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by GuiA 9y ago
I reread my posts carefully after reading this reply, and have a hard time seeing what part(s) of my posts convey "If you don't start your own company, you're an idiot". If you could quote said parts, that'd be help
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by GuiA 9y ago
Life will always involve doing shit that you don't want to do. As an employee for a larger company, if your manager tells you to do crap you don't want to do, well you generally have two choices: do it, or quit. If you're run
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by GuiA 9y ago
Yes, suggesting starting a company on a discussion board dedicated to startups and entrepreneurship is definitely an "extremely silly idea".
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by GuiA 9y ago
Why join? Start your own, run it like you want it to be run, and not only will you have the reward of working at a healthy place, you'll also have the reward of enabling dozens of employees to live fulfilling lives. I like to think tha
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by GuiA 9y ago
"self destructive" is not even the worst. The worst is when they harm the lives of people around them. People who are behaving in unsustainable ways and have employees reporting to them tend to be pretty awful managers. I've
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by GuiA 9y ago
These history changing works come from very small groups of people within the company, who usually only stick around when the environment enables their work to thrive. Oftentimes, a single fantastic key manager who protected all the enginee
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by GuiA 9y ago
How is this "the other side of the coin"? This story makes it sound like the union did its job (= protecting the interests of individual workers over the interests of the company) exactly as intended, and technological progress we
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by GuiA 9y ago
Thanks for this comment. I live in the Mission. When I have a friend come over from out of town, their first shock comes from the large number of homeless tents literally on my doorstep, a few blocks away from a major street (Valencia). I t
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by GuiA 9y ago
I’m all for that, but sadly I do not have the powers you seem to think I have.
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by GuiA 9y ago
I frequently see tech workers in SF drinking soda in the morning (ie before 10am) and it completely blows my mind as a French person. I had a coworker who would drink a coke upon arriving at his desk every day. I mean, I enjoy being unhealt
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by GuiA 9y ago
Heh. True in some ways, not in some others. Groceries for example - yes, I can buy chicken at Walmart for much cheaper than I would in the EU, for instance. But the chicken I’d buy in the EU would be of much higher quality. If I want a comp
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by GuiA 9y ago
Speakers and microphones are both transducers, which is what the author seems to be getting at.
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by GuiA 9y ago
It certainly isn’t a rebuttal. Did you read the article you are referring to? [0] It opens with ”If you are a hammer, everything looks like a nail” , acknowledging the limitations of the vision it builds. And the top upvoted comment on HN
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by GuiA 9y ago
Indeed. Keep in mind that many (most) people living in these apartments use futons - mattresses that can be folded and put away once you’re done sleeping.
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by GuiA 9y ago
Most adults need 6-8 hours of sleep. Kids need more than that. https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/Childrenssleep/Pages/howmuchslee...
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by GuiA 9y ago
The inevitable outcome is that no recorded media will be taken at face value unless there is immense proof in some way of its veracity. In the short term, this will probably lead to all kinds of terrible things (kids getting bullied through
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by GuiA 9y ago
Well, you’ll only understand 100% of it if you’re a kernel developer (and a good one at that). What’s your target? Knowing C and fundamentals of computer architecture + OS design probably gets you to 20-30%. Having spent a bit of time aroun
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by GuiA 9y ago
This is all true, but sadly not going to work is only an option for the more privileged in the USA. A waiter paid minimum wage + tips struggling to pay for cost of living/child care/debt/medical expenses/etc is likely to
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by GuiA 9y ago
Why six and not eight? Or four? My father has been a chemical engineer for the same company from ages 22-now (59) and is an expert in his (very) niche field, does that make him unqualified to speak about the state of the chemical engineerin
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Why Does Neural Style Transfer Work Best with Old VGG CNNs' Features?(reddit.com)
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by GuiA 9y ago
Are you speaking of experience, or just repeating what you read/heard? Because I keep running into that meme, but for all we know it might just be utter BS that’s been so much repeated, and is so hard to invalidate, that people take it
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by GuiA 9y ago
Frank Lloyd Wright: “You can bring an eraser to the drawing table, or a sledgehammer to the construction site”
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by GuiA 9y ago
I've had similar problems in past relationships - for some of my partners, if they were anywhere within earshot of me, I could not get anything productive done. The mere feeling of their presence made me think of them, feel like I had
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by GuiA 9y ago
Indeed. I did not have a ~great~ manager until my 3rd or 4th job, and if I had known people like that existed before I certainly would not have stayed as long in some of the earlier jobs.
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by GuiA 9y ago
This is more than a little puzzling at a time when socialism has proved a catastrophic failure in its remaining strongholds in Venezuela, North Korea and Cuba. Except the socialist practices that young people are in favor for are mostly t
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by GuiA 9y ago
Yes. Current waiting times for the final step of the process is 12+ months (it was ~2 months before the current administration according to lawyers). I am currently 2.5+ years in, and late spring/early summer would be the best case sce
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by GuiA 9y ago
I don't think this is just Chinese workers, although it's a more noticeable phenomenon just because of the numbers involved. Many of my European colleagues have expressed a desire to move back to Europe soon (<3 years, much les
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by GuiA 9y ago
It was a mid ranked state university, and the professors were not that great. I had a professor who made me regrade an entire batch of homework because, in her words, my comments explaining the mistakes were unnecessary - the students just
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by GuiA 9y ago
I’m French, but spent a portion of my childhood living in the USA (South Carolina) due to my father’s work. The one thing that my extremely French parents couldn’t stop making fun of at the time, and still can’t stop making fun of now 20 ye
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Why dolphins are deep thinkers (2003)(theguardian.com)
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