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by 80386 8y ago
>That is what people think they will do, but it is not what they will do. It is not the utopia that they think it will be because there are fundamentals about human nature that mean we don't really just sit around thinking up theori
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by 80386 8y ago
I think there's a trend in archaeology of us realizing we've been underestimating the past. The Polynesians were capable of voyaging across the Pacific to South America, and another Austronesian group made it all the way to Madaga
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Necessary for what? Maybe not optimizing iPhones. But somebody has to make the music that goes on the iPhones, and it's pretty hard to do that if you're working on their hardware full-time. There are already plenty of "necess
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I did the same thing (college straight out of 10th grade, didn't bother to get a GED) and in the very rare case that a job application asks whether I graduated from high school but doesn't ask about degrees, I just say I did. If a
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Right, it's hard to get even a crappy job. Except at an Amazon warehouse. There were relatively few hoops to jump through, and I don't think I even had to interview for it. (Well, "crappy". Aside from the low pay and bad
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Performance metrics are standardized across all Amazon FCs, so no.
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I work at an Amazon warehouse. I'd rather be able to do that and write code on the side than be unemployed and have to live with my parents in the middle of nowhere. My parents don't even have an internet connection.
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I'd be surprised if it doesn't. I know someone who lived in West Virginia for a while. Before she got a car, she had to call a taxi to get to and from the grocery store. (To be fair, this was the eastern panhandle, which has the c
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by 80386 8y ago
There are some early Bible translators who took their source texts and translated them word-for-word into their target language, preserving even the word order of the source where it differed from the target.
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by 80386 9y ago
Bauer and Woessner [1] weren't very clear on their semantics, but according to Bruines [2], they're type annotations. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20090220012346/http://delivery.a... [2] ht
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Zuse seems to have been under the impression that some of the ALGOL designers were aware of it: https://books.google.com/books?id=AsvSBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA522&lpg=... Rutishauser was, at least.
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Rutishauser might have gotten it from Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül, which used the right double arrow ⇒, which looks a little like =. Plankalkül had the order and the assignment reversed relative to C, so to increment a variable Z1, you&#x
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Whoever's exploiting the network effects decides what qualifies, and the First Amendment doesn't apply to them. It's heartening that OStatus (GNU Social, Mastodon, Pleroma, etc.) are getting some uptake, but existing federate
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Maybe we shouldn't keep the college system around in its current form at all. In Iran, there's something called the Guardian Council. If you want to run for an election, the Guardian Council has to approve you first. If they don&#
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Yes. Unfortunately, stores in America are starting to go cashless: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/nyregion/no-cash-money-ca...
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What I do is take every opportunity to work on small (ideally small enough that I can finish it at work) projects that make my day job (warehouse QA) a little easier. For example: today was a slow day, so I figured I'd do audits in my
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by 80386 9y ago
This is maybe a stupid question, but why not Rails? I still use it as my go-to backend, but it seems to be out of fashion nowadays.
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What do tech people do after they hit 35?
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If you have to apply to 250+ jobs just to get one, you can't invest much effort into each application. I've been a part-time developer for three years (and worked full-time on top of that), and I'm looking for a full-time pos