learc83

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by learc83 6y ago
>any of the languages I work in today (Swift, Kotlin, Python, Dart, C) Have you done any work in Ruby?
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by learc83 6y ago
> When I did my master's in CS 15 years ago At most schools the CS master's program is overwhelmingly international students. That's not the case for undergrad.
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by learc83 6y ago
I get that there are people working retail, but I was asking that mainly about programmers. >One reason I moved into a big city is to be able to do grocery shopping on a Sunday morning. Nearly every grocery store in every small town in t
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by learc83 6y ago
In the US that shouldn't be career limiting, 3/4 of people are religious and most go to church at least some of the time. Also who works on Sunday morning?
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by learc83 6y ago
>He has 80m followers on twitter alone, that's ~20% of all twitter users, Many of his followers are bots, and almost 75% haven't logged in more than 120 days. I'd be very surprised if more than 10% of his followers were re
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by learc83 6y ago
I don't think we're there yet, and I think we can still use the ballot box to effect change, but fear of a socialist revolution and mob violence was one of the catalysts behind the new deal. So if you can't understand how hur
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by learc83 6y ago
Why do you need a sworn officer with arrest powers to come out and record your bike's serial number? Most quality of life crime could be handled by the equivalent of an unarmed zoning enforcement officer.
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by learc83 6y ago
Are you purposely being obtuse? Or are you trying to argue against a different point than the one I made? If not, please explain how you having a mutual fund means that "the elites" who control Apple aren't impacted by lost r
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by learc83 6y ago
I'm not promoting or condoning violence. But Apple shut down their retail stores over this, so it definitely is impacting "the elites" to some extent.
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by learc83 6y ago
If this is true and every office on the scene was that misinformed, it's still a systemic problem that requires a complete overhaul of the way police are trained and hired. This won't be fixed by punishing a few bad apples and the
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by learc83 6y ago
Tell me honestly: do really think that I thought the OP's argument was that people will literally think of you as imaginary. Of course I don't. What you've done is to take the least charitable interpretation of my argument by
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by learc83 6y ago
We have multiple vaccine candidates that based on early human trials, and animal trials are very likely to work. Sure it's possible all of them could fail, but I wouldn't set my bet on that.
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by learc83 6y ago
That's because people are countering this argument, >if you're not physically present near them, they will forget that you really exist as a human and a social peer. It's unfortunate but it's true and the assertion th
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by learc83 6y ago
1. Nope, but the dev team is located on the other side of the country from the rest of the company (and I'm in between). 2. This company started as just a client and then they made me an offer that was too good to refuse. >The reaso
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by learc83 6y ago
>I'd also bet your MD does most of her doctoring that depends on deep trust and emotional connection in-person; remote just fails at this in comparison She does, but it probably has less to do with needing an emotional connection th
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by learc83 6y ago
The argument is that without regular in person contact people will forget you exist as a human, this wasn't a more nuanced argument that physical proximity is one factor of many. > if you're not physically present near them, th
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by learc83 6y ago
>Your work schedule is atypical, and in most work environments would lead to eyebrows being raised from management down to your peers. At every company I've worked for no one has ever cared. At all. I'm around to answer questio
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by learc83 6y ago
>8 hours a day, 5 days a week That's the thing, I'm not. Almost no one who is doing knowledge work is getting 8 hours a day of work done. Instead of driving to the office to get 4-5 hours of work in and goof off the rest of the
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by learc83 6y ago
Perhaps we need to rethink work life balance if we need work to fulfill our social needs. During the lockdown, I couldn't wait to get the hell out of my house, but it was because I wanted go hiking, out to eat, to a ballgame, or just t
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by learc83 6y ago
I don't think that's true at all. I've worked remotely for years and my coworkers and I get along great. We are just as close as work friends I've physically worked with. My fiancee is an MD, so she has tons of very clos
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by learc83 6y ago
If you take a few minutes to build seperate endpoints, you'd get better performance. Both in latency/bandwidth and in system resources for your DB query.
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by learc83 6y ago
That he has a tiny number of twitter fans--too tiny to build a platform on. He uses twitter because the influencers are on twitter. There's a reason he posts there instead of on his campaign website. If he really thought leaving twitte
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by learc83 6y ago
>and all his fans would create accounts on that new platform if they didn't have one already. I have plenty of family who are Trump supporters and not one of them has a Twitter account.
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by learc83 6y ago
There are companies that come close to that point (Google comes to mind), but Twitter certainly isn't at that level.
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by learc83 6y ago
> They hid all the hard stuff in c++ so we didn't have to think about it. The more time has gone on, the more bullshit has crept to the forefront. The've gone from hiding the hard stuff to moving more and more stuff into C#. I
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by learc83 6y ago
Yeah but if I use this GPL licensed code as the basis of a new game, I have to release the source code for my new game as well. The vast majority of game studios aren't willing to do this, so effectively releasing it under the GPL mean
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by learc83 6y ago
They released remastered versions of both for windows, so maybe that was the most readily available version of the source code they had.
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by learc83 6y ago
There's no requirement to disclose during an interview, but most people I know depended on their time in the reserves/active duty pretty heavily on their resume, so I'd guess it was pretty rare for an employer to not know or
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by learc83 6y ago
We already have a very similar situation with respect to hiring military reservists. It seems like we could use that data to see if there's really a big enough problem to worry about. Anecdotally, I've never met someone in the res
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by learc83 6y ago
>servants. I saw what felt like a huge amount of fake smiles and pleasantries That's not the service industry, that's just America in general compared to many other countries. Many cultures find it weird, but it's just how

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