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by ep103 5y ago
While I agree with you, my experience in hiring in this industry for the last few years has been to agree with the parent comment. Once you land an interview, I don't think any of my interviewers even looked at my resume, or cared wha
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by ep103 6y ago
Everyday we come a little bit closer to automatically pushing the top rated stackoverflow post's answer directly into production. Truly, we are optimizing the development experience.
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by ep103 6y ago
Try making a new account, that isn't eligible for Prime matchmaking (because you haven't played the prerequisite number of games or whatever yet), and see if you can even get into Prime before quitting entirely out of frustration
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by ep103 6y ago
I looked into what was going on with CS:Go after trying to get back into it a few years ago, and noticing just how horrifically bad the amount of cheating was. The most damning thing for me wasn't just the subreddits dedicated to just
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by ep103 6y ago
They're a great barometer of the quality of the content and dedication of the team running the website to said quality. Its not surprising in the least that Facebook falls short in this metric.
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by ep103 6y ago
We call this a lack of leadership, which, let's face it, becomes very, very obvious the more you paid attention to how the US handled Covid throughout 2020
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by ep103 6y ago
Google Images now only returns maybe 1-200 images by default, and if you click show me more, it shows a few hundred. The top results are consistently pinterest garbage, or similar types of spam. Images are consistently diverse from what I
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by ep103 6y ago
All of reality is fundamentally made up of atoms. If you are an atomist, you believe that consciousness is ultimately derived from a special arrangement of atoms. A rock is made of atoms, QED: rocks are conscious. /s
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by ep103 6y ago
a larger organization... like a corporation?
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by ep103 6y ago
app only? I can be friends with whomever, but only see reflections from specific people or groups? I've pretty much stopped using most social media, because the level of noise that is put into my feed (ads, manipulative "news&quot
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by ep103 6y ago
County level vs national level
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by ep103 6y ago
Just add an S, right? FAANG becomes FAANGS
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by ep103 6y ago
That said, the name change was reasonable, because the changes in the framework were so, so vastly different.
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by ep103 6y ago
> JavaScript is still the same, you still can and pollute the global window object, use global variables, etc. If you are writing in a modern framework, this is now not possible, without really, intentionally, breaking a lot of things to
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by ep103 6y ago
mooTools was great back in the day (oh man, we're old). And jQuery was a great improvement from that. Prototype was a great initiative, but I think the community was right when it decided to go the jQuery route, and not append new fun
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by ep103 6y ago
tl;dr: You have effectively instituted a grading rubric for your entire engineering team, the way a manager grades their worst engineers. As a result, your entire team is now motivated to act in accordance with the way bad engineers typica
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by ep103 6y ago
It doesn't. The welfare state has been gutted, and those with sufficiently problematic mental health issues are usually left to die in the gutter and/or beg for change. But the system the US used to have, pre-Reaganomics, and whi
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by ep103 6y ago
I just got out of my team's standup. MY team has 8 people. The standup lasted 6 minutes. I think the people who complain about this, are the ones who have a reason to complain. You don't hear the success stories.
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by ep103 6y ago
This reason is why it can be pitched to conservatives as well as progressives. It should be noted though, that basic income cannot 100% replace the welfare state. You cannot just give basic income to a person with sufficiently problematic
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by ep103 6y ago
100% And the smaller the steps, the easier they are to individually complete. And the more dopamine rewards for crossing each one off the list. And the more self-rewards you get for making said steps, which means the more reinforcement yo
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by ep103 6y ago
Lol. I think the key is three-fold. Firstly, the act of breaking out a task can be difficult, if you haven't done the first step of actually documenting out the task. And if you find the step of documenting out the task hard to do? Th
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by ep103 6y ago
This is 100% true. Really all of the steps I have above are ways of getting started, that come at the task from an oblique direction. Because you end up doing things like breaking out the task into steps for all sorts of tasks, both good
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by ep103 6y ago
yeah, this is burnout. I feel like I burn out much faster when working alone day after day.
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by ep103 6y ago
I've adopted the following strategy for Ugh work. I would love to hear other people's suggestions, because while I have found that the below algorithm works, any improvement would be greatly helpful. 1 - Is the Ugh work so small,
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by ep103 6y ago
My favorite is still that Excel can't handle dates before 1900
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by ep103 6y ago
I found this poetically beautiful, for some reason : )
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by ep103 6y ago
I laughed while reading your response, because I was reading your response while eating a small amount of ice cream, specifically because I was about to go back to purging my day's worth of incoming emails, a task I genuinely hate doin
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by ep103 6y ago
This is also the conclusion I came to after years of trying different things
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by ep103 6y ago
Of the explanations you have given here, most of them appear to be good things. Voters learning more about and becoming more aware of the actions of their representative parties. Except the hastert rule. The hastert rule appears to be unif
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by ep103 6y ago
A thing can be for more than one reason at once. Of course the US wouldn't have done this had it been against the US' interests.

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