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by SZJX 8y ago
How having the word "sweatshop" in the title is trying to glorify the person is totally beyond me. So any lengthy investigative journalism that lists the subject's life story is a glorification? Then all the media attack on D
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by SZJX 8y ago
I don't really think that there's such a huge difference between developers in remote countries and developers in first-world countries. Just like many programmers would have imposter syndromes, many unheard-of programmers in poor
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I don't even think "jumping on the next new thing" is a particularly valid "career strategy". Many companies do use relatively "old" technologies and don't care as long as the job gets done. Slack eve
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by SZJX 8y ago
I don't think exact technologies per se are that important for "resume padding". Many companies do use relatively "old" technologies and don't care as long as the job gets done. Slack even uses PHP. Not to ment
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by SZJX 8y ago
Feels like this could well be Falun Gong propaganda. They are known for fabricating stories to discredit the Chinese gov. There are multiple such "notes from prison factory" stories floating around in the media already. It's
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by SZJX 8y ago
I don't think those Uighur camps are exactly comparable to force labor camps on prisoners. If one portrays them as such they are greatly twisting the facts.
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That might be one way to do it. But that alone certainly is not enough. One will also have to have the political acumen to take credit and make sure the others' interests are taken care of as well. It's really a complicated game t
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by SZJX 8y ago
I don't see how being tied to a particular area is essentially good for the community, especially for big cities, which are used to huge turnovers. For me having the freedom to move wherever I want for my job sounds much more enticing
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by SZJX 8y ago
Rust sucks especially for the problems that Elixir is good at. Maybe when writing some system tools I'd consider Rust but so far it has been an absolute pain to use. Can't even get the code to compile for hours while in Elixir I&#
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by SZJX 8y ago
I've hardly run into any bugs in Elixir. It feels almost like Haskell to me. Pure magic. On the contrary I struggle to get even the most basic Rust program to compile, wasting hours before anything is done.
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by SZJX 8y ago
Is that actually a typical ADHD symptom though? I thought ADHD means not being able to concentrate for a sustained period of time, instead of being able to become insanely focused.
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by SZJX 8y ago
You can still negotiate a final amount to be paid via non-cash payment though. Sometimes the rounding off of numbers might even make paying by cash more expensive. Don't think that's a particularly strong point.
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by SZJX 8y ago
That's one way to go about it but it might be a bit simplistic and there's no reason why cooperation wouldn't work out for some civilizations as well. To completely hide one's signals is both hard to achieve and not nece
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by SZJX 8y ago
Wouldn't that strain your arms so that your controls get worse in the next round? Though it certainly sounds a good idea to do some exercise in between such rounds. I am a top PES player ranking in the 1%, though I just sold the game s
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by SZJX 8y ago
Indeed many of the exact claims are not to be trusted, though on the other hand keeping this sort of mentality/thinking framework when analyzing the world around us can still be helpful. Putting it as a "conspiracy theory, rebelli
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by SZJX 8y ago
Not sure if the "moments" stuff is that "14-years-old". I'm not sure about the Snapchat implementation but the things on Instagram and FB etc. surely have people of all ages using them. Though yeah that's not t
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by SZJX 8y ago
Late comment though I'm not sure if point 2 about awards and press coverage is true. Surely you can't spend all your time on marketing but you still need to gain traction somehow? I would like to see some opinions on this.
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by SZJX 8y ago
The thing is that the rich-poor gap has grown considerably as well. In this era if you don't have at least millions you can hardly get themselves/their family a comfortable life/retirement in a metropolitan area. Nobody feels
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by SZJX 8y ago
> I don't think we (the world outside China) shouldn't be a bit worried given in what position _we've_ put China and how strong they are now At least China won't be as dangerous as the US or the Soviet Union in that i
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by SZJX 8y ago
This is interesting. No idea why you were downvoted.
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Why the Chinese? That makes zero sense. Much more likely the US who want more casus belli to go after China. Wouldn't be surprising at all seeing the moves by the US gov so far.
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by SZJX 8y ago
The OP wrote: > "coding all day and all night on relatively minor problems to make somebody else five figures a week" which makes no sense. Of course if one ever codes outside of the day job one should code for their own proj
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by SZJX 8y ago
This doesn't make much sense. You can very well code at night but at least that shouldn't be related to your day job. I'm not sure what you get out of "coding all day and all night on relatively minor problems to make so
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by SZJX 8y ago
lol if you're letting yourself so overwhelmed by work probably you'd take a second look at your work-life balance, especially if you're working in Europe, unless you're the founder/executive or something.
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by SZJX 8y ago
Haha exactly. I was quite unhappy about the lack of options in the beginning of this year and just went with Vimium, which I don't really like. This thread led me to realize that so many projects have come up out of the blue. Tridactyl
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by SZJX 8y ago
Very true. There's a proliferation of content nowadays but most of them are just of absolutely horrible quality. I regret having wasted quite some time on hastily written free contents instead of more systematic books.
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by SZJX 8y ago
So it seems from the summary that eventually the direct cause of death is the person not eating anything. However there are more than one way why a person might have reached that state. Anorexia is another such example. The title is a bit s
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by SZJX 8y ago
Four years without leave sounds really overboard. In Europe the law mandates every worker to have a one-month leave each year. Not granting the leave is illegal by the employer. Just keep in mind that in a capitalist society the work is nev
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I'm still not totally sure how the "causation" part is proven. Just because the genes must have already existed in human beings long before there were drugs? Not sure if this is totally convincing though sure, that is indeed
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by SZJX 8y ago
He never specified how many years he worked there, and he's apparently already retiring? Maybe that's over a very long period of time so I don't see how you're "failing". Maybe you're actually doing much b

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