gordaco

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   by gordaco 13y ago

   Speaking as another European who has always been put off by the usual American conditions, money is not a very big concern to me beyond my (admittedly quite frugal) standard of living. Time is a far, far, far more important resource, and wo
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   by gordaco 13y ago

   Absolutely agree. I'm in a kind of death march of my own, since my exams start tomorrow and yet I haven't asked for days on my full time job (as a software engineer, i.e., a completely brain-oriented job). For the last 15 days I&#
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   by gordaco 13y ago

   We wouldn't see ad blockers as a solution if ads hadn't become a problem. As obvious as it seems for the users, advertisers don't seem to grasp it. Anything flashy and/or moving is BAD. Anything with actual javascript co
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   by gordaco 13y ago

   I've likened "post-vacation blues" to Drapetomania ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drapetomania ) since I knew about the latter.
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   by gordaco 13y ago

   This misses a very important distinction: low-level against high-level. CLIs, especially *NIX shells, usually offer low-level operations and let you combine them as you please. GUIs, on the other hand, offer higher-level operations, which i
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   by gordaco 13y ago

   Another question: what happens to a brain that stores so many years of memories? If there are serious complications, and I'm pretty sure that there are, chances are that they're going to be next to impossible to solve, unless some
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   by gordaco 13y ago

   Maybe I'm being too dramatic, but I see the concept of "cultural fit" as highly toxic and counterproductive, and that's without taking into account that (IMHO) it reflects some kind of fear and insecurity on those who
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   by gordaco 13y ago

   I wouldn't like to sound too harsh, but honestly, it seems like the author doesn't have any idea about what LaTeX can do, or what is it used for. Many of us would prefer LaTeX over HTML for almost any kind of document, without hes
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   by gordaco 13y ago

   I already have the games on physical format, but there's no downside to having digital copies of them, for free and legally :). These random things are what make me love GOG (I have like 50-60 games there, and counting); I'd rathe
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    16 cities, 16*12=192. The first, 18th and 19th slides did not refer to any city.
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    As anecdotic and not rigorous this is, I fully expected Madrid (or any Spanish city) to be one of the last :(.
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    I used to put C/C++ in my curriculum until I realized that my C++ code was getting a lot less "C-like" each year. Now I put it separatedly, which also allows for a nice explanation whenever I'm asked about it in a job in
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    That misquote reminds me so much of Stroustrup's C++ (mis?)quote, and the cynical man inside me tells me that it's just that everything getting widespread use shows its dark side. Sometimes that dark side is more conspicuous and
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    The job posting looks an awful lot like the usual videogame programmer job: it's bound to attract some people just because of the nature of the job, so they don't bother adding good money or perks. In this case it's a little
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    One of the most prominent examples can be found in Mother Teresa of Calcuta, who had some disturbing ideas about suffering. To the point of denying painkillers to terminal patients.
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    I think you underestimate the benefit of collaboration, which would hinder the apparition of "sheep-eating sheeps". There lies the benefit of morality.
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    I can't speak for them, but don't underestimate the reasons people may have for staying in their country, and don't overestimate their appreciation for money. I make about the mean income in my country (which is quite a few k
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    Have you been to Andalusia? We speak quite fast even for Spanish standards :).
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    Written Romanian looks a little intimidating because of the amount of diacritics, but what I've heard sounds surprisingly similar to Italian.
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    As a Spaniard that has visited Italy, I can attest that they definitely understand us and we understand them, at least for the basics. However, there are interesting differences, like the way we pluralize words (quite different in both lang
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    I'm another long-time winamp user. I got stuck on 2.91, never needed to update since it worked perfectly. The biggest reason why I never switched to another player (aside from all of them having zero features that interested me) is tha
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    What is that 3 years imprisoment going to achieve for society? Which is the crime? Who's the victim?
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    Another way the new comments are broken: whenever you find one of those comments "in reply to [user]", if you click on the message, you're not shown the replied comment like you would have before the changes. Instead, a new
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    So, the idea is making remote work so unappealing that employees reject it actively?
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    I would add that a lot of employers (and I suppose that also VCs, but I haven't had the experience first hand) love to try to make you think you're Batman, in order to trick you into long hours.
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    F, H, J, L, M, N, Ñ, R, S, V, W, X, Y, Z (and Y is also i griega here). Those are the letters whose name has more than one syllable: more than half of them. In particular, W has four syllables (U-ve do-ble). So please stop whining, Engl
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    While I agree that mathematicall ability can very much improve with time and hard work, I still think that there are "math people". However, it's largely a matter of interest, not ability. I know my case: I'm not a bri
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    Reminds me of certain TV network from my country airing alarmist "news" circa 2005, about how people who spent more time in the internet also spent... less time watching TV! How dare they!
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    > You rarely have the need to buy a whole new box. This is the number one reason why I love the PC above any other kind of computing machine. Need more disk space? Sure, go get a new disk, you may not even need to remove any of the other
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    by gordaco 13y ago

    Right. Siesta on working days? I don't think I've ever meet anyone whose job allows it, except teachers.