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by lj3 10y ago
> It takes a certain level of life-confidence to just go to an interview with what you know and take the rest head-on. Apparently, I have that kind of confidence. In my experience, confidence is good for winging the personal questions an
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by lj3 10y ago
I worked in factory for a while. Wake up at 7am. Be at work by 8am. Work until 12:30. Half hour for lunch. Work until 4:30. Then your day is OVER. You go home and do whatever the hell you want. The stress is lower, the pay is lower and you
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by lj3 10y ago
> There's just something gladiator-exploitative about the whole mess. In what way? > It's a distraction. From what? That's the weirdest sort of reasoning I've ever heard.
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by lj3 10y ago
What statistics? Nobody's provided any at this point in the conversation. If you have some, feel free to share. Otherwise, I'm going to downvote your comment as unproductive.
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by lj3 10y ago
> there are sports which will cripple your health in long run, almost guaranteed. many contact sports, it football comes to mind. Did you play football? The danger of permanent crippling injury has been blown way out of proportion by hel
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by lj3 10y ago
When I was 16, I was 130. That's after I spent three years in the weight room every day putting on muscle. I played every sport my school offered at least once, but I played football for 8 years. I never regretted it and I encourage ev
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by lj3 10y ago
> soccer players who came in with bruises that you'd associate with a severe beating I was a lacrosse goalie in high school and didn't have the sense to wear shin pads. If you run your fingers along my shin, you'll feel di
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by lj3 10y ago
For precisely that reason. Loans aren't dischargeable via bankruptcy, but the lenders still want their money if the primary loan holder can't or won't pay. It's some insurance that they'll get their money back, espe
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by lj3 10y ago
Why do you suppose your legs went from 60% to 2% so rapidly? Do you think your muscle really depleted in function that quickly, or did your brain cut off the electrical signals to the leg in order to protect it from permanent damage? But yo
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by lj3 10y ago
That only applies to cooked chicken bones, not raw ones.
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by lj3 10y ago
> because part of it has been moved to user mode, so crashing it just means your screen flashes and weird for a second You mean on Linux, right? Because in Windows 10, going full screen in a youtube video on an external screen routinely
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by lj3 10y ago
You know, I don't know. Nvidia and Radeon GPUs are complicated pieces of hardware and, from what I understand, the drivers have more than a decade of development cruft built up. Contrast that with Intel graphics chips. I don't kno
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by lj3 10y ago
> Am ... am I falling in love with Windows? Spend some time with it again. You'll learn to hate it just as much as you did the first time around. For me, it's because of a single factor: BSOD caused by shitty geforce drivers. I
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by lj3 10y ago
> I repeat, a competitively priced motorcycle would upend the market and make you a very very rich. There are dozens of cheap chinese knockoff electric scooters available in Asia. Upend the market? Please. > Imagine being able to char
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by lj3 10y ago
Doubtful. There are dozens if not hundreds of guys who have made their own electric motorcycles[0]. Getting it to production is a whole other ballgame, one that only two companies out of dozens have managed to pull off (Zero and Brammo). [0
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by lj3 10y ago
I'd create an alternative mobile OS from the ground up. I've become disillusioned with iOS and Android both. Neithor of them nor any of the alternatives make full use of the hardware. Phones are capable of doing so much, yet in pr
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by lj3 10y ago
For anyone interested, I hear gopher is making a comeback.
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by lj3 10y ago
I'm convinced that most companies have the application processes they have because it gives them the candidates they want. The reason the application process at some companies is so one-sided, non-transparent and makes you jump through
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by lj3 10y ago
Wherever obama got his from. I'm guessing a CDC report. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/05/obama-adm... And there's this chart https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-
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by lj3 10y ago
> If I were France I would start bricking up the chunnel tomorrow. The "migrants" are already working on it. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3651956/Hundreds-mig...
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by lj3 10y ago
Being one of "those people", sure. It's a statistical fact that the countries with the strictest gun control laws have the most murders per capita. America actually sits at the bottom of that list, with one of the lowest murd
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Why Gun Control Can't Be Solved in the USA(blog.dilbert.com)
10 points by lj3 10y ago|2 comments
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by lj3 10y ago
> in the tech industry you are often rewarded for changing your job regularly. That only works when you're early in your career (< 5 years experience, beginner to intermediate). You hit a wall fairly quickly after that. Also, in
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by lj3 10y ago
Fart apps. You're welcome.
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by lj3 10y ago
RAD Game Tools seems to be doing just fine.
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by lj3 10y ago
Quotes from OA, from a later post in that same forum: "I was told the hiring manager was very keen to make me an offer but I have to travel about 4 to 5 hours to their office for onsite final interview." "Yes, it&#x27
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by lj3 10y ago
tsk tsk tsk, somebody didn't read the whole thread. I highlighted the juicy bits. I was told the hiring manager was very keen to make me an offer but I have to travel about 4 to 5 hours to their office for onsite final interview.
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by lj3 10y ago
Why, are you looking to make one yourself or are you hoping one already exists so you can use it? :)
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by lj3 10y ago
Here's a curious question: was there a need for sunrise? Between iCal, google calendar and Outlook, the calendaring market seems pretty full and perfectly functional. Is there something I'm missing?
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by lj3 10y ago
I prefer the 'dark playground'[0] explanation. It's more useful at understanding and coming up with different ways of dealing with it when those listed in the shyal article fail. [0]: http://waitbutwhy.com/201

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