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by _qulr 6y ago
> I downvoted you for the lack of details. Have you heard of... asking?
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I think you can get it from the App Store? It comes with all the permissions it needs, simulators, ability to connect to your devices etc. You don't need emacs or something like that. Haha, that's only because Apple controls
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Why can't the applications needed for coding be like any other normal application? You don't need to use esoteric stuff like emacs to be a coder. What's a "normal application"? How would you classify Xcode? The
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by _qulr 6y ago
It's ironic that Apple is also preaching "Everyone Can Code". In other words, everyone is or can be a power user. Computers are becoming more and more essential to our lives, so deliberately dumbing them down is a disservice
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by _qulr 6y ago
Right. The financial incentive of the for-profit tax preparation companies is to lobby the politicians to make the tax code so complicated that people need to pay tax preparation companies. If the tax code was simple, then these companies w
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by _qulr 6y ago
> My personal take is that hobbies complete an already fulfilled life and not the other way around. Exactly. You can fulfill a desire, but you can't fill a void.
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by _qulr 6y ago
The best way to better yourself financially is highly individualistic. It depends on your wealth, skills, education, abilities, location, opportunities, etc. In any case, I don't really see how a blanket abolishment of income taxes is
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by _qulr 6y ago
> In fairness it's been improving in recent years Has it? In my experience, the Swift rewrite of Xcode source editing has made it vastly more buggy. I forget exactly when this happened, Xcode 8? 9?
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by _qulr 6y ago
I just looked at the article. Unfortunately it has very little data about how much smoking is reduced by higher taxes. The one bit of actual numbers I found: "On average, a price increase of 10% on a pack of cigarettes would reduce d
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by _qulr 6y ago
> SDKs and simulator OS disk images for macOS, iOS, watchOS, and tvOS Yes, the vast majority of Xcode's size comes from inside the folder Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Are people getting addicted? Well who are you to infringe on the tobacco industry’s right to make a buck? There are 2 issues here: 1) Higher taxes are a very strange and indirect way of stopping something that's considered unaccep
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by _qulr 6y ago
> You did not present a reasoned argument as to why this is a mistake. Taxes are one way to incentivize behavior AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN, historically. I did. I argued: 1) The goal of incentivizing/deincentivizing behavior comes into c
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I bet you would drive less if the gas tax was 500%. Possibly. But neither the article author nor anybody else is suggesting a 500% sales tax. Moreover, super high sales tax that significantly reduces consumption directly conflicts with
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by _qulr 6y ago
> high tobacco taxes to reduce smoking This ends up just penalizing poor people. Cigarettes are addictive. Higher taxes don't magically cure addictions. Anyway, lots of things in the world are bad for you. But it's a free count
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by _qulr 6y ago
"6. Tax structure is a powerful way to create incentives for behaviors we want to encourage" This is the (first) fundamental mistake of the article. The purpose of taxes is to raise funds for necessary services, as stated in steps
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by _qulr 6y ago
> It comes from FAANG size companies that do thousands of interviews and need a "standardized" way to evaluate candidates, compare them to each other. The irony is that the founders and initial employees of these companies were
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by _qulr 6y ago
> There's no standardized licensing for our profession. Most professions have no licensing. Doctors and lawyers are the exception, not the norm. This is because doctors have your life in their hands, and lawyers have your freedom in
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by _qulr 6y ago
> what exactly is the better alternative? When people ask this question, they almost always mean, what's the alternative to one kind of testing that's still a test? Nobody seems willing to accept the answer that interviews shou
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by _qulr 6y ago
"A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions test whether a job candidate has performance anxiety rather than wheth
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I interviewed at Apple once. In the second technical call on codepad I was struggling with something really basic I had a very similar experience. Moreover, on the phone call there seemed to be some kind of soft ticking sound in the ba
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by _qulr 6y ago
This submission should be labeled (2007). Or better, bury the article in an unmarked grave and never see it again. Few people have done more harm to hiring in the industry than Atwood and Spolsky.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> given I haven't heard exactly how it was better, that makes me sceptical ADN was a subscription service. The common expression is always true: if you're not the customer, you're the product.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> Building a better twitter is possible, so build it. It's been done. For example, app.net. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net I deleted my Twitter account and joined ADN. But not many followed that example.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> One man's need is not your obligation I don't understand your reply. > Twitter is a public place. I don't understand your analogy. The point is that in order to meet other people, you have to go out into the public. B
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by _qulr 6y ago
> My main Twitter complaint is the ads. There are so many and they suck. There are no ads in third party clients such as Tweetbot.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> twitter continues to show tweets from people I don’t follow Are you using the reverse chronological timeline? That's the only way to fly.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> I felt like I had to show I was caring and keeping track of it. I don't think this is necessary. A lot of people tweet about purely "professional" subjects and never tweet about social issues. If you stick to that, your
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by _qulr 6y ago
> people who need to be engaged Who needs to be engaged with? On Twitter, you choose who to follow. Why in the world would you have an obligation to listen to random strangers who want to argue with you? Imagine if you were in a restaura
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by _qulr 6y ago
> a perfect demonstration of how misinformation spreads Which misinformation did I spread? > Folks like you don't even care that the content of a tweet is factually incorrect That's quite an interference.
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by _qulr 6y ago
> if you respond "that didn't happen and it couldn't have happened because science" you'll either be ignored, they'll be offended and block you, or they'll start cursing at you Have you considered that

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