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by ctvo 4y ago
I honestly can't tell if your series of replies have been GPT-3 generated. She went to jail because she failed to pay for the goods and services she used. They extended her credit because of the false pretenses, but she went to jail fo
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by ctvo 4y ago
> I felt that conclusion was unwarranted. So she was a 'fake' heiress. Aren't they all? Just jumped-up rich claiming some sort of divine right? Why wasn't she as good as any of them? In many European countries there&
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by ctvo 4y ago
The dregs, as in the bottom of the barrel, of the global developer salary band. There’s no need to jump to the conclusion that it’s a judgement on the country itself and look for something to be offended by. Due to current events someone co
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by ctvo 4y ago
This is happening across a few large retailers[1] (Walmart, CVS). It's what happens when people panic and try to buyout the store's stock. From the article: > Since Roe was overturned on Friday, many people who can get pregnant
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Everywhere else in the world, when you hire someone, you ask to see their previous work. It is universally the best signal, you don't have a carpenter build a chair on site, you look at what they've built and talk to them abo
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> if you are deploying new functionality/service communication, after deploy, monitor for 10-15 minutes, with a wide enough window to see if there is a noticable/unexpected change from before the deploy. It always feels like wa
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> - How long does it take to conduct the interview? (for the candidate) You're excluding a slew of people who either don't have the time or inclination to start and possibly maintain an open source project. The assumption here
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I feel the same way about whiteboarding as I do about capitalism: It's not perfect, but what's a viable alternative? And like capitalism, it's a spectrum. Most companies could cut back on pure leetcode style questions, but as
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> It seems that the retail traders are doing better than the institutional types Who do you think benefits most that this myth continues to propagate? The myth that the common man, with 1,000 USD to his name, can go on a trading app and
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> Some companies have even gone so far as paying for abortions. That's disgusting. It reveals that The Man doesn't want women's productivity to go down and would rather work them to the bone instead. Out of the kitchen and
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I remember reading Greybeard’s writing back then. Me and my friends were the idiots the story made fun of. We were as awful as a pack of young men can be.
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by ctvo 4y ago
UO had a lot of bugs related to housing: - Large towers in UO were expensive player owned homes that are narrow at the base, but wider on the higher floors. Some players would place them near water and the widest roof area would hang over t
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by ctvo 4y ago
I remember my second day of playing UO back in 1998. I'm chopping trees and making bows in the woods on my crafting character to generate gold for my main character. I'd read to do this in a guide somewhere online. I'm moving
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by ctvo 4y ago
Surprising for me: AWS's market share is still Azure + GCP combined amongst professional developers [1]. With various articles about Microsoft's success I was expecting lower. The same for loved / dreaded. AWS scores signific
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Ask any woman what it's like to go to a tech conference, and then try to guess if they would be comfortable using a tool like yours as it currently stands. Why did you ignore their reply to you entirely? > Please mind that the
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by ctvo 4y ago
The hacker did use a VPN, but they also posted snippets of the stolen data online, possibly to brag or find potential buyers, that eventually led to their real identity. VPN isn't cruise control to anonymity. Being based in a country w
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> Basically they were fired for using company resources for personal use and intimidation of their peers. Knowing that this would be leaked and make news, they could have framed the letter to all employees in the best possible way for th
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by ctvo 4y ago
SpaceX now has an MO: Protect Elon at all costs. 250,000 USD paid to keep a corporate jet flight attendant quiet about alleged sexual harassment by Elon and now the immediate firing of employees asking the company to clarify Elon's vie
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Programming-related jobs have high rates of skill turnover. Over time, the types of skills required by companies hiring software developers change more rapidly than any other profession. There's a reason I still strongly prefer ca
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by ctvo 4y ago
Has anyone done an investigation into how this current issue, Luna previously, etc. is hitting the various VC cheerleaders? a16z in particular for their rampant pumping.
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A system that requires self sacrifice isn’t ideal, especially in a heterogeneous society like the US where cohesiveness is lower than say … Japan. Crafting the message, targeting the various groups, etc. Yes, there are folks like you who ma
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by ctvo 4y ago
Exactly. I find I fight with what it wants to do more often than not when text editing. The table component is a mess. I wish it'd just drop me down to pure markdown. Searching is hit or miss for a product built around knowledge search
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by ctvo 4y ago
I understand Minecraft's valuation -- sort of my point -- those features are what made Minecraft valuable, not the core gameplay elements. Dwarf Fortress would need to go down that road, not just a nicer UI for it to be valuable.
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> Cron and Notion have a lot in common. We share a sense of craft and an overlapping base of passionate users. I’ve never used Notion and been impressed by the craftsmanship of the product. It works, sort of, 90% of the time, but it isn’
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by ctvo 4y ago
I'm sure the folks at Zed know what they're doing, but this is already possible in multiple editors / IDEs. I'm excited to see how Zed innovates in this space. Examples: - VSCode Live Share https://code.visual
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by ctvo 4y ago
Are you talking about nativeshell[1] or something else? nativeshell looks to be in early stages of development still. 1 - https://nativeshell.dev
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by ctvo 4y ago
> If Dwarf Fortress magically had the UX they are working on now back in 2012 it would be worth at least $50million+ And how did you come up with that 50 million USD number? Is it multiplayer? Can a major corporation use it to target a
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by ctvo 4y ago
> Anyone else dealt with this? > Anyone have any type of jobs where friction is minimal? Tactically: Get better at navigating it. Is there a person hitting a button somewhere? Get to know that team well. Make it easy for them to appro
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> Most of society's direct expenses in their education is in the K-12 phase True that K-12 costs more, but public assistance in higher education is substantial [1]. From grants, subsidized loans to directed money into public univers
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> Society (especially US society) does not value vocations that help others. Teachers are incredibly well-educated, but treated like dirt. The same with social workers. We value individuality and selfishness. In fact, we actually deify t

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