matt_o

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by matt_o 4y ago
That's somewhat of a misrepresentation of what Marx wrote. When Marx lived in 19th century England, he saw first hand the effects of laissez faire capitalism: workers working themselves to death, workers dying by the score in industria
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by matt_o 4y ago
This idea was completely alien to me until I experienced it first hand. The F in FAANG puts emphasis on putting things like weekly/monthly status reports, incident investigation (even minor ones), and other useful information into 100-
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by matt_o 5y ago
This is why I get my general news from the likes of Reuters and Associated Press. I've found that these have more facts and much less opinion. Then, when I want someone's take on something, from someone I trust, I get it from subs
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by matt_o 6y ago
You picked a small fragment of the OP's argument and turned it into a strawman. For example, you dropped the whole "making an informed assessment of the risks" part, which is pretty important to the whole message. You bring u
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by matt_o 6y ago
It seems to me that, if negotiation leverage is the crucial factor here, then wouldn't the US and EU be in a similar spot? The EU's economy is roughly the same size as the US's[0], but the EU has roughly a little over 445 mil
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by matt_o 6y ago
> I currently work at Google, previously I worked at Square. Of the two, I generally prefer the OSS and off-the-shelf tooling at Square. I wrapped a 2-year stint at Facebook recently and my experience was similar to yours. Some tools we
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by matt_o 6y ago
> Also, why is US hegemony a good thing? What good is it for the 96% of the world that is not the US? To paraphrase Churchill: "The US hegemony is the worst hegemony for the world, except for all the other hegemonies." The US r
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by matt_o 6y ago
> Listen, personally I would recommend you visit countries abroad for a change - like China, Russia, India or Europe (pick any they are all nice) and leave your US bubble. Russia invaded Georgia in 2008[0]. Russia has taken over Crimea,
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by matt_o 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote - expat in GMT+1 Hi, I'm Matt and I help people out with their legacy Python application problems. I squash bugs, refactor code to increase development velocity, upgrade application components, troubleshoot perfor
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by matt_o 10y ago
Django does have some really clean code and it is very easy to navigate. I feel like I only grokked Django after I started going through its internals. I also highly recommend giving Tornado[0] and Bottle[1] a read. Outside of the the web s
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by matt_o 10y ago
I had to fill out this form: "Fragebogen zur steuerlichen Erfassung" and I have to report my VAT using the Elster system monthly, even though my VAT is always 0 (my clients are all outside of the EU). I went this way after consult
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by matt_o 10y ago
Well, my "self-employement" form was actually 8 pages long and it featured a lot more items than address, name, purpose and processing it took about 4 weeks. To be fair, I could start my business as soon as I sent that out, but I
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by matt_o 10y ago
It's actually 25000 euros. This was somewhat fixed with the introduction of the mini-GmbH (GmbH - something like Ltd.), but a mini-GmbH comes with some extra strings attached, so it's still very far from a UK Ltd. or a US LLC in t
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by matt_o 10y ago
Good points. I'd just like to add two more points: FNV's storyline is a lot more morally ambiguous and there's a lot more humor in it. This moral ambiguity is present in most Obsidian games and it makes for a completely diffe
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by matt_o 10y ago
S. Lem - The Tales of Pirx the Pilot. I was all of 12 or so when I read it and I was expecting the usual sci-fi hero-space-disaster-monsters-ingenuity-victory thing. About a third way in I realized it wasn't sci-fi, but a book about li
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Two Years as a High School Mentor(nullprogram.com)
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by matt_o 10y ago
SEEKING WORK - remote - US expat in GMT+1 Hi, I'm Matt and I help people out with their legacy Python application problems. I squash bugs, refactor code to increase development velocity, upgrade application components, troubleshoot per
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by matt_o 10y ago
I too would like to know of a modern equivalent. Magazines are able to deliver something that blogs often can't - like pieces of work that have been refined, and then refined again by an editor. Or diverse topics that still fall within
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by matt_o 10y ago
I think it's bad, mainly because it was built at the end of the 19th century and since then it's calcified. It's like having legacy code and instead of refactoring it when you need to make changes, you build more stuff on tha
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by matt_o 10y ago
Elixir has _something_ similar: Behaviors - http://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavio... While this isn't exactly what you like, I thought I'd throw it out there because I find it a fair su
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by matt_o 10y ago
Thanks! I'll look into that! I'll still have to take care of taxes locally here (tax residency, grumbles), which are the biggest time sink. Maybe I should hop the border into the Czech Rep. :)
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by matt_o 10y ago
> I suspect the community might become more Europe-oriented, because it’s more difficult to get funding here and there are more bootstrapped businesses as a result. It's also a lot harder to set up any sort of business in most place
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by matt_o 11y ago
I feel like this is a part of a trend that reflects how github itself is changing - slowly making access to things harder, then finally removing it. Github used to have an awesome and public way to explore projects ( http://web.ar
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by matt_o 11y ago
SEEKING WORK Remote: Yes Relocation: No Location: GMT+1 (US expat, traveling) Python/Web Developer Hi! I have 3 years of mixed Python (Django/scripting), Ruby on Rails, and DevOps experience. Throughout this time I've built w
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by matt_o 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote Location: GMT+1 (US expat, traveling) Python Developer / DevOps Hi! I have 3 years of mixed Python (Django/scripting), Ruby on Rails, and DevOps experience. Throughout this time I've built web apps (back