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by jnbiche 8y ago
> Jquery As a frontend developer (who's also old), I'm going to argue strongly against jQuery. I like jQuery. It's had its place. But it's on the way out. Your time would be much better spent learning vanilla JS (pref
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> You hire people who end up not being able to do the work Funnily enough, I've heard the same thing from some friends who worked at companies with algorithmic interviews. > You end up needing more stringent certifications than e
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> And honestly, I would be more concerned about hiring someone who built their own bespoke framework from scratch than someone who used an existing one If they're over 45, then they likely worked in the late 90s and early 00s. If th
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So the worker that commutes 2 hours a day, and the worker that commutes 10 minutes a day? Same thing? You implied above that it doesn't matter. If you really don't understand what I'm trying to argue, then I'd suggest re
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Yes, but going to university usually involves extra commute. Rarely do people live within a short walk or drive to both their work and a university. Also, I've definitely not independently wealthy, but have worked remotely for 2 of
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> You need to manage your expectations here -- an online degree is harder than one in residence. Are you counting commute time? Because for many people, that adds on an additional 10-15 hours a week. You have none of that with online cla
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> It’s generally not blackmail to threaten someone with some action that, by itself, is legal. That's entirely untrue. The downvotes are rolling in because your assertion about blackmail is simply wrong. There are a myriad of local,
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Oh, I'm not claiming it's a large national movement. I'm sure the numbers are tiny, well under 1%. Also, coliving is confined to urban areas. The main reason I brought up coliving was as a counterexample to the claim that mul
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Some coliving housing is even oriented toward families with children and other dependents. Look it up, you'll be surprised.
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> The likelihood of 6 adult individuals meeting and having sufficient overlap in goals and interests and habits to create a cohesive home is laughable. I disagree. Already, there's a significant movement underway in the US called &q
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All of the benefits described by the author's proposed "postmodern family" are already enjoyed by much of the world's population, a large portion of which lives in extended family compounds. From India to the Middle East
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> changing UI also means maintaining two different UIs(the old and the new)- Why would you need to maintain the old UI? Backwards compatibility isn't an issue, since no one is screenscraping and doing image recognition to interact w
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I'm not particularly comfortable downloading and giving a third-party dialer/phone apps all the permissions needed to run my phone calls, particularly given since some third-party contact apps have already been busted vacuuming up
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The first few issues sound to me more like poor management in a particular location, rather than a global company policy. However, it could be that company incentives led to this such management initiatives.
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> At the end of the day, hard work, contacts and luck leads to success. The older I get, the more I realize that the latter two is far more important than the first criteria. Extremely well-said. Skill and hard work are (typically) neces
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> If they want to serve ads than maybe there is a way they can do it themselves, as opposed to a third party serving them Indeed there is a way. And if they do it the old-fashioned way, using static ad assets, then the ads aren't ty
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> chances are you still have every bit of upward mobility potential as someone who did graduate from Harvard. Well, minus the Harvard contacts and network, which is a huge part of the success factor of Harvard grads.
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Wow. That soundtrack almost instantly has become a favorite.
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> It turned out, college was partly a proxy for class. What college grad earnings in the 60s was actually saying is that upper-middle class kids grow into upper-middle class adults. I think this is a critical observation that lots of peo
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I'm well aware of this, since I have close family that your situation applies to. Actually, if your parents are married and even one is a US citizen, you will be too, always. This may just be a terminology disagreement, but that&#x27
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I didn't downvote, but I still see a significant difference between HED and the author's algorithm. But you're correct, it is difficult to make a confident judgment given the small number of sample images.
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> Maybe I'm missing something This may be the case. The filters you cited are not countour filters. Having the option of pixel matching entire regions by color makes any image look better, regardless of how many or how few contours
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> The US has similar rules. US doesn't have citizenship by descent (the grandparents situation you're describing). So it has no similar rules.
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Yes, but this is clearly a headline, not a transcript. And using a colon in a salutation is recommended for business usage according to most style manuals. Traditionally, style manuals discourage letter writers from using a comma unless the
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An option sadly unavailable to most of us.
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> I would say in most cases you could make the leap that someone born somewhere is an X computer scientist. In most countries of the world, this is not the case. As a general rule, only the countries North/South America practice iu
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Israel doesn't have birthright citizenship, so calling him Israeli is not technically accurate. But I agree that Google is almost certainly not lying, which implies intent. They're simply wrong.
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I think that in the vast, vast majority of countries (all of them?), you receive the citizenship of your parents, regardless of the country in which you're born. So unless ther https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jnbich
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Actually, the author's use of the colon is correct, and your interpretation doesn't accord with the usual rules of grammar for colon usage. What I assume you're thinking of is the journalistic use of a colon as shorthand for
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Seeing as how the author was indeed born in Israel, I figured at first that it was unreasonable to complain, since like or or not he was probably an Israeli citizen. However, looking into Israeli citizenship law, I learned that Israel does

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