    Comment #9922905

    I'm probably in the minority and actually liked the animation - I think it represents the spastic, thoughtless, throw-away nature of (most) twitter messages.

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    Comment #6334465

    Sorry you're feeling discontent. I've written some advice on this in the past and am linking to it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1843266 No matter where you go and wha…

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    Comment #6006404

    Some ideas: Could you turn it into a white label app and sell it to businesses for their own internal use or to other entrepreneurs? Could you find a niche that needs this sort of …

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    Comment #5933081

    I'd really like to see topic-based threads of submissions here, or tag-based grouping. Even if this lives at the top of the active topics list, it would consolidate and give other …

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    Comment #5361503

    I agree about not throwing the baby out with the bathwater, however what prevents other Uber-like competitors from popping up to compete with the evil-Uber you describe? How do you…

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    Comment #5304239

    My advice is to focus on learning aspects of software engineering at the expense of learning computer science. Specifically I would focus on: requirements engineering, software arc…

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    Comment #5151831

    Thanks! I've never played minecraft, I was just wondering if maybe the distinction is between sandbox and simulation? I'm probably getting the terms wrong but the games do seem ver…

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    Comment #5151568

    Out of curiosity do you like other sandbox games like simcity or dwarf fortress?

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    Comment #4808981

    Around the end of summer there was a post on just this topic. I can't find it now but it had really solid practices in this area. If anyone remembers it / finds it I'd love to be a…

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    Comment #4788537

    Interesting question. According to this site: http://doom.wikia.com/wiki/Sales between 1993-1999 Doom and Doom II sold a combined 4 million units (gross over $120 million worldwide…

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    Comment #4607241

    AMD licenses the right to produce x86 compatible chips from Intel.

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