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by cblum 7y ago
I’m Brazilian but I’ve had people think I’m American since I’ve lost most of my accent. It’s funny though that when I’m tired my accent shows up. I do the immersion thing without even calling it so. My view is that if I’m living in another
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by cblum 7y ago
That makes sense. I remember being frustrated though because Gimp was usually the only imaging app that came installed in a desktop Linux system. And I never found a good Paint-like app that wasn’t super buggy.
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by cblum 7y ago
> A sane, default, "draw box on image" app is a good thing. Speaking of that, is that still insanely hard to accomplish in Gimp? I haven’t used it in years but I remember being extremely frustrated with it.
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by cblum 7y ago
Same thing in South America. Edit: I find it insane that most people in the US don’t see the advantages of renting. When you rent here, your housing cost is fixed for at least a year. Anything breaks, you call the landlord or leasing office
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by cblum 7y ago
I think they meant that as a joke :)
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by cblum 7y ago
Theirs is a system that “funnels” people without giving them much choice. I can see the issue in that. But how about this: an objective test that anyone can take however many times they want, as long as they have a high school diploma. That
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by cblum 7y ago
What is “Saturday detention”? That sounds awful.
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by cblum 7y ago
University admission exams are very stressful, but they put everyone in a position where they know they have the same shot at getting admitted.
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by cblum 7y ago
I’ve tried bringing up this point with multiple people and always get shot down. When I compare the American system to my home country’s system, which based on thorough, objective testing, people tell me the US system is better in terms of
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by cblum 8y ago
I’m surprised and sad that that’s still the case. I was the creator and maintainer for an open source application some 10+ years ago, and figuring out how to package it properly for Debian was essentially impossible. It eventually got packa
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by cblum 8y ago
The problem in America is that those things are exclusively dependent on one’s employer. More developed countries like Finland or Sweden give everyone those things via national policy.
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by cblum 8y ago
I probably have an “unusual reaction” to alcohol, since I don’t find it great. I’ve only gotten drunk twice in my life and it felt horrible, even kind of traumatizing. Not just the hangover, even the feeling of being drunk is very unpleasan
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by cblum 8y ago
My experience is of course anecdotal, but that’s not how I feel about alcohol. I got drunk twice in my life. Once intentionally to see what it was like, and once by accident (thought I was having a couple beers, turns out they all had doubl
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by cblum 8y ago
Every time a discussion like this comes up I see a reply like this. Yet, it never offers a counter point, or suggestions on how to make things in the US work as well as they do in Sweden.
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by cblum 8y ago
IIRC in the novel Tau Zero the world kind of decided to let Sweden govern everything because they were so good at it. It's not central to the plot though, it's just mentioned in passing (and again I'm not sure I'm rememb
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by cblum 8y ago
The problem with that is that it's regressive and hurts those who earn less. Let's say sales tax is 10%. If I'm a high earner and buy a cheap Android for $50, the $5 I'm paying in sales tax has a much lower impact on my
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by cblum 8y ago
At that point it's practically not C anymore :) I'm not a fan of adding GC to C. I've hard my fair share of stress caused by GC issues. It's great 99% of the time but when you run into performance issues caused by the GC
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by cblum 8y ago
I wish! One of the coolest projects I've worked on used Lua. We wrote the core in C++ and then everything else on top of it in Lua.
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by cblum 8y ago
Not sure if this is what you meant, but a lot of the stuff they added to C in the latest standards really turn me off. C89 has a special place in my heart.
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by cblum 8y ago
I've been slowly making my way through A Tour of Go and I really like what I've seen so far.
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by cblum 8y ago
That sets the bar too low for screening IMO. My wife has interviewed people who literally can't write a for loop correctly.
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by cblum 8y ago
Man, I miss making a living as a C programmer. My happiest days as a dev were when my "stack" was Linux, C, Makefiles, and some shell scripts. Only thing I'd change is that source control was svn instead of git. Sure, there w
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by cblum 8y ago
I didn't know the safety net was minimal there. For whatever reason, I thought it was more like Western European countries. Does that lead to a lot of homelessness and crime?
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by cblum 8y ago
> The Singaporean lifestyle is one of the most stressful, competitive and insecure in the world. I'm curious about this. Can you point me to any resources to learn more about that? Or could you elaborate on why it is so, especially
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by cblum 8y ago
Also Point Roberts, WA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_Roberts,_Washington
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by cblum 8y ago
> Master Yoga ಠ_ಠ
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by cblum 8y ago
Don’t know about Google but I’ve seen that at HP.
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by cblum 8y ago
I hadn’t even heard of it being potentially beneficial to prevent heart disease and cancer. I take vitamin D because it makes a massive difference to my mood during the gloomy months in Seattle.
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by cblum 8y ago
I think this might be a cultural issue. It's anecdotal but I think I can offer some perspective. I've been living in the US for several years now, but I'm originally from Brazil. I started my career there. In Brazil, my exper
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by cblum 8y ago
> Exceeding expectations for your current position is how you get promoted. That was exactly his point though. He hoped that he would get promoted by doing an awesome job, by going beyond what was merely expected as "done". I k

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