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by banannaise 7y ago
d. Offer a degree in return for a percentage of future income rather than a fixed payment. "Graduates of Outer Bumfuck University average an annual income of $60,000! We offer tuition at Outer Bumfuck for your choice of: - $10,000 per
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by banannaise 7y ago
[2] is (1) horrifying, and (2) descriptive of something Python is really good at (handling complexly-typed input datasets without requiring complex declarations). The solution to that code is to remove the type hint, because you don'
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by banannaise 7y ago
I'm currently working in a Python codebase that I love specifically because it uses type hints judiciously. They're particularly useful when you're calling a library function that has an unexpected return type, and particular
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by banannaise 7y ago
Flow state is where I build trash that works, so that later I can refactor it into elegant code that doesn't.
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by banannaise 7y ago
Cheatyface is great because it's intentionally illustrative of bad game design. It's no fun to be constantly on guard for your opponent to cheat! MaRo actually went into this in a fantastic talk at GDC [0] a few years ago. [0] ht
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by banannaise 7y ago
> Amazon has robust competitors in the shopping space This complaint isn't about the shopping space, it's about the selling space. Small businesses who want to sell online will typically get a whole lot of nowhere if they don&#
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by banannaise 7y ago
Cards aren't the winning factor... only to the extent that the winning factor is figuring out what your opponent's cards are better than they can figure out yours. Knowing them because you're cheating is a pretty effective wa
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by banannaise 7y ago
> Nobody is doing anything they don't want to do. And yet, one party is making all the profit, and a different party is putting in all of the work. That seems like a non-ideal situation?
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by banannaise 7y ago
I'm necroposting, but this is aggressively missing the point. The problem described in the article is that many games advertise fun, but provide addiction. You can have tons of addicted players not really having fun, or putting in disp
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by banannaise 7y ago
If everyone moves from long-term office spaces to short-term ones, at the same time that overall office demand declines, then the price of traditional office space is going to crater... taking with it the price (or demand) of WeWork space,
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by banannaise 7y ago
Strong second on this one. I don't have a family; that doesn't mean I don't value time outside work (and the relationships I get to build during that time) extremely highly.
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by banannaise 7y ago
> Former Boeing Engineer Dr. Todd Curtis runs Airsafe.com and said this doesn't happen often. "Well the front's not supposed to fall off, for a start."
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by banannaise 7y ago
> the pretty pleasant 16-21 years that most Americans spend in education From everything I've seen in the US, high school (age 14+) and college are more work than a full-time job, and many students also work a part-time job on top.
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by banannaise 7y ago
I'll take a stab: it means that either (a) the CEO has ego problems and refuses to allow other C-suite titles, or (b) the CEO has failed to hire the appropriate talent for a true CTO role (often because they're trying to do too mu
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by banannaise 7y ago
You're not the one being disenfranchised. > cash a check You can sign it over to someone else and have them cash it. Also many employers (especially in poor areas) offer paychecks on a prepaid card. No check necessary. > apply fo