jedrek

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by jedrek 9y ago
I think it's amazing the way we've completely sidelined physical activity - not exercise per se, but any physical activity - in our western lives. Unless you live without a car, there is no requirement for you to walk more than 10
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by jedrek 9y ago
And yet all of that absolutely pales in comparison to the legacy advantage almost exclusively white US university students have at the top Ivy League schools. But sure, go chasing the race angle fed to you by the powers that be.
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by jedrek 9y ago
> I'm about twice as fast as the average cyclist A TDF winner then?
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by jedrek 9y ago
Weird how focused you are about being labeled 'sane' by people who don't use that label.
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by jedrek 9y ago
I did crazy stuff in my youth, I wrote code, I did nothing. I worked, I played, I wandered. I don't look back, I even lost the box of press clippings I had. I sometimes run into people from my previous interests and it's weird, be
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by jedrek 9y ago
Generally, I agree with bittermang: don't waste your youth on github. Live your youth, it's not "the greatest time of your life" like some people say, but it is a singularly unique time of socially accepted irresponsibil
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by jedrek 9y ago
The time and energy cost of being social rises massively as you grow older. It's hard to make close friends in your 30s, very hard in your 40s and older. Those early friendships and social contacts are extremely useful in later adultho
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by jedrek 9y ago
But where are the profits? Uber is already subsidizing rides, while cabs and cab companies have to turn profits. Trying to build loyalty with points just increases Uber's costs, as they can't push that off onto drivers. Retaining
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by jedrek 9y ago
It's interesting how so many people want government to be run like a business while hating it most when it runs like a business. Business is opaque, secretive, with no oversight and loyalty only to the bottom line. Well run government
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by jedrek 9y ago
The way adults say no to alcohol, cigarettes, sex, procrastination, and using their smartphones?
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by jedrek 9y ago
Are you serious? If you saw anybody under 42 they didn't do shit to fight against Communism, as they were 16 years old - TOPS - during the first free elections. Maybe they didn't seem happy because Eastern Europeans don't wal
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by jedrek 9y ago
I love how you throw around the term "qualified" as though it were set in stone. Like one person is obviously more qualified than the other, as though these people are 100m sprinters whose performance is measured within a fraction
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by jedrek 9y ago
Eating ramen noodles made home ownership more affordable for you.
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by jedrek 9y ago
Everybody has always cared about status and appearances, even if that appearance was the appearance of not caring about status.
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by jedrek 9y ago
I got my start with React doing a "React for people who know jQuery" thing that taught me how to structure a site, props, state. Almost 3 years later and almost all my personal work is in React.
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by jedrek 9y ago
Are they afraid that a new CEO will come in and actually demand the company start losing less money?
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by jedrek 9y ago
That is bullshit. At $20k a in Warsaw (75k PLN/year, 6250/month), your take home is about 5000. The absolutely cheapest houses, run down shitholes from the communist era with few windows and lots of stairs, cost at least 600k in t
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by jedrek 10y ago
Every time people make fun of luxury products I wonder what cars they're driving: 20 year old clunkers? What shirts they're wearing: $5 for a 10 pack off Ali Express? Burlap sacks? Are they typing on $5 cheap unbranded keyboards?
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by jedrek 10y ago
I installed Yosemite on a Mac Pro from 2009 and it ran like a champ, the only thing that was slow was video transcoding. Stop with the FUD.
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by jedrek 10y ago
> I've had less trouble with drivers than I had with Linux. My hackintosh (currently on my second one, it's a 2012 i5 machine) has less stability and driver issues than Windows 10 on the same hardware.
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by jedrek 10y ago
I've been to management seminars where they downplay the importance of money, saying that employees are mostly motivated by other factors. Then I talk to my co-workers, the ones that are quitting, and about half of them leave because t
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by jedrek 10y ago
In normal conversation, I'd be 100% sure this is sarcasm. On HN it's 50/50.
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by jedrek 10y ago
A lot of people call those prisons "dorms" and they say that prisoners live in better conditions than a lot of people outside of prison. And yet, they don't make the jump to the idea that maybe people shouldn't be living
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by jedrek 10y ago
The logical conclusion of a regulation-free system is of corporations large enough to destroy competition before it starts.
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by jedrek 10y ago
> freedom to contract is always a good thing Hardly. Freedom to contract would be a good thing if we could assume that the sides stand on more or less equal footing, which is almost unheard of in the case of corporations and people.
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by jedrek 10y ago
All the Polish IT jobs groups I'm on (iOS dev + JS mostly) require a salary range. If nothing else, it's useful to see where we need to be while hiring. Also, it's a legal requirement in Austria to post the salary.
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by jedrek 10y ago
To be fair, your watch can be replaced by a well crafted stick and dial combo.
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by jedrek 10y ago
So true. I'm sitting in an ad agency right now and I see at least half a dozen laptops and desktops abandoned on shelves.
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by jedrek 10y ago
How is decoding code words not substantive?
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by jedrek 10y ago
I think people have a massively idolized view of home appliances from the 1950s and 60s. Most men knew how to fix their appliances, because those appliances regularly broke. My grandfather lived til his death with the washing machine he bou

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