magissima

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by magissima 8y ago
Tens of thousands of subscribers isn't very many.
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by magissima 8y ago
Maybe it was just the people I interacted with, but the more time I spent on twitter the more I became convinced that a lot of people were proud of being lonely and miserable. It was big part of why I quit.
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by magissima 8y ago
It's rare to see Amazon as a positive comparison these days, at least on HN. I was expecting the article to be about how Meadow was strangling the life out of its competitors or abusing its market dominance or something.
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by magissima 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying that your opinion was humble while insulting me. I was thinking of when I was getting my first job out of school, when I did three final interviews and landed one. The thing with the homework is that it typically comes
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by magissima 8y ago
If you're only applying to one job and you get it, sure. But when you're looking for a new job and sending out dozens of resumes, it adds up pretty quickly! On top of that, it makes rejections all the more dispiriting when you spe
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by magissima 9y ago
Doesn't this also describe amazon?
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by magissima 9y ago
I can't comment on Walmart specifically, but from my experience working in a warehouse for a couple months it seems that Amazon is totalitarian in a way your average crappy low-skill job isn't.
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by magissima 9y ago
I had never heard that before either. I've been using the same one for like a year now, which is definitely too long now that I think about it, but 3 weeks?
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by magissima 9y ago
Even if focusing on currently uncurable conditions like cancer isn't a bad thing in itself, it means that a cure for cancer would be disastrous for the bottom line of biotech companies that follow this strategy. It's not just a di
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by magissima 9y ago
Tae Kim's Guide to Learning Japanese is what I used when I was starting out. Iirc it's pretty focused on grammar without a lot of fluff or a specific program, but if you already have a decent grip on grammar generally and like lea
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by magissima 9y ago
The person who compiled it is Japanese
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by magissima 9y ago
Personally I can't think of anything that warrants that treatment more than KoRn lyrics.
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by magissima 9y ago
For that matter, I take issue with the idea that Shakespearean English is any more elegant or functional than contemporary English. I would consider the poorly standardized spelling and, to an extent, grammar, to be pretty damn inelegant!
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by magissima 9y ago
> consider these two groups of shell users: > 1. People who use shell to type a few commands here and there. > 2. People who write scripts, which may get into the hundreds or even thousands of lines. > Oil is aimed at group 2. I