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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I suspect this happens in all technical professions as things advance: you learn first principles and low level implementations in a formal training program/degree, but the demands of the industry to be productive require that you use
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Just get into _something_. Time spend writing code is way more important than the language you use.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
They weren't. The account had the SSN. The payment came under the other SSN. The filing was joint with both of our SSNs through the accountant. The agent I finally got on the phone after days confirmed that the problem was some mismatc
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Not that it literally pays the rent, but I think having a TF on your resumé is probably at least as good in a competitive job market as a top tier college diploma.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Not disputing anything you're saying, which is that the TF isn't quite a "Horatio Alger" fund, but I still think there's a lot of value in diverting people away from college who don't really want or need to be
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
We did include both, but we either had to make an account under one of our names, or the check had a name that didn't match on another spot (it was quite a while ago). Despite the IRS having our filing records, they couldn't match
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Maybe. Or maybe a lot of people will leave refunds on the table because the software will be bad at helping people identify their deductions. Also, my wife paid a joint filing online under my SSN, and the system couldn't figure that ou
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
If every civilian didn't pay his taxes, the bomb order couldn't be funded. Non-proximal moral causality breaks down pretty fast when there are alternate non-evil uses of resources.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I'm not here to shill for the police, but in my former city, it was not unusual for certain kinds of businesses which had a history of being the source of rowdy behavior to be required by the community board to take certain measures to
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
It's an annoying layer on top, but I think the core (highly searchable centralized network of job seekers and employers) is still very valuable.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
It television viewing correlated with a rise in teen mental illness, I'd say the two would be comparable.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
We didn't push it on children: that's an executive decision.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Organized religion, though it is on the decline, is also a very important vector for socializing. So are local sports leagues. The key is frequent exposure to the same people breeding familiarity. I'm in your boat, a little older, and
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
To be clear, I mean that when you apply for jobs, try to convey these trusted people in your life as much as you can about the role - conversations you've had, things you saw on a site visit, public info about the company, and ask whet
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Have kids. It'll put things in a different perspective what it means to work 40 hrs./week.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Did you by any chance read Aldous Huxley's "The Island"? The moral is that a utopia where tolerance for plurality is permitted is ideologically incapable of defending itself from external threats.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
... and still, he doesn't find talking to her relaxing at the end of the day. Unless he is incapacitated or dead, definitely a huge red flag.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Either develop a better intuition for when people are lying and how ti read between the lines, or use friends, family, and associates you can trust who can do so.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I'd leave, and prioritize a functional organization in my next job requirements.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I think that is besides the point. If there is no adequate enough training in the work flow or basic tooling concepts for employees such that this is what people are doing with git, there are probably serious problems afoot with best practi
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
The upside to all of this is that large monopolistic corporations in an industry can be utterly vanquished by much smaller competitors who focus on hiring productive, capable people who work really well with one another. And it doesn't
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
> I personally don't care what FAANG does. They all sound like horrible companies to work for, and I don't care for the products they produce either. They're still market movers: if they dump a lot of talent, that will aff
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I think the chance is fairly high. Remember, compelled attrition by making doesn't have to be announced as a layoff. Hence the MS salary freezes.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
I've thought about this a lot as a dev. IMHO, no, and the main reason is a strong resistance to standardization: in OS platforms that we work on, software libraries to do basic things that we include, education credentials, and QA. We
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
> On the whole people commit crime because they are desperate (for money, for drugs, etc.) occasionally because they have an anti-social personality disorder. Most poor people do not commit crimes, which is what you would expect if that
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
It's not like his prints were found on the trail - they were on an actual ransom note.
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Contrary to what gripping television shows depict, most criminals aren't that intelligent. That said, it's pretty dangerous to let your kid go out alone in a state park - not just because of stranger danger, but they could simply
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
> that whole Freudian paradigm based on sex seems like it could have come from a different civilization That's pretty much the point Freud makes in "Civilization and its Discontents": we as a species have all our lower ani
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
You have to stack long COVID against the long term mental health and social effects of lockdown, including but not limited to the atrocious loss of learning in school children, domestic abuse situations that spiraled, and an already alarmin
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by lr4444lr 3y ago
Is big agra really any better?

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