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by bialpio 5y ago
Small note: there are people who cannot change work in IT because it would affect their visa or immigration status.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Let's run with this thought experiment even further: what if I use a very obscure browser that happens to interpret their JS in a very specific (and beneficial to me) way?
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by bialpio 5y ago
Not necessarily. If you add a 3rd person, C, that also can make $1 alone, but $5 with person A, then person A's worth is somewhere between $2 and $3 if my intuition is right (i.e. B would need to agree to uneven split to convince A to
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by bialpio 5y ago
If the company does not share its profits in any way with the shareholders, then I agree that it's not different from crypto. The thing is that usually there's an expectation that you will start paying out to your shareholders eve
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by bialpio 5y ago
Yeah, you don't want to set the thermostat too low to protect the outdoor faucets (not all of them are freeze-proof, especially in the places where temps below freezing are uncommon). I also don't want to wait for 2hrs in the morn
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by bialpio 5y ago
There's a bunch of categories, the first one is indeed standard algorithms. Full list: Standard Algorithms, Standard Randomness, Standard Sequence Views, Standard Containers, Standard Utilities, Language Mechanisms, Libraries, Design G
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by bialpio 5y ago
I do (suburbs of Seattle), otherwise my house would not stay above 17C overnight, especially with the last few nights we had.
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by bialpio 5y ago
USA's land area is smaller than Europe, but not by much, so I think it's fair to treat it as a non-factor. But the story changes if you also include Mexico and Canada...
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by bialpio 5y ago
The worry that you may get kicked out of work and will be forced to leave the country in a matter of weeks is real. Citizenship makes it go away. Besides, there's a whole matter of "no taxation without representation".
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by bialpio 5y ago
Also not a native speaker, I'd use the same pronunciation as you ("v" in "wolvic" is the same as in "elven", "f" in "wolfic"/"wolfish" is the same as in "elfic"
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by bialpio 5y ago
Reminds me of an image that renders differently on Macs ( https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/technology/this-image-... ), I bet it'd make for a fun conversation that could make the participants question thei
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by bialpio 5y ago
I'd say so. Czechia may offer a fairly recent example of name change. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Czech_Republic#A...
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by bialpio 5y ago
> determine the proportion of first place votes globally This sounds to me like artificially creating an election-wide multi-member district. I don't think it's standard to allow votes outside of a particular voting district to
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by bialpio 5y ago
Isn't it more of a property of single-member districts rather than voting system?
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by bialpio 5y ago
I think the part of the article that touches on this is: "(...) iMessage calls the following method in the IMTranscoderAgent process (outside the "BlastDoor" sandbox), (...)" Looks like they have been decoding GIFs outsi
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by bialpio 5y ago
Yup, in my previous gig we had an approach that if there is a bug in the code that the tests didn't catch, it's actually 2 bugs: a product and a test issue. Similarly, if a dev needed to have access to the live debugging session t
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by bialpio 5y ago
Definitely, "feels dated" is very subjective. The other problem ("I feel like I'm fighting with the tool", "I'm jumping all over the place to do what I want") may be related to your "UI tetris&qu
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by bialpio 5y ago
Gerrit is nice, but to me feels a bit dated, UX-wise. Before joining Google, I used Azure DevOps and I feel that it was easier to review code over there (less jumping around the page). At first I thought it's a matter of (in)familiarit
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by bialpio 5y ago
> If they want to come to the US to run their US based company, then they have to decide on a visa. Only if they want to get paid in any way, right? Can a person run their company w/o drawing any profits (i.e. no W-2 needed) and not
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by bialpio 5y ago
Sigh, brain lag. At least the wiki link I pasted was correct. Nothing to add to your point about self-sufficiency, my intent was to draw parallels to the comment I was responding to. ("It's [Vancouver] essentially a peninsula, it
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by bialpio 5y ago
> we get heaps of produce from California Are the prices in line with what those products would cost in the US (e.g. WA state)? I was under the impression that the prices in BC were lower, so now I'm wondering if the price adjustmen
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by bialpio 5y ago
It's effectively become a Canadian version of Port Roberts. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington
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by bialpio 5y ago
IANAL. Can non-citizens run US-based companies? If yes, can't this be done through a company, then OP would just be forbidden from drawing a salary from this entity?
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by bialpio 5y ago
Channeling my inner cynic: because government only tolerates scalpers that are publicly traded on the stock market.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Or how leetcode heavy hiring favors folks that tend to be more fresh out of college & folks who have time to prepare for them.
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by bialpio 5y ago
Except it's only advantageous to female elephants, according to the article: "They identified two likely genes AMELX and MEP1a, which are passed from mothers to the offspring on the X chromosome. But if a disrupted gene is passed
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by bialpio 5y ago
To me it has negative connotations. I'd be way more likely to use the word "robota" (as opposed to just "praca") when I'm not too happy about what is involved.
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by bialpio 5y ago
I'd expect that people who speak Cantonese would use Cantonese, and people who speak Mandarin would use Mandarin pronunciation. When you see a name "Peter", how do you know which pronunciation to use - Dutch, German, Norwegia
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by bialpio 5y ago
No, they are not being researchers the moment they stopped doing research (e.g. by manipulating the results). They can call themselves however they want, until someone calls out their BS. There's a reason why we want to see the methodo
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by bialpio 5y ago
My point is that he stopped being a scientist the moment he stopped using scientific method, it just took a while for the rest of the world to realize that.

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