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by lj3 9y ago
> And also, if someone was murdered a few blocks down and then you refuse to say anything and say that you want your lawyer, won't that just needlessly make them suspect you for the murder? You watch too much TV. I know it's ha
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by lj3 10y ago
> An incurious person who only learns new stuff when it's forced on them will eventually lose relevance. There's always one of these comments when this topic comes up. It's simply not true. There are lots of people still w
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by lj3 10y ago
Survivorship bias. There are plenty of older engineers who are still quite curious on the unemployment line.
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by lj3 10y ago
She prefers to use firefox, but Gmail works better in Chrome and her bank's site works better in IE. You're correct in that nothing works better in firefox, but it's what she's used to.
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by lj3 10y ago
> I never understood why westerners like orange light. It doesn't interrupt our circadian rhythms at night the way blue light does. We westerners also have an obsession with street lights. Unless you live someplace where your neares
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by lj3 10y ago
No, he's not. My mother runs Firefox, Chrome and IE. She uses each one for different sites because certain sites only work well on certain browsers. PS: The idea that the web has parity is a joke. It doesn't.
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by lj3 10y ago
Damn, how remote are we talking here? I live in the middle of nowhere in New York State (1 hour drive to the nearest town, 2 to the nearest C-list city, 4 to Toronto, 10 to NYC). We've had high speed cable internet since 1999. > You
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by lj3 10y ago
But that violates the narrative they're pushing, that 'passion' should matter more than money. Another clever way they keep dev salaries down.
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by lj3 10y ago
My experience tells me the opposite. Approaching a senior level guy in person can be intimidating when you're just starting out. Sending that same senior engineer a chat message on whatever what message system the company uses is consi
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by lj3 10y ago
You need to take advantage of the proximity and network! Preferably upwards. Befriending the QA guy may make your life easier now, but he's not going to be the one who can offer you a job in 5 years time.
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by lj3 10y ago
> A disturbing number fail there That's the problem. :) This has been beaten to death, but I'll say it again: the interview process of most companies are designed to weed out all but the top 1% of applicants nation wide . If y
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by lj3 10y ago
The problem is "web developer" is a junior role now. Nobody hires web developers with 10 years of experience unless they know the underlying "software engineer" stuff to go along with it. The market is flooded with bootc
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by lj3 10y ago
Funny. What I got from his response is that you're still wrong. He just said it in a nicer way than the rest of us.
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by lj3 10y ago
> anti-social behavior You say anti-social behavior. The courts say 'maximizing shareholder value'.
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by lj3 10y ago
> they are too difficult to use, lack important features That would be the two reasons nobody messes with XMPP anymore. The reason most of those protocols wound up on the trash heap is a lack of competent stewardship. Too much design by
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by lj3 10y ago
Ah, I see. I think your comment about 'Not something I would casually drop into my backpack' is what threw me. You want something you can slip into a pocket. I had an HP Jornada 680 and a Nokia N800 with a bluetooth keyboard back
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by lj3 10y ago
You mean like the Dasung Paperlike[0]? Consensus from the writers I know is it's pretty awesome. Not a lot of programmers use them at this point because it's black and white, so there's no syntax highlighting. It's also
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by lj3 10y ago
Are we looking at the same video? The video should be the Onyx BOOX Typewriter. It's the size of a tablet and a keyboard cover. It's a HUGE improvement over the last entry I saw in this space, the hemingwrite[0]. [0]: https:&#x2F
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by lj3 10y ago
I've biked in several major American cities and nowhere have I ever heard of a cyclist getting tackled and punched by a motorist. I've gotten yelled at and had stuff thrown at me by angry motorists, but nothing like what Russ saw
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by lj3 10y ago
> We were pretty much shocked because we naively thought that in such a beautiful and clean country everybody is running / biking all the time. Surprisingly, NZ is not a good place for cycling. A guy and his wife[0] did a world cycl
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by lj3 10y ago
Just out of curiosity, what would it take for you to conclude you had found a good c/kernel/network programmer?
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by lj3 10y ago
> Look into Australian police tactics if you think racial makeup is the prime driver of militaristic police tactics. Nowhere did I say anything of the sort. At least Australia is a better comparison than the EU or UK. And I agree with yo
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by lj3 10y ago
In the US?
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by lj3 10y ago
> I've simply made some suggestions and you've thrown "you're wrong" at me without any evidence to support your assertion. I haven't quoted the mathematical proof that 2 + 2 = 4 either. Next you'll be a
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by lj3 10y ago
> That is an ostensible reason. Another is to correct the inequality caused by societal pressures discouraging women from pursuing careers in tech. Where's the social movement to correct the inequality caused by societal pressures d
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by lj3 10y ago
> I don't think this is the differentiating factor. Good for you. Multiple studies and the FBI's own crime statistics prove you wrong. > Plus, the US is extremely individualistic, while European countries tend to be more com
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by lj3 10y ago
Which one? And before you answer, you must choose a model from a country with similar demographics to the US. Saying Japan's or Sweden's model works for them isn't going to do us much good.
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by lj3 10y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges. EU and Asian countries are ethnically homogeneous. You need to compare America to other melting pots, like Brazil and Argentina.
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by lj3 10y ago
Privatized law enforcement. That has the ring of sanity to it.
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by lj3 10y ago
> America has the police culture it has because the American people wanted it. I disagree. This has been used as a rationale for all sorts of nasty things, like replacing American culture with a globalist culture that's going to be

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