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by borplk 8y ago
Companies chronically escape from offering real "perks". Instead they insult their employees with ping-pong tables and snacks and Xbox. Even the famous "unlimited vacation" is a complete and utter scam to shame and guilt
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by borplk 8y ago
You are over-analysing and over-complicating something quite simple. None of what I described is necessarily my belief or opinion I just described how that sentence can work against a job candidate. There will be tens of resumes piled up in
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by borplk 8y ago
employer
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by borplk 8y ago
> one of my favorite activities is to spend some wonderful hours with wonderful women to give them all my love. "spend wonderful hours with wonderful women to give them all my love" would be interpreted by many as some variatio
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by borplk 8y ago
It's not professional and written badly. Really? you need someone to write an elaborate explanation about it?
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by borplk 8y ago
It's not possible to track that. The closest thing to it is things like ad blockers that have heuristics and long lists of patterns and things like that.
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by borplk 8y ago
r/forhire and upwork are absolute piles of garbage with 90% of the jobs being "edit my shopify theme for $25". If you are an experienced engineer with more sophisticated skills and don't live in India and Pakistan just d
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by borplk 8y ago
If the organisation is not setup for remote work you will sign yourself up for hell. I guess it can work if you work alone and with high autonomy. For many jobs just having someone say "yeah fine" is not good enough for success.
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by borplk 8y ago
Garbage outrage bait. For more than a decade these same people cheered and clapped for every benefit of the web and algorithms and software and automation and social media and all of that. Now it's becoming fashionable to turn around a
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by borplk 8y ago
Time to look for alternatives? Call me a cynic but I have a feeling their bias (and questionable tech capabilities) will drive it down to the ground.
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by borplk 8y ago
Yes and the remaining one (and often the only one) is family. For many people workplace and neighbourhood have no sense of community at all and if you are single as well effectively you have no one to fall back to. Sure you can go to a coff
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by borplk 8y ago
Wow that sounds really nasty.
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by borplk 8y ago
I don't remember it too clearly now but a few years ago there was a case of "One line of PHP changed and composer is now 70% faster". I'm not comparing anything, just got reminded of it.
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by borplk 8y ago
Capital vs Labor. They don't care. Never have, never will. It's a one-way street, any "give" that there is, is out of self interest and necessity.
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by borplk 8y ago
> They're looking to hire senior talent to clean up the mess but aren't willing to make the organizational commitments needed to make that effort succeed. Very well said and it happens in lots of areas where companies seem to w
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by borplk 8y ago
orclev law :)
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by borplk 8y ago
Maybe marketing department? ;)
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by borplk 8y ago
Here's my arbitrary suggestion, - Sit back and relax and enjoy yourself for 1 month and recharge - Get back to work after 1 month and do your other things in your other/usual free time This kind of unpaid 3/6 month breaks are
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by borplk 8y ago
Ok but what I'm talking about is a little more specific. Talking about "human readability" of JSON and XML is a little bit like talking about human readability of JPEG or MP3. Chasing after it creates a lot of problems. Forma
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by borplk 8y ago
I've never seen someone make an informed trade-off decision like that and acknowledge it. Instead they just believe that they are 100% secure then when they get hacked they act all surprised and with great hypocrisy say "security
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by borplk 8y ago
You have misunderstood the point I was trying to make. I'm saying the idea that we as humans should view/consume the exact same thing raw and byte-by-byte without any transformations in between as computers do creates a problemati
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by borplk 8y ago
I think the idea of humans sharing a language with computers is problematic at a fundamental level. (the whole $dataformat "easy to read for humans") It becomes a source of never ending lose-lose compromises where the more points
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by borplk 8y ago
Yes and people don't understand this. If you try to bring it up there's always some inexperienced overseas contractor with 6 months of experience who will say "It' s a few clicks to install and a few plugins to protect t
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by borplk 8y ago
Mark "hears you". He has it on a note to always remember it.
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by borplk 8y ago
Thank you. Is this a fallacy with a established name? ("nobody is doing it right but it's obviously must be their fault") People do this with programming languages as well. "haha everyone's making stupid mistakes us
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by borplk 8y ago
Not directly an answer to your question. Rust is often a good choice in place of "large project in C/C++". The safety features of Rust helps you maintain correctness as the project grows. At 500 lines Rust may be somewhat inc
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by borplk 8y ago
You know what this reminds me of? Back in the day the hype was "open" and openness. That's the wave that companies like Twitter and Facebook rode to grow. At the time there was no time to talk about any of the hip hot topics
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by borplk 8y ago
Now they can ride the "if we were not legit we would have actually done the scam thing but we didn't so we are legit" wave for a while.
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by borplk 8y ago
Anyone wants to give a summary of what primitives/structures/algorithms FoundationDB uses?
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by borplk 8y ago
Maybe because social networks have locked down their APIs. Remember friendfeed? (facebook bought them) Back then "open" was hip. Now they all want the whole pie for themselves.

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