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by hamstercat 9y ago
Next time you're forced to deal with JavaScript, try out TypeScript. It's a subjective subject, but it's pretty fun to use and it compiles down to JavaScript. There are a lot of tools around this ecosystem, but as for anythin
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by hamstercat 9y ago
Most people I know have one, and are not looking at updating ever until it breaks. For browsing/email/facebook, you don't need the latest one. Even the iPad 2 is enough to do those tasks. I feel there's much less urgency
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by hamstercat 9y ago
The biggest difference I see is looking at your phone while crossing the street is dangerous for your life. Looking at your phone while driving is dangerous for everyone else's life.
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From my point of view, seeing through bullshit is not about being intelligent, but rather having experience. After you have lived through different situations, some of them shitty, I believe you can get better at identifying them from the g
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by hamstercat 9y ago
This is purely an anecdote, but in my city it's hard to cross a road as a pedestrian even when there's a stop or a priority light for pedestrians. I've been honked and yelled at for "not crossing fast enough" or wha
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by hamstercat 9y ago
IMO, finding a job you like is so much about finding a place where you'll be able to tolerate the bad sides. Negative reviews are the best places to find that. It's a fact of life that there are no perfect jobs, and the difference
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by hamstercat 9y ago
It's great to see Dreamhost standing up for the right of their customer's website visitors. They don't have any financial incentive, but they still made it right. Makes me feel secure to know where they'd be ready to go
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by hamstercat 9y ago
You can either change your job, or you can change job. There are no perfect jobs, so you have to find one where you'll be able to live with the downsides. Is having no career progression a downside you can live with or not? How about h
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Uber says it will halt operations next month if Quebec stands by new rules(beta.theglobeandmail.com)
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I don't think having a big house or a yard trumps having more time with your parents (as a child).
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by hamstercat 9y ago
In a previous job, my team was responsible (among other things) of the company's newsletter. Nothing great but nothing spammy either, and we made sure to follow anti-spam law by having the newsletter subscription being opt-in and havin
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I'd be interested to know what 3 times more mean. If your chance of brain damage is 0.5% normally and jumps to 1.5% with moderate drinking, that isn't too bad. If it jumps to 10% to 30% that's another story.
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I'm really excited about String enums. I've been avoiding enums in TypeScript until now, since every time I've wanted to use them, I realized that a literal union was easier to use when the times come to log or persist the va
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by hamstercat 9y ago
My boring answer: none directly, though an index fund I invest in has a small share of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook. I already work in tech, both at my main and side jobs, so not being too invested in tech seems wise even i
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Indeed you couldn't. Technically you still can't, but now you can buy a game token with cash and then sell that to other players on the auction house for gold.
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by hamstercat 9y ago
I don't have the source, but I've read that the amount of Chinese money in Vancouver's real estate is usually blown out of proportion. The latest number released by the province I've seen suggests that foreign investment
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It's definitely a choice and I wasn't implying it's a bad one. Everyone has different priorities, like you said it could be kids or something else. All I'm saying is that it's those choices that make urban sprawl a
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There are many factors, but IMO it has a lot to do with urban sprawl. I'd never consider living somewhere where I'd have to own a car to be able to do my groceries and to go work. In the same idea, I'd never take a job that r
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by hamstercat 9y ago
Find local hackathons in your city. In mine I can find some on http://meetup.com . That way you get together with strangers, work on something for a day or a weekend or whatever, and there's no pressure after that. You'
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by hamstercat 9y ago
Not following/having a proper exit procedure for employees with a lot of access is being negligent. Wiping servers of your ex-employer out of spite is criminal (and being pretty bad at that whole being a human thing).
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My only advice is don't go overboard with it, but keep sticking to your plan. Spending more money doesn't automatically bring you more happiness, even if a large part of society makes it seem so. Buying a new car seems fun, and it
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by hamstercat 9y ago
It's hard to not sound fake when your main announcement is about adding a Toy Story watchface to a watch.
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Some countries with public health care disallows private medicine practice. Where I live health care is neither the worst nor the best in the world. If you're dying then you'll be taken cared of with low out of pocket expenses (mo
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by hamstercat 9y ago
Is there no way to buy/sell a house without a realtor in the US? Here in Canada we have a couple of companies that charge a flat fee (from a couple hundred to a couple thousands depending on what you choose) in exchange of professional
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The biggest ad company in the world gets to decide what is and isn't acceptable for an ad and actively censor it in the most popular browser in the world? It's funny how some things turn out in the long run. I don't see the s
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It's pretty fun to use in React/React Native. Can't talk about Flow since I haven't tried it, but TypeScript definitely beats out plain JavaScript. What I like best is that it doesn't forces you to write your code d
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That's one way of doing it, but there's no one-size-fit-all solution. Some do what you said and just stop spending anything. Not everyone retires either, it's just that they do work they like because they can afford it rather
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It's pretty popular in the Financial Independence crowd, where the goal is to get enough money to be able to live on interest alone. It's not for the extremely wealthy, rather the somewhat high-income middle class. You can even ma
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I don't understand how a financial company can charge an arbitrary amount (of their choosing) if the fund is doing well. How can anyone trust them to not take an absurd amount if the advisor is crooked? I guess if every financial busin
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It's funny, because the reverse issue exists within Quebec. I can't say how much better (or worse) it got recently recently, but I know that 15 years ago English classes in primary and high school were very, very underwhelming. I&

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