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I've worked with several excellent Ukrainian developers, but in each case they were working for consulting firms in other Eastern European countries.
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> Again I don't mean to fully cosign NIMBYism I'm just saying In my city, the same people who are against housing also oppose transit. They don't want the city to grow, whether successfully or unsuccessfully. If you tell t
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As I understand it, the problem building high speed rail in California isn't that people are trying to stop it, but rather that everybody who has the power to throw up roadblocks realizes that they can use it to extract something from
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With that kind of thinking, tribalism is inevitable. But you don't have to see it that way. That way of thinking is making excuses for Nazis and Trump supporters. You're saying that once they heard the honeyed words of thinly ve
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How are those two situations remotely similar? A criticism of the Democratic Party should not be seen as a morally reprehensible "joke" that you have to walk back like "ha ha, just kidding, I would never criticize the party.
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Volunteer work is a lot like part time work, in that it's mostly low skill, and the work varies from physical labor to office work, and from behind-the-scenes jobs where you only interact with other volunteers to intensely face-to-face
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> The implication instead seems to be that unless you are somewhere in the middle of the spectrum you must be "tribal". That feels dismissive. It's not about where you are on the spectrum. I know neoliberal moderate Democr
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He might not be doing it for economic reasons. He might be doing it to get out of the house. My mom's physician suggested volunteer work or a part time job to keep her active instead of sitting on the couch all day.
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"time estimates from software devs actually make sense if you think of them as 'this is how long it would take me the second time if i did this twice in a row'" (Source: https://twitter.com/mechanical_mon
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Perl is mature, too. Maven is awful. SBT is awful. Gradle is awful. I've used them all professionally, and the best I can say about them is that you can get the job done with them. Newer languages and newer build systems are much bette
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I have to mostly agree with you, in the sense that the jocks were no less nice than anybody else, maybe even more so. That's a pretty low bar for teenagers, though. Furthermore, the jocks by and large didn't really understand the
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This is literally the FIRST bullshit I was fed when I started my software development career. Buildings are always on time because they're too important to be finished late! Buildings are expensive! Buildings are serious! If a house wa
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A kid might see it in terms of "authority figures," but live long enough and you'll understand it's everyone. Not just your professors and bosses, but your subordinates, your friends, your lovers, even your children will
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At my high school, somehow physics was the dumb jock science course. I think it was because the head football coach taught physics for decades before retiring my sophomore year. Anyway, as a kid who was doing well in school and was headed f
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> Every code base I've worked on in Scala has ended up being a hodgepodge of both Is there something about that that has bothered you? Working in Scala codebases, I've found the best ones to work in are the ones that embrace Sc
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> The dream is that new features is just new code, rather than refactoring and modifying existing code I don't just mean new features. I mean new cross-cutting capabilities. I mean emitting metrics from an application that has never
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I was a pretty intense believer in Christianity at an early age and also stopped believing pretty early. Looking at religion from middle age now, it strikes me that Christianity is not a good religion to not believe in. As soon as I stopped
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> Then again I grew up Mormon and their theological rigor is… extremely tenuous The Mormons I know were warned against an "unhealthy" level of interest in theology. Very different from Catholicism, where they assume it's n
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> Turns out all the big ones with strict architectural (n=3) pattern usage, although “clean”, the code is waaaay to complex and unnecessarily slow in tasks that at first glance should had been simple. My last job had a Python codebase ju
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> I know I can quickly write a parser, not by reading some spec, but by looking at the actual CSV file This is fine if you can hand-check all the data, or if you are okay if two offsetting errors happen to corrupt a portion of the data w
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Here's video of a gorilla that is famous for its ability and propensity for walking upright. If you want to tell me you would find this "barely distinguishable" from homo habilis, I don't think I'd be doing you a se
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I'll repeat what I say every time I talk about CSV: I have never encountered a customer who insisted on integrating via CSV who was capable of producing valid CSV. Anybody who can reliably produce valid CSV will send you something else
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All homo species are or were bipedal tool users and descended from ancestors that had been bipedal tool users for a million years prior. You wouldn't get them confused with a gorilla.
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> At the end of the day, though, I'm usually left with the feeling I'd have made more solid progress with slower, closer attention Does you think this feeling reflects the usual underestimation we're all guilty of, or do y
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> we shop at the same stores, go to the same parks, get stuck in the same traffic, our kids are at the same schools,our neighbors care for us medically, teach our kids, maintain our dwellings, work on our cars, and contribute to our loca
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Reminds me of: "People think software development is just writing code. But it isn't just writing: it requires planning, experimentation, research, and consideration of style and structure." Writers everywhere: "Excuse m
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I'm fascinated by the athletic side of all of this. I have a friend who has had the aspiration to become a regular exerciser for years, but he says everything he tries just hurts too much. I exercise regularly myself, but we haven&#x27
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I think it's because it's "classics." Your first couple of years excepted, everyone hears about a text years before they read it. By the time they read it, they already know a lot about it, and they read it closely and s
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I mean... I consider myself a versatile home cook, and I've owned and used more products similar to the Thunder Mixer than products similar to the George Foreman grill. Sometimes it's a mystery what people buy. Why would you buy a
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I didn't think much about George Foreman until I watched When We Were Kings. For me, he was just as interesting as Ali, and I was so impressed with how he returned and reinvented himself after the loss to Ali that he was my personal re

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