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Interestingly, Sabian is the same family as Zildjian. I believe the owners at the time of separation were brothers Robert (who separated out the Sabian line in Canada naming it aft…

Been playing drums for 30+ years. I ended up with tinnitus after an extremely loud concert wearing Hearos, which are a brand name for Etymotic ER20s (as with all things hearing it …

Not going to speak to the article but want to layout that in 1997 when I was a waiter at Chili’s I made $2.50 an hour base wage, but with tips nearly always cleared $24/h. In 1999 …

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This is avoidable by continuing to use Ruby. Just continue to use it and contribute to the community, it's that easy. Ruby still has big businesses using it - Github, Airbnb, Shopi…

Yea, I agree. Having the endgame solution in place at the beginning is often a mistake and can actually foil your ability to get to the end game.

My hypothesis: it’s hard to have a descent grasp of technologies without having actually used it. Tie that with “let’s not include too many moving parts” and it’s easy to end up in…

I worked at a pizza place in the early to mid 90s in the suburbs of Chicago. The place ran its own delivery service. The service was fantastic, pizzas delivered piping hot most of …

I emailed a local comic shop that’s closed to the public, but I was able to order $100 worth of trade paperbacks. Got it 2 days later. No “online” shop, but still worked. As best y…

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I wonder how much electric scooters impacted the decline over the last year, anyone have any data or further insight on this?

They still giving out sensors? Not sure I live far enough away from you to merit another for the study, but worth an ask.

I worked for Ticketmaster back in the early 2000s and helped build an auction platform for them. Some artists did use it for the highest quality seats, and a few even did it for th…

Check out these Mud Wasps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mud_dauber In SoCal, at least, they'll hunt down a bunch of black/brown widows and stick them in a mud nest for their wasp …

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I'm a CTO at a YC grad Care Revolutions. There's a lot of comments on what kind of work environment is bad. What do y'all suggest a startup with limited resources do to be an incre…

While I'd agree with you as an entry level candidate, with experienced people, I've found the language is often the most important thing on the list. Often above salary. I would sa…

I think being called out for a bad habit is a step in the direction of replacing/improving it. In some cases it’s enough and the person caught figures out a better habit themselves…

I often institute a “just” $1 jar. Anytime “why don’t we just” or “it’s just” is uttered you have to put a dollar into the jar. This applies to engineers, managers, myself, everyon…

The problem is squashed salaries. I’ll have junior devs or people straight out of code school asking for 75-80% the salary of a solid senior dev. If I have to make a bet on who wil…