irpapakons

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by irpapakons 5y ago
One thing I was shocked to realise is that breast cancer affects 1 in 7 (14%) of women worldwide. That's so high.
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by irpapakons 5y ago
Yep. I wanted a job writing haskell. Got a job writing haskell. It was one of the worst jobs I ever hard (for non-haskell reasons). Team dynamics, culture, how good is a manager, how overengineered is a code base, how easy it is to feel val
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by irpapakons 5y ago
Sten is that you? Hi.
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by irpapakons 6y ago
I'm reading this article while waiting for one of the two people with write access to run my db migration, as developers don't get write access to the database in this company. Is this common?
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by irpapakons 7y ago
I don't know, as someone who grew up in a dysfunctional family, I feel like if your parents are not good parents you're basically screwed. You just have to wait until you're grown up and make that tech salary to pay your ther
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by irpapakons 7y ago
Hello, I'd like to ask how flexible are the working conditions? For example if someone were to have a bad night of sleep could they start later, take a break to go to the gym for a couple of hours, continue after that? Or is it like so
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by irpapakons 7y ago
The UK has no property taxes while it has high income taxes therefore increasing the inequality.
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by irpapakons 8y ago
Doing an undergraduate degree is not being in "physics academia". The author transitioned from graduation to getting a job. But good post regardless.
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Moving from overwhelm to a great new job(generalabstractnonsense.com)
1 points by irpapakons 8y ago|0 comments
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by irpapakons 8y ago
I am skeptical of people who make such statements. If he deeply regrets it, what exactly would he expect his children would do to improve his life? It's not the children's job to save the parents from their emotional loneliness an
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by irpapakons 9y ago
related podcast episode: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/115-bitcoin-hunter/
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by irpapakons 9y ago
The unadjusted paygap is still caused by sexism.
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by irpapakons 9y ago
Yes, there is both an adjusted and unadjusted gender pay gap.
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Cat person – a story about dating as a young woman(newyorker.com)
2 points by irpapakons 9y ago|0 comments
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by irpapakons 9y ago
How does the scoring work? Is it dependent on speed? Are you penalised for incorrect attempts? What time / timezone are the problems released?
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by irpapakons 9y ago
I had the same happen to me when I moved countries, but I kind of understand it too as there is a whole industry of stealing and selling WoW accounts for a lot of money.
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by irpapakons 9y ago
I have switched to using black cabs with Gett, I find it a much better experience. I like knowing what to expect, lots of space, the drivers are professionals and there's no pressure to chat. For me that's a good thing, I prefer t
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by irpapakons 9y ago
Ok, I know I might be relatively lucky, but just to provide a different anecdote: I spend 34% of my take-home income to live in a big studio in a leafy neighbourhood with Edwardian houses, 35 minutes from work door to door taking the tube,
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by irpapakons 9y ago
We know very little about what the Brexit agreement will look like. As long as high paying jobs exist, nothing stops highly skilled European people from continuing to get them, even if that involves a bit more bureaucracy.
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by irpapakons 9y ago
I was recently effectively forced to compost, when my council changed the rubbish collections to only once every 2 weeks, while the recycling and compost collections occur weekly. This meant that if I didn't compost, I'd have smel
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by irpapakons 9y ago
There is no evidence of lowering the bar. Companies like Google aim to cast a wider net at candidates, the bar stays the same. On the contrary, there is evidence of bias against women, which logically means that the bar is lower for men by
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by irpapakons 9y ago
It's ethically dubious that the advertised function of the app is a VPN to "keep you and your data safe", while the reason it exists is so that all phone traffic goes to Facebook. This is not clear from the app description --
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Creativity and fear(generalabstractnonsense.com)
3 points by irpapakons 9y ago|0 comments
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by irpapakons 9y ago
I try to write anything complex, easy to be forgotten and relevant to the project at an official place like a shared functional spec document, a wiki or edited into a jira ticket. For my own day-to-day todo list I use workflowy. These are t
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by irpapakons 9y ago
I agree my reply was not helpful, but there was a point I was trying to make: Sometimes people who are keen to defend harassers might do so because they exhibit similar behaviours themselves or hold similar beliefs and want to defend themse
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by irpapakons 9y ago
You seem very passionate about defending alleged harassers. I just wonder what fuels that. Perhaps you think these events are not that bad, or some degree of inappropriate behaviour is ok?
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by irpapakons 9y ago
What makes you think that the women liked him, or that he thought they liked him? They were pitching to him, that's a business transaction. He himself said he leveraged a position of power in exchange for sexual gain, and the linked ar
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by irpapakons 9y ago
At more than $200 a night you can spend a whole year at a spa. What do the prisoners get for that money? The daily cost for food seems to be about $2 and they live in overcrowded cells. Sounds like a very profitable business for someone.
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by irpapakons 9y ago
Are you denying that there are issues at tech workplaces that affect women more than non-minority members? You have a point that a sexist toxic environment might be unpleasant for the white men who work there too, but it obviously affects t
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Writing a soak tester in go(generalabstractnonsense.com)
2 points by irpapakons 9y ago|0 comments

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