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by bambataa 5y ago
Facebook killed the value of their own application for me. It’s strange that they didn’t spot this happening. They do now, at least!
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by bambataa 5y ago
> Once they’re “in” at the decision-maker level, they can continue to milk the organisation with long-duration support and consulting contracts, feeding parasitically and gradually becoming more and more entangled. IBM seems like a reall
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by bambataa 5y ago
This is been my anecdotal experience. In the UK, I note that politicians extolling the efficiency of the private sector rarely have any substantial experience in big companies.
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by bambataa 5y ago
I’m thinking about fairly close to doomsday scenarios. If/when we reach a point of extreme tension with tit for tat cyber attacks, would Western countries be totally incapacitated for days or weeks while Russia or China were less impac
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by bambataa 5y ago
> - we get more control over our little part of the internet in case of digital attack I’d love to hear what people think about this. To me it’s notable that Russia and China have taken steps to separate their internet access from the wi
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by bambataa 5y ago
Peak BBC is making a story about the BBC headline news on the BBC news website. As if anyone else cared when they opened their new offices. I’ve never really understood the rage the licence fee provokes in a certain type of voter and I have
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by bambataa 5y ago
With weed, after I switched to vaping concentrate I found the experience much more empathetic. Like if I was watching something I would deeply feel whatever the characters were experiencing. Maybe it’s illusory but it does feel like I’m con
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by bambataa 5y ago
It doesn’t matter how it compares to others’ trauma if it is causing you pain. Perhaps part of you views it as “idiotic” because it is reluctant to address it?
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by bambataa 5y ago
Just since you said you are happy to get English tips, you’d say “didn’t bother” there. The past tense is indicated by the “did” in “didn’t”, and so you don’t add the “-ed” to “bother”.
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by bambataa 5y ago
Where is considered good in the UK for computer science? Imperial? I really like the look of Oxford’s computer science courses, but that’s partly because of the theoretical/philosophical bent to them.
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by bambataa 5y ago
I’ve tried this and it sort of works, but what happens is that I get excited by the sense of achievement and want to do more, and/or get wrapped up in thinking through the next steps.
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by bambataa 5y ago
Because my mind will be racing before I go to sleep, making it harder to get to sleep, and then my dreams are really dull but repetitive and I wake up mentally frazzled and worn out. Almost as if I’ve mentally computed a long loop for hours
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by bambataa 5y ago
So, firstly, I’m amazed anyone can do that in bed and then sleep properly. I’d be dreaming in assembly all night. When the author talked about reading the entire GNU Screen manual I did think “this sounds like stressful overkill” for a pers
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by bambataa 5y ago
I’m 18 months in to my current role. Strong performance reviews but promotion is based on tenure so I need to wait at least another two years to have a good shot. Or, I can go elsewhere and get the promotion (and remote work, which is what
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by bambataa 5y ago
I (as a European) thought CMU was well-known in the US for being one of the top CS schools?
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by bambataa 5y ago
2 is such an obvious thing for a tech company to do. How can a candidate know the exact best team for them to apply to? This is the purpose of the recruiting team.
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by bambataa 5y ago
Well, it’s a mixture of both of course but I have seen parents who are aware that they can’t parent as well as they’d like, for whatever reason, and accept any support available. The ones that seem worse to me are the ones saying “don’t wor
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by bambataa 5y ago
Teachers do try, but that’s why public school teachers are so tired and overworked. When children are constantly receiving the message “school is a waste of time, don’t bother trying” it’s exceptionally difficult for teachers to overcome th
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by bambataa 5y ago
> The most limiting factors as I see them are first and foremost a lack of love and care from one's parents, and second a wealth deficit. I have numerous friends who are teachers and they all consistently say that the biggest proble
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by bambataa 5y ago
> But in France, saying these is an anathema, people can get insane we encourage kids to excel, in silly things such as just being fluent in English, useful in Math, generally aware of physics, careful about historical precedents or able
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by bambataa 5y ago
Rather than economics itself being a tool of propaganda (which might be true but I think most economists would say they strive to be evidence-based), I think it demonstrates that the average voter’s views on economics are more or less worth
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by bambataa 5y ago
I have had a similar experience with negative self-talk. Maybe also due to anxiety at bottom and I just haven’t gone down that far. How far into the retreat were you before you noticed this? Anyway, the main insight I wanted to agree with i
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by bambataa 5y ago
And how do people get to be at the stage of being interviewed by you? They submit a resume and it gets assessed by someone… Just because that person isn’t you doesn’t meant that resumes aren’t key.
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by bambataa 5y ago
Do you add audit tables for basically everything, or just the most critical tables? I’m wondering whether the DB eventually becomes dominated by audit entries, though I guess you could prune them periodically if that is a problem.
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by bambataa 5y ago
> And for those tasks, you need a strong algorithmic and mathematical background. Why do you say this? If you implement it via AI then sure, but I’ve done plenty of process automation without needing a strong mathematical background. Wha
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by bambataa 5y ago
That cuts both ways though. I switched careers, spent a lot of time on learning to code and am a great developer but have to work alongside people who have a CS degree but consistently write poorly-designed spaghetti code. Boot camp graduat
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by bambataa 5y ago
They seem to be happy breaking everyone else’s experience too though. Even basic functionality fails quite often for me. The absolute worst is the macOS Music app, which doesn’t seem to allow basic things such as dragging from search result
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by bambataa 5y ago
Was there once a battle between Fortran and APL and its derivatives for dominance of that niche? I’m wondering why Fortran is dominant in physics yet APL in finance.
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by bambataa 5y ago
I have noticed this with “victim blaming”. I understood it to refer fairly specifically to sexual assault victims being blamed for “asking for it” by wearing a skirt or whatever. Now I see it being used in relationship advice subreddits and
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by bambataa 5y ago
I’m interested to know what are common epiphanies for developers. For me, I can remember: - objects are closures and closures are objects - properly getting the JS asynchrony model - pointers and the whole memory addressing model - HTTP bei

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