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by bigpeopleareold 3y ago
Mentioned here before, but there is also a tram tunnel (well, light rail*) next to it (new line opened just recently.) I work near it but I haven't took a peek in yet ... I need 30-45 minutes to walk through it :)
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
Thankfully that hasn't happened for me, yet. Or maybe that could be my own selection criteria - an active GitHub account should not be a prerequisite to get any type of computer job. If the hiring manager is serious about me, they can
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
You don't give up GitHub as long as you're employed in many companies that have accepted it and are looking for information on pretty much most open source software these days. The only thing is to just host your own projects else
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
There is one more: - Bug-fixer: Deals with problems that four others will end up ignoring because they all moved on to other jobs creating new systems filled with more bugs that will be fixed 5 years down the road. Bug-fixers can like the w
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
Yet, wherever you are, the worst kind of debt is a real drag once you realize you were not so smart with some spending :/
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
> If we consider consumer credit, the welfare-debt theory makes sense again. While consumer credit is more the exception than the norm in Europe, and almost absent in the Nordic countries, it is common in Anglo-liberal countries (UK, US
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I think a programming language can be viewed as a UI and having a UX: - UI: It's a text based UI that is lazily evaluated (that is, there is always some compilation and/or execution to specifically run for the commands to execute
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I understand your point about Unix knowledge not requiring shell scripting experience, but I have always thought that POSIX shells are rather an important part of the Unix interface that I feel like I can't separate the two. Of course,
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
Weird - I saw this and thought ... "this is all great, but where's the trackpoint?" :D The only real ooo-ahh for us is if some fancy new keyboard design has a trackpoint. All the pretty lights don't match up to that trac
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
It's still TransferWise to me :) Like all the other rebrands, the important thing was that I was sold on a different name and their service. I use it because I have to ship money to my US account monthly. The service + cost is all that
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I had a popular brand of backpack in junior high school in the 90s. It was high-quality, but there is a bit of an allure to the branding beyond quality that is best to realize is not a value in itself to pursue. It's not like I thought
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I only use one monitor, the laptop one. I tend to focus on a single monitor, despite trying to use more screen real estate, but forcing myself to use it has not been productive. The only case it is useful is with side-by-side windows. It ha
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
Heh - I understand that impulse, but when I thought that, I think I was less rational. Why is it bad? I have seen bad codebases (whether for real or imagined cases) but to unravel something that is bad can be a real big chore. There was one
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
Certain people would be attracted to things even if you didn't mention the word 'pure'. We all clearly understand that there will be people will have impulses towards provincialism, etc. I just think though, by avoiding the w
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
For some, I think they reached a state of it being so flexible that other concerns, like proper typesetting in this case, are simply not important. This hasn't happened for me, at least, who tried once or twice to try to use Emacs as a
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
Norway here. I got laid off, but it was less of a deal because I was on my way out soon anyway, so it really worked out nicely. I got a new position relatively quick (relatively, because everything slows down near the end of the year.) I th
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I wanted to like the x220s I found and then upgraded (well only the best one). I think the keyboard is great. I stuck an IPS screen into it (no nitrocaster). The good one ended up having the power port die on me and while struggling to pull
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I made the mistake of owning a car in Manhattan. I wanted to have it, but having to move the car like 3 times a week was a chore in itself and usually would end up eating up an hour or more trying to find something before giving up and goin
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
No one gave me a figure, but the product going down does have a direct impact on customer revenues. So, while no one actually gave me direct numbers, it was felt quite a bit. The most notable thing from the incident was where certain accoun
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I had a project that was really important once. I made a tiny mistake that had a big consequence - a couple of hours of potential lost revenues from our customers. I fixed my mistake with both my boss and CEO nearby. I said after I pushed t
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I only hope those expats are ready to pick up and move either back home or to another country because they can't find a job in English in their country. They might be fine though. However, I'm being serious and am not joking, beca
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
Expats miss out on local job opportunities that need German speakers. I am not in Germany, but the point applies to other countries. I missed out on extremely good opportunities a few years ago because I didn't speak the local language
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I upvoted you because I appreciate the sentiment a lot. As a non-native speaker in my country, if I seek to participate in meetups, etc. with the expectation that the language used will be the local one, I would prefer not to switch to Engl
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
A lot of countries require a certain level of language knowledge to gain permanent residency. I can't imagine Sweden is too different than its western neighbor, where I have and still reside. I guess they realized that they aren'
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I got used to the trackpoint like other less common input devices, believing there are strong merits to it. I don't use it as much, but I have also a logitech trackball I still occasionally use I bought back in 2008, rarely having used
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I was playing with ChatGPT in Norwegian a few weeks ago and the results looked good. Of course, that's not a typical language, but there is at least a lot of source material. I wanted to try it now but they are having issues :)
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I was just thinking while reading this that with a country with a small population like the Faroe Islands, it is a bit harder to do regulatory capture. The impact is far greater and the established legacy is one towards simplicity than comp
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I wanted to get back into more hands-on work on something. Being laid off (well, not like a usual one, but I do not want to talk about that here) was not part of that plan, of course, but I still wanted to move on anyway. It opened me to ac
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
Heh - I didn't do great in AP with Pascal either. I remember though trying to make it worth buying CodeWarrior for Mac OS (oh how the Internet changed everything ... :D ), which had a Pascal compiler, but I got overwhelmed looking at t
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by bigpeopleareold 4y ago
I have done this for years, specifically because of using Emacs, and now get frustrated now when on a non-mapped keyboard. :) It works out good for CUA bindings for other applications also. However, since I am left-handed, the experience mi

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