istjohn

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by istjohn 7y ago
>> And one side piece of advice - your blog posts, open source contributions, speaking engagements.... those all are commendable. But mean little when it comes to hiring you. This may very well be true. But I will say, as someone look
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by istjohn 7y ago
I was told I needed to polish up on some data structures and algorithms topics, which of course I knew already after the interview. More helpful was the feedback I got on the coding portion of the test. I was told I appeared to lack familia
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by istjohn 7y ago
I (practice) interviewed with TripleByte a few months ago, and no, the interviewer was not particularly warm. But on the bright side, it was quite clear they are not evaluating you on your small talk skills. The feedback I got was quite use
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by istjohn 7y ago
Ultimately, yes, I went to an independent lab that quoted me a price over the phone on the spot.
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Thing is, this was self-pay for a single routine lab test. It's the simplest possible scenario.
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by istjohn 7y ago
I spent 45 minutes at the hospital where I was to get a lab test done, trying to get a quote for said test. Prescribing doctor didn't know the cost. Lab tech didn't know. Billing department told me I needed a procedure code. Lab t
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by istjohn 7y ago
This exists: commoncrawl.org
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by istjohn 7y ago
The term for that is akrasia.
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by istjohn 7y ago
To state the obvious, in a democracy, politicians are elected, so the power they wield ultimately redounds to the citizenry.
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by istjohn 7y ago
It's simple. Fund healthcare, education, earned income tax credits, student loan forgiveness, early childhood education, green energy, carbon sequestration. Fund the IRS so the tax code is enforced for the wealthy as vigorously as it i
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by istjohn 7y ago
I believe our society would be healthier if there were only three or four orders of magnitude between the wealth of the richest and poorest households in our nation. Thus taxing billionaires is a Good Thing (TM) regardless of what the money
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by istjohn 7y ago
I think the generous interpretation of the explanation given by the parent who hates drunk driving is that they support rigorous enforcement of DUI laws, so since there is no dispute that the defendent had been drinking and was close if not
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by istjohn 7y ago
Your false dilemma posed no problem for Bush and Obama.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Everything is political.
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by istjohn 7y ago
That's nonsense. Philosophers will debate subtleties around morality until the end of time, but that shouldn't prevent us from taking a stand against evil when we see it.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Not OP, but I find myself attempting to tab-complete Fish commands all the time. It's just how I've been conditioned by every other auto-completion interface I've ever used.
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by istjohn 7y ago
I've been using and loving MessageEase [1] for several years now. There's a learning curve, but as much typing as I end up doing on my phone, the investment was well worth it. It's also hugely customizeable and makes coding m
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by istjohn 7y ago
Are there mail forwarding services that cater to people in your situation? Would you pay $10-$15 plus typical US-to-Australia shipping costs for this service? I guess I'm wondering if this is a business opportunity for someone to provi
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by istjohn 7y ago
Except you can't drive 500 miles per hour while you nap, so flying makes it much easier to rack up those miles.
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by istjohn 7y ago
They're trained to be that way because of the prevalence of guns on the street.
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Because you can't disarm police while every criminal has a gun.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Police wouldn't be so trigger happy if guns weren't so pervasive.
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by istjohn 7y ago
You're misguided if you think we can prevent the coming climate catastrophe without making any sacrifices. It's not technological solutions or make tough choices. It's both. Perhaps your path would work if we started down it
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by istjohn 7y ago
To understand a complex issue, you need quantitative and qualitative data. The anecdotes provide that qualitative data.
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by istjohn 7y ago
> The whole point of yoga is to have an integrative and harmonizing effect. This is yogababble.
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by istjohn 7y ago
In Python, by default you can use keyword arguments for any function parameter. And if you want, you can make arguments keyword-only: def copyFile(*, source, dest): ... Parameters after the asterisk cannot be specified by posit
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by istjohn 7y ago
Try archive.is
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On the other hand, top marginal tax rates are a fraction of what they were at their peak last century. We could double tax revenue at the drop of a hat, paying down our debt and ameliorating toxic wealth inequality simultaneously.
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by istjohn 7y ago
I have issues with Google properties on Firefox.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Will that line suffice in 100 years? In my opinion, that justification's sell-by date was a decade ago.

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