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by lgieron 11y ago
The idea is to be exchanging them _in_advance_, i.e. exchanging the savings part of your monthly salary to USD every month. Don't wait till the shit hits the fan and everybody wants to get rid of their local money.
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by lgieron 11y ago
I'd keep my long-term savings in a foreign bank, so the authorities could at most get my grocery and rent money (still bad, but not quite as devastating). If foreign bank was not an option, I'd just keep my money in the proverbial
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by lgieron 11y ago
> If you get your salary in Swiss Francs, you maximize the chances that the salary you earn will actually be worth something in the future and is not just paper. Or, when living in a country with untrustworthy currency, you can just exch
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by lgieron 11y ago
Extended use of earplugs (say every night for a couple years) can be a contributing cause to developing tinnitus.
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by lgieron 11y ago
In Poland, the majority of stolen cars are disassembled for parts.
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by lgieron 11y ago
I recently saw an article about a study results which said that in Denmark large portion of population is happy with their jobs, and a lot of them would keep the exact same jobs even if winning the lottery. So, in the right culture, people
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by lgieron 11y ago
Also, I've recently bought a USB Bluray drive, and I'm really surprised at how hard they made it to play a freaking Bluray movie on a PC. Even the proprietary and expensive software like PowerDVD is crap (does not play every movie
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by lgieron 11y ago
> I don't know how Amazon decided that visitors to a programming site wanted to look at Batman ads. Machine learning/recommendation systems?
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by lgieron 11y ago
I'm not sure if WoW and similar games fulfill the deep needs of connection and belonging people have (for example, Breivik was pretty much playing WoW 24/7 for a couple years before he moved on to his radicalism and, eventually, m
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by lgieron 11y ago
The terrosist attacks are caused by political, cultural and economic factors, I don't think technology has an important role to play in an eventual solution...
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by lgieron 11y ago
I'm sure you can see that the post linking to the (simplifying) anti-YC blog being accidentally killed by spam filter can raise questions about whether it was really an accident. I'm not saying it was not - I'm just saying th
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by lgieron 11y ago
This comment is shown as fine to me, whereas it really is dead: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10245424 I'd love to hear a non-malicious explanation for that.
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by lgieron 11y ago
I wasn't offensive at all.
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by lgieron 11y ago
My post wasn't downvoted, but was visible only to me (no other user could see it). It looked like a scheme to kill my post without me realising it.
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by lgieron 11y ago
My own post was taken down before, so I'm pretty sure some form of censorship exists. I don't know if it's enforced by mods or implemented otherwise, but that's a minor point.
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by lgieron 11y ago
There seems to be an algorithm which demotes some posters (at least one) voicing opinions unfavorable to YC. EDIT: just got downvoted without any comment. I wonder if I am on the kill list as well.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Doesn't sound too far off from many Java jobs.
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by lgieron 11y ago
I've picked up Scala four years ago. To see which technology is likely to rise, you need to think like big businesses do - in this case, Scala can be seen as a Java++(++++), whereas competing technologies, such as Clojure or Haskel, ar
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by lgieron 11y ago
Given how fit the people in California/NYC are, I'd say gluttony is off the table.
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by lgieron 11y ago
My solution to that is to not upgrade iOS. I too feel pushed with these slow "updates" to just buy a new phone and I refuse to be milked.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Doesn't STL containers make your program slower though (e.g. game devs generally manage memory manually, for better performance)? For something like FFmpeg, that's a valid concern.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Just get hired for a team using Hadoop or Spark, and preferably doing some real-time processing (you might need to study these frameworks in your own time to be able to get such job). On such team, you'll be exposed to all of the conce
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by lgieron 11y ago
Since these cars exceed emission tresholds, they shouldn't be on streets. It's likely that owners will be forced to hand in their cars for a firmware upgrade after which they will be much slower and/or with worse mpg.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Also, there's a lot of contract work in J2EE, which means you can have very flexible schedule (say a couple months of vacation per year), and still make a lot of money.
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by lgieron 11y ago
It would require no operations staff and no maintenance?
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by lgieron 11y ago
> Also, I'm a neurotic so in case of a nuclear winter type of effect I would love to have some nuclear reactor technology going. My guess is that, in case of nuclear winter, the complex societal structures that make operating nuclea
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by lgieron 11y ago
Audi Q5 weights 1850 kg according to wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audi_Q5 ), although this obviously depends on the engine. 2470 kg looks more like maximum allowed weight of car + passengers + cargo.
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by lgieron 11y ago
I think his advice was for people who are so excited about their work that they cannot stop thinking about it on even Saturday evenings.
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by lgieron 11y ago
Why would anyone trust this kind of corporate BS? It baffles me that you even try to take what they say at face value. For me, it's akin to state propaganda in non-democratic countries: everyone knows that whatever authorities say and
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by lgieron 11y ago
Big, estabilished open source projects? Real life programming jobs are usually about working on large and old code bases (these kinds of jobs are also the least desirable, so they could be a good entry point for someone looking to get into

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