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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I just sent the SO-link to a friend remarking: "...but I think if I were asked this in an interview, I'd just walk out" Asking only this question, without using the various other avenues one could explore from there, like you
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
It does exist, although the particular image linked here seems to be a Photoshop-copy (I don't think the scales are correct). As for the obscurity: A lot of traffic signs are, you learn their meaning in driving school.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>New technologies require new ways of organizing things... I think it's pretty clear by now that organizing whole cities around the automobile was a huge step in the wrong direction and the sooner we begin to correct it the better.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I think we use different words in different contexts: Refactoring, Maintenance come to mind for software engineering. Don't know what the equivalent in the graphics design world would be.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>My mental model of the Web is as a permanent, long-lived store of humanity’s intellectual heritage. And that's where I don't agree with the author. I've been thinking about this and to me it seems we need to try
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
The issue is not whether people can make money off of YT or not, but if they have an equal chance to do so. As GP mentioned there have been blatant inequalities regarding which rules are applied to whom in 2017 (for example the popular chan
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
That's just a metaphor, and exactly of the type which GP argued against. To illustrate GP's point metaphorically: Think of human knowledge as discovered areas on a map. The dark areas are what is still unknown to us. Inventing a t
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
That sounds awesome. Maybe paint some landscapes on the walls and have nice lighting in there too. Underground bike lanes for the win!
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>What do you do with the people left behind? What do you do with the engineers once they've written all the software to automate our daily lives? But haven't you read what the very empathetic and kind poster before suggested as
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Please people, tell me what is wrong with this comment! Tear me up, show me my errors, make me understand, but don't just downvote me and leave me in the dark.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Thank you for the insight. It seems to me people in the western world/media just can't accept that leaders in other countries can genuinely have high approvals in the population despite behaving dictatorial and using violence (I&#
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
The metaphor is more about how types of fish are distributed in the vast 'sea' of gamers. Most of them are small fish, so they don't pay anything or very little for your game. There's also the term dolphins, for people t
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
The important thing is that the rules for using publicly financed goods/services are the same for everybody. If you pay for your electricity of course you are free to choose what you do with it. This is not the same as with roads thoug
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
The answer to all of your questions is no and here's the important distinction to the roads-problem: private vs. public goods / services.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Yes, and now there's a privileged option for privileged people, whereas before it was just banned / equal for everybody (everybody driving solo, that is). That's what the GP was getting at, I think.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Not the GP, but: While I discovered in the last years that I absolutely need to work out regularly or risk getting depressed, it is especially hard in the winter months. It seems that my body is preparing for hibernation and all I want to d
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Oh sure, I despise the ubiquitous hand-outs of plastic bags as much as anyone, I was just making that comment to give a reason for the weight-difference in spite of the perceived over-usage of packaging in Japan. I make it a point to refuse
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Plastic bags don't really weigh that much. Maybe Americans use a little less plastic bags (do they, though?) but throw away more other stuff, like plastic gadget crap.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
I think this gets the causality wrong. I'd say you tell yourself negative things about you because you're already in a negative mindset. Similarly you're more likely to think positive thoughts when you are happy. So I'd
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
That's certainly true, but I would argue that there's some things that really don't warrant wasting your time / energy with (like you said, mainly inter-personal and superficial stuff like appearances, money, etc.) and o
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Okay, I can see that. That's what I try to do too. Altough I see these thinking habits as more of a short-term happiness boost than a tool for feeling satisfied with my life (which I would categorize as a more longer-lasting feeling, i
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
My experience is that the vast majority of software engineering jobs I see posted require full-time work. What I think would be helpful is getting away from the notion that working 40 hours a week is somehow 'real work' and anythi
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
>Its far more satisfying to 'impress yourself' I find that this is something that sometimes sort of just happens to me, when I get aware of something I'm doing better now than, say, a year before. But, I never really consc
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Same for me. It's probably different if you have a family and children to provide for, but I would quit the second my employer forces me to install tracking software. In fact I left a previous company after a trial month in part becaus
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
These are different issues and one terrible policy surely does not make another terrible policy better. The point is that employers have no right to your private life in any way whatsoever. And I would even go so far as to say that there&#x
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
It's a bit sad that ameritrash sounds demeaning. I'm a fan of bringing some randomness into games (big fan of games including dice or card draws). My super-into-boardgames-friends seem to prefer "eurogames", but for me t
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
The question "Did you even read the article?" adds nothing of value, if not downright hostility. When someone asks a question/writes an uninformed response and one wants to respond to it, fine. But don't complain that so
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Yes. Pointing to a global evil conspiracy held up over centuries is a very weak argument, compared to what round-earthers could bring to the table. So, one would assume reasonable people would be convinced by the round-earthers.
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Please don't insinuate that someone hasn't read an article. HN-Guidelines tell us to: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html It wouldn't take anything away from your response just leaving that quest
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by Joe-Z 9y ago
Also I'd say you _can_ pause a lecture. Simply lift up your hand and ask a question: That's the great thing about person-to-person teaching. Painting all lectures and meetings as 'broken' because one would prefer to have

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