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by arp242 2y ago
Part of "being nice" is accepting that people aren't perfect and just dealing with that, within limits of reason of course. "Assume good faith" and all of that. The phrasing of "cancer" wasn't brillia
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by arp242 2y ago
You are of course conveniently leaving out all the people who were much older. Washington was 44, Jefferson 33, Adams 41, Hancock 39, Franklin 70, and many more. Those were just the top ones I could think of. And a quick click-through on th
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by arp242 2y ago
Posts with URLs from new accounts often get hidden by default, as an anti-spam measure. It will become visible eventually once someone vouches for it (which I just did). No need to create multiple accounts/posts.
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by arp242 2y ago
Stop posting these kind of "I applied" comments. We'd have thousands of them if everyone does it.
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by arp242 2y ago
It goes back a lot further; see e.g. https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2012/02/07/the-to... And Republicans fought against it because the wrong party/person proposed it.
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by arp242 2y ago
> In 2008, Obama got elected on a promise of change, but by-and-large just did more of the same After 2010 midterms he couldn't really do anything, because the GOP did everything they could to obstruct everything, seemingly mostly j
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by arp242 2y ago
That's easy to say from the sidelines, but it's people's jobs we're talking about: they need to eat, and have mortgages and children in college and whatnot. There's a lot at stake for people in very direct and tangi
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by arp242 2y ago
One of the problems of outright refusal is that you'll end up being fired, and likely replaced by a Trumpdroid. Staying in your position and cooperating the "least amount" you can get away with is better. Very thin rope to wa
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by arp242 2y ago
> you were being backhanded and demeaning on a number of levels. What an awful comment to make.
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by arp242 2y ago
Last year I worked with someone who used AI tools like this, to compensate for their lack of English. It was dreadful beyond belief and basically unworkable. Lack of comprehension on what other people said was a big issue. But also having f
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by arp242 2y ago
> there has simply been no incentive to improve flight times It's more that you just run in to real limits of physics; many planes already fly at mach 0.8 to 0.9, and going faster than sound is always going to be difficult because o
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by arp242 2y ago
Lord Percy, are they nuggets of pure green?
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by arp242 2y ago
The core Wayland and X.org don't exist in a vacuum. I have written a lot of code over the years that works only on X, as have many others. I have not directly contributed to the X.org server, but have to the "wider X ecosystem&quo
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by arp242 2y ago
The major reason for that is that many were doing this in language that was generally considered racist and/or mixed in some other weird stuff like how COVID lockdowns were like the Jewish persecution, rants about masking, or that type
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by arp242 2y ago
> you still need cookie banners under the ePrivacy directive Only if you store data in the browsing (using cookies, localStorage, or any other technical means), no?
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by arp242 2y ago
They also mentioned being fired. But who knows. It's not that important for what I wanted to say.
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by arp242 2y ago
This is also one of those things that can be quite tricky to modify down the line when you need to add a new feature or whatnot. This problem is of course very artificial and it doesn't sound like the interview was particularly well do
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by arp242 2y ago
It sounds like they're currently unemployed(?) But even if they weren't: going from 22k to 50k is a massive difference. People are willing to put up with a lot of bollocks for it. Dismissing that so easily is a really privileged a
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by arp242 2y ago
> Do you think if they were more specific it could have helped? To be honest I think it was just a "bad vibe" or whatever you want to call it, and/or didn't meet an exactly pre-defined approach they wanted during the
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by arp242 2y ago
Just to give one example: the majority of men will get prostate cancer if they live long enough (~70% of men over 80). It's just that other things tend to kill people before the cancer.
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by arp242 2y ago
I guess it depends on what you mean with "competent". In essence their pitch is that government is bad, so from that sense "competent" means "able to burn these institutions down". From that perspective these p
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by arp242 2y ago
If you say "Martin, I'm coming to your house next week and kick the living shit out of you" then I'm going to know it's coming. I'm also going to be confused and anxious when you show up at my door. This is not
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by arp242 2y ago
Perhaps not in the strict legal way[1], but if you say "I'm going to do X" as a government then you kind of have an obligation to actually do X unless there's a really good reason not so, because people's livelihood
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by arp242 2y ago
Not everyone is purely money-motivated. And while salaries for some things may be lower, the cost of some things is also lower (health care being a major one). I don't know what the salaries are in Bio, but with regards to developer sa
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by arp242 2y ago
There's honest and there's too honest. I was once rejected with "you don't have the technical depth needed". I appreciate that's what they honestly felt, but sending it back like that was just too honest. Espec
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by arp242 2y ago
I typically send real non-automated replies to everyone as well, even the bullshit applications or "wtf" interviews. Many don't reply (completely fine). Some are very grateful for a real human replying. Some send back a strea
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by arp242 2y ago
Some time in the 80s (or maybe even 90s?) Bill Joy said he just uses ed, even though he's the original author of vi. That worked for him. I believe Linus still uses that 1980s Emacs-y clone that he kind of maintains for himself. jwz us
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by arp242 2y ago
> it is much more conductive to writing text editor code than the general purpose Lua. Personally I think that was already the case with "classic" VimScript, although I also appreciate it's a bit idiosyncratic and that man
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by arp242 2y ago
I appreciate that "README first" is useful when browsing projects, but it's significantly less useful when actually doing development. The "source code first" approach that GitHub took was one of the major differenc
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by arp242 2y ago
This really should have been "Show HN: I built a job board", or something along those lines.

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