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by laythea 9y ago
Please see my reply below.
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by laythea 9y ago
I did not mean it like that. Jobs at all levels, have many options. A warehouse level job is very transferable. I know, because I spent years doing it. Also, if your in that role, you can more easily move to different industries than say a
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by laythea 9y ago
I am in no way an Amazon supporter, however I fail to see how any single company can "wipe out your career". As a skilled engineer, you have many options. And incidentally, from the sounds of it, it seems like if they let someone
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by laythea 9y ago
Does the treatment outlined in the article apply to just warehouse workers or does this policy apply to software engineers/office bods also? (pee in a bottle etc?)
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by laythea 9y ago
Hang on a second. Isn't the magical quality about life, is its ability to adapt? If the world is becoming full of this kind of job, we need as individuals to reject it, and adapt to other forms of income. Off course, if you let the cor
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by laythea 9y ago
I would add that all sorts of houses are available for rent. I am not talking about student housing etc.
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by laythea 9y ago
Another reason is that the housing market is grossly inflated (UK). I would get a better house to rent for £1000/month rent than a house for £1000/month interest-mortgage, in addition to the professional "flexibility" of
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by laythea 9y ago
It seems that you were fortunate that the burden of your decision was light, but this would not be the case, generally I would have thought.
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by laythea 9y ago
This got me thinking whether all my comments on HN are being used by someone/something to build a profile of me? Maybe I should read the small print...
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by laythea 9y ago
When the option to ditch the keyboard is not available (Ie. always for me), the way I deal with this, is to change what I am working on. Ie. I may be weeks and weeks in networking code and get it to a reasonable point but then get fed up, a
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by laythea 9y ago
I am a dev, but I am not uniquely qualified to require rest. All humans do.
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by laythea 9y ago
Its more like: 1. hope and dream of success 2. set up scrapers to get the filler content- text and video/audio 3. read text using text to speech, produce audio file 4. use a library like https://pypi.python.org/pypi&#x2
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by laythea 9y ago
Couldn't agree more. Same to be said for Steam, the games service.
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by laythea 9y ago
I agree with your premise, but it is a bit different though. The user directly engages with Facebook (off course, having read terms and conditions etc), but not any of the companies that used to get data. This level of indirection is what i
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by laythea 9y ago
On reflection, I agree and apologise. I should have expanded my argument.
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by laythea 9y ago
Sorry but I fear the horse has already bolted. Even if you were able to delete yourself entirely from Facebook. You have been "consumed" already. Your data was valuable in at least 2 ways: - Monetize to companies such as Cambridge
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by laythea 9y ago
Pension funds. What a con.
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by laythea 9y ago
That is a valid counterpoint in my opinion.
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by laythea 9y ago
"Saving other lives is the best we can hope to take away from an event like this." I am a bit irked by the arrogance of this statement. The best we can hope for is to ensure the safety of the public. And you, as a company, can be
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by laythea 9y ago
yes but people pick up typing skills "on the way". I suppose you could refine those skills, but then it is like anything in like. Diminishing returns. So this is actually counter efficient.
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by laythea 9y ago
Just a side note: I did some debugging of STMicroelectronics ST10 assembler with an oscilloscope the other week and it was quite a refreshing experience making me appreciate all the debug loveliness that is normally provided for us on a pla
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by laythea 9y ago
I think the point is that we don't judge on the tools, but the results. If he/she did a good job, why would you care? you wouldn't. Which is the parent's point. I think.
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by laythea 9y ago
..or, people can just wise up to what is happening to them. For me, the key moment, was when Microsoft gave away Windows 10. I knew then, that I was the product, however I suspect that most people would not chew on why.
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by laythea 9y ago
Can confirm. 155 processes, 1770 threads, and 60999 handles. According to Task Manager.
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by laythea 9y ago
I have a theory that music feeds other "essential for survival" sub-systems in the brain, in manners we don't understand. Don't just take a shallow look.
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by laythea 9y ago
Good article and I agree with most points, however I am not sure I like the articles tone. Maybe I am a precious butterfly but it was a bit "all-knowing", with too much emphasis on how you save the day. I am sure your phone will s
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by laythea 9y ago
It is a cliche of all software development, and very true in my experience.
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by laythea 9y ago
Yes. I'm not sure that is a good thing for the consumer though, and has led to the market being flooded by rubbish. It is one thing to produce a game. Another, to produce a good game.
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by laythea 9y ago
cleaner code is not a good replacement for cleaner comments either though.
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by laythea 9y ago
Im no expert but reading that it sounds like a bunch of people poking at knobs and dials in order to see which dials work and which don't, and then not understanding why...?

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