gleventhal

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   by gleventhal 2y ago

   I love my job, but I don't do more than 8 hours generally, and am paid very fairly, and it's quite competitive, we aren't slackers.
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   by gleventhal 2y ago

   It clearly biased for young people or those without a family with something to prove, the perfect type of employee to exploit and vampirize.
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   by gleventhal 2y ago

   I don't have the energy for an intellectual debate, but personally, I have the sense that Youtube is net bad for the world and the monetization of Youtube has incentivized and amplified mediocrity, stupidity, and social decay. I don&#x
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   by gleventhal 5y ago

   and, surprise! It's down. "I stored my knapsack in my toilet, and look: it's wet".
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   by gleventhal 5y ago

   I'd argue if you take away nothing unique from reading something that everyone else also read, that's its own problem. I have the opposite issue, I tend to think a little differently which makes it hard to be a good communicator s
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   by gleventhal 5y ago

   Or just have your script make a lock file somewhere on a persistent file system and exit if it exists.
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   by gleventhal 6y ago

   I want to submit bad code to the open source project just so I can say to someone "What's the matter with you, got a bug up your ass?!"
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   by gleventhal 9y ago

   I know that some facets of my thinking are exceptional, but I am not always aware of what I am good at until I do it. This often leads to people being surprised by my abilities after they have written me off already. Its a novelty, but I&
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   by gleventhal 10y ago

   The only accurate quote in the whole article: "my job involved juggling a lot of balls" He was cupping them as well, and he clearly still is. It's easy for someone to seem smart when a team of people feed him talking points
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    by gleventhal 10y ago

    I know several people who speak English as a second language who are more articulate than Bush in English. I don't care, I refuse to believe that he is some secret genius. I am confident if he were born to a poor family, that he woul
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    by gleventhal 10y ago

    But he didn't get high grades, so why speculate that he would? We know he didn't, and grades are not necessarily an indication of intelligence.