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by _bxg1 7y ago
Yes, I've started doing personal projects as a therapeutic exercise. My personal projects used to be about the end goal: making something that I want to make but don't get to at work. Lately they've been more about the exerci
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I would start by taking a look at this article; it helped me understand what it is that I personally get out of programming: https://josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/ But I would also say, I don't think there's
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Lots of commenters have pointed out a pattern of increasing failures and shortcoming by the WHO, which I wasn't aware of, but I still have to think: don't we need a centralized touchstone for these kinds of crises? Even if the WHO
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Not to mention community. If you're lived in a city all your life and have roots, it's hard to just pick up and move. Not that it can't be done, but this often gets left out of the "why don't people just move if the
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> I would much rather live on land that I could do things with, such as farm, or hunt, or build things That's nice, but many people would just like to have a roof over their head that will stay over their head.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I'm not saying you're wrong, just saying it's morally unjustifiable.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
The way I see it, in the right city somebody with our skillset can step outside and trip over an offer with a very comfortable salary. In that context, I don't think there's much excuse for going out and choosing to make the world
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by _bxg1 7y ago
I think the effect is small, but real. If nothing else it gives the comparable FAANGs an edge. That said I'm not in The Valley and don't know anybody who works at a FAANG.
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by _bxg1 7y ago
A few months ago I was in the job market and got a call from a recruiter at Amazon. I flatly told them that I wasn't interested in working for Amazon on ethical grounds. At the time it was purely out of principle, but apparently it was
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> less likely that a covid19 death goes unreported I don't think this is true at all. Many people die at home. Many die without having ever been officially tested. I've read that in some places the death toll is only counted fr
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Is there a blog post explaining the transfer to new maintainers? All I can find is the "postmortem" post
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by _bxg1 7y ago
C has goto, as does C#. Using it is frowned upon, but it's there. I'm not familiar with the term "unstructured" in this context; does COBOL not have subroutines or something? And I'm sure COBOL's verbosity can&
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by _bxg1 7y ago
At the very most we might see Hong Kong-like civil unrest or something. But I see no path for any states to assemble a standing army under the nose of the federal government. Even if they tried to use the national guard; who's to say i
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Ask HN: Rust Web Server Framework?
1 points by _bxg1 7y ago|3 comments
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> National Guard drills, deployments, and contingency planning That seems pretty far-fetched. Much more likely (and welcome) would be a sort of "legal coup", where the states that still have functioning governments band togethe
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by _bxg1 7y ago
To a certain extent this predicts SaaS and cloud infrastructure; but it also completely discounts the value of non-commoditizable software in a laughable demonstration of short-sightedness.
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I.T. Doesn't Matter (2003)(hbr.org)
1 points by _bxg1 7y ago|1 comments
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Ask HN: Why Did COBOL Die?
4 points by _bxg1 7y ago|5 comments
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Most of the people who can't afford rent are probably living in apartment complexes, not houses, which probably means they're renting from a real-estate conglomerate of some kind and not a private landlord. That said I agree there
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Also obesity is correlated with diabetes, another important factor, as well as heart disease and even age itself
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> I remember seeing the movie and thinking "HA! Robots from the future use COBOL". Sadly, this may turn out to be true. Turns out COBOL was a failsafe against the robot apocalypse
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by _bxg1 7y ago
The premise is attractive, but the challenge will be keeping up with a rapidly-changing ecosystem. The advantage of letting Webpack and Babel be separate, having both as singular community focal-points for their respective tasks, and having
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by _bxg1 7y ago
> states like Russia I wouldn't say Russia has a monopoly on this
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Deserves a header description and/or About page. Without this HN post it's hard to tell what the relation is between the name and the content
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by _bxg1 7y ago
US culture varies widely. My parents are fairly conservative so I probably wouldn't send it to them, but I'd happily send it to any of my friends and maybe even my coworkers
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Take a step back and look at it on a meta-level. What purpose is that feeling of inadequacy serving? Who are you helping by making yourself miserable? Life isn't about accomplishments, accomplishments are just one aspect of life. And b
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by _bxg1 7y ago
People without incomes right now can probably afford food, even if they can't afford rent. The fact is that a significant fraction of society is in an impossible situation right now, through no fault of their own. And probably very few
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by _bxg1 7y ago
At the risk of sounding harsh, this is an incredibly silly way of looking at things. Of course you can be successful. And I'm not speaking from a toxic social-Darwinist mindset; there really are people out there for whom the cards of l
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by _bxg1 7y ago
*60-Year-Old software systems
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by _bxg1 7y ago
Most modern editors will actively make it difficult to do this, and some even do format-on-save to fix it across the board.

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