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by b_t_s 8y ago
If the ship is sinking, don't bail harder, get your butt onto a ship that _isn't_ sinking ASAP. It's much better for your mental health, and it's the logical free market thing to do....reallocating resources to more effe
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by b_t_s 8y ago
> type-related errors account for ~10% of bugs. This sounds implausible to me unless they're only counting bugs that have slipped through QA and have later been fixed in production. In my experience the compiler catches maybe 95% o
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by b_t_s 8y ago
what did you think their business model was ;P
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by b_t_s 8y ago
(1) True remote. (2) BS remote(realistically have to live in commuting distance of the office) . (3) true 40 hr week (4) flexible schedule for appointments/kids/etc. (5) time off
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Call the VC and tell him you're the guy who owns the IP to his startup and that you see 3 paths forward. Offer to sign the IP over to him for market rate.($100 an hour times approximate number of hours you worked there). Or he can jus
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Depends on whether it's work for hire.....but if there's no contract and they're trying to claw back his paychecks then they're the ones trying to prove that it's _not_ work for hire, which would also prove that he
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by b_t_s 8y ago
It's not "if the hospital discovers", it's if the patient is uninsured and makes it clear to the billing department that they're hopelessly broke, then the hospital gets flexible with the charges or even writes them
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by b_t_s 8y ago
If it's BS, call them on it with something along the lines of "We dispute the veracity of this claim. Further, the alleged conduct is a felony, so if the client genuinely believes their allegations, we encourage them to file a cr
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by b_t_s 8y ago
> If you fail you die in America. This made me chuckle. There are a lot of countries where this is true, but the US is generally not one of them. Sure you might end up loosing all your assets and living in a homeless shelter, but at le
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by b_t_s 8y ago
this. I had substantially the same experience in 2009 except I was 27 at the time. I could't get a job writing C++ with a degree and 4 years experience. I couldn't get a job flipping burgers. I later learned that the reason I c
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by b_t_s 8y ago
Is it laziness if a novice has spent hours trying to figure something out and doesn't even know how to ask the question properly because of some fundamental misunderstanding or hole in their knowledge? I see and answer this sort of qu
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by b_t_s 8y ago
truestory. I've been doing this for 2 decades and I've only ever posted one question on SO because it was super obscure technical thing that was totally un-googleable. I know not to ask anything less obscure. For community and &
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by b_t_s 9y ago
randomly selected how? By the order a $9 an hour secretary enters stuff into an excel spreadsheet? In some places yes. Even if it is random(normal case)...random selection of which old rich jaded PHD holding white guy you get? In many pla
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by b_t_s 9y ago
You realize that some judges are elected by the general public right? If they won their election on a hang 'em high, and let god sort 'em out kind of platform then guess what they're gonna do? Hang 'em high. Because if
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by b_t_s 9y ago
No limit, though most of us who do 3-5 weeks take it over xmass because we're visiting family overseas and work is petty dead for 2 or 3 weeks then so it's less disruptive. US company.
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by b_t_s 9y ago
Dear god yes. We have no family nearby and even with my wife as a stay at home mom, it's brutal. We're super jealous of her sister who lives with the grandparents and can just leave the kids at home whenever or wake up at 10 or
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by b_t_s 9y ago
totally agree. My wife comes from that sort of background. We're both super jealous of her older sister who lives with husband, kids, grandparents, and a couple aunts/uncles/cousins. She is going back to college, never has
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by b_t_s 9y ago
It's got some problems to be sure, but xcode 8 had much worse problems in my experience.
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by b_t_s 9y ago
"fired" is a very negative word, but the point is there needs to be a break between company and employee. As someone who was fired for cause in a situation like this, it's the best thing that ever happened to me. The ship w
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by b_t_s 9y ago
"so it will eat twice the battery" may be nearly true on headless boxes running CPU heavy workloads. Mobile apps are about as far from that as you can possibly get. Sure it's probably a measurable impact, but I would expect
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by b_t_s 9y ago
This so much. Uber/Lyft were shockingly better than taxis. I tried AirBnB expecting the same and wow was that not the case. Went to a beach and was hoping to have a destination ready _with_ cooking facilities(hard requirement travel
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by b_t_s 9y ago
"curricula is nowhere near as rigorous as required for engineering" this depends on the degree. For a BA that's true, for a BS less so. For a BS, the first 2 years of math and science were virtually identical for all enginee
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Nope. This is the realm of questionably and marginally viable products. Most experienced engineers are already working 40+ hours a week at high paying jobs, so we're talking about a the scraps of their spare time, and even that often
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Yup. I just spent 2 days refactoring and extending some swift code. It had no tests, so I threw some together quickly before I started, and it's a good thing I did because they did fail two or three times, however I'd say better t
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by b_t_s 10y ago
(A) They are in fact super-human...think 180IQ plus aspergers/OCD/etc (B) They hate their children and use coding/work as a way to avoid them(a lot of aspergers here too) (C) Their day job can/does involve open source an
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by b_t_s 10y ago
One sided. The side of truth and sanity. The man tells a steady stream of blatant lies. He doesn't even care if they're readily objectively disprovable. The media should have been shredding him like this for over a year now. That
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Yea, Amazon's the most spammy of any known company, but the one that really blows me away is Apple. They occasionally send me recruiter spam at my work email. The work email that they got from its team membership in my employer's
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Exposing someone who is committing fraud and plagiarism is always ethical. Failure to do so is unethical.
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by b_t_s 10y ago
Never attribute to malice... My mother was a CPS worker for a while so here's a little perspective from the inside. CPS is generally wildly underfunded, underpaid, and understaffed. It's staffed largely by bleeding hearts stra
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by b_t_s 10y ago
statistics. statistics is the difference. Somebody's gut feeling(WAG) vs. actually observed frequency.

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