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by growlist 6y ago
snopes? Really?
212.
by growlist 6y ago
Or, a person is being unfairly passed over for opportunities for any number of reasons outside their control. Bad companies do exist, and not everyone has their pick of jobs.
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by growlist 6y ago
But there's also a tendency I've noticed of American female writers to pepper their writing with expletives, as if this makes them come across as tough, when for me it achieves the exact opposite.
214.
by growlist 6y ago
If the writing were good enough to stand on its own merits, the attention seeking title wouldn't be necessary.
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by growlist 6y ago
or, the people playing the game and the rules of the game are so utterly moronic and worthless that it defies belief, e.g., celebrity culture.
216.
by growlist 6y ago
The last thing many managers want is a flourishing remote workforce because it highlights said managers' superfluousness.
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by growlist 6y ago
Why so hostile?
218.
by growlist 6y ago
Speedy client-side coordinate conversion in geospatial apps, thus avoiding the round-trip to the server.
219.
by growlist 6y ago
Within a few days of the lockdown I noticed how clear the air was (south coast UK). There's a hill 5 miles or so away with houses on the top that I can now make out individually, which wasn't the case before. Where are our (enviro
220.
by growlist 6y ago
This seems to clearly demonstrate that NASA's reason for existing is pork, with space an afterthought. Sad.
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by growlist 6y ago
Laughable nonsense, and especially glib when there are lives on the line due to the question of competence/lack of it. One thing I'm surprised not to have seen yet - as a MSc Geographic Information Science grad - is criticism of t
222.
by growlist 6y ago
Does <190k views over 10 days really count as going viral?
223.
by growlist 6y ago
I've found it helps to watch 'state of x in 2020' type videos to get a broad overview, and weekly email newsletters can help stay on top of a particular area. Apart from that the skill is in knowing what you need to know abou
224.
by growlist 6y ago
It would probably involve personal enrichment and lawsuits, judging by his record.
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by growlist 6y ago
I got one of these for a birthday when I was a kid: https://www.handheldmuseum.com/Grandstand/Jack.htm I played that thing for hours. The fact that it was solar powered and thus never needed batteries replacing was jus
226.
by growlist 6y ago
It would take a heart of stone not to smile at the thought of all those employers that stubbornly refused to contemplate WFH suddenly discovering that they had no other choice. My hope is this turns into a wider trend, and those that want t
227.
by growlist 6y ago
We had something like this at work recently - a meeting in which all the benefits we enjoy were reiterated to us as if they were industry leading; not a single one of them in reality being significantly different to comparable roles elsewhe
228.
by growlist 6y ago
A public official tweeting 'F*ck Elon Musk' is hardly responsible behaviour either.
229.
by growlist 6y ago
Thing is I was already reading some pretty bleak stuff at the time, e.g. Brave New World and 1984, and as you can probably imagine the trials of a mopey teenager didn't really impress much when put up against poor Winston and Room 101
230.
by growlist 6y ago
> It's life-changing for some, and garbage for others. I feel this way about Catcher in the Rye. My English teacher recommended it to me obviously on the basis that I was an angsty teenager that would identify with Holden Caulfield.
231.
by growlist 6y ago
When it comes to a choice between Musk's judgement versus elected officials, I'd suggest the former has a superior track record to the latter. Not to mention, any punishment will blow straight back at them when Musk then moves the
232.
by growlist 6y ago
Thanks! Next question is whether I need a new graphics card.
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by growlist 6y ago
Learn to touch-type properly. I'm not a shit hot typist or anything, but it does make hours on a keyboard more pleasant. And (hate me) I do judge other devs on it. If someone can't be bothered to invest a few tens of hours on such
234.
by growlist 6y ago
Would you mind sharing the model? I tried using my Hisense but it wouldn't work. And I've read that TVs won't always work properly as monitors, but then obviously there's a much wider and cheaper choice of TV panels than
235.
by growlist 6y ago
Hot off the presses
236.
by growlist 6y ago
Time to buy shares in makers of novel anticoagulants.
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by growlist 6y ago
> Give them the minimum to keep them happy and keep your job and focus the rest of your energy on something that will benefit you. In my experience this is the type of person in your team that - instead of consulting colleagues to arrang
238.
by growlist 6y ago
Perhaps the NHS should manufacture its own ambulances as well?
239.
by growlist 6y ago
No, not at all. Want to carry on?
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by growlist 6y ago
> A hiring manager therefore might take the polymath who knows programming over one of the thousands of applications they get every year from dime a dozen computer science graduates with great grades from a big school and some random cap

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