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by biztos 4y ago
As a once and, who knows, maybe future Perl dev I find it a weird choice of grouping, no disrespect to Fortran, but I also think there are probably quite a few mature Perl codebases tended by mature Perl programmers who have their ergonomic
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by biztos 4y ago
"Lifestyle creep" is a great term! Not to be confused with the creep lifestyle of course. My own lifestyle creep has become problematic, but thankfully not yet crippling, and I'm working to claw back some of that creep. But
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by biztos 4y ago
> So your rate calculations have to include all your costs, including your vacation/sick days/etc. If I understand you (and the other replies) correctly, the advice is to ignore the benefit value of PTO when estimating the hour
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by biztos 4y ago
This is very convenient, but it seems to ignore (ergo lose) the value of the rest of the time off. How do you account for the extra days, in my example it would be almost 300 hours' worth of value I get in addition to the salary?
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by biztos 4y ago
Am I missing something, or do you not have any vacation?
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by biztos 4y ago
> your salary (backed out to hourly) Is there a standard rule of thumb for "hours worked in a year" at companies? Off the top of my head I come up with ~ 1700 for my last salaried job: 365 - 104 (weekends) - 32 (vacation) - 10
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by biztos 4y ago
Which floor is the first floor in your building? Depends which country your building is in, and more! My apartment building is 1,2… but my mall is G,M,1,2… (same country different architects). For many years I lived in Europe where it’s us
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by biztos 4y ago
People will risk anything for anything if they are convinced they’ll get away with it.
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by biztos 4y ago
There are many kinds of club, and there are many reasons to have a drink by yourself, most of which are not about anybody’s sorrows. Maybe you like the music, for example, but aren’t in the mood for company. But if we want to assume Musk w
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by biztos 4y ago
> drinking alone in a club (who does that?) Every single drinking person who has a club to go to and needs to do some thinking, for starters.
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by biztos 4y ago
I'm sure there are some extremely intelligent and driven people working on internet surveillance or psychological manipulation, but if the only reason they're doing it is for the dump-trucks of money then I have zero confidence th
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by biztos 4y ago
Maybe you are looking in the wrong places? Figurative painting — pretty much the definition of glorifying humanity - has made a HUGE comeback over the past decade or so, to the point where we art nerds make jokes about it. There is still a
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by biztos 4y ago
> one gui framework Every time I try to copy a fragment of text on my iPhone, I am reminded that "one GUI framework" is very far from a solved problem.
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by biztos 4y ago
I was trying to find out if you could really discriminate based on freckliness and before my attention span terminated I found this interesting list: https://www.ncsl.org/research/labor-and-employment/employmen..
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by biztos 4y ago
There are a bunch of conversion services, some with browser extensions. But I can also print a page as PDF in A5 format and E-Mail it to myself (you have a dedicated Kindle address at Amazon) with a title of “Convert” and it seems to do a
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by biztos 4y ago
I’m from Sierra County, is that north enough for you? We consider ourselves part of Northern California and have since at least the 70s. For many up there, the Bay Area is only nominally part of Northern California, in fact as a kid I didn’
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by biztos 4y ago
I used a Kobo for a long time and I just bought a Kindle, because it was so hard to get articles on the Kobo. They stopped supporting direct file transfers from Mac, so I was left with Pocket, and Pocket didn't think a lot of what I t
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by biztos 4y ago
I posit there is another category: people who don't accept or can't deal with being idle, but are not careerists and so instead of following your advice or resting-vesting, they find ways to spend their time helping solve actual p
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by biztos 4y ago
TIL: "W- Wipro I- Infosys T- TCS C- Cognizant H- HCL A- Accenture India." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27571707
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by biztos 4y ago
Isn’t the rice mostly grown in Northern California, which is definitely not a desert and AFAIK was not a swamp?
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by biztos 4y ago
I find it super fascination that this guy, as a strategic partner, is at the same time: 1) Completely out of his f---ing mind! 2) Indisputably important and in control. 3) Remarkably easy to please. Now, sure, I could be wrong about any of
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by biztos 4y ago
> What People are Saying > Astro works with the tools you already love, but this requires a lot of effort to get right. Luckily, Astro is supported by some amazing partners across the industry who support our vision for a faster web.
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by biztos 4y ago
London and Budapest had subways before Boston did. So did some other cities depending on which list you look at. So what made Boston’s later entry the first “practical” one? [Edit] Or do you mean self-driving subways? Does Boston have one
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by biztos 4y ago
Fascinating, and true about the mutation: https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/gene-id... So I should update the above to include some percentage who are lying about having this mutation, and an ex
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by biztos 4y ago
One of the original, and most effective, competition hacks is to convince people that you sleep less than they do. When someone tells you they sleep 5 hours a night then run two miles and take a 15-minute cold shower then start their work d
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by biztos 4y ago
My issue was with "deserve." But yeah, I get that sometimes you've got to burn to shine.
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by biztos 4y ago
I knew that was the website, because I RTFA, but when I see they don't have the .com I always wonder why, what's there, is there another Trino making drone-bombs for the Ministry of Offense, or is it maybe some dude who likes to p
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by biztos 4y ago
I had heard of Presto, vaguely, but not Trino. It's certainly an interesting choice of name! Should you say "TRY-no" to rhyme with Rhino or "TREE-no" to rhyme with Arduino? I would do the latter, but I'm a deba
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by biztos 4y ago
> Engineers at these highly competitive companies must create memorable work, or they will not get the promotions they deserve. If everybody gets promoted because of "memorable" work, maybe nobody actually deserves the promotio
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by biztos 4y ago
Indeed, my other German bank will promptly disown me if I stop living in Germany, but they at least are upfront about it. Leaving aside my annoyance at the first bank's behavior, it was a definite learning moment, in that I had assumed

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