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by dlisboa 5y ago
That’s a lot to assume about someone you don’t know. It’s quite possible to think and read about “work” while also doing all of those. I’m married, have a son, and we’re all currently at the beach waiting for our friends to join us. I’m doi
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by dlisboa 5y ago
I went through a lot of what you’re going through and I realized something: I just really like what I do. To the point that reading technical articles in my spare time is not work to me. Learning new things is mentally very gratifying, even
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by dlisboa 5y ago
I don’t think those people really care about paying US taxes considering life is so cheap in Vietnam. The mere fact of not paying American prices for housing, healthcare, food, etc is a substantial discount. The tax money they lost will no
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by dlisboa 5y ago
Aren’t all those examples “day X profitable” startups? As in startups that had a profitable business model from day 1 and it only took them some share of the market to become profitable after an initial loss (usually operational). GitHub wa
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by dlisboa 5y ago
Engineering salaries in the US are so high I think these “retire by 35” posts should be put into perspective. Saving 250k USD in a lifetime would set me up for life where I’m from. Never mind over 500k in a single year.
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by dlisboa 5y ago
It's mostly about efficiency. If you want to watch a 4 minute video and the first 2 minutes were ads, wouldn't you skip it? Same principle: people talk slower than necessary in many of these videos, or make unnecessary edits that
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by dlisboa 5y ago
Do you find that in the hours you're not working you're constantly worried that you'll be "found out"? If so the problem is those are wasted hours, you can't just sit down and read or travel because you're
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by dlisboa 5y ago
Have you seen this done well more than a few times? Honest question because it’s something I think everyone agrees with as being a good idea but it never gets actually done. It’s definitely not an industry practice that big monoliths eventu
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by dlisboa 5y ago
I don’t think that’s related. Apple goes through many iterations of something the market does not want before they axe it: Touch Bar, butterfly keys, USB-C only ports, etc. These could all have been axed after the first year and were not. P
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by dlisboa 5y ago
That's indeed what's missing: I enjoy what I do. Not sure if "work" is what I enjoy, but the challenges I face in software development. If I was a millionaire I'd still find time to program. I'd do Open Source
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by dlisboa 5y ago
> To be honest, I don't get the appeal of e-bikes for the type of riding you do. Getting up to 15 MPH when you're riding for 8 km in a city when stopping for lights should be no problem without disabilities on a decent bike. I
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by dlisboa 5y ago
We are always possibly sick at all times, getting a test done will not prevent or change that. The fact that we don’t get anxiety daily is because we forget about it and move on with life. But what is worse? Getting anxiety over being sick
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by dlisboa 5y ago
It's really freeing when coupled with something like Gitpod or CodeSpaces. You join a new project and you have ZERO setup to do on your own. You can open up a new branch and start working in seconds. I don't have to worry about wh
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by dlisboa 5y ago
I've used Gitpod ( https://www.gitpod.io/ ) for this same scenario and it's available for anyone, way cheaper than Github Codespaces (possibly free depending on your usage), and it works really, really well. It felt
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by dlisboa 5y ago
> In countries like Norway, that kind of data is publicly available. It makes for less second-guessing and less suspiciousness. It might work in Norway where there is basically zero violent crime, but in many parts of the world outing yo
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by dlisboa 5y ago
I agree with you it's a hard topic. I consider myself jaded. I'm not even old and am starting to think the "olden days" (20 years ago) were simpler and saner. My perspective is of someone who is completely disillusioned
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> People are going to cheer that "wackos" will no longer have a platform. It's not the wackos we should be worrying about. It's the stifling of legitimate public debate, the stifling of legitimate voices who find them
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by dlisboa 5y ago
You have to compare that against what was done instead. Their solution was to employ a few engineers to create a new contract-based test framework, which will also have to be maintained. I believe that counts as "significant" inve
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by dlisboa 5y ago
My point with JS is more that the JS community sees no problem and will actively rewrite vast swaths of code to use features that are not yet supported in browsers. Hence the extensive use of polyfills and transpilers. Major language change
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> My grip is actually the contrary, many python code bases are stuck in the past. From the outside looking in the Python community seems aggressively anti reworking their code to adapt to new language features. The 2 to 3 debacle comes t
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by dlisboa 5y ago
> Once you are adding special endpoints for mostly just your UI, it's no longer strictly a general purpose API and the entire point of the design is moot. Not really, it's a very valid solution when you have multiple clients (W
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by dlisboa 5y ago
I noticed it loads and feels much faster than github.dev. Really good job.
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I think you're under the impression this doesn't happen with other countries too. That's the job of embassies. Obviously the State Department has more funding and resources, but that's really only relevant to how big of
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by dlisboa 5y ago
That’s only relevant to a tiny percentage of American immigrants who travel/work in conflict zones and unfriendly countries. It could even be said Americans are more at risk in those countries for being American and no other reason. So
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by dlisboa 5y ago
I don't know if even copying small pieces of code verbatim should mean anything. Another example is the photo generation ML algorithms that exist. They generate photos of random "people" (imaginary AI-generated people) by usi
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by dlisboa 6y ago
Outside of neglect and abuse, is there really a WRONG way of raising a child? You see multiple different styles in different cultures. Some cultures where bed-sharing and baby-carrying is common also beat their kids and use other forms of p
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by dlisboa 6y ago
I like woodworking because to me it's the opposite of coding. Software is pretty complex and hard to explain to people. Concepts are abstract, changes are incremental and it's never really "done". Even if part of it is b
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by dlisboa 7y ago
Only for iPhones. Androids tether normally. It's due to agreements between Google and the carriers. I was able to tether with an iPhone in Costa Rica, but I've been to 20+ countries with it and it's been only one or two count
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by dlisboa 8y ago
Someone has to program the apps for these “future devices”. It’s very weird to me how the future of computing is a terrible interactive interface for the very people who have to make the future interactive interface. They’ll be forced to re
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by dlisboa 8y ago
> You know, there is another country that have United States in its name, the United States of Brazil. Brazil is called "Federative Republic of Brazil". It's been that way for half a century.

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