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by gregjor 2y ago
Mine takes just a few seconds. apt install vim.
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by gregjor 2y ago
A dartboard can do the " work" of stock market analysts.
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by gregjor 2y ago
We probably all know a Tesla owner or Musk believer. Maybe a flat-earther, someone who believes in "manifesting," someone devoutly religious. I have personal experience with several people who suffer from long-term delusions. I ma
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by gregjor 2y ago
I'll add that to the long list of broken promises and self-serving hype from Musk. I expect he and his cronies will work harder on tax avoidance. The IRS already started rolling out a free tax filing app a couple of years ago.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Four bad moments in five years? You should tell us your secret. All kinds of things can go wrong when programming. Sometimes you don't have control over them. Very often you can't reliably predict them. You get better at knowing y
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by gregjor 2y ago
Reminds me of the novel The Adversary by Emmanuel Carrère. I have worked with people who got away with this. One guy said he had some severe disorder that prevented him attending meetings or even talking directly to people for more than a
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by gregjor 2y ago
I see. I question the wisdom of using Python, Ruby, Perl etc. for system-level utilities in the first place but that train left the station a long time ago.
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Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old 'needrestart' flaw that gives root(bleepingcomputer.com)
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by gregjor 2y ago
Why does a critical utility like this need Python, Ruby, and Perl? Scripting languages intended for applications development, with their interpreters and libraries and dependencies, expand the attack surface beyond anyone's ability to
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by gregjor 2y ago
I believe that arrangement gets called hybrid work, or work from home (WFH). If you need or require people to work from an office together even one day a week that means they must live reasonably close to the office. That in turn limits
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by gregjor 2y ago
Limited in the sense that my contacts and their contacts etc. eventually reach some maximum. But getting jobs through connections works an order of magnitude better, at least, than filling out applications online. The main difference comes
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by gregjor 2y ago
Whatever my customer uses or wants to use, and will pay me to learn and use. Programmers who limit themselves to a preferred stack remind me of children who will only eat a few specific foods.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Have used for a while, anecdotally my wife reports I snore less with tape. On the other hand, CPAP machines double as effective birth control.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I learned to make it about people a long time ago. In 40+ years I have applied for jobs through ads maybe two times. Every other job I've had came through friends, former colleagues, word of mouth and referrals. I haven't updated
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by gregjor 2y ago
For people who worry so much about four more years of Trump that taking a four-year cruise seems like a good idea, look into long-term cruises to find out about an even worse way to spend that time.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Should get flagged as an ad. Good example of optimizing for the wrong thing. Making it easier to monitor and game a system you describe as flawed and broken just contributes to the arms race of modern online hiring. Anyone sending in hundre
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by gregjor 2y ago
Fairy tale pretending at secret history. The Holy Roman Empire dates to around 800 AD, when Charlemagne became the first Holy Roman Emperor. The Holy Roman Empire describes territory in modern France and Germany, not in Judea. Nothing to do
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by gregjor 2y ago
Doesn't mean anything. The Pentagon can't explain its own budget. I can't explain how bugs get into my condo on the 16th floor. That doesn't mean aliens drop them off.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Read the Wikipedia article for a start. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_job I think you have an erroneous model of how the job "market" works. Right now employers have the upper hand with tech jobs, at le
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by gregjor 2y ago
You should ask where to buy used GPUs, not "compute."
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by gregjor 2y ago
Employers generally prefer hiring internally first, then through word of mouth (referrals). Career coaches and people with experience job hunting will tell you to leverage everyone you know to get in front of the hiring manager. A good prof
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by gregjor 2y ago
Unlikely companies do anything with the applicants they get for these jobs other than log them in a database. Of the many reasons companies post jobs they don't intend to fill, careful A/B testing seems one of the least plausible.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Companies and the recruiters who work for them post ghost jobs for various reasons. You can find plenty of writing and discussion about it on HN, Reddit, YouTube, even mainstream media. Look at the Wikipedia entry for "ghost job."
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by gregjor 2y ago
I get the clickbait title, but “useless” doesn’t meaningfully describe a function that gets used a lot. I think you want to say “I don’t like printf.” Of course in your own code you can write whatever output formatting functions you like —
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by gregjor 2y ago
Aggressive un-subscribing and tagging as junk. GMail filters for the rest. Clearing my inbox every day by either replying, archiving, deleting, or transferring to a reminder, calendar event, issue, note, etc.
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by gregjor 2y ago
tl;dr No general rule. Competition for remote jobs higher than on-site jobs. Remote rules vary by company and job. Some jobs advertise remote ok. Some you can ask to do remotely. Some companies have hard rules for working on-site all of the
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by gregjor 2y ago
I used ed for actual work decades ago, on a VT-100. My first job. We all used it until we got vi on the DECSystem-20. When people look at ed now it seems unusable. Back in the old days we had a printed copy of the code, with line numbers. W
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by gregjor 2y ago
+1. Jumping into an unfamiliar code base with no docs and no access to the original developers offers a lucrative bottomless pit of work for a skilled freelancer. I made this my specialty a decade ago.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Agree that Tyson agreed to the fight and got a good payoff. I meant that it’s a really hollow victory for Jake Paul. As a senior myself a bit older than Iron Mike, a 27-year-old beating him up doesn’t impress me. Also no argument from me ab
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by gregjor 2y ago
> … most of them in Asia What? Crypto is either illegal (China, Indonesia) or highly restricted and regulated in the major Asian economies. India’s government is considered new restrictions. Russian law doesn’t allow accepting crypto for

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