lgieron

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by lgieron 10y ago
> You aren't going to be talking about deep politics with a Beijing taxi driver without a good command of Chinese Do people talk politics there? Accidentally let slip the wrong sentence when the wrong pair of ears is around and bam
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by lgieron 10y ago
Re: 1100 sqft hardly being big for two people - I was raised in a flat exactly half that size. I was fine (had my own room - being an only child rocked). In my country (Poland) 1100 sqft is considered a large flat for a family with 2+ kids.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Or you could live in an appartment building, like hundreds of millions of other families do. A big house is a luxury, not a necessity.
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by lgieron 10y ago
How can you be priced out of your own home? If you own it, you don't have to pay anything (unless you mean they cannot afford property taxes).
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by lgieron 10y ago
From what I've read, dropping frames is enough to fail console certification. Console gaming may be one of the few (non-mission critical) software areas with actual high quality standards. Meanwhile, after an iOS update, I have to swip
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by lgieron 10y ago
A lot of people say the same thing about drawing ("draw a lot of random sketches, don't obsess over single drawings for hours/days trying to get it right"). It's too bad that obsessing is just so much more pleasant
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by lgieron 10y ago
To pass time during a long jenkins build...
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by lgieron 10y ago
He was extremely disciplined - he made himself write every day after his grueling day job, for years (decades?), until he finally started getting some traction.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Add colonialism (The Phillipines, Central/South America) and assasinations of a bunch of inconvenient leaders of sovereign states.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> a pleasant climate I've heard that washing your car in Ireland is a non-issue; the climate takes care of that.
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by lgieron 10y ago
5. Skype (AFAIK).
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by lgieron 10y ago
> I've been wondering what change happened that could motivate this. (networked) computers happened.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Free software is the future. The benefits to mankind are too great. Ending all wars is the future. The benefits to mankind are too great.
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by lgieron 10y ago
The Swiss held a referendum on universal basic income, and it was overthrown by a large margin.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Maybe Polish parliament is less afraid to express what their people want. In Germany, there's on average 1 violent attack (beatings, burning of refugee centers) against immigrants per day. Yet the government acts as if there should be
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by lgieron 10y ago
> reduces citizen rights, violates constitution, oppresses minorities, removes the separation of the state and church Can you give example of these (except the "violates constitution", which in itself is nothing new, consitutio
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by lgieron 10y ago
I am not trying to prove anything, I'm just asking (I'm not from the US). If that's the case, why are people so many worried about losing healthcare coverage after leaving their jobs (to work on personal project for example)?
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by lgieron 10y ago
What happens if you lose your job and, before you find a new one, have serious medical problems? Who picks up the bill?
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by lgieron 10y ago
> I will not cheat the screen because I feel like that is unethical Is it ethical for them to require your pee so that they can assess your performance based on it? What's next, full medical checkup? Installing a camera in your appa
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by lgieron 10y ago
> And, crucially, it already had a shared cultural identity, shared language Isn't the US a conglomerate of former English, French and Spanish colonies?
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by lgieron 10y ago
You can be extremely talented and have no dreams or goals.
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by lgieron 10y ago
From what I've seen, women tend to pick "fun" (literature, art etc.) careers more often than men. My understanding is that they're aware of availability of the backup strategy of marrying some guy who makes more money th
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by lgieron 10y ago
That's just like an opinion, man.
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by lgieron 10y ago
I think it's largely the same everywhere in the world (it's not "American anti-intellectualism") - as an example, people in rural Syria haven't neccesarily heard about my country (Poland), but they've heard ab
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by lgieron 10y ago
The reporting on the war in Eastern Ukraine is trending down in most of Western media, while the actual war is not. I'd advise against going there without at least doing solid research (the rest of Ukraine is fine). As for living in ot
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by lgieron 10y ago
> programming (...) I love everything about it, but I am not as good as I would like to be. I wonder at how Elon Musk, Richard Branson and Bill Gates do it, and how I can't. For one thing, you're probably way better programmer
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Fly to another random place on Earth. Roll a dice if you have to. If you happen to roll Syria or Eastern Ukraine, roll again.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Everyone is a potential client for Coca-Cola or other generic brands. And (the theory is that) even if you hate the ad, it will make you more likely to buy their brand vs competition.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Engagement != learning. If anything, I'd say engagement is closer corelated to output. According to studies done on musical students (for what these studies are worth), the ones who practiced in "flow" progressed much slower
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by lgieron 10y ago
Maybe try studying some algorithms during weekends? It will help you in interviews and will also help you become a better programmer.

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