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by jyriand 6y ago
Google, Facebook, Dell, NSA, CIA, DoE (E=Energy), Airbnb, Palantir -- There are literally thousands of people applying for jobs to these companies and a really small percentage will be accepted. So it's not that you are unhireable, but
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Archimedes would have a solution for this.
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Gettting 504 right now
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Are SPAC's some kind of new financial inventions? I see this term popping up quite frequently.
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Paraphrasing, can't remember the exact joke: Recruiter ask candidate developer: "So, why do you want to work in our office in Mexico?" "Because I want to be a señor developer"
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Where there is demand, there is supply.
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I would also suggest a movie called Derzu Uzala, directed by no other than Akira Kurosawa himself. It's about surveyor and a local hunter. Taking place somewhere in Easter Siberia.
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4 hours seems like a lot. Do you still have to commute, even amid the pandemic situation?
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It's not really constructive to start your comment with a "utter piece of crap".
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My mother is constantly complaining that apartment is cold, and then I close the window.
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by jyriand 6y ago
Don't use Teams app, but connect through browser instead... that is if there is no other way to avoid Teams, because you're company has already migrated from Slack.
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by jyriand 6y ago
My problem with all these systems for reading books is that it starts to feel like a work I have to do, instead of enjoyment. I just want to read a book in my leisure time and not fill out templates in my notebook/app, constantly worry
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by jyriand 6y ago
There was some sorts of renaissance of chess in twitch community. All the big streamers were playing chess for some reason. Not sure what happened there, might be related somehow to Hikaru Nakamura starting to stream and growing pretty big.
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by jyriand 6y ago
Ahh, QBasic, gateway drug into programming for many of us.
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Thank you. I guess PG doesn't want to conform to make his essays more readable :)
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Also: > There may even be a phenomenon like Dunning-Kruger at work, where the most conventional-minded people are confident that they're independent-minded, while the genuinely independent-minded worry they might not be independent-
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by jyriand 6y ago
Fake it till you make it
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Funny coincidence, I was just reading "Sphere" by Michael Crichton, and the zoologist in the novel was presenting the same argument about the the intelligence of octopuses. Side-note, this book is driving me crazy, the characters
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Just for your information, from their legal page: "...linking to this website without written permission is prohibited." Not sure what is meant by this, but I found it funny.
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Maybe e-voting from sauna? [0] -[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vUYq_Lfs54
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EBFE(ebfe.org)
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How did they manage to store passwords in plain texts. I thought most of the services (wordpress etc) will create passwords for you with a proper encryption?
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Gerald Weinberg keeps popping up in a lot of recommended reading lists. Currently reading "Are your lights on?" and "Secrets of Consulting". He seems to be a prolific author, and seemingly unknown. By cover art on his bo
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by jyriand 6y ago
I have few laptops lying around. I wonder if there is some kind of Linux distribution or some other way to transform laptop into a digital typewriter. No internet, no applications, only a decent text editor (Emacs perhaps).
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Some stories are too good to be true I guess. To bad. I'm always wondering how do the directors always find the right guy in the right time just before something is going to happen. I suppose it's just a trick with mixing up the t
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I hope this will lead into part two of "King of Kong" documentary. One of the best documentaries I have seen in a long-long time.
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by jyriand 6y ago
I saw the unicorn when using firefox, but when I switched to chromium, the PR opened fine
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Try APL(tryapl.org)
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PAIP, SICP -- seems like if a book has a acronym, then it must be great. Can't come up with more examples though.
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So, will it be something similar to the collision scene in "Gravity", movie?

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