bobbytherobot

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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
I hated code reviews when I first had to do them because it was a toxic place. I hate them less upon focusing on what you describe. I'll add to it that I've taken a more conversational tone. Sometimes I'll just add comments t
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
Why does that sound disturbing?
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
In fields that are dominated by women like teaching, they do target men for jobs. It is publicly known. There are only a handful of fields where women dominate.
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
"What if I have an Automatic Driving Licence (UK) and I go to America and rent a Stick Shift then the Police pull me over?" First off, you would have to find a rental manual transmission. I don't know if I have ever seen a ma
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
I've gotten bolder and last time job hunting my answer the first time the recruiter asked for my range: "if you offer $300k right now, I'll take the job today."
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
Does Aaron Peskin share his lunchtime location? I would be more than glad to join him for lunch.
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
It has traditionally been about mitigating legal damages. In more recent years, it is being done for additional reasons: mitigate bad PR, reduce churn and for increasing diversity.
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
The Stripe Christmas Surprise: destroying your competitor's holiday season earnings by issuing a well-placed chargeback.
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
Fair point. I'll counter that with if we are using history as an indication of future actions, then selling off personal data has not been Microsoft's course of evil action. Suppressing competitors, sure, selling personal data, no
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
Microsoft products already conflict with Microsoft products.
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
I counter that perhaps it feels like people are switching all the because there are more people and projects in web development than games or scientific development. Most all games have websites, whereas, few websites have games.
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
- 59% of adults in 2012 take prescription drugs. - 15% are taking 5 or more - "One likely factor driving the increased use: obesity." https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2015/
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
What makes this hard: 1. Most state representatives need to please the NIMBY if they hope to state elected 2. If the government does lay out a plan, it is easy enough to override with a ballot initiative.
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
When asked, "what will make you stop looking at other jobs and join us today," my response is always, "a $500k salary." We laugh, but I'm not kidding.
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
There has been an effort to attract technology business to small cities and rural areas since the mid-1990s. I recall driving through West Virginia around 2000 and seeing a sign labeling a stretch of highway as "West Virginia's Te
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by bobbytherobot 8y ago
I find it crazy how AT&T keeps trying to sell me the same DSL for more money with data caps than I pay Sonic.
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
Not just Linux Kernel, but embedded Linux Kernel. If it was just Linux Kernel development, I would assume it was for cloud storage.
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
I'm curious, was OP never childless?
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
Not totally following you on this. Do you mean the system as in terms of Github's profit model?
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
I have no allegiance to the HackerRank or the current hiring process of most Bay Area tech companies. The basic formula is: first a chat with the recruiter/hiring manager to establish interest; follow up with a screener that is a take-
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
This last election was not normal. (Or it was more normal than we want to admit.) In my first-hand experience, I saw Republicans in the Bay Area spending money and time trying to stop Trump from being elected. These are not Republicans in n
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
I hate to say it, but practice has helped me in writing tests faster. I can't give you any advice on Rails and Django as I mostly do React tests. 1. I've built up "muscle memory" for common patterns. 2. I've learned
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
The historical problem with the Twitter verified system is they used it as the database of accounts you may want to follow when you joined. Those are really two different things.
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
The driver picked up my food and drove home with it. I didn't know it was UberEats until I completed ordering it. The place was nice enough to refund me and resend my order. But I'm not ordering delivery from them again.
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
I'm currently in a small office with a small team. They hate talking. They want to do everything by chat or code review. My point? So many factors are at play for a healthy office.
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
In many parts of DC, intersections are no-turn-on-red. When I've driven around DC, unless I'm driving in the middle of the night, I prefer the no-turn-on-red because traffic is frequent with terrible sight lines.
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
Why don't you have to comment? The first question should be, do you mean you aren't forced to write comments or that your code simply does not need the help of comments?
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
I think you are conflating power with advantages. I have advantages over many people, but I have little to no power to punish them.
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
It could be, it could not be. Context is important.
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by bobbytherobot 9y ago
That is a good question. I imagine it depends on why it is a native module. If they are native module because it utilizing features at the OS or machine level, then I doubt they could.

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