lacampbell

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by lacampbell 7y ago
You're living my dream. I've been working on a side project all year but struggle to find the energy and build momentum while working a full time job. Did you quit work to start this, or did you manage to work around your day job?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
All you can do is make it harder (not impossible, just harder) to openly mention race as a factor in hiring. Three people may decide independently to base their hiring decision on the race of a candidate without ever bringing it up. Hell th
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by lacampbell 7y ago
One thing I don't like, which was present in this article, is throwing up our hands and saying "but there's nothing we can do". Of course there is. Nobody says that about racial discrimination. You think people aren&#x
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Yeap. I'm in my 30s and I've seen enough writing on the wall to know that there is no way in hell I should be relying on being a software developer to feed me in my 50s or beyond. We can talk about how it shouldn't happen or
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by lacampbell 7y ago
That's the law in a lot of countries, including here, but I've been asked it anyway. What are you going to do about it, beyond secretly recording your interviews then suing?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Thanks for sharing this. Same problem, I just assumed it was just my shit tier laptop!
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by lacampbell 7y ago
I got stitched at a private clinic for about 1/10th that here. I'm in NZ so salaries are a bit lower but cost of living a bit higher. $7500 seems well out of whack. What kind of gold were the stitches made of!? Surely it could be
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Dental isn't really indicative of "how expensive health care is" though. I'm in good health so I don't have much personal data - dentistry is about the only fully privatized healthcare I access.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Yet they're all very popular destinations for migrants - they haven't got the memo?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
How expensive is health care in the US? IE, in my country dentistry is fully private, and it costs about 100 USD for a teeth cleaning. How much is that in America?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
This is what I ended up doing. Don't laugh, but I spent about two weekends furiously learning docker for a side project, only to replace it with a shell script of about 100 lines. I'm sure containers have valid use cases for large
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Something of an open secret to be honest, how it now arrogates to pretend to still be "Left"-leaning but is nothing of the sort I can always spot a political extremist when they claim that something clearly left-wing is actually
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Your post is much, much more indicative of the demographics of HN and what sort of a bubble people live in than the grandparent.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Can we get over the menstruation stigma already? I don't want to see images alluding to pissing or shitting. Do I have a piss and shit stigma?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
What makes the US so special that they can go flip a business operating in the Ukraine? It looks like the man behind it was arrested while holidaying in Greece - a US ally.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
More than 12 people from your team in a scrum is also highly illegal under IRB rules - though this is allowed in a maul.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Walk out into the car park to drive home?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Is this your first time encountering a government saying one thing then doing another? :D
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by lacampbell 7y ago
I remember this from when I was in Australia! I also remember that you couldn't type in your password, you had to use the website and click virtual keyboard keys. I use westpac here in New Zealand and their website works really well, n
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Where might one acquire these black belts? (I've got bills to pay)
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by lacampbell 7y ago
It seems to me that if you're an IC in a large team, you are a fairly replaceable cog. Of course a large percentage of the cogs of any machine fly off at the same time, you're in trouble. But I don't think one IC matters much
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by lacampbell 7y ago
good point. Kind of realising how much of my daily work could use bytes as the main numeric type
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Mysterious hacker news downvoting! This my preferred way of writing numbers with lots of 0s as well.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
You could argue that much open source work is like volunteering to serve food at the local country club. Most of the worlds programming population doesn't live in a US tech center (unfortunately - gib visa plz?). As well as people fr
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by lacampbell 7y ago
By the same token, we should have very low expectations from open source libraries/projects that aren't backed by big companies, or where the authors aren't living off consulting. I've stopped relying on them entirely, u
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by lacampbell 7y ago
If it were up to me we'd derive all our tax from things that actually effect the commons: land usage, water usage, pollution, waste. Taxing income or capital gains in the first place was a mistake.
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Progressive taxation is generally a thing we accept. I'm happy to pay more tax than my friends who don't earn as much too. Really? I'm livid I pay much more tax than those with a net worth much higher than mine. Real estate
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by lacampbell 7y ago
Do they still have a NO LOL policy? (For those that don't know, #python used to have a bot that would sternly warn you if your messages contained "lol". Ten years later I still think it's unintentionally funny.)
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by lacampbell 7y ago
If your queries are that complicated are you not better off normalising your data, then writing views to jsonify it?
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by lacampbell 7y ago
JSON on Sqlite works out of the box in ubuntu, but it doesn't in OpenBSD. Not sure about other environments. It supports querying, see json_extract function. https://www.sqlite.org/json1.html I use it a lot to return J

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