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by bdw5204 2y ago
The "saving up money" part is the bottleneck for me right now because of the state of the tech job market but I was originally planning to save up money and launch a self-funded startup once I had enough runway. After discovering
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I honestly wonder if the secret to quality of life is just to save up money and buy a profitable small or medium sized business mostly financed against the business. If you want to grow it, you can. Otherwise, you can get relatively passive
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by bdw5204 2y ago
With search, there are actually 2 different products. The index itself is a textbook natural monopoly. There's no upside in having more than 1 web crawler as long as it can be trusted to just crawl the web but there's plenty of do
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I also use Tubular on Android. The one caveat is that Youtube changes seem to break the app on a regular basis so you do need to periodically return to the Github repo to update it.
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Based on the Wikipedia article[0], it seems clear that the Supreme Court can declare a treaty unconstitutional just as it can with a federal statute. The president also appears to have the power to unilaterally withdraw from treaties whenev
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by bdw5204 2y ago
The video game industry has already solved this problem with engines like Unreal that can compile to PC, Xbox, Playstation and Nintendo. There's certainly no reason why you shouldn't be able to just compile the same phone app from
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Remote: Yes. Flexible on time zones. Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine) Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node/React/Angular, HTML/CSS, Google Cloud (GCP),
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by bdw5204 2y ago
It's really for the local politicians who have likely paid billions of euros worth of other people's money for the glory of holding an Olympics. The modern Olympic movement went off track when it decided to move the event to a new
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by bdw5204 2y ago
This seems like something almost every government would have already done. Open source software means they aren't locked into a single vendor and can hire anybody they wish (including their own internal developers) to modify their soft
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by bdw5204 2y ago
As it turns out, the Federal Reserve chairman happens to be on record as wanting to suppress wages because he blames high wages for inflation[0]. In other words, the current dumpster fire of an economy was the intended goal of the Federal R
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by bdw5204 2y ago
The strange thing to me is how everybody keeps trying to make distributed Twitter happen when distributed Reddit is the low hanging fruit for federated social media. You don't want to end up banned from a movies forum because you also
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I think you'd either need a better job market or a platform appealing to an audience that isn't on LinkedIn to better it and end it. Right now, you aren't moving the white collar recruiters because LinkedIn caters to them so
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I'm personally less averse to calling that stuff out these days because I found that I wasn't exactly getting job opportunities in the current market by playing it safe. Since being quiet and uncontroversial doesn't even work
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by bdw5204 2y ago
One of the most important lessons of classical history is that no form of government is suited to all peoples at all times. When a democracy degenerates into tribalism, it enters into a period of conflict until somebody manages to transcend
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I think its beyond obvious that covid was created in the lab in Wuhan from experiments with bat viruses and leaked into the wet market via an incompetent employee. In other words, both the lab leak and the wet market are true. That's t
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Parents may teach this to kids but the kids usually notice their parents don't practice what they preach. So they don't either. The world is filled with people following everybody else off a cliff. If you're warning people or
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Why do companies need these "box checking certifications"? I imagine the answer, as usual, is that either they or one of their customers is working with the government which requires this for its contractors. That's usually t
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by bdw5204 2y ago
UBI makes most sense as a targeted way to increase wages by removing some people from the workforce. It would be very good for society, for example, if we paid parents to stay home with the kids instead of sending the kids to day care and t
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I'm much earlier in my career than you are but have had serious thoughts about leaving the industry altogether for similar reasons. The interview processes are absolutely toxic these days, much of the industry seems like an outright sc
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by bdw5204 2y ago
Location: Philadelphia, PA, USA Remote: Yes. Flexible on time zones. Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine) Technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript/Node/React/Angular, HTML/CSS, Google Cloud (GCP),
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by bdw5204 2y ago
That's pretty much how I'd always imagined those professions are. I'd imagine there are people in law, medicine and finance who genuinely enjoy those jobs even if most are probably just in it for the money. But insurance and
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It's something that would be assumed without being explicitly stated. I'd have no idea how the stats are supposed to be displayed for a cricket match but I'm a fan of other sports so I'd know there's a correct way a
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by bdw5204 2y ago
For somewhere like ESPN where you can reasonably expect to find people who are genuinely passionate about your product, this is reasonable. ESPN employees should be passionate about sports just as employees at a video game company should be
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by bdw5204 2y ago
I'd personally prefer to work with people who don't BS. Being around liars in an environment where you're expected to lie is exhausting.
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That would seem to be a logical implication assuming courts reject claims that "everything on the internet is public domain" or that training an LLM on copyrighted material constitutes "fair use" of the copyrighted mater
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by bdw5204 2y ago
To the extent users do care about the tech, they care about performance not how "clean" the code is or whether you're using the newest framework. Users hate when software is slow or uses an exorbitant amount of memory.
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by bdw5204 2y ago
This statement from Microsoft is just asking for a copyright infringement lawsuit because the courts have been very clear that web "content" is copyrighted unless it is explicitly placed in the public domain or old enough to no lo
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by bdw5204 2y ago
They actually have the Bimbo brand on the soccer jerseys for the Philadelphia Union which probably isn't good for the team's jersey sales.
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by bdw5204 2y ago
There's an easy way to eliminate unspecified behavior in C or C++: Have a compiler flag to always issue warnings for it and treat those warnings as errors. That doesn't require any language-level changes to implement.
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I think he's polarizing because he's right about the industry and everybody on both sides knows it. Many people in the industry are just selling snake oil. There's also a ton of idiots such as the people who misconfigure clou

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