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by cesarbs 12y ago
I pretty much agree with him. Although I am a smartphone user I don't think they are as practical as usually portrait. I'd rather press a single button on my washing machine to get more detergent than go through the hassle of pull
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I had a doctor back in my home country who was fascinating. He would give me hard facts about everything and he would explain all the reasoning behind his recommendations with numbers, probabilities, etc., putting everything down on paper.
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by cesarbs 12y ago
> There are also many areas zoned for a maximum height of zero feet. The smartass in me wants to say, "then build subterranean homes/buildings" :) Would suck in terms of natural lighting but it would be nice to see the fac
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I'm curious: what kinds of things would those be? I've always thought Singapore was a quite westernized country, but I guess I'm wrong.
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by cesarbs 12y ago
Why? Honest question. I was very sheltered as a child and today I try not to be so with my daughter, because I know the consequences of growing up being sheltered. I really push for her to be independent, to deal with her own problems, and
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by cesarbs 12y ago
L1 is a work visa for company transfers.
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by cesarbs 12y ago
Keep in mind that many companies start sponsoring an H-1B employee's Green Card as soon as they start working at the company. When considering those companies, H-1B is about immigration.
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by cesarbs 12y ago
Hey all, not sure anyone is still active on the thread, but thanks for all the replies! They certainly gave me a lot of insight and now I have a lot more things to consider in deciding whether to take this job. Thank you!
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Ask HN: What is it like to work on pager duty?
51 points by cesarbs 12y ago|61 comments
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by cesarbs 12y ago
Where can one still buy an 8088? Are they still being produced?
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by cesarbs 12y ago
Right, but my point is, if there isn't a shortage, how did I get such a job and why do so many other like me get them? Why would companies go through the trouble of recruiting overseas if they could find people with the skills they nee
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I don't get this kind of reasoning. Since when is $100K+ a year, plus bonus and stocks, "very little money"? I'm a foreign STEM worker myself, currently on an H-1B visa. I have a very decent life here in the US, much bet
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I don't see the insult. It seems to me they would support the decision to stay home, but their partner clearly prefers to work. I'm in a situation right now in which only I am working and my wife's at home with the kid. This
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I wonder what Jews, Seventh Day Adventists, and Sabbatarians in general would think of this.
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by cesarbs 12y ago
Read this and think about what you said: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/signature-s...
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by cesarbs 12y ago
That was a nice read, thanks. I'm glad to know there are more people that share the same feeling as I do towards the state of our craft.
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I usually really enjoy reading Steve's posts, but I have a hard time with this one. Many great programmers admit to being clumsy typers (IIRC Joe Armstrong mentions he's a poor typer in his interview in Coders At Work).
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by cesarbs 12y ago
> Curious which languages you use that don't have this problem? None. It's why I'm burnt out and want to so something different. Not something different from my current job. Something different from developing software. I&
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by cesarbs 12y ago
That sounds awesome, I'll definitely give it a try.
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by cesarbs 12y ago
> Fast programmers build hacky tools to get around the hacky tools that they built to get around the hacky tools that they built to help them code. This resonates so much with me. Sometimes I worry that I'm falling behind on keeping
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by cesarbs 12y ago
> I wanted to get rid of data. What exactly does he mean by that? How does one get rid of data? > The B5000 almost did this via its almost unbelievable HW architecture. I've heard about the B5000 numerous times here on HN. What w
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by cesarbs 12y ago
> free universal education and universal healthcare Do they have universal education up to the university level? Do you know how their public healthcare compares to the Brazilian SUS (Brazil's universal healthcare system)?
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by cesarbs 12y ago
Can anyone from Uruguay comment on the public safety situation there? I'm a Brazilian living in the US, but I have Uruguayan citizenship because my dad was Uruguayan. I've always tried to keep an eye on the country as a place to m
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I love the new read-only auto properties. 90% of the objects I write are immutable and it's a pain to declare all those private readonly backing fields just to return them in getters.
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DEC64: Decimal Floating Point(dec64.org)
7 points by cesarbs 12y ago|1 comments
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by cesarbs 12y ago
Agreed. Some people say you'll only use it in games or AI or something fancier, but that's not entirely true. I work with what would be considered pretty boring enterprise software, and yet I once solved a pretty big problem using
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I thought that was a common thing. Where do you live?
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by cesarbs 12y ago
I was just talking to my wife about this. I've recently been to the doctor because of some headaches I was having. They did some blood work, and when it came back I got a call from the doctor saying we should check my liver function ag
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by cesarbs 12y ago
How come in those situations doesn't the crew notice something's not right and tries to communicate with the pilots?
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by cesarbs 12y ago
A group of classmates and I spend about a week obsessed with this idea once. It's also cool to think that among all those images you would have e.g. the whole history of the world from all possible perspectives. I doubt it will ever be

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