Clubber

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by Clubber 2y ago
>I'm willing to bet Americans are the most propagandized people on Earth. Perhaps. It might feel that way because we have multiple sources of propaganda and interests trying to sway us while places like China only have one. We have
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by Clubber 2y ago
Yes for me building was the easy part, marketing and sales, not so much.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>“We don’t care about professional coders anymore,” Masad said. If you are a coder and your CEO says something like this, you should call his bluff and put in your notice immediately. I bet he will care then.
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by Clubber 2y ago
You can run it through AI to summarize it down to a sentence or two. It's like the telephone game but with computers.
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by Clubber 2y ago
You really have to schedule a meeting to discuss an upcoming meeting, so the upcoming meeting can be more efficient. (yes this happened to me before)
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by Clubber 2y ago
>from which they might glean the nature of your thoughts, and privacy is something we all value. I mean you let them into your house, privacy kinda goes out the window when you do that. You can always put books you don't want people
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Where precisely do you think "the kind of kids who get expelled from public schools" should be? I mean that literally, concretely. That's really the make-or-break question. IIRC, it was kids who constantly got into fights
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Now they're a year behind academically I think you're missing something. Getting expelled doesn't mean you didn't attend school for the remainder of the year. Getting expelled meant you were sent to a school for expe
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by Clubber 2y ago
I think the issue I have with it is she divorced her (assumedly) loyal husband, then took (assumedly) half his money in court only to give to another man she was planning on cheating with. Then the schadenfreude cherry on top was it was all
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by Clubber 2y ago
The only thing keeping me there on my desktop is games. If CoD would run on Linux, I would delete the Winders partition. I run Mac for my daily driver.
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by Clubber 2y ago
This is what they did in my school district when I was growing up. You had 3 tiers. First tier is regular school. If you get expelled, you go to tier 2 which is a school for people who got expelled. If you get expelled from there, you go to
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by Clubber 2y ago
I wouldn't mind a smaller, more manageable (and auditable) machine.
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by Clubber 2y ago
They don't care, their goal is to hit the numbers for their bonuses. Once dev collapses, they've moved on to make another company "efficient."
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by Clubber 2y ago
>out of ~500 applications Yea, the process is eating itself. Recruiters automate screening and applications automate submitting, so there is so much noise, it's difficult. I'm not saying there aren't ghost jobs, I'm j
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by Clubber 2y ago
>The type of people are different. >Back in the 90s, you needed to have a decent amount money to afford a computer.. this essentially built a wall between people that came from affluent backgrounds vs. those that did not. I remember t
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by Clubber 2y ago
It was explained to me that it was an attempt for some in the black culture to "take back," that word in an attempt to declaw it by swapping out the -er for an -a and using it colloqually rather than insultingly. Other people in t
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by Clubber 2y ago
Title inflation at its finest. Maybe he's 65 or older, thus being a senior PM.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>Funny enough it's also the only place in Europe that takes floods seriously. I'm guessing Belgium simply because they broke the dikes during WWI to flood the land with seawater to delay the German advance.
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by Clubber 2y ago
I pay around $120 a month for a Toyota 4Runner (much less expensive than a Tesla S). I haven't been in an accident ever and haven't had a ticket since around 2002. I guess it's just more expensive in the US.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>But it shouldn't be the tax payer who picks up the tab. Rebuilding is exactly what paying taxes are for. We've been giving too much of it to corporate interests, why not give some to the citizens? What are we, nodes of the Mat
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by Clubber 2y ago
>I don't quite get how Americans love sugar so much. It's not that we love sugar so much (we do), but it's in just about every processed food. Go to the grocery story and try to find boxed food without some sort of sugar i
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by Clubber 2y ago
>"Stay Woke" has a much deeper origin in African American culture, and it refers to the fact that one needs to stay vigilant about another's intentions. Yes, this origin is correct as I remember it. I first heard the term
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by Clubber 2y ago
Reminds me of Ballmer buying Nokia or Cook buying Beats (or whatever the company was called.) Cook's bet might have worked out a little better than Nokia.
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by Clubber 2y ago
"Aping," is a good one, but I'm sure someone will take offense to that as well eventually.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>We now have the first generation ... easily accessible porn from a young age. I'm GenX and there was always a Playboy or something similar around. Porn on VHS was pretty accessible since it was so easy to copy. There was also &quo
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by Clubber 2y ago
Yup, with that and no tariffs on inbound commits on software created by offshore labor, you know who the government supports, and it ain't the workers. Considering there are around 1.5 - 3 million domestic software developers, that pro
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by Clubber 2y ago
That's why you see so many job requirements that are ultra specific, or just ghost requirements. They put that out and claim they couldn't find anybody domestically.
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by Clubber 2y ago
>I think it was 85000 new visas per year for several decades. This sounds close. I think it was lowered on or near Trump's first term. It was higher during Obama, I'm recalling 185K maybe. Also, this misleading to the public be
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by Clubber 2y ago
>I would never post on HN to argue about pointer arithmetic or inference optimization, yet the law seems to be fair game for amateur hour. In all fairness, You would probably be ok with criticizing software or a website that didn't
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by Clubber 2y ago
The news has gone to 11 with the fear mongering since the 1990s and fear mongering about your kids in danger is the most profitable. FWIW, my kid always wanted to go to the playground when she was a youngster. When she hit around 11, she wa

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