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kbart
10y ago
The best engineers/programmers/hackers I know are nor very keen managerial positions and prefer architect or senior roles.
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10y ago
"Skuuddle helps you be the most socially proactive version of yourself." Um, what? Also, at least provide some real use screenshots/videos, I'm not going to download some random app and give it permissions to my contac
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kbart
10y ago
I don't see how that can happen. I have few friends that work in WU and every suspicious transaction is checked at few levels by different people. Maybe unless it's not "agents", but somebody higher up. Or WU have differ
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kbart
10y ago
Where did you get such information? I don't know about anti-feministm, but I've seen plenty of anti-refugees articles both in Swedish and German. Moreover, Pegida (openly anti-refugees and anti-islamisation) is an officially regis
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kbart
10y ago
USA is only 41th in the rankings of press freedom[0]. That's worse than some African countries. 0. https://rsf.org/en/ranking#
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10y ago
"Take a step back and look at try to look at your posting in this topic objectively." I happen to live in a country that's bordering Russia and can see first handedly what damage propaganda causes, especially to minorities
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kbart
10y ago
Heh, I always use longer name variables for broader scope somewhat naturally, but only after reading your comment realized that.
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kbart
10y ago
It's not original in tech industry. Probably every girl/woman that has at least a bit significant online presence encounters similar problems. My GF is an amateur photomodel, you should see what messages she constantly receives.
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kbart
10y ago
CNN, BBC and probably all of Western media channels have their agenda, but none of them is straightforward propaganda with direct control by government as RT is. Don't make mistake here, there are no RT counterpart in West, despite RT
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kbart
10y ago
No, I'm implying that sharing of propaganda channels should not be encouraged, because it makes them look legitimate.
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10y ago
Didn't read the article, but RT (Russia Today) is Kremlin's propaganda channel[0] and it's links should neither be trusted nor shared. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RT_(TV_network)#Propaganda_cla...
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kbart
10y ago
Be careful using psychedelics while depressed, it can get even worse and you can have a very bad trip. At least don't do that alone and have somebody sober to watch over you. Personally, I've found small doses of LSD having better
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10y ago
Happens to me all the time and it's annoying (especially when driving). Triggers every time when going outside and sun is shinning. On the bright side, after 2-3 sneezes it goes away.
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kbart
10y ago
Is this new? I've heard for years that stress causes all kinds of health issues (first of all, heart disease) and thought it's universal knowledge.
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kbart
10y ago
You are waiting for >9h just to try a new console?
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10y ago
"Ability to work with poorly defined goals." Poorly defined goals should not be unfamiliar or scary to anyone who has done at least one IT project for money. Actually, I haven't encountered many well defined goals in my pro
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10y ago
"Could it be that casual users can do their all their tasks on their phones/tablets now compared to 10 years ago, while the enthusiasts build their PC:s from scratch, thus hollowing out the OEM PC market, leaving only laptops?&qu
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kbart
10y ago
Still they were rebuilt without cars in mind.
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kbart
10y ago
I guess every open office has at least one you. Pray that one only..
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kbart
10y ago
I doubt that many of my co-workers would endure Dark Funeral or the like that gets blasted at my home. It's for their sake I insist on music on headphones only.
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kbart
10y ago
"We stayed up very late, listened to loud music, and did some of the best work of our lives." No offense, but that sounds like some kind of boys club, not professional working environment. Staying up late = no respect for privat
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10y ago
Bullshit article and methods, click-bait and misleading title. I'm sure students in decent universities have more to do than solving HackerRank challenges. Actually, I've never met a good programmer that would waste their on some
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10y ago
I was always curious how things and systems work. There's no better to find that out than doing embedded programming, because it touches both hardware and software. I went to embedded programming straight from the university in my fina
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10y ago
"When the tech world moved away from me (doing mainly embedded C for the last thirty years might not have been the best idea for my career)" Strange, why do you say so? We live in the era of IoT and everything has at least one
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kbart
10y ago
Attitude is not the problem here, getting a job is. Few acquaintances of mine in their thirties also try to jump this developer bandwagon and it's very hard to get a junior position for them, because they are "too old" (of
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kbart
10y ago
I don't think it would easy to find somebody stupid enough to buy it.
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kbart
10y ago
So we can get another bubble? I prefer people spending money directly on goods they really need as opposed to shady deals by investment bankers.
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10y ago
"I'm proposing one class: the working class." That's also heard somewhere[0]. Didn't work out well either. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Union
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10y ago
What do you mean by regulatory reform? So anyone can sell restricted and harmful items (i.e. cigarettes) as they see fit or make food without any oversight of hygiene regulations and sell to public? Most of regulatory laws are there for a r
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kbart
10y ago
"Domestic labor (maid, cook, driver, servant) for more productive people." Are you seriously suggesting to implement (or go back) to the class system we (thankfully) got rid off in modern West? You can get a job as a maid, cook,
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