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by allsunny 8y ago
Your explanation of it relating to emotional maturity doesn't really resonate with me. I prefer direct, but polite, communication. I've not taken any sort of test to measure my "emotional maturity" but if my career has b
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by allsunny 8y ago
You're right, you could be forced to move. However, there are plenty of rentals that will remain rentals for very long periods of time, effectively forever. I've been on both sides, i.e. Having to move out sooner than I wanted but
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by allsunny 8y ago
I, for one, enjoy reading alternative explanations of difficult subjects. Calculus is not basic knowledge in my book. Ironically, my dad teaches high school calculus, in the US for whatever it's worth.
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by allsunny 8y ago
I'm not aware of any literature related to your hypothesis but it makes sense intuitively. Self-determination theory, which seeks to identify what motivates us as humans, has as one of its pillars, "relatedness." Engineers ne
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The new gilded age: Income inequality in the U.S(epi.org)
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by allsunny 8y ago
chair, laptop, monitor, standing desk, headphones / mic for conference calls. my wife and son cannot be around, they're too distracting. i end up getting frustrated with them (can't you see i'm thinking?! :)
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by allsunny 8y ago
In my city on the peninsula, the argument is that it will overwhelm the schools with all of the new residents' kids. There is also some concern that it will attract the "wrong crowd."
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by allsunny 8y ago
At least in the Bay Area, it's because, for a lot of engineers, the earnings so far outpace other places that the math just doesn't work. Believe you me, I've got a very fancy spreadsheet that runs through all sorts of models
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by allsunny 8y ago
Do you know of studies of what the effect would be if it was removed? I think it's a third-rail sort of thing... but also, I think the larger issue is really the supply problem.
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by allsunny 8y ago
>>To be completely blunt, paternalism is very deeply embedded in Chinese society, and its roots go back a couple thousand years to Confucianism. I don't see anyone seriously acknowledging or discussing that fact, nor the major ch
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by allsunny 8y ago
It actually is possible to brake. You keep your front leg on the board, bring your back leg forward and you slide your back foot on the pavement; low enough to slow you down but not catch.
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by allsunny 8y ago
My suggestion to those of you that are interested in this sort of thing: make sure you know how to ride a skateboard the old fashioned way first. I grew up in Southern CA, skateboarding nearly everyday, to school, back, for fun, etc. There
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by allsunny 9y ago
The schedule of the kids and wife is a good point. I'm writing this from the balcony of a condo I'm currently renting for a vacation, we're here because it's my son's spring break. :)
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by allsunny 9y ago
I work for a reasonably large (500+ engineers) software company in San Francisco with "unlimited vacation." I take between 4-5 weeks off a year (20-25 actual days off). It seems pretty typical amongst my colleagues.
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by allsunny 9y ago
We use shaded/fat jars where I work because it's easier to ensure we never run into issues with missing dependencies. It does however come at the cost of longer build times. I've been hoping that Docker might be able to help
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by allsunny 9y ago
Are you a local (like grew up in LA) or just live there now? I grew up there (5th generation) - I remember street racing being a big deal in my teen years and I think some investment in educating the youth would be worthwhile. 3 kids from m
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by allsunny 9y ago
I've used https://www.racktables.org with pretty good luck. It's PHP, which wouldn't be my first choice, but I've largely been able to make it do what I want. If you want something more clever; say keeping tr
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by allsunny 9y ago
Double Yikes!
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by allsunny 9y ago
I agree. I think Social Security, like Medicare, is a "third rail" sort of thing. I expect politicians will have to cut back military spending before they can go after Social Security
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by allsunny 9y ago
Best to figure this stuff out sooner rather than later, your future self will thank you. Don't bury your head in the sand on retirement. I ignored retirement planning until I was in my mid 30s, I wish I thought about it more before the
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by allsunny 9y ago
Yeah, the return rate, even for conservative is WAY too high.
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by allsunny 9y ago
I love the simplicity and the look of the UI. Unfortunately I think the simplicity means that very important parameters are being left out. Ideally, you should be able to specify estimated return rate and estimated inflation rate. Also, spe
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by allsunny 9y ago
Long ago I setup an NNTP peering system at a major Usenet provider. This article made me go look at the distribution of articles across the top providers (this is what I lived by back in the day): http://top1000.anthologeek.net&#
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by allsunny 9y ago
help me out, what's DN?
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by allsunny 9y ago
Sure, but to be fair, I've met plenty of back-end developers, even senior ones, who don't know the intricacies of DNS, certificates, OS, etc. It's best to recognize the domain is enormous and a lot of folks have a desire, or
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by allsunny 9y ago
I've got this bad, I am (or at least was) the stereotypical high achiever. I even have a sports car in the garage (don't do that, btw :). I've decided to slow down and focus on my family and myself, in pursuits that have no r
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by allsunny 9y ago
Ahh, whatever happened to the lost art of "getting to the point." :-)
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by allsunny 9y ago
Damn, you lost me at no caffeine.
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by allsunny 9y ago
I hear you but any suggestions on what can we do to increase our motivation short of Adderall and bears? Is it a diet thing or.. genetic lottery?
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by allsunny 9y ago
I went to Jamaica about 15 years ago and ran into some ethnically Chinese folks that were speaking Patois. I remember thinking how cool that was.

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