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by gordaco 7y ago
Considering that this is also the biggest problem regarding youtube, you may be right. However, if it's true, the consequences are terrifying, if you take into account that engagement is directly tied to the financial success of every
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by gordaco 7y ago
I know :). I actually hesitated, because of that. To be honest I ended writting and sending it just because this is Hacker News and such things are much better received here. In Reddit, for example, I wouldn't have bothered. Also, I&#x
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by gordaco 7y ago
This resonates with me a lot. All over my life, even when I was still just a student, I've had people telling me that I could do much better and that I could aspire to much more. I invariably looked at their proposal, saw a huge amount
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by gordaco 7y ago
This isn't about boasting, nor it's about "wanted to be recognized as smart". You can be as humble as you honestly can, up to the point of avoiding showing achievements to other people for fear of their reactions (and be
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by gordaco 7y ago
> Little did my manager know that a few quarters of "meets expectations" had caused HR to drop me into the bottom 5% of the company and so I received a letter from HR that I was at risk of being terminated. This is disturbing a
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by gordaco 7y ago
"I believe OOP and relational database get a lot of flack because programmers tend to be bad at design, not because they are broken paradigms". This is very true. Another more charitable interpretation is that sometimes deadlines
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by gordaco 7y ago
I'm expecting the penalty not to be so disproportionate as to persist 15+ years after the choice. Also, most of these "choices" are not so selfish. In the case of the degree choices, I know plenty of people who have jobs with
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by gordaco 7y ago
I just found something very indicative of the current times: in Ask A Manager (a blog about work where the owner answers questions from her readers) someone is afraid that not working during the evenings or the weekends is going to hurt the
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by gordaco 7y ago
All of this is 100% correct. In particular: the amount of choices that have become "career killers" and therefore unacceptable is terrifying. Choose a degree that appeals to you, where you will learn what you like, instead of one
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by gordaco 7y ago
As someone living in a "touristy" area, and who has close friends, workmates and relatives who have been evicted because of the ridiculous increase of the rent prices in the last 3 or 4 years, I also seriously hope Airbnb's b
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by gordaco 7y ago
That twitter thread was a train wreck in so many aspects. It favored individual performance over team work, it suggested a lot of supposed "telltale" signs that were so unrelated to actual work that reminded me of phrenology, and
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by gordaco 7y ago
If/when Stadia and the like take off, and streaming-only games appear, we can forget about that too. By the way, this is just one of the many reasons why I think that streamed games are very much an anti-consumer move and should not be
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by gordaco 8y ago
Sorry, the article doesn't mention that the regional government is right-wing (my fault), but it does say this: "Sin embargo, en lugar de reforzar el servicio, como prometió hace un mes el presidente del Gobierno regional, Ángel G
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by gordaco 8y ago
It should be mentioned here that in the case of Madrid, the metro is managed by a rightwing party who intentionally reduced the amount of trains when the car restrictions started, in order to cause discontent. See https://www.pub
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by gordaco 8y ago
You can always join CGT [1]. They take tech workers seriously and they have presence on most tech companies. Leave the more general, "politics" side of unions (calling for general strikes, and so on) to CCOO and UGT, and make use
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by gordaco 8y ago
This is exciting for two reasons. First, we could develop a measurable diagnosis based on this. Second, we can now search for the source of these chemicals and use them to better understand this illness, and that might lead to a cure. I lov
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by gordaco 8y ago
But glassware can be used in microwaves, and metal can not. I don't cook in glassware, but I very frequently heat food in glassware.
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by gordaco 8y ago
I don't think I have heard anything about Knoppix in the last 10 years or so, and it's such a pity. This was the first Linux I used at home, back in 2003. I had to use both a CD and a floppy to boot it, IIRC (apparently certain ol
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by gordaco 8y ago
This is the logical evolution of helicopter parents, considering the state of technology. I would call them "facebook parents".
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by gordaco 8y ago
Yes, definitely. There is a very strong push from both hardware and software companies to make us less and less free. Modern devices are only user-friendly with regards to usability.
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by gordaco 8y ago
Indeed. Things become more consumer friendly, i.e. more general public friendly, but less power user friendly. This happened with cars (they have many electronic components that aren't as easy to repair as it was in the past, when ever
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by gordaco 8y ago
Regarding computer literacy, there are two glaring difference between the current generation and the one who grew with computers in the 90s: one is the one you mention; in the 90s we were our own tech support, so to speak, and when DOS didn
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by gordaco 8y ago
I wonder whether the atmospheric conditions have some unknown effect on certain types of electronics, especially detectors of photons of any kind, preventing them from working as intended. Story time: a few years ago I used to work in a bui
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by gordaco 8y ago
From the perspective of the user, MS-DOS was a lousy OS. However, as a tinkerer, it was super fun. To this day, my best programming memories are about using Turbo Assembler and the information from Interrup.lst to do weird things with the g
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by gordaco 8y ago
I haven't used facebook since... about 2013 Q1. I stopped using it more or less organically, just by looking for social life in other places (and by having less social life, actually). I thought that there wasn't much harm in havi
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by gordaco 8y ago
Spain was no different, and from what I'm seeing, I think that there will pass many years before the damage of the "little belt tightening" is undone.
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by gordaco 8y ago
My conclusion to the BS inherent to any job is this: get your "brain food" outside your job. Start today if you haven't been doing this. It's fine that sometimes we get to learn interesting things while on the clock, b
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by gordaco 8y ago
> I believe that if given a chance, most companies would gladly send you their webpages as opaque .exe files. This is exactly why "mobile app" versions of webpages (facebook, reddit, you name it) are so prevalent. Of course it&
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by gordaco 8y ago
Then let's increase the demand by diminishing the ROI of the current ad model. Something that can be done, for example, by using an ad blocker and never ever turning it off.
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by gordaco 8y ago
I've never lived in the USA so I'm kind of talking out of my ass here... but I wonder if the awful costs of healthcare might prevent changes in that mentality. Here in Europe, if your income is about average or even a bit less, yo

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