MichaelRo

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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Well, I had an interview recently where I passed with flying honors the technical interview but they failed me at "cultural fit", which was strangely, the last one in the series. Now I must say that I got the vibe from the start t
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Yes, very disappointing. I thought it'll be something similar to this YouTube video "Evolution of Electronic Music (1929 - 2019)", which btw I like very much but it's severely lacking due to being only =~ 20 minutes: ht
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
There's a difference between immigration and mass migration, between letting a hun inside and the huns inside.
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Well, I always find these "negotiate your salary" articles very strange because in 20+ years I never did it like that. There is only one rule I follow: - Get more money than what I'm currently making and by that, I mean at le
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
I was in high school (about 14-15 years old) when I recall drawing lines and circles with BASIC on ZX-Spectrum and it was horribly slow. Was thinking of making some simple games and tried graphics mode but it was just too slow to achieve an
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
I don't quite buy it. What the heck is R&D even? How much of a software development company is classified as R&D (I never heard or seen this ever in my life and I've seem some accounting sheets). Seems like bullshit to me.
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> When random people give money to random other people It's called taxing the first to keep the second on welfare benefits.
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> How long does it take to form an impression of a new job? >> Zero. You should give it 0 time. You already know, and you’ve known for a long time; Oh boy, how developers are clinging to the illusion this is still 2021. How lon
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Yeah, I don't know myself as dyslexic but have trouble understanding what the heck are those constraints and in what relevant way are they different from the goal. My goal is not to work for a salary. I'm constrained by an otherwi
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> it’s incomprehensible that in other countries people just wipe and…hope for the best. Well ... I don't have a bidet but doesn't mean I don't wash my buttocks after doing business. Unfortunately it's a bit of a t
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Man, I don't wanna see someone going to live as a hermit in the woods and shit in the bushes for $400. I've got plenty of examples of people living in mud huts in Africa for much less. I wanna see how it's possible to live a
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Well, it doesn't work for high fever (> 39-40 Celsius). For that, I alternate Ibuprofen and sodium metamizole every 4 hours. For pain release, paracetamol it's very modest. Some effect for light head pain, zero for strong pain.
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
As a "senior" (expert) software developer you got a slight edge over a junior as long as you work in the same domain of expertise. As soon as you change project, you're at loss. General intelligence helps but can't make
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> Of all the warts, they all pale in comparison to the default initialization behavior. Come on. That's nothing compared to the horrors that lay in manual memory management. Like I've never worked with a C++ based applicati
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Unfortunately, in 20+ years and some 7 jobs in the meantime, I never ever got a job by means of an inside recommendation nor was I able to get someone I recommended to be hired. And the reason is, I'm a lowly engineer and that's a
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> Every day he works in the shop, sweating through long shifts, but somehow still has the energy at night to ... Well, everyone has this energy at 18. Can you do this "sweating through long manual labor shifts" for 10, 20,
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Some statistics for Romania (population about 20 million): - 90 cinemas - 693 hospitals - 4500 schools - 13,000 betting shops - 18,000 churches
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Yeah well, my parents have a garden of some 1000 square meters (a quarter acre) and lemme tell ya, there's a lot of stuff you can grow on that area. Obviously as a kid I couldn't escape being sent to attend the garden and saying I
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Also I don't know exactly when they started having police and gendarmerie (riot police) but probably not until 20th century, so the usual response to an angry mob was to bring the army. And army doesn't know much but shoot. Hence,
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
>> A German experiment has found that people are likely to continue working full-time even if they receive no-strings-attached universal basic income payments. That's because this is not basic income but just an additional, lucky
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by MichaelRo 1y ago
Yes you are misreading because options have a contract size of 100. So you can't buy "one option", only a contract of 100 options at minimum. Which means 80 cents x 100 = 80 bucks per contract. Multiply by 30,000 and you get
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by MichaelRo 2y ago
Well I don't know about the "porn algorithms", people are free to choose what they want. So if they continuously choose from the "teen" category, I'm guessing some sort of deviation must be at play. Like if you
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by MichaelRo 2y ago
>> Personally, I kind of pitied the non-STEM students. Well, as a STEM university graduate myself I admit being guilty of this thought and I think it's just something "hard science" thinks of "humanities" in g
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by MichaelRo 2y ago
Well, I'm expecting an average case, not "playing AM radio with grass", because in the vast majority of the cases, antennas won't be situated within a few meters of the radio tower: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by MichaelRo 2y ago
Apocalypto by Mel Gibson did a great job of imprinting a visual image of pre-Columbian Aztecs. The tribe of villagers in the movie was depicted as peaceful, but I think it's only through limited observation time and in contrast with th
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by MichaelRo 2y ago
>> We need an AI technology that can output "don't know" when appropriate. How's that coming along? Heh. Easiest answer in the world. To be able to say "don't know", one has first to be able to &quot
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by MichaelRo 2y ago
You forgot "being an idiot" and it's strange, because the vast majority of the accidents are caused by that. Have you never watched "idiots driving" videos on YouTube?
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by MichaelRo 2y ago
Also because documenting it is admitting failure. It's 15+ years since I'm trying to build a trading system that beats the market and successes so far: zero. I do work in finance and the domain knowledge kinda secures a place here
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by MichaelRo 2y ago
>> To me, all these heroes, and above process people, just strike me as difficult to work with narcissists who are poor at communication. We are not special, and we do not sit above every other department in our organisation. Exactly.
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>> I’ve been very lucky, by the way. First, I had the fortune to be born into a middle-class family that through the influence of family friends, bought a used home computer in the 1980s and then a PC in the 1990s. Me too. Only bit-sh

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