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by jowdones 4y ago
Bitcoin is nothing and will never be anything outside of a Ponzi scheme. It's useless when fiat still exists (along with the governments to back it). And if the Atomic Holocaust arrives, good luck buying your way out of Warsaw Ghetto w
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by jowdones 4y ago
My commute to and from the office took 3 hours+ per day. Now I work from home 2 (two) jobs, one full time that used to be the office and one contract. I make 2x what the single office job pays me and only so I'm close to a decent pay w
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by jowdones 4y ago
Looks like lately you need to get $50,000 in debt for a bachelor's degree plus 2 years of experience and extensive knowledge in lots of complicated and disparate technologies ... just to be given the opportunity to work for free.
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Get a bachelor's degree and work for free(linkedin.com)
2 points by jowdones 4y ago|4 comments
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by jowdones 4y ago
I see self-checkout as a useful ADDITION to the cashier operated one. It's primary purpose? Fast lane for a couple of items purchased. If I buy a full cart of groceries, detergent, power tools and what else, I'll go to the human o
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What programs to code while learning programming?
1 points by jowdones 4y ago|0 comments
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by jowdones 4y ago
I generally like Tom Cruise movies, they're good more often than not. Edge Of Tomorrow was one of his best. I've even shown it to my 9 years old kid, he was flabbergasted. Might have not understood everything (he doesn't have
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by jowdones 4y ago
Well I have -2 diopters glasses for myopia, started wearing them around the age of 30 I think (I am now 44). I never use them when reading, effectively they bother me. But have to use them when using the computer monitor, otherwise it'
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by jowdones 4y ago
Cluj, Romania, senior developer, €3,300 after tax. Nice 1 bedroom apartment rent/mortgage + expenses is €400 per month. So a bit ahead the Berlin guy after living expenses. Salaries in Europe are shit compared to US and I've zero
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by jowdones 4y ago
There was an article on HN a while ago saying that basically the secret to productivity is ... slack. In other words, excess capacity. I used to have a tight schedule switching from tasks to learning to meetings to more tasks and more learn
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by jowdones 4y ago
Not very far from my first PC: 14'' VGA monitor, and a Siemens Nixdorf 386SX 16Mhz, 40Mb HDD but fortunately 2Mb of RAM (which probably made a huge difference on being able to play some games). Something similar to this beast: ht
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by jowdones 4y ago
>> Finland never participated in the colonial era except as a dirt poor third world economy to be exploited. A lot of this, I think, is the result of geography rather than the Finns (or rather, their leaders) being different / sp
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by jowdones 5y ago
Like everything, IntelliJ got increasingly bloated, at a faster rate than the progress in CPU performance. I've got a desktop machine from around 2010 with 32-bit OS, Core i5 760 (510 / 1611 point in geekbench single/multithr
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by jowdones 5y ago
I was never able to give up alcohol completely, but reduced the amount and frequency of drinking. I drink coffee but can't drink six of them in a row without risking a heart attack, while a sixpack of beers gives me only a mild headach
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by jowdones 5y ago
Well, I for once, appreciate your contribution :)
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by jowdones 5y ago
Communist systems are not that different from the standard democratic, US way of things. (I'm Romanian btw so used to be communist, now we're a democracy but the substance hasn't changed much). 1) US: has a two-party system,
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by jowdones 5y ago
Yeah, Microsoft Teams occupies 2Gb of RAM at start and switching between "chats" takes a hefty 15 seconds ALL THE TIME. I developed PTSD at the very thought I gotta change to a different channel.
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by jowdones 5y ago
This post it's pure shameless dick waving. "And if I could do it, you definitely can." Go f yourself.
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by jowdones 5y ago
On BEEING Stupid as an Early-Career Software Engineer >> You spend half a day stuck on one bug before you ask your more senior teammate for help. They look at it, click around the codebase a bit, change one of the parameters you’re pa
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by jowdones 5y ago
Because European talent is largely confined to EU so gotta take what's being offered.
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by jowdones 5y ago
I'm 115 and still working as a programmer, things haven't changed so much since the 30s anyway, we were serverless back then as well, primarily coze we had neither servers nor computers.
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by jowdones 5y ago
Well, doing all those chores would kinda make him... a loser.
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by jowdones 5y ago
That's what I imagine. Wife cooking and cradling the baby with one hand while the other types on the computer. Husband in armchair smoking a pipe while reading newspaper.
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by jowdones 5y ago
Yeah, the devil is in the details. I have a workmate that surprised me saying he's taking a year off paternity leave, getting a monthly paycheck from the state. The catch ... his wife is working from home. So in fact she is doing all
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by jowdones 5y ago
If this is not a troll, I dunno what a troll is. Makes $200k "out of college" and suavely asks "shall I hop"? It's like saying out loud in a crowded bus "I GOT A 12 INCH PENIS, should I take enlargement pills&q
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by jowdones 5y ago
Electronics is a tremendously complex subject, akin to "mathematics". So just replace one with the other and you'd know what to expect: "a summary of mathematics". Ridiculous, to begin with.
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by jowdones 5y ago
You stated "Tradier API for market data". As far as I know, any market data that you get from a provider is FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL USE ONLY, AND YOU ARE FORBIDDEN TO REDISTRIBUTE IT IN RAW OR PROCESSED FORM. I'm willing to bet
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by jowdones 5y ago
"Teaching other teachers how to teach teaching to teachers" would have been a better title.
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by jowdones 5y ago
Romanian here, there were Trabants around here too but I always viewed as somewhat exotic. Typical car was built locally: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dacia_1300 Also had to wait for years to buy one. In fact you had
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by jowdones 5y ago
I think it's pathetic to moan about your salary in some Hacker News plea for sympathy. It's a free market, there's a million job ads, recruiters and what else. If you are worth $500k/year, you'll get $500k/year

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