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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
Great observation. I'd really like to hope it's satire. >You eliminate homelessness in the United States. Every person living in the US now has the guarantee of a roof over their head. >This costs you $20 billion, or a trivi
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
I decided to "pay off personal taxes" >Here's where we get into the dicey business of what "personal worth" is, and how that translates to taxable income. >Answer: It usually doesn't, because rich people
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
Pretty much. The FIRE movement is very popular, even in other developing countries like India. Very few people want to work a 9-5 for the majority of their lives. The idea about this being defiancy in China is the only real difference, I gu
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
Taking a step back, do we really _need_ to check news every day? I read The Economist which is weekly, and I haven't felt like I'm uninformed much.
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
If you open-sourced code and allowed it to be used for commercial purposes, I don't see the point of being pissy about Github using it, I'm saying this as someone who's written quite a lot of MIT code. (And charging for a pro
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
He has charges against him for trying to find oxygen for his sick grandfather. What part of that does not involve the guy getting screwed? Also, instead of criticizing the source, criticize the content.
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by iliekcomputers 5y ago
From the HN Guidelines >Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. This type of tone only reduces the
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
The solution is to read more curated better quality stuff. There are more quality books written in the last 100 years than you'll ever finish. There are high quality magazines like Lapham's Quarterly. Even weekly magazines like Th
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Notetaking for Fun and Profit(param.codes)
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Nice work, really interesting blog post! On a sidenote, git itself can also get painfully slow with large monorepos. Hope GitHub can push some changes there as well. I know FB moved off git to mercurial because of performance issues.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
>If people are available for mentoring please let me know. I would be really grateful to learn from you guys. I work on listenbrainz.org [0] by the MetaBrainz Foundation [1]. We use Python, React, Spark and a bunch of other stuff. I&#x27
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Google Summer of Code literally changed my life. It was my first foray into actual work on large code bases, at a point of time when no company was ready to hire me. I can imagine a world without Google Summer of Code and it's not one
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
>After the acquisition, we have an extremely long project that consumed many of our best engineers to align our data retention policies and tools to Google. I am not saying this is not important BUT this had zero value to our users. If i
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Glad that you like it! I'm part of the (small) team working on ListenBrainz. If you have any feedback or feature requests, I'd be happy to hear it. My email is me [at] param.codes.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
My project is funnel: https://funnel.fyi I'm trying to build something that helps people organise their job search better with better stats and insights. Right now, we have a kanban board for all your job applications and a
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I understand and accept the comment. What I was trying to point out, and maybe didn't point out well enough, was that China and India have different systems, values and expectations, meaning that businesses expecting a like for like re
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I was not virtue signaling, what I meant to say was that both countries have completely different philosophies and values, which will lead to different costs for businesses.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Yes, that is what a democratic country is supposed to be like. Workers have the right to protest. China's policies of suppression won't work in any place where people have more freedom. In the end, companies will need to eat the i
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Do people take stuff out of their perf reviews and put them into the resume sometimes? I imagine most perf reviews are fairly focused on numbers as well, curious if there's an overlap of content that could go on a resume as well, my in
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
That makes sense!
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
So it becomes an interview of diplomacy essentially. Not really sure if that's ideal. I could see many false negatives of people who are technically strong, uncomfortable with their employer's ethics but still avoiding the topic s
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Not sure if it's reasonable to expect people to badmouth their current employer in an interview, especially when you don't know the result of the interview.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
This guy is a billionaire, I'm spending my time on the wrong things it seems
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Turns out trying to pay people 1-2 usd per hour for creative work leads to said people not caring about the quality of the work.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
The government is a huge organization capable of prioritizing multiple workstreams.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I would have expected them to postpone for sure, given COVID. Does anyone have any ideas on why they didn't postpone? Could it just be them expecting that it'll get much worse?
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
It's definitely not news media. I don't think it exists. :)
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
In my experience, no subreddit on reddit is (or can remain) an unbiased neutral source of information about politics. Either subscribe to a bunch of them, one for each world view, or just classify reddit as a flawed news source and move on
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
For all the shit that the desktop web experience gets, the mobile web experience on reddit is a 1000 times worse. It sometimes blocks you from viewing certain ( cough NSFW cough ) subreddits unless you use the app, umm what??
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Yeah, we need to fix that landing page. It's basically an open repository of your music listening history.

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