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by cliffy 7y ago
I think there's an argument to be made that a public university should be putting content like this online for free anyway.
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by cliffy 7y ago
Networking with people who manage/hire for distributed teams is really helpful. Also having a good reputations with other engineers who also work remotely, they'll get you in places you wouldn't have heard of otherwise.
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by cliffy 7y ago
I'm guessing you didn't get to do this interactively? If I interviewed someone and they seemed knew something I didn't and could prove it by actually running the query/code I would be impressed. At the very least the int
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by cliffy 7y ago
If there is/are mirror universe(s), wouldn't we detect particles coming from unexplained sources experimentally? Or is the 'portal' mechanism triggered so rarely that we would probably never observe it happening naturall
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by cliffy 7y ago
What makes you think improvements in productivity will result in higher earnings for blue-collar workers? In reality relative productivity and pay have diverged wildly since 1973: https://www.epi.org/productivity-pay-gap&#x2
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by cliffy 7y ago
IRC/Slack/etc is great because you can have informal conversations in a channel where your whole team can observe and participate in a more asynchronous nature. Human conversations are fine, but you generally don't get a dura
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by cliffy 7y ago
Maybe it's worse in CO, but as a native Texan I have to say that there are plenty of slow drivers who sit in the left hand lane on major highways seemingly oblivious to the drivers wanting to go faster stacking up behind them.
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by cliffy 7y ago
This is a really bizarre position. If reproduction is not a right, then you shouldn't have a problem with the government coming to sterilize you for some arbitrary reason, right? Maybe your skin is not the 'right' color?
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by cliffy 7y ago
This thought is incredibly reductive and dismissive of abuse. Not all relationships are between oppressor and oppressed, obviously. It does not mean they do not exist. The history of capitalism is especially rife with clear examples of thos
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by cliffy 7y ago
It’s certainly not for everyone. Easy to be distracted and it can get very lonely. I feel like I’ve done my best work remotely though. The ideal would be remote work most of the time with the option to go into an office whenever I like, but
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by cliffy 7y ago
I forgot to add: I think it's premature to worry about pay, my experience has been that every remote position I've considered has offered at least a median salary for my experience and title, considering my locale. Based on my r
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by cliffy 7y ago
I think the difficulty depends on a lot of factors. I lucked into my first remote job. I got to work remotely 80% of the time. I hadn't really considered remote work a real possibility until that point. It worked out pretty well, and e
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by cliffy 7y ago
This reads like Stockholm Syndrome at its finest. You're OK with them paying you less because you still got paid well by some standard? You (and as a result many other people) would be making more both in the past and today if they had
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by cliffy 7y ago
The settlement is laughable given the number of people whose salaries were held down as a result of this collusion. It's not just workers at these companies that suffer. It has a network effect of holding salaries down at companies whi
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by cliffy 8y ago
Userspace sure, but what about underlying hardware? How will device drivers react if they come up and encounter hardware that is not coming out of a ACPI induced reboot? Will some devices and their corresponding drivers be OK? Or will the d
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by cliffy 8y ago
Maybe kexec-ing into the new kernel would be feasible? I investigated this many years ago to see if it was, but I found scant information on compatibility requirements when using kexec to hand over execution to an arbitrary kernel. The prob
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by cliffy 8y ago
It's morally wrong. You don't suddenly have the right to use someone else's personal belongings as you see fit just because they left a door or window unlocked.
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by cliffy 8y ago
The title of this submission was different when I made my previous comment. Something about aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence.
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by cliffy 8y ago
Clickbaited
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by cliffy 8y ago
You're right. We should let people (employers) employ young children to do dangerous work. As long as the dirt poor parents consent, then it's OK right? If those people don't want their kids in this situation maybe they shoul
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by cliffy 8y ago
How is that a good thing? There are ways of abstracting/handling strings that are strictly safer than other ways. In an unsafe language like C, you're inviting problems by trying to do things in your own idiosyncratic way.
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by cliffy 8y ago
The pricing quoted in the article seems way too high. Comparable price to an Uber or Lyft ride? People on the fench about autonomous vehicles are going to pick human drivers unless the price per mile drops considerably.
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by cliffy 8y ago
Yes, if you change a unit's interface you will have to also change any code relying on said interface. That's a maintenance cost of unit tests. But it doesn't follow that changing a unit's interface means unit tests sudd
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by cliffy 8y ago
As you scroll through the site it seems to re-set the current page for each section, which was totally unexpected behavior to me.
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by cliffy 8y ago
Let's imagine a scenario where you're not able to withdraw from a bank due to insolvency. If you're in the US your deposits (principal + interest) are insured up to $250,000 by the federal government. [0] If the federal gover
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by cliffy 8y ago
Orthogonal is frequently used to mean two (or more) things are independent of one another. I have never heard skew used in that way.
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by cliffy 9y ago
Funny, but CC PINs can actually be longer than 4 digits now.
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by cliffy 9y ago
Symbolic mourning of Stephen Hawking I believe.
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by cliffy 9y ago
Science covers it if and only if enough empirical proof exists.
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by cliffy 9y ago
Would probably start out as being prohibitively expensive and trend towards relatively cheap if it's possible and there's demand. If it's possible then it's hard to imagine there not being demand.

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