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by benched 13y ago
I think this is so absurdly overrated. It's like forcing a toddler to say thank you. "Now, subordinate/rival, What do we say?? I didn't hear the magic words! We need to find out , mmkay? Can you say you can find out?&qu
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by benched 13y ago
I think that's an extremely childish level of morality.
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Much of what the brain and sense organs do is filter information down from reality through the senses, down again through the brain (where it's then reconstructed into a virtual reality). For me, depression is like switching over t
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by benched 13y ago
As soon as your point of view requires me to understand an abstract imaginary analogy-based framework, agree with you about the framework's inherent legitimacy, and submit to your interpretation of my obligations under that framework,
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by benched 13y ago
The only way this would have meaning for me would be if causation has a special, jargon meaning in this context that specifically means direct, deterministic causation.
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by benched 13y ago
If you only turn on the sprinkler when it rains, the wet grass is still causally linked to the rain. There's just extra mediation - you.
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by benched 13y ago
No matter how many times I've said I'm not complaining about me , but rather using my experience as an indicator of how things must be in the big picture for many others , people just keep on responding like I'm only talkin
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by benched 13y ago
This is a good comment. Of course I've seen a lot of these Microsoft effects on the area first-hand (I worked there for 5 years, well after that was any big advantage, of course). Once again though, I am not trying to say that I have i
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by benched 13y ago
They lived in a small house 6 miles from downtown Boston, in a nice middle class residential neighborhood. I couldn't afford to buy that house now. This is the sort of thing that suggests to me a big picture issue.
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Well, I can't really know my grandparents' state of mind. But my grandfather drove trucks locally, and my grandmother worked in a supermarket. Try to imagine affording a single family house and two cars with jobs like that today.
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by benched 13y ago
I'd say effectively nowhere. My lifestyle is literally identical to what it was 15 years ago when I was just starting out. It honestly feels like the goalposts keep moving. I am doing better than my parents, who were poor. I am doing w
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by benched 13y ago
Interesting to think a factor could be my grandparents still living their piece of the American Dream.
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by benched 13y ago
I'm just saying, few jobs have analogs to "accountability to logic", "accountability to the compiler", "accountability to the unit tests" and so on. Surgeons have it. Engineers have it. Even people who do
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by benched 13y ago
Absolutely yes. I always have to be really polite to my friends who don't have technical jobs. Programmers have to offer up complicated things , that have to hold up when tested. A lot of jobs are mostly talking, or moving things arou
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Ask HN: What is really wrong with the US economy, really?
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by benched 13y ago
A text editor that runs user JavaScript. Think on that for about 20 minutes, it'll start to seem genius.
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by benched 13y ago
No matter what they say, no matter what you say, and no matter what reason itself says, it is eminently comedic that GitHub!!! would do a project that isn't plain open source. As to why Atom, I'd bet this was something one or tw
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by benched 13y ago
My Poe's Law detector is itching uncomfortably right now. Really, was anybody asking for all this?
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by benched 13y ago
They pay what the market supports. Randian worldview detected. Continued oppression of the downtrodden assured. Society must reserve resources for professional PowerPoint makers. All hail Status Quo.
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by benched 13y ago
Since I see people suggesting Medicaid all over the thread. It seems there is a basic pervasive misunderstanding of government services in the US. For anyone who doesn't realize it, it is very difficult to qualify for Medicaid. Even if
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by benched 13y ago
If the difference is between having your life savings wiped out and going bankrupt, versus having medical costs taken care of, then regular people do not care about the nerdy details.
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by benched 13y ago
I can't find a pause button, and I found that a little frustrating.
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Are you kidding? After becoming a household brand by trojan tactics (starting with no ads), and then slowly boiling its users until almost every click leads to an ad with delayed skip, and the videos are covered by six layers of distracting
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by benched 13y ago
As someone who lived very close to a Walmart-centered ecosystem for several years, including working there, I'll also add that while it isn't Gucci, there's nothing really wrong with the stuff Walmart sells, from a poor perso
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I think it's assuming you've done something substantial on your own time, or worked on open source. I don't know exactly how common either of those is, but I'd guess pretty common.
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by benched 13y ago
I didn't have to write a line of code during interviews for my current job. It felt like they looked at my resume and concluded it wouldn't add anything. I did, however, had to write code to solve a non-trivial, job-related proble
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by benched 13y ago
How do namespaces come to be the feature to specifically call out? Is there something deeper to namespaces than a lexical (i.e. surface) convention around identifiers?
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Unusually well done, especially the guided sessions.
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by benched 13y ago
Look I'll just say it. This strongly matches the pattern of all the other hiding-in-plain-sight, simplistic explanations for complex bio-existential problems, that turn out to be bullshit.
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by benched 13y ago
Candy Crush is essentially a re-skin of Bejeweled with level mechanics. Yes, I have played both.

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