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by jimmy1 8y ago
Placing emphasis on things is commonplace. Sometimes it's in the form of a literary device such as hyperbole and sometimes it's done typographically. You shouldn't read it as being "random" but accept it as part of
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Keep in mind you do get charged a "modem rental fee" or whatever, and in most cases its $10-20 dollars monthly. For you that might be worth it, for others who already feel like their ISP is a sham and charging way too much, it mig
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In America, the only solutions deemed virtuous or worthwhile are the ones that drive revenue and solve the problem in some form or fashion -- with many cases the scales tipped heavily in the drive revenue side and offering a minimally eff
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And if you have all the time in the world to play that out --great. If you have limited savings like the vast majority of Americans -- time is your enemy, and eventually rent will come due. The company can survive for months, years without
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This might sound silly -- especially to the HN audience -- but it's akin to the baptist church problem: one group doesn't like their senior pastor, so they take about half the congregation, go down the street, and say "we wil
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> Here's the other bottom line: A company wants to use your industry and creativity to make more money than it will give to you. You don't owe the company jack. shit. Unfortunately, unless the sides are favored to the labor mar
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And really, like other famous software that people love to heap shade w.r.t how awful it is focusing only on it's warts instead of the immense productivity realized as a result, git really does have some nice parts and it was the best
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I will admit, maybe I am reading too much into the convictions or intentions of the job boards -- but we all are human, so I can only assume this was created by someone who was tired of having to do whiteboards, and rather than confront the
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> Wow, what an incredibly tone deaf response. It's really not though. Here's the bottom line: You want money from a company. The company doesn't owe you jack . shit . If they fucking whiteboard, and you want money from t
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My apologies!
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> Get lost and have to stop/call for directions? Why is, it in these type of questions, people always immediately go to the worst case scenario to try and prove their point? What about the average case: people again learn to plan th
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What does that have to do with a nation violating an international accord to stop producing CFC emissions?
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source: good generics implementations Haskell: 100% All Other Languages: 0% source: flawed generics implementations Haskell: 0% All Other Languages: 100%
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You highlighted in this comparison why I hate exception handling in OOP languages, and just generally the common practices prescribed for handling errors.
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Having worked for both remote and "butts in seats" companies, allow me to refute your rebuttal > If your culture is already remote, or shifting towards it, then it's a non issue. What does this even mean? How is it a non i
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People who get compensated for it.
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Sounds like it may be due to Safari purposefully limiting the memory and processing resources available to a browser tab, no?
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Where is the disconnect I wonder? Your old iPad I am sure runs software that is many more times more complex, more lines of code, and more intense than the ad tracking software on a browser. Will web assembly help here?
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Massive backlash, claims of bias, lobbying and negative PR pieces, and more than likely regulations would then follow, putting at least a sizeable damper on their business and an unforeseen impact on future business. Companies with millions
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Actually, now that you mention it, forcing all of my employees to run for five miles every week would actually be amazing. I bet the impact to health would be profound. (given able physical condition, of course)
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Don't they use Google Cloud for ICloud storage?
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> Payday loans are extreme case because it’s the last option for a poor person. This is a false dilemma. There are many options before succumbing to a payday loan. Depending on where you live, there are a myriad of housing assistance, en
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I never thought I would miss the ESC key so much. As a bonus I guess I learned how to remap keys in almost every tool I use. :/
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> fight for privacy is futile See I always disagree with these sentiments. Again like everything in America it's about political action. Problem #1: Not enough people vote. You can break that down into, I see it, 3 buckets. 1. Peop
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> Friends car? Stereo in the summer vacation house? I regret finally "jumping ship" and getting an Iphone 8 plus soley because of this. I am experiencing the exact same thing with the f___king stupid MBP and needing to carry a
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by jimmy1 9y ago
I rarely bike because I don't trust drivers, and you can't bike on the sidewalk.
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We fear death and we overvalue productivity. This is a cycle for never-ending anxiety -- the itch to always do something. We value productivity almost to the point where it is considered virtuous. We look at someone who is productive and th
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And honestly, my courses at the community college were much tougher but also much more rewarding than at university. It was almost as if the community college professors had a chip on their shoulder and had to prove they were "real&q
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There are so many variables here I couldn't even begin to answer but I will take a stab and say A because that student is most likely fiscally responsible and proven they can juggle multiple responsibilities and still make progress tow
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With risk of being deemed survivorship bias, I went to a community college for the first 2 years in the US at a whopping $698 a semester, got my associates in science which transferred to a prominent a state college and counted for my Gen E

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