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by biztos 5y ago
> favored the false negative over the false positive, which they explicitly and publicly state And willing to take false positives -- good at grinding for interviews, bad at actual work -- and just carry that dead weight forever in order
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by biztos 5y ago
This is probably very dated, but when I worked in biotech the interview process was just about 100% trying to find a "culture fit" (to be fair, in an industry about a thousand times more diverse than software) and politics. If th
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by biztos 5y ago
> What makes software engineering so special that we need a different interview process? The combination of absurd profitability (of which the tiny slice allocated to employees still seems like a lot) and a complete lack of any actual
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by biztos 5y ago
Doesn't the tax usually come when the consensus about the societal harm carries more weight than the money produced by that harm? Or at least enough weight to be competitive. Sin taxes have a way of permanently tying the sin (at some
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by biztos 5y ago
I was visiting some temples in Bangkok recently and was amused to find there was no dual pricing; rather, there was an admission charge for foreigners and no charge for Thais. (I don’t mind this system actually, but if I were paying taxes i
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by biztos 5y ago
> narrowly targeting webdevs That’s the impression I get as well, but it’s a shame since MacBooks are super popular among back-end engineers. I would even speculate that by now, Mac-centric web devs are handily outnumbered by non-web dev
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by biztos 5y ago
I wouldn't mind not having support for any given $POPULAR_LANGUAGE out of the box -- maybe there are license issues with that -- as long as there is a good extension and it was super easy to find. Easy to find means if I open a .go fil
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by biztos 5y ago
I tried this out some months ago and had really mixed feelings, but I will give it another shot because generally speaking, Panic is awesome! My main complaints at the time were a confusing extensions ecosystem; difficulty rolling your own;
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by biztos 5y ago
I see the same combination of utility and morality in your reply as in my own experience, and that’s exactly what I question. You don’t want the complication, but you also think of yourself as a better person if you don’t cross that line. B
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by biztos 5y ago
Maybe in America? When I think of my friends who treat monogamy as situation-dependent, I think that’s more normal in Europe than the US, but I haven’t made a study of it or anything.
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by biztos 5y ago
> She had a boyfriend, so that was out of the question. I’ve always found this “blocker” interesting. I’m that way too but many, many men and women do not treat a significant other (on either side) as some kind of natural and impenetrab
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by biztos 5y ago
That’s an interesting point. In Europe at least a lot of buildings have big courtyards and windows face there. In Germany it’s less desirable to have a view of the street, unless you’re on a really high floor. I currently am on the 40th w
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by biztos 5y ago
> Office districts are ghost towns after commute hours; condo tower residents mostly stay behind their doors Don’t blame skyscrapers for bad architecture and urban planning. I live in a 76-story tower and people are pretty friendly and y
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by biztos 5y ago
They would be cured in Spain! Before coming up to the border. However, you have reminded me that indeed this would probably not work because of all the tracking required to prevent the Mad Swine Pox and so on.
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by biztos 5y ago
a) Yes, but raw is not so high quality. b) Yes c) Yes but if the hams are fungible, which the other commenter explained they are not, then doing this at volume would make the timing irrelevant. d) Yes, or just pre-sell them to someplace tha
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by biztos 5y ago
If you are a major oil exporter, is that a bug or a feature? https://www.npd.no/en/
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by biztos 5y ago
If hams are fungible from a customs point of view (why would they not be?) you could try pre-curing the hams and have them ready just across the border. Ham in, ham out, ham in again, no extra trip to Spain required. Then you sell the uncu
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by biztos 5y ago
I’m in non-Chinese Asia and it’s Line. In Europe it’s mostly WhatsApp but a surprisingly large number of people use Facebook Messenger. And often both.
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by biztos 5y ago
I’ve used 1Password for years, and I think the price is very reasonable. For a program I use every day, which is well made and has pretty good UX, the price is in line with other utilities I pay for.
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by biztos 5y ago
> beyond the manufacture of the solar panel Should we count the cost of manufacturing the computer(s) doing the work? More so if ASIC? The recycling-or-not of same? I’ve been thinking about “mining something” since I will soon have a sur
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by biztos 5y ago
> Drinking alone in public is shunned even worse. It is most definitely not shunned in American dive bars, nor anywhere in Central/Eastern Europe, nor in a hotel bar anywhere in the world. Getting shit-faced by yourself in public is
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by biztos 5y ago
Hemingway (claimed he) never wrote a word while drunk. In fact he was highly critical of contemporaries who drank and wrote. Hemingway wrote, and Hemingway drank, but in that order on any given day. [edit: I agree with your point, I just w
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by biztos 5y ago
Well in the case of my cheap lens, yes I’m saying that the “flaws” result in an aesthetically pleasing image. Plus the difference in how you shoot when the camera isn’t doing the work for you. But in general I’m unconvinced that the Cult of
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by biztos 5y ago
I can’t quite RTFA because I have an ad blocker, but I will say — Full-frame mirrorless is a revolution in cheap lenses for anyone serious about artistic photography. Which I hope would include most cinematographers. Last summer I bought
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by biztos 5y ago
> The common cases for using youtube-dl It works very well with many non-YouTube sites, especially ones hosting “adult” videos. I assume porn is the most common case, but archiving Stanford lectures might well be second.
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by biztos 5y ago
> a highly concentrated city as well, that few other places can rival If you mean population density, New York isn't even particularly competitive once you get out of the USA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_
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by biztos 5y ago
I also did remote for a long time before Covid, and I noticed the industry moving towards accepting remote in sort-of lurches. First it was OK for exceptional cases where the person was really important or had some medical-ish rationale. T
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by biztos 5y ago
That's a good idea: the tool that processes the data can just run your function and if the file doesn't match the result then it's rejected. But in the real world people are going to want to annotate the PDFs, there will be o
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by biztos 5y ago
Or Product Management?
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by biztos 5y ago
I like this, and of course you could also embed the text of the document. Nothing stops us from doing this right now. But: don't we need some way to prove that the data matches what is visually rendered in the PDF reader? And if we ca

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