HumanDrivenDev

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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Yeap, I'm looking for an exit from being a permanent programmer employed by someone else. Whether that's self-employment, or transitioning to a PM or BA type role. Code monkey is a dead-end if you're outside a tech-hub.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I find it to be cleaner than having module M with struct t and functions M.create: () -> t, M.doStuff: t -> 'a. Which is what tends to happen. It just looks like immutable objects for slow learners...
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
> In the UK you could afford a car on minimum wage. Parent said easily afford, not afford.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
In some languages they also have methods like 'curry', which further blurs the lines.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
In my career I started off with OO/imperative, then got heavily into functional programming. I came out at the other end strongly preferring immutable objects over struct+procedure function programming. It's a style I consider dee
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Shit salaries, overpriced housing, and everything is expensive. Seriously, if you're American name me the last thing you just purchased and I can guarantee it will be at least 25% more expensive here, sometimes double. If you're a
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
The small menu is so appealing and the place itself so charming that you almost forget, as a diner, that you have to do much of the work of dining out yourself. You scout your own table. You fetch and fill your own water glass. And if you’
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Your banking password isn't that sensitive, because banks are used by regular people who don't have any conception of good security practices. The worst case scenario of your bank login credentials leaking are really not that bad
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
You realise they weren't doing it out of the goods of their hearts right? They were being paid...
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Oh you're talking round trip? That's a bit more realistic.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I think you hugely overestimate the number of people who can ride a bicycle for 24 miles - let alone those who can do that in 2 hours. I ride a bicycle a 3 miles to work every day, and while I'm sure I could work up to it I'm not
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Not to mention listening to peoples inane phone conversations, and having to shove other passengers legs out of the way when they think they can encroach on your seat space. Bus drivers also tend towards the unpleasant. I realise it's
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Geez man just relax a bit and move to a smaller city. I make 100k and live in a 2200 square foot house with 3 grocery stores within walking distance and a 10 minute commute. Life is pretty easy, I make websites for my companies marketing t
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
The article seemed a bit confused and meandering to me. The side spiel about modern life requiring most of us to up sticks and put off starting a family is the more interesting part, but not really expanded upon.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Why? Look at all the mentions of "nazi", "fascist" and "hate-speech" in this thread. You can tell when a place leans left because this is a common left-wing conspiracy theory - that the world is full of fasci
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Restricting so-called "hate speech" is censorship. Perhaps it's censorship you agree with, but then at least have the integrity to forthrightly say you agree with censorship.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
the Nazi.. uh nationalists. That's not a constructive way to look at the world. It's the left-wing equivalent of claiming Obama is a Marxist. Get some perspective.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Still probably doesn't make up for their low Canadian salaries though. Given the choice I know which country I'd rather have a career in.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Maybe it's because every time people talk about FP, someone has to dredge up an OO (read: enterprise Java) strawman showing all of its alleged deficiencies?
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
This is a weird argument. Mentioning something great that smalltalk is capable of isn't the same as saying everyone should use smalltalk. It's more saying - let's not forget some of the great stuff that existed in the past th
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Losers, Clueless, and the Sociopaths https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-... Your 40,000 are the "checked out losers".
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
What do you expect for a free product? The entitlement of people is astounding.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Oh are European governments and intelligence agencies going to follow the GDPR as well?
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Interesting that the end result was the same - block people from the country using their services.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Exactly. It's possible to criticise what the EU are doing without thinking the United States does everything right - or even that it does it better. Disappointing to see so many EU apologists defaulting to whataboutism.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
So many left-wing people are convinced that if it weren't for those meddling russians the status quo would remain. It's mind boggling. Foreign powers have attempted to sway elections before and they will do so in the future. In a
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
The other option - if you have no business presence in Europe - is to ignore it. It's never concerned that I'm likely breaking the laws of North Korea every day, for example.
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Elon Musk Is the Cosmo Kramer of Crony Capitalism(theamericanconservative.com)
5 points by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago|2 comments
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Nice job, remote work? I fantasize about doing similar, but I live in NZ, so even if I branched out to somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Australia I'd probably be looking at at least 100k USD for a decent place. Still, sure beats 3
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
If you're in tech there is no reason to live hand to mouth in a major city. If you're in America, sure.

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