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by maratd 11y ago
Let's not kid ourselves, this wasn't some poor sap working for the common good. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L._Leal He was professionally established in leadership positions, both in the private and pu
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by maratd 11y ago
> how does one find good subcontractors or outsource work properly. If you do that, you're not a freelancer ... you're an agency. Different conversation.
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by maratd 11y ago
> Hmm, I had thought the upside of freelancing was to make more money, at the expense of doing all the stuff listed here. No, absolutely not. You won't make more money. You'll only make more money if you bring other people into
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by maratd 11y ago
Downvoting because it's a non-issue. If I'm copying and pasting something from the web into my terminal, it's because I trust the source. It's not any less secure than downloading a tarball and running scripts inside of
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by maratd 11y ago
It's always #2, but just because a feature has been approved for master, doesn't mean all the features approved for master are stable together . A feature might be stable as a standalone, but in virtually every software suite, fe
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by maratd 11y ago
I'm a bit confused, why are you merging things into develop if they're not ready? If Feature B isn't ready, it should stay in its own branch until it is. Develop is for code that the developers say is ready. You might have bu
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by maratd 11y ago
You and a few others made the same comment. Comedians are professionals who read a prepared script. All of them. I was talking about genuine, spontaneous humor. Not in a setting where you're acting and where others know you're act
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by maratd 11y ago
Most entertainers read a script, they're not spontaneously funny. > When someone says, "I like people who make me laugh" When people say that, they're not talking about a professional comedian or even a class clown. T
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by maratd 11y ago
> No but everyone's "funny friend" is. Women aren't looking for comedians. They're looking for men who can still smile when everything around them is turning to shit. So if you can crack a joke when the waiter br
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by maratd 11y ago
That's not it. Being "funny" is actually a great screening test for being "happy". Try to be genuinely funny when you're miserable. You can't. Not let's crack a joke you read on the internet funny, bu
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by maratd 11y ago
That is incorrect. The PRC (People's Republic of China) came into being in 1949. The UN was founded in 1945. That's a 4 year difference. At the time, there was only one China and the government that signed the treaty was the same
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by maratd 11y ago
Yup. From the very beginning. Remember, the UN is a product of WWII. All the winners got a seat at the table.
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by maratd 11y ago
> I didn't propose a solution because it isn't a problem. How would you know? Do you own a business? Have you ever run one? I have and do. Are you talking from experience or are you just talking? > Regulations protect people
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by maratd 11y ago
I think your entire post is a fine example of why you're having difficulty dealing with "sales guys". How to deal with "overly confident" people? You mean assholes? Because when a person is "overly confident&qu
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by maratd 11y ago
> But it pervades this thread. It's full of people who can't imagine even the possibility that a regulation could be created for the good of people instead of with literally evil intent. Who writes the regulations? Ask yourself
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by maratd 11y ago
> Most of these licenses arise because the people practicing them wind up hurting, or even killing people. Correction: Most of these licenses arise because those in the industry want to create a barrier to entry and use examples of moron
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by maratd 11y ago
The data is from the US Citizenship test, so those taking it aren't "Americans" yet and have been specifically studying for the test. I stand by my assertion that the majority of Americans have no clue who Biden is and I swea
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by maratd 11y ago
> There was a thread a while back where software developers told me I was unreasonable to expect them to know who the vice president of the country they lived in was. It is absolutely unreasonable. The average person has no clue who the
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by maratd 11y ago
> There is nothing improper about how we were doing this. You were automating it, weren't you? With bookkeepers, accountants, etc. the login and work done on the system was manual. It was an actual person doing it. In your case, a c
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by maratd 11y ago
> The traditional closed-air mall is in fact dying, in most locales across the country. I'm seeing the exact opposite. > The transition to online shopping reduces the need for trips to the big box "anchor" stores Most o
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by maratd 11y ago
> want to make an actual impact on the world So in your view, there's this mass of people who accomplish nothing useful and then a few who change the world? > Will becoming a software engineer be a step in the right direction?
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by maratd 11y ago
> Is this true? No, it isn't true, but regardless of what format you use, there will always be someone who's not happy. Actually, I think that applies to everything in life.
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by maratd 11y ago
> I suppose I could be wrong here, so I apologize for doubting you, but next time that occurs double check that you bought from the same seller as the Prime seller that's listed when you go back to check. When I had this happen to m
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by maratd 11y ago
The frightening part really is that no actual profitable business wants their labor for free . So they must provide their labor for free to a fake business. That's insane. That means in all probability, their labor is a negative
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by maratd 11y ago
From the page you linked, the very first note. Click that link. Here it is: http://smile.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId... The first line is very important: "Items sold by Amazon.com tha
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by maratd 11y ago
Prime really doesn't have anything to do with 2-day delivery. They wouldn't be able to afford to ship everything by air for free. The advantage of Prime is really that you can have everything shipped for free without worrying abou
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by maratd 11y ago
> Is there some significant advantage to identifying the page with non-human readable identifiers in the query string that I'm not aware of? Sure. When your organization uses a custom CMS and creating pretty URLs requires approval f
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by maratd 11y ago
Yes
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by maratd 11y ago
This is a simple solution to the problem. Paying someone for an hour or two is absolutely nothing for a healthy company. So if the company wants to have you write code to prove your mettle, have them pay you for the time.
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by maratd 11y ago
> The beauty of commenting on HN is that you don't need to provide data or citations, you can just write down anecdotes You didn't finish your thought. The beauty of HN isn't just that. Because immediately after doing that

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