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by haspok 3y ago
This kind of thinking is exactly why I stopped asking questions on SO a long time ago. Because once you can construct the perfect question, you can most certainly answer it yourself. It should be OK for questions to be somewhat vague, to co
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by haspok 3y ago
Couldn't agree more: I used to cycle 15 mins to the train station, then take the train for 20 mins, then walk for another 10. Then I changed jobs and my commute turned to being 25 mins on the motorway. Which was shorter and more comfor
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by haspok 3y ago
Also noteworthy, the overhead wires usually zig-zag from left to right, so they touch different parts of the pantograph surface as the train moves.
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by haspok 3y ago
> When I learned Java as a first language You have my sympathies
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by haspok 3y ago
You forgot about backwards compatibility, which is very high on the Java features priority list. Things like "Make `==` use `equals`" will NEVER happen in Java. Many of you other points are also purely stylistic (eg. types before
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by haspok 3y ago
They should just remove the scoring. All complainers will do a score of 1, all cheerers will do 5. It is also the case that a company can be a perfect place for some, and a completely wrong place for another. And of course, this is true for
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by haspok 3y ago
> If cars drive themselves, you can let them out as Ubers when you don’t need to drive it. This does not require self driving btw, but a more important question is: would you really? Would you let strangers in your private car? Would you
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by haspok 3y ago
Another brand new language with curly braces and semicolons... emphasizing line noise over information /sigh OK, ok, I'll show myself out.
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by haspok 3y ago
> It will never ever occur to anybody in the company that a freelance software dev could possibly be put into a management role... If by "freelancer" you mean "contractor", then this statement is false. I had worked a
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by haspok 3y ago
> Even in the dense cities of Europe, public transportation << car transport. ...and then talks about buses. Buses? Ever heard of trains? Commuting by car sucks. You have to actively participate in traffic, as opposed to just sitti
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by haspok 3y ago
Another thing not to forget: you need not only water, but minerals with it (sodium, potassium, magnesium...). There was a time when I did not pay attention to this and fasted with water only - the result was very bad sleep and muscle cramps
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by haspok 3y ago
How do you eat olive oil, for example? Don't tell me you pour it in a glass and drink it :) Typically people eat it with raw vegetables (ie. as a salad), which is very taxing on a digestive tract that has just been cleared of gut bacte
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by haspok 3y ago
Vegan keto might be the worst to recommend after fasting, the best / easiest to digest are fats, so a quality broth to break the fast without breaking your digestive tract is what works for me. But I agree that after a multi-day fast k
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by haspok 3y ago
Surely you would think differently if you were working in a heavily regulated environment with hefty fines and even heftier publicity stakes. It would be crazy if these restrictions were not in place. Nobody will care about your average web
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by haspok 3y ago
If you are using hardware provided by the firm, you ARE on the VPN. If not, network is blocked (as are all private hardware items like pen drives, for obvious reasons).
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by haspok 3y ago
Very common in these circles (banking), and in most places it is even forbidden to log in to your private accounts from a company network. The popular options (eg. gmail, social media) are obviously blocked. This makes sense on multiple lev
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by haspok 3y ago
Some people do like coding until retirement and are / were quite happy about it. (Recommended reading is thecodist.com - who recently started blogging again!)
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by haspok 3y ago
No, it sounds more like you are being served your burrito with a cocktail, even though you are trying to quit cold turkey. On another note, I find it highly offending that somebody tries to shove something down my throat, even though I expl
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by haspok 3y ago
Sorry mate, we can argue about who is really missing the point here :) The one month gap in your resume nobody cares about. Seriously, don't be so insecure! How do I know this - I just had a massive 8 months gap in mine, and still mana
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by haspok 3y ago
Yes, it is fair to fire you for _any reason_ during the probation period (ok, maybe not for your ethnicity or religious reasons etc - but this is not what has happened here). It is also fair for you to leave on a short notice during the pro
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by haspok 3y ago
> indexes starting at... "I don't understand the word 'index'". - a functional programmer
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by haspok 3y ago
I respectfully disagree. The mental model of writing assembly code and C code are very close - you can write the best C code if you think about how you would translate it to CPU instructions in your head. As a matter of fact, you said it yo
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by haspok 3y ago
What would be the point? For example, what would you gain by having a C compiler that compiled to bytecode? It would be amazingly low level (C is just an assembler with macros) yet amazingly non-performant. And of course you'd need to
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by haspok 3y ago
It's called Conway's law.
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by haspok 4y ago
I love the comparison to music auditions, and I mostly agree with the advice. I would still require the candidate however to write some code. Something rather simple, not leetcode, ok, not fizzbuzz either, and something that proves their fa
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by haspok 4y ago
> Both are full of reflection. That's how it keeps being very generic at its core. Reflection is not a feature, but a kludge - to conceal how non-expressive the core language is. Add annotations to that, and you might start asking y
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by haspok 4y ago
Fun fact: JDBC was one of the (if not the most important) blocking APIs that people tried to convert or redesign / reimplement as async, and failed miserably. Now, with the advent of virtual threads this should no longer be a problem!
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by haspok 4y ago
Why do you belittle yourself so much? Maybe there is more paperwork if they let you go on the first day (but for the HR people it is just doing their job - to do that paperwork!), but I don't think so. It is also very common to have a
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by haspok 4y ago
I'm not sure which part of the world you are in, but for example in Europe it is common to have 1 month as a minimum notice period, and not uncommon to have 3 or even 6 months (this latter usually if you stay at a company for a long ti
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by haspok 4y ago
I think what you're missing is that Tesla is trying to make money, because it is a for-profit company. Anything else beyond this - saving the planet, humanity, etc. - is just the BS to get you buy their stuff.

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