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by gregjor 2y ago
Not experiencing any stress due to work. What do you mean? Too much work? You don't like the work environment? Worried about layoffs or AI? Stress describes how a person reacts to a situation. Stress does not describe a property of a j
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by gregjor 2y ago
The example they gave -- an employee who "secretly" went to California for a while -- seems to fit the definition of "transitory." From the horse's mouth, the California Franchise Tax Board web site: > Who Are Re
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by gregjor 2y ago
> :... going balls to the wall for autonomy is a blindingly obvious move. Everything else is like variations on a horse carriage." Yes, obvious, he's said that for years now. I get the horse analogy, but I also know that horses
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have not encountered difficulties with timestamps, because every programming language and every relational database already has tools to convert a Unix timestamp to a display date in a given timezone. A timestamp is defined as the number
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by gregjor 2y ago
No one "is a bad programmer." Programmers have a wide range of skills, talent, and experience. You can only think of yourself as "bad" by comparing yourself to other programmers, or honestly assessing that you repeatedly
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by gregjor 2y ago
If your US employer tries to foist the nonsense M-B on you, refuse and tell them it’s an ADA violation. That should stop them in their tracks. You don’t need to explain or provide evidence of your mental illness or disability.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Selling bookings on trips to space, when the vehicle isn’t built and tests have all failed. Before you write “Starship” note that only a hollow shell got launched so far and failed to successfully re-enter. No life support, no emergency sys
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by gregjor 2y ago
We grow up. Or use ketamine.
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by gregjor 2y ago
How many unsuccessful “indie hackers” read those same books? Can you expand your idea to include what the successful indie hackers wear, what they eat, what time they wake up, what skin care products they use? I want to emulate them as care
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by gregjor 2y ago
The grift just never stops with Musk.
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by gregjor 2y ago
I will go against the grain and say I'm not worried about IDEs, or my job as a programmer. If so-called AI in its current state, extrapolated into the next few years, can do a significant part of your job as well as or better than you
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by gregjor 2y ago
Knock yourself out.
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by gregjor 2y ago
We can only track impacts on the earth if we witness them or find evidence. The majority of objects that get through the earth's atmosphere without burning up will impact in the ocean, which covers 70% of the surface, and leave no tr
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by gregjor 2y ago
We probably can't know the rate of impacts, or the sizes of the objects that impacted the moon. Assuming the moon had no impact craters at some point and then accumulated them, the missing piece of data needed turns out to be: how old
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by gregjor 2y ago
The weakness you refer to comes down to mistaking psychopathic behavior for leadership, imagination, genius, creativity. By the time the psychopath shows himself for what he is he has too often gathered a following, gotten rich by fleecing
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by gregjor 2y ago
> Analysts have long suspected that Tesla's considerable valuation vastly exceeded its actual worth. Perhaps the same analysts have long suspected that the moon orbits the earth. Musk has run Tesla as a pump 'n' dump and p
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by gregjor 2y ago
I would use one of the many CRM systems already available, and adapt my business to it. Getting sidetracked with custom software development when that's not the core business and source of revenue is high risk and low payoff.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Estonia has more than one airport, there's no "the airport in Estonia." The article refers to one airline, Finnair, suspending flights to Tartu, not all of Estonia. Apparently only Finnair connects Tartu to Helsinki. Relevant
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by gregjor 2y ago
Great idea and site looks really good.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not to crap on your idea, but convenience apps like this seem to mainly allow people not to simply ask. In my six decades I have learned both where I might find a toilet (Target, Safeway, gas station) and how to ask people when I need help.
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by gregjor 3y ago
I leave blank. Not a requirement in the USA. Employers ask because of govt reporting requirements but can’t force you to answer or use that info to hire.
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by gregjor 3y ago
> Is this the fate of every programming language? No. Some last a long time: Fortran, COBOL, C, C++, Java, C#, PHP, SQL, etc. What doesn’t last is the hype and excitement once a language or tool becomes established and stable. Young prog
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by gregjor 3y ago
This defeats the reason for offering referral bonuses. Companies offer those bonuses so employees will refer people they know and can vouch for. If the company just wants to pay to get more candidates they can use recruiters. Referrals ha
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by gregjor 3y ago
Gee I guess I didn't need all of those years studying military history at university after all. Thanks for the crash course. The last declared war the USA participated in was WWII. I'll count most of the many conflicts the US mi
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by gregjor 3y ago
Has the US won a war since 1945?
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by gregjor 3y ago
Yes. You get what you pay for. ChatGPT et al just waste my time. I don't need hundreds more lines of code. I need thinking and learning and solutions to business problems. The costs of AI code generation go much higher than $20 because
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by gregjor 3y ago
No, because a broad and vague set of self-reported symptoms can't "become" anything, or act at all. Psychologists and psychiatrists seem to over-diagnose all kinds of disorders, because they profit from dispensing medications
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by gregjor 3y ago
Meh. I would prefer hiring a junior programmer if I have to do that much review and mentoring. At least a real person would get the benefits rather than some tech giant that wants to take away jobs and profit from the work of others.
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by gregjor 3y ago
Do you have an actual question? Or any evidence that "most people" disagree, or "most people" don't welcome new ideas? Posts about Dropbox from 2007? Telling readers to shut up and "make something" begs th
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by gregjor 3y ago
Any decent accounting system can generate invoices and track receivables. Typically an invoice has payment terms: net 30, net 60, etc. The date of the invoice plus the grace days (e.g. 30 for net 30) gives a due date. Many companies work on

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