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by jimmy1 8y ago
> "It's not doing more of what we are doing and it means if we've done things with technology, for example, that have gotten us into a bit of a pickle, doing more things with technology at the same level of thinking is pro
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And that's how your local newspaper serves you telephone numbers to ambulance chasers and medicare fraudsters.
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I really want to be generous here: I think your experience is very isolated. I have family that is executive level at a Wall Street bank, they would have you fired over the superfluous loss of a dollar, much less a few thousand dollars be
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I bought an Dell "gaming edition" laptop last year for about 700 bucks. It's my daily driver dual booted with Ubuntu, and Windows, and it handles any modern AAA game with 30+ fps or more. To me the PC Master Race meme started
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> I don't know, I just can't trust an ad format where I know the top click just spends the most money. Why? That's exactly how it works every where else: Radio, TV, Billboards. If two people want the same spot, the person
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> must be really telling something positive about this language and its community. It's because it's the new shiny thing. This basically used to be a ruby on rails post-it board, then C# for a while, then Java when Java 8 Stre
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> the right of others to be thrifty and efficient It would be much more thrifty and efficient if I could walk around naked and shit and piss where ever I want, because then I wouldn't have to buy clothes, clean them, or waste money
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And also so very, very muggy where I live. I would love to open the windows but If i kept my windows open that long I am pretty sure the condenser in my refrigerator would break down.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
It's immensely helpful. Stuck in a rut designing your type hierarchies and making sure they are perfectly SOLID? STOP. Write the simplest, most clear and concise thing that works, refactor it once it gets too big to fit in your head. N
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Even Solid, like OOP is one of those concepts that has morphed more into an ideology than it needs to be with blind faith adherents https://speakerdeck.com/tastapod/why-every-element-of-solid-... I'll take someone
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I don't know what to think either. Thinking about it at a higher level than this: Some days I really think people don't know how to live under a democracy. There just always seems to be this segment of the population that want to
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I fail to see the point here -- data centers suffer partially or entirely from each point you referenced
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I work in JavaScript on a regular basis, and I have grown to despise them because of their overuse when a simple if statement would have made the code much clearer.
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I have been recently writing a library in go to fill out AcroForms, and really, the PDF spec and syntax isn't really that bad or hard to understand. Most everything is a dictonary object. I've seen waaaay worse over-abused OOP mon
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Are you placing any bets? What are you putting it up against, the Euro? That's a bet I would love to take.
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by jimmy1 8y ago
I think you are being overly specific. When the average person says "I try to avoid chemicals" you know good and well what they are talking about. That issue is your perceived issue. The fact is chemicals can most certainly be bad
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by jimmy1 8y ago
The weariness against 'chemicals' is not FUD. Yes, a little trace amount of formaldehyde, benzene, ethanol and other VOCs isn't going to kill you, but it certainly has a cumulative effect on the body. You got a tiny amount i
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by jimmy1 8y ago
> The previous generation you're referring to is one that actively discriminated against women and people of color in the work force. Some part of the previous generation did that. Some, obviously, did not, just as some part of
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Dudebros was purposefully in quotes -- basically in reference to these days if you aren't a bleeding heart leftist and being actively engaged in being an ally, or other social justice cause (or at least give the facade that you are on
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Unpopular opinion: this is why the "dudebros" and their like keep getting hired. They are more than happy to do their work, accept their salary, and move on, and not have to turn everything into "changing the world"
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It's a great action flick to go see if you are bored on a Saturday night. It's a horrible Star Wars film.
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And that works in language -- its terrible when you are trying to make computers do very specific things in specific scenarios. It leads to hiring nightmares as well. "Oh I write language X in this style, not familiar with your sty
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by jimmy1 8y ago
Sounds like there should be a rule: If your camera isn't recording, you aren't on duty.
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I really don't see how C# is decent anymore, can someone change my mind? I was all about it in the 2010-2013 days, but over time it just became more bloated and bloated. It's the new C++, where it tries to be everything for everyo
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> allowing a tiny handful of rich philanthropists to decide Minus the Bill Gates of the world, which we can count on our hands, the vast majority of charity is not done by a "handful of rich philanthropists" but rather, normal
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I disagree that senior leadership is required, maybe indirectly, but not as direct as you suppose. The hard part is firing the right people. If you are going to fire someone, you better be absolutely right it's the cause of the bottlen
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> It still seems like a necessary reform however. Reforms have to be taken into the context of their overall impact towards greater good. If overall charity drops, then the reform is bad. If you cause the charities that are out there scr
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I trust that we all have a general vested interest in avoiding data breaches for sake of profits and public image. I do believe that we need a tad bit of regulation around data collection not because we are all shitheads that throw your dat
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> The passion/craftsman culture changed when we started selling our souls for the next ad-click or personal information collection system. I am really passionate about the information collection system I work on. I do my best to ens
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There are already laws surrounding workplace harassment.

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