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by 0xbear 9y ago
I wish I was this cynical to ride people hard at a 20% pay cut and in exchange offer them the privilege of making me another billion dollars. It's good to be the king.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
On Slack it's always a huge chain and 15 people on it, and it's not broken down by conversation. And it demands immediate attention to boot.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
If you have any illusions about independence of US mass media after this election cycle, there's some swampland in Florida that I'd like to sell to you.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Neither does the US really, in the sense that no matter who wins, you lose.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And the question below that is, who's "we"?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Java is not really usable anywhere for e.g. GUI, so there's that as well.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
And they will be worked on for at least the next decade. Meanwhile .NET had them for 16 years now.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It never was "Windows only": https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc749640.aspx . Mono arrived shortly thereafter. And it had open spec right from the start. Patents were an issue though, there's
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by 0xbear 9y ago
How do you figure an "axon contributes one FLOP" if it's spiking? Seems to me a _spike train_ (that is, a long series of activations) would be equivalent to a floating point operation, not a single spike.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
.NET is far beyond Java as a platform for building languages though, and it's been that way right from the start. Reified generics, value types, structs, unsigned integer type support, intermediate language actually optimized for compi
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by 0xbear 9y ago
As a rule recruiters won't have answers for you, and they can't negotiate either.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Says someone who's not 40 yet. Tech is notoriously ageist.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I'm not in SV. Just a general observation. Younger people know _how_ to do things, but they don't know _what_ to, and even more importantly what not to do. As you age, you will discover that junior devs are much faster at accompli
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by 0xbear 9y ago
You'll be out of a job by your mid-40's. I suggest you reconsider your decision to not "progress your career".
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Because you'd like to have access to public transportation or bike to work?
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Tax appraisal: cost of structure $2100, cost of land $100k. Tax bill: half the cost of structure per year plus school levies.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's so much part of a "culture" that one of the leakers is only safe in Russia, another spent five years in solitary confinement, and yet another is holed up in an embassy to avoid extraordinary rendition. Some "cultur
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It is the same thing if he his insulin homeostasis is out of whack. It's a constant struggle in that case. That's why most people who lose weight in the short term gain it right back when they "maintain". A thin dude at
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by 0xbear 9y ago
The question you need to answer is can you sustain this for the remainder of your lifespan.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Fung's theory prescribes exactly what you did. Eat unprocessed foods, don't eat too much, don't snack all the time, skip breakfast, fast 24-36 hours every now and then. Whether or not you get fat is largely determined by insu
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I've found much of his book unpersuasive. But I think he's onto something with this fasting thing, as well as with not eating snacks all the time.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
When poor have nothing to eat, they eat the rich. Or, I'd modify that to say they eat the upper middle class, because the truly rich just bolt at the first sign of trouble.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Lots of things are more cancerous than a banana. Fries and steak for example. And sure, if you're spraying it without the proper precautions for "years and years", it probably will negatively affect your health, though even t
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by 0xbear 9y ago
None of those reasons apply to him.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
How does a lawyer resolve anything if there's no contract? And by extension, why should he refrain from publishing zero days if there's no contract? It's his software.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Protip: don't believe everything you see on TV.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
Ironically, the lack of ability to blame someone else for one's misfortune was the only good thing about USSR style socialism. When everyone is poor, you can't blame the rich for anything.
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by 0xbear 9y ago
It's not a "scientifically proven fact".
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by 0xbear 9y ago
There are always theoreticians who don't really know what they're talking about, but do offer their utterly worthless advice. I'm not talking about you, or anybody else on this thread in particular. Without sufficient pushba
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by 0xbear 9y ago
I am a multimillionaire. Came here with a negative net worth, by way of skilled immigration. Born and raised in the USSR. Don't bother trying to convince me about the virtues of socialism. Unlike you, I actually lived it.

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