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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Wheel of time takes place in Brooklyn, in the Amazon cinematic universe though.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
You haven’t lived until you’ve been assaulted by a homeless person on a bus in the US! Buses are a joke. We cannot have public transit here without security to match, like at airports.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
This may be devastating for the small city of Lexington, Kentucky. Seems like this was one of the only major businesses in the area.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I haven’t hired an American in many years. It’s forbidden.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I’ll believe it when I see it. Until then, I look forward to teaching H1B recipients to turn on a computer.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
You can lead a horse to water, but that’s it. And firing is politically impossible where I am. If someone chooses not to improve, or simply does not, there are no repercussions.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I’m saying among the X developers doing the work, the skill gap is so large that estimate must shift an order of magnitude.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Deadlines are hard to talk about when you have radically differently skilled developers. Sure, it may take some on the team a half hour to do some work, but for others, it will take two weeks. You hope that over time everyone improves, but
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2020/08/20/fa... American immigrants are no longer white, overwhelmingly.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
When I say for loop, I mean for loop. No tricks. Declare a variable with any number type initialized to the value 0. I’ve seen candidates fail that, spend 30 minutes attempting to declare a variable in the LANGUAGE OF THEIR CHOICE.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
It’s funny you mention sailing. The couple people I know who grew up on a boat sailing like you describe no longer talk to their parents and long for a normal childhood they didn’t have.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Most applicants fake the take home problem or have someone else or ai do it for them. You have to watch someone produce a compiling for loop to prove they’ve ever built software before. Fraud is rampant.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Kids need structure and permanency. This is child abuse, and I know people who have done it. Their kids are a mess, and it breaks my heart.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
You’ve got it backwards. AI can replace workers in these locales who do not outperform chat gpt.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
In the US the strobing lights are critical. A huge portion of drivers are looking straight down while they drive at their phone.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
The illegal street racing near me says otherwise.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Germany is smaller than California. The United States is very, very large place, mostly unpopulated. It’s hard to apply whatever Germany, a small, densely populated country does to the US, which is largely empty land.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Many of the local librarians are trans. Telling a child they may be something they’re not is an incredibly confusing message. My kids often say they’re animals. They’re not. They’re kids, so they play pretend. I personally know parents tell
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59647211-kisses-for-jet This was featured at my local regional library in the area for kids 5-10. Look through the “readers also enjoyed” and I’ve seen books either like that or
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Have you been to library recently? I have. A huge portion of the books are wildly inappropriate for kids, and they’re in the kids section. Books are not as you remember from your childhood. There’s a glut of material telling very young kids
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I doubt it. Anime is popular because people like it. A16z is incapable of producing something people like.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Or pay cash for therapy. Or have the parent pay cash for therapy. Options existed, but there are none now.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
I don’t care how long anyone works. If you work 5000 hours but don’t produce anything useful, you’re no good to me. I know exactly who gets work done. I can easily check the git repos and I’m at the standups. Some people are straight up neg
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Shipping definitely costs more, and there may be a small buffer in there for currency fluctuations. Margins on hardware are slim.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
An engineer who struggles to write clearly is one I would hope not to hire. Programming is first and foremost a problem discovery job, then a writing job, then math and logic. No matter how efficient or eloquent, if you solve the wrong prob
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Looks like 20% VAT
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
There is no competent government contractor. The only companies which survive RFP operate in a way to maximize cost and minimize value.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
Access to basic goods are locked behind bureaucracy and often in shortage. “It will be 90 days before you can receive your laptop”. Problems are deflected from one bureaucratic hell to another, with nothing ever getting solved. And the empl
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
That’s not how that works. Internet history should not be destroyed because of prudism gained in old age.
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by geraldwhen 2y ago
This makes sense. The easier something is to do, the more likely anyone is to do it.

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