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by jshowa3 8y ago
Many states actually don't require to pay out PTO, but it is wide industry practice and it is the law in California. If they aren't paying PTO, even if legal, that's ridiculous, because as others have said, PTO is interpreted
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I generally agree with this. The publication game tends to focus on exciting new discoveries way more than reproduced ones. I think this is because universities push you to focus on "original ideas" when publishing theses instead
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I joined a position that was much more interesting, with a much more established company that had much better resources, technology wise. Turns out that the people that I was working with were very arrogant, played a lot of politics, and di
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What kind of information do you look for before learning/using new tech? I look for a book. Books in general are usually miles better than technical blogs and you can find a ton of information addressed about a subject in one place, so
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by jshowa3 8y ago
Don't quite understand this article. Seems to be looking through rose colored glasses. There's no indication that this guy would've radically changed his career by moving to the new position, but because he did, he now writes
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by jshowa3 8y ago
I don't know. There's many people that do practically nothing in that regard and become mega hits overnight. Happens all the time in software. How many sales people were marketing facebook back in the day?
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Is it odd that every time I see "How to be successful" posts, all of them are subjective opinion that's repeated from several hundred other "How to be successful" posts? It's almost like there's no road ma
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It really doesn't matter what the market bears because software is so malleable that companies spend dozens of hours creating loot box systems, marketplace systems, data driven pricing models etc. to squeeze every last dollar out of th
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by jshowa3 8y ago
> No idea how you'd run into hardware restrictions; Hardware can become unsupported when you update the OS. It's happened to me with wireless cards when running FreeBSD on an old EeePC. Even when using xfce, having wpa_supplica
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Most Devs don't want to deal with hardware restrictions. Its a lot easier to just get a good, general all rounder instead of coding on a dinosaur. Many lightweight distros barely have any meaningful functionality and usually require al
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I closed my account on Amazon a while back and barely ever shop there due to how they treat their employees and their general bloated business model. I now actively shop from other online sites when I'm looking for a product and will g
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If the best companies are de-emphasizing traditional credentials, why do most employees have degrees and why do they use coding interviews that question you on raw CS questions? The problem with alternative tracks is that they bottle neck y
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Problem is many companies work off this legacy system and won't hire you without a degree. No engineering degree, no law degree, no doctor degree, no degree at all? No thanks. Of course I'm not saying there are other ways, but it
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by jshowa3 8y ago
Regardless of the fact that this post is full of contradictions, for example claiming years of experience requires mindfulness and effectiveness and then saying someone who has practiced over many years doesn't just have a surface leve
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Last I checked, reality doesn't operate based on merit at all. If it did, wages would rise with productivity, but they don't, at least not in the US.
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I think it's pretty clear from this thread. In the context of programming, it's someone who can do what a "mere user" can do, but who can push the thing to extreme limits, modify it to do something completely new, or fi
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The problem is, what you define as a pro is completely vague. There's no adequate definition of one as its simply presumed that a pro "knows what to do in X situation in X domain" which is almost no different than "knowi
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No, but what's good for the gander is usually good for the goose (I know its a rephrasing of the original). That's how we get effective medicine and built models of understanding. While individual factors are prevalent, they usual
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by jshowa3 8y ago
There's a world of difference between just typing "+" or "/" because you've seen it and just going on token frequency/pattern matching, and really understanding the concept. X = Y + Z Is ofte
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Yes, but you need to be wary that you're using the toolchain for its intended purpose. The toolchain is supposed to be saving you typing and lookup time. It's not supposed to be substituting for your actual understanding of the c
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by jshowa3 8y ago
By good diet, I mean higher intake in fruits and vegetables, moderate intake in meats. Stay away from high processed foods with excessive sugar, fat, and sodium. It shouldn't take a decade of research to figure that out unless your die
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by jshowa3 8y ago
Excess salt is a known factor of kidney stones and kidney failure. It also a factor in profuse diarrhea and dehydration. Saying its not harmful in healthy people (depending on how you define healthy) is a pretty ignorant thing to say.
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The discussion on this piece is quite alarming. From general distrust of doctors, to thinking people can research themselves into knowing better, to slights about animal studies not being effective arbiters to humans. No wonder there's
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Most doctors recommend changing diet to aleviate symptoms. Its just that most people don't do it. When you say "nutrition was more effective in treatment/prevention than anything prescribed and stating 1 focused on that"
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For all the comments I see about China stealing IP, just remember, IP can be stolen anywhere, even in America. We have a couple production plants in China. I haven't seen any concrete evidence that the employees are stealing IP. And if
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I didn't see a link to the actual data. Be nice to see the sample size for women.
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As someone who has been to China. This is the worst part about going there. Try finding or enjoying anything online where half the sites are blocked.
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That's nice. I didn't say there was no value in intuition. I just said it was unreliable and I demonstrated an example of why its unreliable. Its better to focus on solutions that don't rely on intuition because intuition is
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I don't understand why this is so profound. I knew Euler's formula was a trig formula simply by looking at it. I don't know why there needs to be this complex explanation of where it came from where its obvious that it comes
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In general, yes. A higher IQ is correlated with handling more complexity.

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