frollo

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31.
by frollo 4y ago
Ok, now tell me something which isn't obvious
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by frollo 4y ago
What's wrong with mediocrity and laziness? Once you do enough to put a roof over your head and food on your table there's exactly zero reason to do more.
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by frollo 4y ago
This is a ripoff. They can handle just the bureaucracy for a small fee. Some of them refuse to do so, but they totally can.
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by frollo 4y ago
That's why Italians don't to this directly. We go to an "autoscuola" (driving school) which not only teaches us how to drive, but also handles the bureaucracy for us. They book the exams and stuff. If you own a car in It
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by frollo 4y ago
This is not the case in Italy. While Rome is probably more accommodating to foreigners than a random 100-people village deep in the Alps, Rome is also the worst mess of a city we have. Milan, Turin and Florence are probably more suited for
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by frollo 4y ago
I used to just skip any job posting which required a cover letter but now, thanks to AI, I can fight their bullshit with more bullshit!
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by frollo 4y ago
I'm not involved in my current company's hiring process, but in past companies I just skipped the cover letter. It doesn't say anything useful anyway.
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by frollo 4y ago
The whole Reinassence happened without copyright law and they did just fine. In fact, a lot of masterpieces we have from that period would have been illegal under current IP law because they were the result of a lot of iteration on the same
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by frollo 4y ago
I'll just take a quick look at you, so we can be sure there's someone watching those who watch those who watch the watchers
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by frollo 4y ago
Yeah. I don't host anything on their repo, but now I have 30 days to go through all every Docker image I use and check if they have moved. This is extremely disruptive for me (and something I'll remember next time I'm conside
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by frollo 4y ago
I've seen people getting some nasty bytes from it, though
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by frollo 4y ago
Heck, I don't think I'd manage to have $250k in liquidity in my whole life and this is my standard operating procedure for my money. You never know when some weird, once-in-a-lifetime stuff is going to hit your bank. Learned the l
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by frollo 4y ago
Yeah, but platforms fail, go out of business and can have issues. If you use this service (or any other of the ones mentioned in the other comments) you'll need to periodically check that they are ok (and that all your details are up t
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by frollo 4y ago
Great thread, if you need to polish your shoes
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by frollo 4y ago
> Heh, are there actual companies where this is possible? I've seen companies where this was presented as a benefit . The small ones said things like "you have X ours a week you can spend working on whatever part of our produc
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by frollo 4y ago
For being the point of the article (and it is), it's very well hidden. I like the article and feel like we need more of this out there, but they should be written a little better.
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by frollo 4y ago
No, it probably means you're getting assigned your personal security guard tracking every step you make until you leave property. And that the moment you look too awkward a very friendly guy is going to come to you and start asking que
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by frollo 4y ago
To be honest, this also makes you stand out. Maybe Disney doesn't really care, but when I worked on people's data a bunch of "ghosts" entering our system without really leaving a trace would raise all kind of eyebrows an
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by frollo 4y ago
No. Not about programming, anyway. I was passionate about programming when I didn't do it 8-10 hours a day, 5 days a week, most weeks of the year. It was a fun, new thing and I could spend my free time on it. Now, I spend most of the d
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by frollo 4y ago
But most people don't seek a random image of "pink Cadillac with a man in a black top hat". They either search a specific picture they can describe that way (famous photo, specific guy to reference...) or don't know what
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by frollo 4y ago
That's exactly what "effective altruism" means. It's just philosophical marketing to dress the basest selfishness as altruism. Google the phrase up the next time you feel you have too much faith in humanity.
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by frollo 4y ago
They fired and sued the CEO, which means they should probably have noticed something before having to fire 10% of the company.
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by frollo 4y ago
Durov has been pushing a lot of blockchain nonsense over his app. I really like Telegram as a chat app, but his stunts are making me wonder whether it's still a good idea to depend so much on it.
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by frollo 4y ago
To be honest, I expected a bigger discussion on this topic.
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by frollo 4y ago
Yeah, luckily, those exceptions are really rare. Last time one happened to me I wasted three days before finding the culprit.
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by frollo 4y ago
I have an M1 Pro and Jira is barely usable every other day. I don't think it's a matter of processing power.
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by frollo 4y ago
> There’s undoubtedly legacy stuff and tech debt there That's for sure, but I don't remember many instances of tech debt or bad architectural decisions which had been solved by just shutting things down.
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by frollo 4y ago
This may be true in the USA, but not in the rest of the world. I live in Europe and, even if I often drive by a Tesla dealer on my way to work, don't know that many people driving one. Basically all the discourse I hear about Tesla com
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by frollo 4y ago
This is a big change, which is evoking some powerful reactions in people - it's pretty obvious that a company might want to get some distance between its brand and the maelstrom. They can always come back later, when things calm down.
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by frollo 4y ago
Either they pay or you can sue, publicly complain damaging their reputation and so on. That's why you never quit in this cases, but make sure that everybody knows that your BFF is a lawyer.

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