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Ah, nobody will ever share any details of an arbitrage opportunity if they find one, since you're competing on a single global market with everyone else who knows how it works I'm hoping that whoever snatched this up won't be
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+1 to this Launch-time Diablo 3 actively felt bad to play. It had about 20 hours of fun Diablo content, and then it turned into this horrible experience that was half: inspecting the dozens of crap items in your bag looking for something s
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I found an arbitrage opportunity with cryptocurrency a few years back, but it took two months to convince my friend to let me run the trading bot I cobbled together to exploit it on his account (and that whole time I was waiting for my acco
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the alternative isn't "no job", it's a higher-paying but perceived-as-boring web dev job
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It wouldn't be a problem, except that Discord takes over your fucking computer and doesn't let you sign into different accounts via private browser windows when you have the client running Another problem with Discord is that its
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They're pulling in ludicrous amounts of money, and it's pretty clear from the quality of content over the last 8 years or so that they're not investing more than a tiny fraction of it back into the game They'll just cont
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you can afford food and obamacare on minimum wage, though The reason you can't afford rent is because our housing policies make home ownership a highly-leveraged, government-backed investment that's guaranteed to appreciate expone
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Yeah, man, fire up the last "Who's Hiring" thread and jump ship. This industry is so friggin hot, it doesn't make any sense to stay in a job you hate Talking shit about management and rousing the rabble isn't reall
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That's a good point, the government has to decide where to draw the line between parents' freedom to educate their kids and kids' freedom to have access to an actual first world education I think having to pass standardized t
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It's like putting a warning about gambling addiction on the wall of a casino. It doesn't accomplish anything, and it's just there to make the company look better and foist responsibility onto their victims.
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Maybe it's different in the USA, but I feel like public school was a complete waste of my time.. I'd read through the entirety of all the textbooks in the first couple of weeks of the school year and learn everything a kid my age
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Man, the article was maybe 10% of the source code of that page.. what a bloated nightmare [{"@type":"WebPageElement","isAccessibleForFree":"False","cssSelector":".content-container"
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Amazing book, written by a former Madison Avenue employee (the subject of "Mad Men") I think someone should make a movie or TV series out of this, it'd be the perfect parody of Mad Men in particular and our messed up hyper-co
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I think Sterlind already covered about as much as could fit in a casual comment online.. The basic idea is that you draw a box around your system, then check all the inputs and outputs. If the inputs are good and the outputs are bad, you o
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That's nuts, dude I'd take ONE top faang engineer over 8 government software contractors. There's so much tribal knowledge out there that people in the Midwest just don't have, not to mention a can-do attitude. It blew
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> Hunting of passenger pigeons was documented and depicted in contemporaneous newspapers, wherein various trapping methods and uses were featured. The most often reproduced of these illustrations was captioned "Winter sports in nort
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People make enclosed ecosystems in jars all the time for fun
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haha, where'd you get the idea that I'm fighting back? No, my friend, I put on my jackboots and my company logo t-shirt and give 100% every day Really, people benefit when I rob them of their privacy
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Good news, my friend, you can see their sentiment right here in this very thread! Scroll up or down and feast your eyes. My personal story: When I interviewed for a job at Amazon many years ago, all the recruiter e-mail kept going into my
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Yeah, it's really infuriating.. Reddit consumed most of the cool niche forums on the internet, and now it's slowly mashing them all up into a bland Facebook clone
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Man, I can't believe I almost missed out on this great interview because I checked the comments section first, and your hot take was at the top No insights, no rebuttals, just a quick off-the-cuff insult with no substance whatsoever.
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I'd happily hire a full time live-in butler for minimum wage plus room and board. Are you saying that unless I can pay the market rate, I should struggle to find a butler?
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Ah, I can't blame him for using a throwaway account. People get canned for talking about their companies all the time. Maybe he's got high praise for Amazon today, and then tomorrow he wants to post about something personal He&#
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I got a glowing performance review at Amazon one year, and then with the exact same job/productivity level/attitude I got a bad review the year after. I did some digging, and it turned out that from the VP level down everyone in
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Hey buddy, I'm going to pull back the curtains a little on those coding interviews. Solving coding interview questions is a skill that you can learn, just like playing musical instruments or solving mystery novels or mastering a type
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haha, this was at Microsoft, and the dash button was a glowing success compared to the project I'm talking about I'd better not dump any more details though, since it's technically still under NDA.. What I'd really like
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To be fair, some morons at Microsoft do it too My skip-level manager put me on a performance improvement plan there because he said someone else had done 10x as much work as me. It turned out that the other engineer had closed out somethin
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"HP" or "IBM" carry a lot more weight on a resume than something like "BF Consulting Ltd"
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Haha, that happened to me with my current job. The HR guy told me to my face that he thought my resume was unprofessional and if it were up to him I never would've gotten the interview "Good thing nothing is up to you, then"
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I've seen what the Korean/Japanese education system does to kids, though, and I don't want any part of that. Kids go from being bright-eyed and bushy-tailed to completely burned out by the time they're 13 or so
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