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by killface 11y ago
Yup. The last album I bought was one where I couldn't rip a couple tracks and put them on my Diamond Rio (how's that for a flashback?). Then they came out with the "You didn't buy this song, you bought a license to play
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by killface 11y ago
I like how you're downvoted for pointing out something very obvious, but not 100% pro-israel.
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by killface 11y ago
You exhausted those a decade ago. Now other states are shipping water to Cali, and those states are starting to have their own issues.
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by killface 11y ago
blame the brits, not the americans.
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by killface 11y ago
I completely agree. This is tantamount to spying on users. It's basically equivalent to some random game reading your entire contacts list and sending it to the company.
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by killface 11y ago
That seems like an incredibly petty way to view it. Apple's not out to get you. In fact, I'm glad they did this. That iHasApp looks creepy as hell, and it pisses me off that other devs were using it to basically spy on me. It redu
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by killface 11y ago
That would be nice, huh? I've worked for plenty of places where the dev manager was a glorified scrum master and PM
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by killface 11y ago
Yes, if there's some place to move to get away from people who think they're the center of the universe, Orange County was definitely the way to go ;)
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by killface 11y ago
Always take quality of life into account. SV has more opportunities for engineers/entrepreneurs, but then you're up against people who have done a lot more of that, plus the outrageous housing costs in the area. Oh, and the crazy
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by killface 11y ago
All great points. I work with a consulting company, and we have a lot of really great people. They come to us because we pay fair (good hourly rate on w2 (paid overtime) + benefits), we work with a wide variety of companies and industries,
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by killface 11y ago
But then you deal with the wage problem -- managers (especially ones without a tech background) are often of the "my reports make less than me" school of thought. More money = more power = more respect. So when a manager who makes
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by killface 11y ago
Especially when a lot of the big companies are facing heat (and/or lawsuits) for artificially capping engineer salaries because they didn't want to pay more?
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by killface 11y ago
Because "diversity" is the catchphrase of the day when it comes to programming and most technology in general. Some butthurt people see a bunch of white males sitting on computers and making really good money, and wonder why we ca
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by killface 11y ago
You don't have anything to feel guilty about. Every company is out there to make money. None of us, individually, are as cruel as a group of people making a consensus decision. My first job was writing code for a company that took adva
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by killface 11y ago
My family has several addicts in it. Some recovered, some not. Whenever you ask them "why?," it's usually "because it makes me feel normal." This is the re-wiring. Your body just becomes used to the dopamine party,
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by killface 11y ago
It's not that it's bad for the human race. Betting has been going on since "I bet I can throw this rock further than you". It's probably older than prostitution. Much like alcohol, there's this "yeah we ca
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by killface 11y ago
I enjoy playing summoners war, but recognize it as basically a slot machine. There are people on there who clearly have spent a LOT of money. I've chatted with a few of them (the largest that someone admitted to was $5,000), and most o
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by killface 11y ago
You clearly don't understand addiction. That's fine, but don't try to act like you know it.
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by killface 11y ago
that's because we already know about emacs and vim -- some of us don't like modal editors, or editors that try to be the universe. When you're checking your email in your text editor something is wrong.
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by killface 11y ago
What about doctors and lawyers? Their professions change day-to-day, and often at the whim of political leaders. Something as broad as "law" you can't be an expert in, but you can be an expert in patent law or family law or w
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by killface 11y ago
There's a fundamental difference between knowing the language/framework of the week, and being an expert in something. Expertise does not necessarily imply broad-stroke coverage of available tools. It means you use the tools you h
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by killface 11y ago
I regularly use BiteSquad -- they make any restaurant a delivery restaurant :)
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by killface 11y ago
Seattle does this too. They want people to take buses downtown, but then ticket people who jaywalk or something to make their bus. It's like, if I have to wait 30 minutes for another bus because I didn't want to get a 200 dollar t
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by killface 11y ago
To think that human history is maybe 50,000 years old, tops. Recorded history maybe 10,000 years. Then take these events that happened MILLIONS of years ago... There could have been conscious, intelligent life back then, but it just died ou
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by killface 12y ago
right, but they'll lose their resistance to our current antibiotics, so we can just go back and forth between those :)
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by killface 12y ago
dealerships are the reason I've only ever owned 3 cars in over 20 years of driving. My last car was a mitsubishi bought from a Chevy dealership, I think I got reamed on that one. My current car is a Toyota from a no-haggle dealership.
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by killface 12y ago
I genuinely prefer the no-haggle car sales process. It's ridiculous that some people pay hundreds or thousands more than others for these cars.
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by killface 12y ago
This may have worked where you live, but all the dealerships here are refusing to play that game. They'll all give you a form letter "come in and talk with us" message. Apparently cost-plus isn't that appealing to them,
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by killface 12y ago
Shitty interviewers ask: 1. Anything related to trees 2. Big-O trivia and errata 3. Reinventing the wheel 4. Bit-twiddling operations Seriously. If I go into your interview and you ask me to reverse a string, and it's not <string&g
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by killface 12y ago
yes, of course it's always the "creative types" -- they can't work in a team, they can't work anywhere except their own sound isolation booth, and they demand 22 continuous hours for 1 hour of flow, but they're

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