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by djur 4y ago
I think it's to the benefit of the vast majority of job seekers, reducing the economic power imbalance between employer and employee, and I'd personally consider that a worthwhile reason to pass a law in and of itself. In addition
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by djur 4y ago
Most complaints I hear about C-level pay boil down to claims that the roles themselves are overvalued, not that individuals are overpaid for the role. I think the value of an extremely highly-performing engineer is likely to be more apparen
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by djur 4y ago
The board and C-level also have a shared class interest (and, so often, personal relationships) with their peers at other companies that tends to outweigh any personal ethical interest they have in the wellbeing of their employees. If it do
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by djur 4y ago
If you're trying to hire for a $100k+ role, it should not be a problem to take an afternoon to look up job postings for similar roles and figure out an appropriate salary range.
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by djur 4y ago
A previous employer of mine had fixed salary levels by role adjusted by region (for cost of living). Absolutely no salary negotiations, no bonuses. Despite this, they did the "offer not available in Colorado" routine as well as re
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by djur 4y ago
Mario Maker used the touchscreen effectively. You could seamlessly go back and forth between editing your level on the touchscreen and testing it on your TV. I also liked the touchscreen effects in Super Mario 3D World and regret their (eff
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by djur 4y ago
I really liked the Wii U pad and used it a lot. The Switch is a more fully realized version of the concept, but it has its downsides -- it's not as comfortable to hold and play for long periods, and the lack of a two-screen mode makes
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by djur 4y ago
I guess Earthsea is escapism in the sense that all fantasy offers an escape from mundane reality, but it's certainly not a wish fulfillment fantasy in the way Harry Potter is. As a kid I liked the books but I remember almost rewriting
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by djur 4y ago
Card may be the ideological opposite of Le Guin, but he was also in a sense one of her disciples. His work shows a great deal of her influence, including the borrowed concept of the 'ansible'. _Speaker For The Dead_ is his big att
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by djur 4y ago
"Starship Mine" and "Captain's Holiday" are both great episodes, though. I think the more damning anecdote is that he was apparently responsible for the dune buggy stuff in Nemesis.
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by djur 4y ago
I appreciate that a solid paragraph is about how Worf and Picard are hot. Some retrospectives on TNG are so focused on the high-minded, cerebral elements that you'd think each episode was a symposium on different aspects of the human c
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by djur 4y ago
Do you understand why people who aren't making lots of money from it might be angry and upset about this process?
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by djur 4y ago
Jones didn't bother to show up to court to defend himself, so the plaintiffs won by default.
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by djur 4y ago
Diablo started out as a graphical roguelike, with turn-based combat and permadeath. David Breivik says they removed the permadeath when they decided to go realtime (good call). I personally wouldn't call Diablo a roguelike but it'
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by djur 4y ago
Iffy software support. If you look at the Clockwork Pi forums there's a lot of complaints about a lack of updates. There's some community support for alternate/upgraded software, but the user base is small enough that we&#x2
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by djur 4y ago
I think every single aspect of the traditional roguelike definitions can be bent, even permadeath, but procedural generation is the exception. Different runs need to give you different situations and different choices to make, and procedura
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by djur 4y ago
What makes Vampire Survivors a roguelike? It's a Robotron-like, if anything. A twin stick shooter with power ups.
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by djur 4y ago
The classic roguelikes can take many hours to complete and do not have any kind of between-run unlocking. By some common definitions, unlockable content makes a game not a roguelike. I wouldn't go that far, but I'd never call Vamp
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by djur 4y ago
In far too many parts of the US, what you're doing with your yard would be considered "neglect" and might result in harassment from your neighbors or even fines.
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by djur 4y ago
My experience is that the average npm-based app has significantly more (and smaller) dependencies than a similarly-sized Ruby or Python app, even before factoring in that npm permits using multiple versions of the same dependency at once. T
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by djur 4y ago
First, he said that it "felt like the people at the Gap knew about the school shooting that Matthew McConaughey was talking about before it even happened", comparing it to the movie _The Truman Show_. In response to Carlson's
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by djur 4y ago
Exactly the opposite here. The recent progress in text/image/sound generation is the first thing that's actually made me interested in ML/AI. If I could restructure market priorities so all of the data scientists working
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by djur 4y ago
I think there's a good point to be made here: selective breeding has resulted in fruits and vegetables that are nutritionally far different from their predecessors, and yet we usually consider those foods "natural" and "
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by djur 4y ago
The underlying writing issue here is that people will use "very" because the sentence feels too bare and simple without it, so they add "very" (or "really", "extremely", "truly", etc.) as a
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by djur 4y ago
What does "very fast" actually convey that "fast" doesn't, unless you have a specific example of "fast" to compare with? The idea isn't that "rapid" means "very fast" (I don't
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by djur 4y ago
Regarding your [1], I think people reach for "very" for two different reasons: because they habitually "overseason" their sentences, adding intensifiers when the underlying language is already intense, or because they &q
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by djur 4y ago
Is the site calling for the elimination of very or just suggesting that its overuse is a common problem for writers?
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by djur 4y ago
I think that's the point -- "very sad" is unpoetical because it doesn't convey anything more than "sad", which is itself a generic word. If you're writing poetry or fiction you want to be describing emotio
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by djur 4y ago
He liked the FBI fine when they were investigating his opponent.
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by djur 4y ago
As recently as February 2020 the website referred to it as "The GIMP Toolkit" and did not mention GNOME at all. https://web.archive.org/web/20200207101350/https://www.gtk.o...

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