lgieron

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by lgieron 10y ago
> My take: all the recent changes in western society could be tagged with "Individualism". Fundamental changes regarding lifestyle, relationships and sexuality were enabled by the demise of collectivist ideologies like communis
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by lgieron 10y ago
> * Don't worry too much about crazy contracts / terms of service. If you run a business you will end up signing all kinds of ridiculous contracts. If you are worried about the consequences, get a normal job instead. Anyone her
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by lgieron 10y ago
That's foreign policy, that doesn't have much to do with the manufacturing of weapons. Weapons manufacturers just provide weapons to their country and it's the country's (politicians) job to make wise use of it.
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by lgieron 10y ago
The exact same thing can be said about marketing and advertisting - it's a zero-sum arms race game that consumes tons of resources and doesn't contribute anything. And yet, people don't have that much moral reversations about
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by lgieron 10y ago
Without weapons you cannot have an army, and without an army you are instantly conquered by some raging lunatic despot who happens to have one. Having more advanced weapons than the loonies is a blessing IMO.
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by lgieron 10y ago
I never really understood it, what's so wrong with making weapons?
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by lgieron 10y ago
> would do corporate accounting for free (let's assume this guy exists) The problem is that it's estabilished as the new norm. Instead of accepting that maybe 0.1% accountants are passionate about their job and thus getting hir
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by lgieron 10y ago
That shows IMO that the values embodied by today's corporations (well at least by their HR departments) are out of whack. I'm hoping the companies will abandon their current bullshit "passion" view of employment, and wil
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by lgieron 10y ago
Right, London starts making sense only once you can get into senior roles.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> I have thought of going back to my old job as web-developer, doing cool stuff with Node, Angular and all the cool cutting-edge technology. I'd take Java over JavaScript any day. These technologies are trendy, but they're defi
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by lgieron 10y ago
How's that? You net maybe 2-2.5k pounds per month contracting in Warsaw, and 8k for an equivalent job in London. Rent and commute in London is maybe 1k more than in Warsaw.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> so there is no good reason to work on CRUD apps if one doesn't like that and can cover their needs otherwise. Early retirement.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> destroying your back, knees, your hands end up cut and calloused + your hearing, it can be very noisy in a mine. I'm from a coal mining region and some of the miners hate the job with passion and curse it every day as they get on
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by lgieron 10y ago
How about "it's a stable and respectable profession"? Sounds like a very reasonable motivation.
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by lgieron 10y ago
I was thinking it may not be an official agenda ("plans for Q4: let's make iOS 10% slower"), but instead, the higher ups don't actively fight the general performance athrophy.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Maybe that's the issue - I don't do OS updates on iOS devices, so my 5s is still on iOS 7.1 - and it's still blazing fast after 18 months of use. My suspicion is that the iOSes getting slower with every release is a planned o
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by lgieron 10y ago
A question - you are looking for 'fun' in a job and, at the same time, consider programming fun - haven't you been able to find a programming job you like?
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by lgieron 11y ago
It shows that you care about it enough to ask.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Unlike phones, cars' price prohibits most people from paying grossly more for a slighly better car (it's say $40k extra for a car vs $400 for a phone). Plus, there are already "iPhones" on the market (Mercedes, BMW etc.)
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by lgieron 11y ago
I think he said in his youth to Woz that he wanted to 'one of the important people' - owning and running a multibillion company allowed him to achieve that.
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by lgieron 11y ago
How can a car be 'anti-establishment'?
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by lgieron 11y ago
I think that, all other things being equal, you're likely to get a better offer with a solid github profile though.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Macbooks have strong specs and are pretty quiet. I'm not aware of any other models that can do both, though.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Oh yeah, I 100% agree that the policy is in general misguided and borderline crackpot.
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by lgieron 11y ago
In my concept, that would regard new cars only (i.e. never registered before). When you're moving to the Netherlands, your car is already registered in the country you're moving out of.
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by lgieron 11y ago
My guess is that they'd forbid registration of new petrol/diesel cars, not just sales.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Keynes vs Hayek (well Keynes didn't get a Nobel, but is nevertheless regarded as a seminal thinker in the field) - their views on the role the state can and should play in shaping the economy are totally opposite. The debate is unresol
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by lgieron 11y ago
Economy is similar (though perhaps not as horrible) - economic Nobel laureates have profound disagreements w.r.t. basic "laws" of economy.
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by lgieron 11y ago
IMO: R&D is all about specialization, so choose an area you'd like to work in. You don't need to choose immediately, you can play with various stuff to find the right kind of work for you (the factors that matter for me are: t
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by lgieron 11y ago
Today, the ditch digging s done with small excavators, not with hordes of guys with shovels...

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