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by bavila 5y ago
I've listened to hundreds of artists in my life. Been to maybe 3 concerts. I don't like the environment; I'm a bedroom listener at heart. There's no reason why I should have to attend a concert or buy a hoodie to support
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by bavila 5y ago
> It has clean and logical abstractions, and consistency. Sorry, but an actual layperson would already be lost upon reaching the word "abstraction".
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by bavila 5y ago
> But everyone occasionally makes typos, misreads requirements, has blind spots, etc. Case in point: OP used the word "effect" when he should have used "affect". Just like pudding, there's always room for a code
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by bavila 5y ago
Please keep the discussion substantive. Thank you.
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by bavila 5y ago
I'm not normally one to fuss much over typos, but I similarly found it hard to take the author seriously when he makes a typo in the very same sentence that he attempts to extol the superior intelligence of IT professionals of yore. &g
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by bavila 5y ago
> I guess the source of the confusion is that you didn't specify what the sabotage actually is. I mean, deleting all your code before leaving is sabotage. Leaving without notice isn't. What did you have in mind when you wrote t
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by bavila 5y ago
The dislike ratio was very reliable when determining whether I should watch a video purporting to show a solution to a technical or home improvement problem. The dislike ratio was a sure way to know whether a video was a waste of my time,
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by bavila 5y ago
Couldn't smaller channels be getting hit by more dislikes because videos produced by smaller channels are actually just plain bad? People who are just getting started on YouTube tend to have poor production quality and editing skills c
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by bavila 5y ago
> Hiring a top engineer for 500k would go a lot further than hiring 10 mediocre engineers for 50k apiece. That sounds reasonable, unless you're an elected government official in a state where salaries of government employees are pub
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by bavila 5y ago
> Working at an animal shelter may well raise your status with potential partners. This sounds like an unhealthily cynical view to hold. I certainly hope it does not come as a surprise to hear that some people just genuinely do love anim
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by bavila 5y ago
> The way we use slack is start a top level topic and group all related discussion in a thread. Same at my company: Top level comments initiate a thread, and all responses must be made as comments within the thread. If I had my way, I&#x
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by bavila 5y ago
My current company works predominantly with 2 major programming languages: Python and JavaScript. This is made very clear when advertising our open software engineering positions. Despite this fact, we once had a CS graduate (from a top-tie
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by bavila 5y ago
I'm sure there are many very intelligent people who want to become police officers. But there are police departments that have no interest in hiring officers who are "too" intelligent and will systematically exclude applicant
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by bavila 5y ago
I used to work as an attorney, quit to join a coding boot camp, transitioned to web development, and now I'm employed as a software engineer. When I was a lawyer, I bounced around a few different jobs--mostly in litigation. I started o
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by bavila 5y ago
They must have just taken down the paywall within the past 30 minutes. It was still paywalled at that time when I checked.
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by bavila 5y ago
This reads like a truism that one is simply expected to accept. Yet we could just as well cite the Wright Brothers as an example of people innovating for no other reason than a desire to improve technology: > In 1896, the newspapers were
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by bavila 5y ago
> Since neither the future or the past can be changed by obsessive thoughts in the present... Is this really true, though? The past certainly cannot be changed, but the future is not set in stone. If I spend my time obsessively thinking
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by bavila 5y ago
Hah, yes, perhaps I should say that I would need to spend $1,000/month to have a good time. For context, I had never camped a day in my life before setting out on my hike (I didn't even camp out a single night as a test run with
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by bavila 5y ago
uBlock Origin > disable JavaScript Problem solved.
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by bavila 5y ago
I hiked the northern half of the trail a couple years back. You should expect to spend $1,000/month at a minimum for a good experience. I spent $2,000/month and felt like I was living large. (I'd eat like a pig at every hotel
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by bavila 5y ago
> Business people and product managers rarely care (and why would they!) about anything outside delivering features and fixing bugs. My response to executives and managers with this attitude is that they ought to care about processes bey
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by bavila 5y ago
Local noise ordinances are only as effective as the police force which enforces them. Where I live, the police do not take this responsibility seriously. The hammer of the HOA is a necessity to ensure that peace and quiet is maintained.
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by bavila 5y ago
Yes, it is--at least to those of us who respect our neighbors and do not think we have the right to impair their enjoyment of peace and quiet within the four corners of their residences.
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by bavila 5y ago
> Can someone explain why? I like order, and I do not trust most people to behave responsibly. I am more than happy to be told when to cut my grass if it also comes with the guarantee that my next-door neighbor is not going to be throwin
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by bavila 5y ago
I'm inclined to think this was a labor of love, not profit. There are people out there who quit their jobs to go backpacking on arduous trails for 5 months. It's long, hard work, but they do it for the other joys that come with th
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by bavila 6y ago
I truly love this exchange. Any rational person, upon hearing a suggestion that Jews are responsible for starting forest fires by using laser beams from space, would quite naturally dismiss the claim as nonsense. And the claim is so ludicro
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by bavila 6y ago
That's interesting. I live in Hawaii, and we have a lot of different Thai restaurants. They are almost all family-owned businesses staffed by people who either first- or second-generation Thai immigrants. Those ones are always the best
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by bavila 6y ago
Just a technical note: The artist is not representing himself. The artist is Jeffrey Sedlik. The attorney is Gary Sedlik. They're obviously related, but not the same person.
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by bavila 6y ago
> Let people decide what they want to see. If I want a censored Twitter, or Wild West Twitter, let me choose. Nobody is stopping anyone from building a Twitter clone for anarchists. By all means, if you build it, they will come.
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by bavila 6y ago
See Scrollama.js: https://github.com/russellgoldenberg/scrollama

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