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by gregjor 2y ago
I think it refers to this: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeschool/comments/1i8utxu/intervi... All three of my kids (now adults) got schooled at home, then went on to college. More unschooling than homeschoo
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by gregjor 2y ago
I can't comment any more than I have on the situation the OP describes, but you raise a couple of good points in your reply. Companies hiring interns as PR stunts and low-cost labor for menial tasks, or just throwing them in the deep e
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by gregjor 2y ago
Either put the effort into mentoring the intern, or fire them. You wrote that you "hired" the intern but didn't mention if that means a paid internship or not. If you don't pay the person, or pay them very little, you sh
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by gregjor 2y ago
How do you propose “retiring” programming languages? People still write code in Fortran and COBOL. No oversight body exists to approve or retire languages. Either they get traction and eventually grow a lot of code to maintain, or they don’
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by gregjor 2y ago
I did state that people working without a work permit in a foreign country may violate the terms of their visa, or other laws, by doing so. As a practical matter each person has to weigh the risks and consequences. An employer that knowin
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by gregjor 2y ago
As someone in charge of cloud infrastructure I would look at your claims with a lot of skepticism. Very unlikely a single script will apply to the infinite variations in cloud infrastructure, and the business requirements and organizational
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by gregjor 2y ago
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by gregjor 2y ago
Users can put placeholders in the query (e.g. :student_id, :year) and then get prompted for those when they run the query. Results page supports filtering and sorting, and saving to CSV/Excel. This wasn't intended as an end-user t
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by gregjor 2y ago
iPad Pro M4 with magic keyboard, main/only work laptop. Have felt satisfied with iPads for a few years despite some annoyances in the evolving UI. Topo Design 30L travel backpack. I travel constantly and live out of this pack. Timbuk2
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by gregjor 2y ago
No direct access, but we have a custom report builder tool in the (internal) web app that lets users write SQL queries (SELECT only) against a read-only replica of the production database. They can name and save those, even put them in thei
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by gregjor 2y ago
Many people feel the way you describe. You can find all kinds of support groups for people who feel burdened by debt. I went through the same thing -- mortgage I couldn't afford, kids, credit cards, car loans. I remember feeling crushe
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by gregjor 2y ago
“Annoying” describes an emotional reaction to a pull request, not a property of a PR. Rather than blaming PRs, think about why you get annoyed. What part of dealing with PRs frustrates you? I would bet that many companies would like to sell
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by gregjor 2y ago
Who hasn’t admitted this already, either outright or by their actions? Going back to the industrial revolution the people who control capital and production have openly sought to replace human labor with automation. Nothing new, just that t
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by gregjor 2y ago
Thank you, MSN, for the digest of self-serving public relations fluff from Meta et al. This typifies the ingrained credulity and lack of critical thinking in service of corporate advertisers I have come to expect from the tech media. Will t
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by gregjor 2y ago
All of the LLMs that IDEs use belong to big companies that currently lose money on their service. You can expect price increases once you get locked in. Given the costs of running a useful LLM at scale, good luck finding one you can call de
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by gregjor 2y ago
What laws do you think he broke? The IRS doesn't care where you live or work from as long as you file and pay taxes. Working on a tourist visa or any visa without a work permit does violate the terms of the visa, but in practice no cou
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by gregjor 2y ago
You can find numerous subreddits with tips and "life hacks" like this, stuff your grandmother knew. Doesn't seem like HN material.
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by gregjor 2y ago
Hire a maid. My parents made their kids do chores to earn allowance. If you don't want to pay a maid and don't have kids to press into service, learn to relax and find satisfaction in cleaning up after yourself. No need to "o
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by gregjor 2y ago
I doubt it. Most people won't pay attention to the stated reasons behind the multiple Meta layoffs. Of those who do pay attention many will forget about the details in a couple of weeks. Anyone who pays close attention and cares in the
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by gregjor 2y ago
Comments, debate, indignant articles and analysis of Trump’s coin all over the news. Try sites with more political content. HN guidelines tell us to steer clear of politics. When you figure out how to investigate a scam perpetrated publicly
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by gregjor 2y ago
How do you get stuck for a week copy/pasting code from the front page of golang.org? This page looks like AI-generated low-quality content leading up to a bunch of ads. It rehashes the Go tutorial content with typos and mixed-up termin
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by gregjor 2y ago
We can all dream up improbable scenarios that will neuter reasonable planning and precautions. I travel full-time and work remotely, for over a decade. I have lost my phone once. Both Apple and Android phones sync passwords and ssh keys (if
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by gregjor 2y ago
Agree completely. I used to allow every programmer to set up their own dev environment. Inevitably we’d have things that worked for one person but not another, and low confidence in deploying to production. Eventually I forced everyone to w
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by gregjor 2y ago
Not at all. I expect "AI" and the people using it will create more work for me. Forty years programming, DBA, system admin. Trying to discuss ethics of big tech and the world of venture capital with a straight face seems pointless
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by gregjor 2y ago
Discussed with many responses on Reddit r/books and r/writing, to give just a couple of examples. Who can say what counts as important . That doesn't describe a quality of a book, but rather a cultural or personal judgment,
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by gregjor 2y ago
I use an iPad Pro exclusively for programming, have for a while now. But I use it as a mostly-dumb terminal. Blink shell for ssh/mosh, Github client and Working Copy for git, Textastic for editing locally offline. The Inspect browser f
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by gregjor 2y ago
I have preferred smaller companies for a long time, particularly those that make a profit and don’t have “growth at all costs” as their real mission statement. I’ve worked at some dysfunctional smaller companies too, but nothing like the bi
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by gregjor 2y ago
Superior for those under 25 or broke. Author forgot some features of hostels: - Sharing a small space with loud, rude, drunk, and smelly people. - Forced to hear other people’s music, videos, and phone conversations. - Shared toilets and sh
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by gregjor 2y ago
I would not think in terms of "correct," or even "permanent." As you note we all change over time. If we live with and share our lives with another person that will change both people in unpredictable ways. You want to p
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by gregjor 2y ago
What people? Have you read or listened to people “still thinking” this who don’t give a reason? Do you have some reasons people should not still think this? I have never needed containers or Kubernetes, but as a long-time DBA and programmer

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