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by farmerstan 4y ago
I guess you don’t remember the dot com bust and all the salary cuts that happened with some companies instead of layoffs.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Lol this is completely wrong.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Time to make those on-site interviews more rigorous. Looks like too many bad coders are leaking through the interview process.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Everyone who is responding doesn’t understand the core benefit of Substack: the writer owns the relationship between them and their subscribers. Substack has no such ownership. Substack doesn’t take payments from the subscribers and then pa
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by farmerstan 4y ago
What is insane is when people frame anti-censorship as an alt-right value. That offends people like me who are staunchly liberal but completely anti-censorship to my core.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
The vast majority of Uber drivers are part time by choice. You don’t have that option with taxi driving. One driver I had would wake up early and drive people to the airport before work and that helped him pay off his car sooner. Uber is ex
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I think the more you write the less you make sense and you’re really grasping at straws here. Nothing you say at this point is more than strawmen, meanwhile everything I have said is not only internally consistent but makes perfect sense. I
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by farmerstan 4y ago
If this question became popular how would you change it so that people who were prepared wouldn’t have an advantage?
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Surviving a “few decades” sounds like a successful business in anyones eyes.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Only in hacker news do you find people who think the taxi industry is some bastion of freedom and some poor victim of Uber. Does no one know how the taxi industry works and the insane levels of corruption involved? Most taxi drivers start t
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by farmerstan 4y ago
When you see a combination with a bunch of possible letters, you have to try to eliminate the letters instead of going for the win. Lots of people keep going for the win and losing when they could have eliminated a bunch of possibilities wi
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by farmerstan 4y ago
You need to read more carefully. The author goes through great pains to ensure he doesn’t admit fault. Never once does he say “okay I admit, I should have been more careful.” He doesn’t take ownership ever over the fact that he made the mis
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I can generally hate someone but also see their good qualities. It’s not mutually exclusive at all.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Do ISP block this sort of mass scanning? Seems like something that is easy to detect and block.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Pretty interesting perspective, I wish it were in a different format so I could read it easier. I think the biggest problem with globally scaled companies is that HUMANS can’t mentally scale their expectations with the size. Meaning, if you
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I am very compassionate towards their loss. It must suck to have mistakenly destroyed their community. However I draw the line when they falsely blame others for their own mistake. You can be compassionate for a mistake and still insist som
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I work in enterprise software and around 2000 the combination of Solaris and Oracle database was the most rock solid out of all the various OS/DB combinations. I vaguely remember the threading model was weird and I think limited stack
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I take ownership over my mistakes. I don’t try to blame others. The world would be a better place if everyone did that.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I did RTFA. I do not accept the excuse that he didn’t read it properly. He skimmed it because he thought it was the same box but it wasn’t. He even admits that it contained the exact information that he was looking for. I don’t see any way
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I came in to say precisely this. It’s easy to point fingers after the fact but probably the person wouldn’t have checked regardless of the message in the dialog box. “They warned me but because I didn’t read the dialog box because it was to
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by farmerstan 4y ago
The former head of the ACLU from the 80s who famously defended the Nazis for free speech even though he is Jewish has been rallying against the current ACLU for precisely this reason.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Why would he sell shares? He would have to pay income tax on that. He will borrow against it obviously.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
It’s not just the government. Companies like Twitter are so ubiquitous that they are a form of government entity now, especially when they enforce government talking points. When Twitter decides that talking about the lab leak theory gets y
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by farmerstan 4y ago
ACLU of 2021 no longer supports free speech. The ACLU of the 80s and 90s were a bastion of free speech.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I gave some very honest feedback during my exit interview at Yahoo when I left, and I was blacklisted. So from then on I never ever gave exit interview feedback ever. It’s not worth it.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
Why is the terrorist activities EXPANDING when there have been not even a single coordinated terrorist attack in over 20 years? This is why people fight against vaccine mandates and I’m about to join them.
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by farmerstan 4y ago
I guess they better increase the difficulty of their coding interviews to LC hard to fix this problem.
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by farmerstan 5y ago
Ketamine therapy is supposed to be revolutionary for depression. You should look into it and it doesn’t have to be taken daily like SSRIs. My sister is on SSRIs. It took a couple of different meds but she is pretty happy now. You need to do
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by farmerstan 5y ago
If the same study previously showed that women were paid less than men, but now show they get paid more, does that not show that things have changed? Are you more inclined to believe it when it showed women earned less and more inclined to
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by farmerstan 5y ago
I wonder what the most powerful server you could create given reliable solar power like in the Bay Area.

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