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by bedobi 5y ago
...there’s a deeper reason... so many people don’t have hobbies: We’re afraid of being bad at them. If you’re a jogger, it is no longer enough to cruise around the block; you’re training for the next marathon... When your identity is linked
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by bedobi 5y ago
Could more people use taking a break, for no particular reason, and not necessarily to work on anything - just taking a break for taking a break's sake? I think so. Especially hackernews people who are overwhelmingly more likely to be
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Use Semantic Indenting(gist.github.com)
2 points by bedobi 5y ago|0 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
Yes! This can't be repeated enough IMO > Terminology > The test that hits the endpoint is commonly referred to as an “integration test”, and the other test is commonly referred to as a “unit test”. > Kent Beck (the originator
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by bedobi 5y ago
> the stated purpose is to eliminate social/in-person biases how on earth does any of this do that > taking this process at face value, it seems quite reasonable wow, just wow
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by bedobi 5y ago
Glad it's not just me. Ranting a bit but I feel like in many European countries, if you behaved the way Australian drivers do, you would get ostracized and people would never want to get in a car with you. That kind of behavior is just
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by bedobi 5y ago
I learned how to drive in Stockholm, which isn't great either, but doesn't get close to Australia. By all means I think Vancouver and California drivers suck too :P I used to work in Vancouver CBD and witnessed several accidents p
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by bedobi 5y ago
In my experience the highest performing teams and organizations are invariably the ones that don't tolerate toxic behavior, at all, and vice versa, the poorest performing teams and organizations are the ones where toxic behavior is ram
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by bedobi 5y ago
Australian drivers are the some of the worst, angriest and most inconsiderate in the world in my experience. Don't believe me get on the M1 between Brisbane and the Gold Coast, you're guaranteed to see countless people tailgating
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by bedobi 5y ago
I try to be evidence based but social media being harmful is one of those things I personally don't really need a lot of hard data and evidence to be convinced. At this point it just seems self evident to me. (and I don't just mea
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by bedobi 5y ago
I can see where you're coming from, but let's be real, those IRC and game chat rooms were far from well run or safe for minors, and made minimal to no effort to keep minors out. Most still don't. And modern social media reall
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by bedobi 5y ago
Vancouver has a large and visible Asian population ("diverse") but it doesn't have large numbers of Francophones, Afro, Caribbean or Latino people as eg Toronto or NY does (this is kind of what I'm trying to get at by sa
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by bedobi 5y ago
It's true but I'm happy to trade some climate for the other factors on my wish list. Sydney and Melbourne both fail not only on climate, they're also not as diverse and cultured and don't have super great public and alte
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by bedobi 5y ago
It's a place I've considered for sure but I've already spent five years in Tokyo so looking more outside Asia. (I know, I know, painting with a very broad brush here but yeah)
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by bedobi 5y ago
We seem to have a similar experience of Australia then :) scores very highly in many things but diversity just doesn't compare to London, NY etc. (which is to be expected so not a dig or anything but yeah)
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by bedobi 5y ago
Non English is a plus tbh
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by bedobi 5y ago
Really appreciate this reply, I will bump Lisboa in my mental ranking then!
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by bedobi 5y ago
@rosndo @malux85 not sure if you're just trying to scare away another expat or if it's legit :P but if legit that doesn't sound good at all :( any other places in Spain you would recommend? Valencia and some other cities are
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Ask HN: Where should I live?
40 points by bedobi 5y ago|75 comments
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by bedobi 5y ago
People who speak a romance language definitely have a stronger connection than many but Latin was far from the only language of the Romans. Greek was used extensively in the West and East alike, and there were regional languages like Gaulis
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by bedobi 5y ago
It's kind of a fantasy but I like to think Rome never truly disappeared. (and I don't mean that necessarily in an good or nostalgic way) A lot of what happens in Brazil, the US etc today is as if lifted straight out of the late re
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by bedobi 5y ago
This is so important but even most professional software developers and testers don't seem to understand it. Tests are not supposed to break on every little change to the code, or even sweeping changes in implementation. If they do, th
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by bedobi 5y ago
Bit too harsh but I can see where you're coming from. Kotlin with the Arrow library for Functional Programming is a nice balance between nice guarantees and correctness of Haskell and practicality IMO.
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by bedobi 5y ago
Shameless plug for something I wrote :P # Lambdas, Functions, Functors and Monads Even most OOP programmers are now familiar with map and, having used it quite a bit, have an intuitive understanding of what any given call to map will do. Do
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by bedobi 5y ago
I don't disagree with this, but that's not the point, the point is the proposed system seems to reward privilege, not ability.
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by bedobi 5y ago
> You're basically arguing nuture > nature No, that's completely orthogonal to all this. I'm simply pointing out the author is calling for entrenching a system where privilege is rewarded and exacerbated irrespective of
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by bedobi 5y ago
Hard disagree. Gifted kids are a myth. Overwhelmingly, these kids are just privileged. Privileged to grow up in an educated family, privileged to not have to help out at home, privileged to not have to take a job in high school to support a
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by bedobi 5y ago
Literally no one is saying there can't or won't be downturns or hiccups - eg, two world wars definitely qualify as both. But even they couldn't stop the overwhelming, hundreds-year long global trend towards simultaneously inc
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by bedobi 5y ago
I don't think anyone is disputing the economy has boom and bust cycles. But despite the great depression, two world wars, the cold war, the dot com bubble, the 08 crash, insane environmental destruction, climate change etc etc the econ
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by bedobi 5y ago
No, but it does to nonsensically apply the same rule in literally every context. People and programmers are not apples. The economy and society are not gravity. I don't know what else to tell you, and I guess it doesn't matter, si

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