jimmyvalmer

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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Never heard of them, but wasn't impressed by their credentials. Not going to be give much weight to a random system administrator and high school teacher. If RMS can be attacked for his prominence in computing, then I can similarly u
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
How about this: "Don't despair! If you lack aptitude, you can make up for it with time spent!"
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Your useful-information-to-words ratio is very low. Exceptions to US tax law fill entire bookshelves, we all know this.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
My sense was get the W-8 BEN from the foreign contractor, and you're relieved of all reporting and withholding. The burden is entirely on the contractor to his home country.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Summarized: "Math skill is proportional to time spent and aptitude." Verbosity is an existential threat.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Employee or contractor? Employee is always a pain. Contractor, on the other hand, seems like a home run for all parties. In the US, no tax reporting or withholding as long as the contractor does all the work remotely.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
There should also be questions about personal wellness and business ethics.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Ask yourself why billions are spent on celebrity endorsements. To first order, the opinion of a globally accomplished person matters more, if only as a convenient point of reference. You can argue "non-expert" all day, but the m
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
> macho white nerds two out of three a'int bad.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Too dumb for HN is an unachievable level of dumb. Many still try.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Sophomoric and far-fetched politicizing of a rubbish film.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Documentation becomes superfluous at the limit since eventually you'll have to read the code. With this in mind, I echo earlier sentiments of brevity, REPL-friendly examples, and empathy, but above all BREVITY since greater detail is e
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Verbosity stemming from a natural desire for recognition is a modern social phenomenon not exclusive to programmers. Nothing we read, whether the New Yorker, Stack Overflow, medium.com, or reddit, needs to be as long as it is. I'd say
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
I don't know why "lecture" exists anymore. Doing problem sets was painful, yes, but the only way to make things stick.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Seconded, but you'll have to solder swap FN and ALT. Above all, don't spend more than $50 on a keyboard, ffs.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
You'll get answers having to do with "login shell", but none of them will really hit the spot.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Laudable programming. Quite possibly the slowest way of reading the site, however.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Ask yourself the number of ways packages might get installed on a given system (apt, chocolatey, homebrew, pip, pacman, nix, guix), and recalibrate how smart you want humble emacs to be.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
Sensibly. I am opposed to the quote. For those of us without Aaron Swartz's talents, saving the world is paying taxes and keeping our kids fed and out of trouble.
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
No, the task selection function is dominated by the one's efficacy, not the task's importance. Or to quote Michael Bolton in Office Space (1999), the "question is bullshit to begin with. If that quiz worked, there would be n
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by jimmyvalmer 7y ago
> how does that reduce shootings? I'll assume you are a woman. In the 1998 comedy "There's Something About Mary", sexual abstinence is compared to "going out with a loaded gun."