epicgiga

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by epicgiga 7y ago
Maybe German software engineers have to use sex boxes a lot?
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by epicgiga 7y ago
How bad must these people feel about themselves after though. Driving out to some seedy "sex box" to pay to have uncomfortable car sex. The self disgust on the drive back must really be something lol.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
No the "world" (ruling class) never treasured that.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I know a fintech startup founder already working on precisely this
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I get the whole "home grown industry" and sovereign production of defense and all that, but just like when Australia tried to build its own submarines, really you're better off just buying them off the shelf from your allies
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Genius...
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by epicgiga 7y ago
So would it be a legit business model to just run a 1billion gigawatt heater to profit from those negative rates?
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by epicgiga 7y ago
They don't care though. School was never about learning, but discipline. Through that lens, the fact its uncomfortable without purpose is by design.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
How many languages do we need again? The amount of time we spend playing around with special case languages and frameworks. Would be nice if machine languages followed the lead of natural languages, with a single one slowly pushing the rest
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by epicgiga 7y ago
It'll be interesting to see how things pan out from all this. The internet has only really been with us for a few decades, and yet has completely transformed the fabric of humanity, acting as a bizarre and extreme lens upon existing hu
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I'm a big fan of the "fire and motion" concept of dev social paradigm. The idea is that devs and large companies have a tendency to constantly move away from tried and tested concepts not because the juice is genuinely worth
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Copying is a fictional crime.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
It would definitely look like 4chan. 4chan is a straightforward example of unrestricted speach. And its not a bad place, just different, but most people wouldn't enjoy being there. Even places like this maintain a certain form of disco
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by epicgiga 7y ago
But who won? Even assuming Ghosn committed a crime, they ended up looking like the crooks. And one man succeeding in shady dealings hurts few. But the state succeeding in boundless detention puts everyone in peril. He may have some power, b
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I disagree. It's more due to the rigid drumming in of "these are the rules you must follow" from a young age, backed up by harsh social ostracism of those who don't follow these social rules. Children in Japan are taught
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Factoring in plea bargaining the US and Japan have roughly the same conviction rate. Factoring in people held in US because they can't make bail, also diminished some of the "held without trial" margin. But this is fundamenta
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by epicgiga 7y ago
My 1:1s with last boss I had went like: "how are things..." "good" "1:1 complete". And that was on Slack. The guy just hated them, so that was my idea and made him happy. And I don't disagree with that. St
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Employment is actually, as a matter of law, a boss -> servant relationship.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Don't worry, we'll just "grow our way out of it". But seriously, buy gold.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Great content, I confirmed all these rules the hard way on my first business play.
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by epicgiga 7y ago
DRYing the code is just an entry level form of simplifying the code. It's a good starting point, but its value quickly taps out once junior devs start writing incrementByOneFromZeroToNLoop(n) functions. Code is closer to a craft like
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by epicgiga 7y ago
This is life though right? These companies pay crazy high salaries -- they're not going to make it easy on you. The fact that you'll barely be using the algorithms if at all doesn't matter. They use that for interviewing spe
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I've witnessed this first hand so often that I'm well aware of what it's caused by: overload at the top. The end beneficial owners of a business have limited power over it. They exert weak control remotely. Usually this amoun
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by epicgiga 7y ago
This conflates two different concepts: division of labour and hierarchy. Whether you should have separate project managers and whether you should have a flat hierarchy shouldn't be connected. As far as PMs go: from long experience, I&#
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by epicgiga 7y ago
It'd be nice if they'd be a bit more precise with their terms. Company, firm, and business have specific meanings. Given BBC is UK based, a company would mean a separate legal entity to its members (a 'corporation' in US
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Putting it all in cash is unwise when you've got a substantial amount -- at which time people naturally look to diversify anyway. But for the people this is good advice for, worrying about diversification is out of scope. Get 1 year&#x
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by epicgiga 7y ago
A lot of these things do come down to manager or mid-level dev types who just want to use hot tech, either because it's a shortcut to sound like an expert, or they want to do it to gain experience in it. The problem is, the tech is hot
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by epicgiga 7y ago
Yes it can really help if structured right
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by epicgiga 7y ago
I haven't had that problem, but I do see a tendency for devs who enter the mid-level hump start to get big for their boots and want to clamp down on those below/around them doing things the "wrong way" (the way that isn&
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by epicgiga 7y ago
That's the problem -- the seniors should mentor them such that they don't have to thrash around. Unfortunately that type of skill is on the opposite end of the spectrum as wrangling computers.

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