DevKoala

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by DevKoala 5y ago
> You’re probably not rich in the sense of generational wealth. 99% of people aren’t The majority of people who start new businesses do not have generational wealth. In fact, those who achieve generational wealth often turn into investor
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by DevKoala 5y ago
I am one of those immigrants who were “wealthy”, which meant my family was able to save money for years to afford my plane ticket to the USA. When I came here I was one of the poorest kids at school. Stop making excuses.
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This is an awful take. From experience, being “wealthy” in a third world country translated to being on one of the lowest brackets of poverty here in the USA.
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Nobody worked hard for their money in your world? I was cleaning floors at a fast food place just 15 years ago. If you were to see my parents driving the new car I bought for them this year (I need them to be safe), I bet you’d say the same
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by DevKoala 5y ago
This is such a horrible take I am not going to give the article a click. I know two successful entrepreneurs who come from a situation of struggle in third world countries. Also my girlfriend, who grew up in poverty in Pennsylvania, and now
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Yes I do remember opening the news that day and my reality completely changing. Up until then the “party van” parked outside your house taping your conversations was a joke perpetuated by schizos. Turns out they didn’t need a “party van” pa
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Shhh! Some people are trying to justify their jobs as a service to mankind.
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Use ingramer.com or a similar tool/api, download all the images of your desired profile, and problem solved. I call this solution “fuck you too”.
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I always thought MKULTRA was a meme. Thank you.
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Someone with cool dance moves too.
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Thank you.
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I wish I had been able to read it before it got flagged. I do want to understand the perspective.
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Is there any way to vote against the current way the FBI/CIA operates? They are straight up coercing witnesses with fake testimonies to get a man prison, whose only crime was sharing the truth about the shameful inner workings of our A
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by DevKoala 5y ago
I was just throwing a number. I don’t work at Google, but I have heard from friends who work at that scale that when bugs only affect a few thousand people, it is “safe” to ship.
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When solving problems at scale with a 0.0000001% error rate ends up destroying someone’s life.
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Yes I agree. As someone who works with programmatic advertising technologies, I struggle to convince friends that 80% of what they see in a screen has been decided by a third party and it is not them “looking for it”.
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The company had less than 20 employees, everybody knew each other, and my manager was the owner, a self-made man with a really high opinion of himself due to survivorship bias. Also, it was my first job after my failed startup right out of
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by DevKoala 5y ago
People will never accept that they followed the word of “experts” as if it was religion, and lacked rational thinking and original critical analysis. It’s 2021, we have the Internet and yet the masses were still as easily manipulated as the
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Can they monetize the content that is being hidden? If not, perhaps that’s the answer.
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I wasn’t arguing for these companies having to change. In fact, I am glad it suits the life of people who enjoy that lifestyle. I was arguing that whatever imbalance will fix itself.
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Estimating hours for a project is essentially project based billing, it is just more granular. I don’t think the developers who only work 3 hours a day when they are employed full time are being amoral. If they can do it, more power to them
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by DevKoala 5y ago
In the past I’ve hired engineers on a per hour basis; we agree on the hour count while we plan the tasks. Sometimes it takes them more hours than we planned, sometimes less, but our contract stays the same. There is nothing moral/amora
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by DevKoala 5y ago
When I was a junior engineer, I quit a position over this. My manager had a direct line of sight from his desk into my screen and would give me passive aggressive comments if I wasn’t always on task. I was the best performing engineer at th
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Check threads here: https://www.teamblind.com/ It is a way of life at FAANG, Uber, etc. Don’t feel guilty. These companies will eventually realize they need to change, or perhaps they are okay with it.
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It’s almost as if the system balanced itself out.
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This is good news for many. I have a friend who rented a floor on his duplex and he was incredibly helpful during the pandemic with the family that rented from him; he definitely deserves this.
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by DevKoala 5y ago
I have a friend who has a huge contract with a manufacturing company that is publicly traded. Whenever I have the time I pick up some tasks from him. It allows me to work on WebGL which is a nice break from the data engineering/systems
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by DevKoala 5y ago
I was renting an apartment in SF to be near the office and avoid the commute, but it just wasn’t the same. I missed my home and family. Eventually I decided I would arrive to the office at lunch time to avoid rush hour and leave at 8pm. Tha
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by DevKoala 5y ago
None of those characters were individuals who were cancelled based on their opinions against the dominant culture in social media. Also, they weren’t cancelled, they got charged with one or multiple felonies, which is different, and there a
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by DevKoala 5y ago
Doesn’t it always feel manufactured? What you are mentioning regarding the case of Stallman’s cancelling is the same pattern I have seen applied against every other voice that has a dissenting opinion of the current culture that dominates s

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