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by billy99k 2y ago
It's not popular because you need to create the cards yourself, and most people aren't willing to do this. It will only ever be popular with a small subset of the population that is interested in learning. It doesn't actually
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by billy99k 2y ago
If you really want to work remote, get contract work and state in your contract how often you will go into an office/on-site. I've done this for 12+ years (well before covid) and don't ever have to worry about it getting take
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by billy99k 2y ago
It seems the group that is 'all about science' doesn't want to investigate big pharma. It's a strange world. see: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/05/03/7190377...
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Almost all big companies are doing this now. It's never a good idea to hire someone based on skin color or gender rather than merit. The predecessor to this was affirmative action in colleges (this is basically affirmative action in th
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What are the 'other reasons'? It's just an interview.
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It's crazy to think that he was threatened for just talking to/interviewing someone. Freedom is really on the decline.
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I don't know why anyone would work in a startup, unless you are the founder/have a large share in the company. I've worked in many startups over the years and usually one or all of the following is true: 1. You end up working
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by billy99k 2y ago
This is not a good move. The data is most likely not deleted (since it's easily copied). Not only that, other groups now know that ransoms get paid out.
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I Use it all time time to help me with finding documentation for an unknown (to me) API/framework/app. It's saved me tons of time.
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This exactly. I worked at a place one time with a terrible code base. They based it on open source and slapped on additions with no style or documentation. My first day, I couldn't even stand the code base up on my local dev environmen
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by billy99k 2y ago
I've never liked magic links. I've found multiple sites that will just clobber the existing login session when you access the magic link, meaning someone could trick you into logging into another account.
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by billy99k 2y ago
I think this is great. It's being replaced by community notes, which is a more democratic way of fact-checking rather than relying on Facebook to enforce their own views on us by moderating content. I'm not sure why nobody is ment
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by billy99k 2y ago
I don't mind them, but they are getting ridiculous where I live. There are 5 roundabouts in a row.
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This: "After all, Indian kids are leading everywhere in the US and that’s because of our strong focus on academics." contradicts this: "But…. in the Bay Area, I see many offspring of such competitive parents. Most don’t do be
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by billy99k 2y ago
He built a very large company from nothing. I don't see a problem here.
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by billy99k 2y ago
DEI is the modern day Affirmative Action (same concept: Become more diverse by hiring more minorities as an absolute percentage and not based on skillset or best candidate). This is coupled with the idea of 'equity' and not '
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"Even here on HN, most "side-projects" are attempts at recurring revenue through paid subscriptions instead of contributing to the sharing economy (which nearly all software is built from in terms of languages and libraries).
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"Maybe we should not lock up very many people for whom there isn’t any hard evidence of their guilt." If this is the case, we need body cams on us 24/7 and many more cameras on other areas. The me-too movement was based on he
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by billy99k 2y ago
All of us concerned with this 10 years ago were called 'racists'. Welcome to I told you so. I solved the issue personally by changing careers into something that's not being outsourced (and won't any time soon), since no
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by billy99k 2y ago
We didn't have social media yet. If you look at Reddit, for instance, many subreddits around jobs, the economy, etc are 99% negative. While the economy isn't the greatest, it's not nearly as bad as the people posting and comm
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Well, this should be a low. I agree with the triage team here.
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"to working the graveyard shift at a 24-hour adult video store (fired for being “too horny”)" I really don't think this is why he was fired.
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"Healthcare should be a right at this point in our society's development" A 'right' shouldn't depend on someone else's labor. "it's a stain on our country that we still carry on with a system tha
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by billy99k 2y ago
The other thing to consider is that most of the countries with these cultures (India, China, Japan) aren't nearly as innovative as the US. There's something to be said about having actual time for non-work related activities. He w
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by billy99k 2y ago
I've been working remotely for over a decade as a consultant/contractor. Contracts have almost always had remote options available. Remote FTE work when I started was almost non-existent. I remember turning down multiple offers be
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"Statistics show that despite 33% of all software engineers in the Silicon Valley being people of Asian descent, they make up only 6% of board members and 10% of corporate officers of the Bay Area's 25 largest companies." The
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by billy99k 2y ago
You can try to stop h1Bs, but it won't really do much good. There are talented workers in other countries that can do the same job for less money. I also find it ironic that the same crowd that screamed about Trump being racist for his
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This would never be accepted in the US and deemed 'racist' and anyone proposing this would lose their jobs (and probably have to to go into another field).
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"I could just as well say that extraversion goes along with overly assertive and aggressive behaviour and other behaviour that makes collaboration a nightmare" I don't really see this very often. If someone isn't writing
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I use it for fast documentation of unknown (to me) APIs and other pieces of software. It's saved me hours of time, where I didn't have to go through the developers site/documentation and I get quickly get example code. Would

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