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by mercer 5y ago
(paid) work or leisure is a false dichotomy. What people want, and what fulfils them, is meaningful activity, not 'work' in itself. Work can provide meaning in various ways (care for colleagues, creative expression, a 'goal&#
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by mercer 5y ago
What makes a problem 'real' to you? Honest question.
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by mercer 5y ago
To add more anecdata, I've heard of an increase in people seeking help for addiction issues (alcohol, weed). I imagine many of them perhaps were problematic in their use already, but the pandemic made things bad enough to seek help.
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by mercer 5y ago
> Had I done my due diligence, I wouldn't even have bothered commenting. I so wish you would have done that before posting most of your comments.
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by mercer 5y ago
While that's definitely a valid approach, it does have the downside of making you more of a manager. I've done both, but eventually stuck with raising my rates (for now) because I much prefer working on some interesting projects m
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by mercer 5y ago
My experience is that most Elixir devs are very excited about their language of choice, but also fair about the pros and cons. In fact, I've been surprised by this compared to the many other language ecosystems I've explored. For
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by mercer 5y ago
It's like the "Liar, Lunatic, or Lord" argument used by the likes of C.S. Lewis to argue that Jesus Christ is, in fact, the son of God or otherwise just terrible all-around. I remember growing up as an Evangelical Christian,
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by mercer 6y ago
I played Civ 2 for many hours, but after Alpha Centauri I could never get back to the Civ series. Been meaning to check it out again, but my experience with Civ 3 and 4 just wasn't as enjoyable after having played AC.
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Elixir Is Safe(dockyard.com)
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by mercer 6y ago
I've seen at least a few Elixir jobs where they explicitly specify that you don't need to have experience specifically with Elixir. Don't know how common it is though, and it's true that finding Elixir work can be diffic
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by mercer 6y ago
from my experience, Rails is not really much part of the general discussion in Elixir/Phoenix world. Sure, a number of us came from Rails, and lots of 'new to the community' discussions might hit on that, but that's a fa
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by mercer 6y ago
Nice idea! I remember in my first month or two of therapy, my therapist basically kept training me to list 3 things to be grateful for, and I was mostly annoyed about how much of the therapy was about that. But, it turned out to be very eff
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by mercer 6y ago
> I keep hearing the argument that the plugin community appears to be dead, but I've never had any issues. As someone who moved from Sublime to VSCode, my experience was that I didn't exactly 'miss' crucial stuff in t
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by mercer 6y ago
Haha, playing around with reversing flags was the first thing I thought about trying.
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by mercer 6y ago
I was so curious to see if the website would have a shopping cart, and what would happen if I added one or two EUV lithography machines to it...
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by mercer 6y ago
If Google penalized slow sites, they'd get to say that. I agree that none of this explains the need for AMP.
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by mercer 6y ago
I'm of two minds when it comes to this issue. I quite liked Fight Club precisely because in my younger years it was 'macho porn', but it left me with some thoughts that later on bloomed into understanding that the film is rea
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by mercer 6y ago
The person you're responding to doesn't seem to place moral considerations high on his list, in general.
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by mercer 6y ago
all the old people around here flagrantly disregarding the covid rules is definitely something that has soured the perspective younger people around here, who do observe the rules, have of the elderly. every time I go shopping or to the mar
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by mercer 6y ago
For anyone interested in this era, I can recommend the four-part series hosted by Radio War Nerd: https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/war-nerd-radio-subscriber... . The podcast in general is quite interesting, even if yo
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by mercer 6y ago
I keep forgetting how awful most Dilbert strips are.
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by mercer 6y ago
Or Russian!
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by mercer 6y ago
Macs don't have a right Ctrl, unfortunately.
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by mercer 6y ago
I feel you're making a distinction that some people decided to make, but that is not really widely shared by others to warrant imposing it. I see you also posted two differently-titled links to your "Data Oriented Programming&quot
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by mercer 6y ago
While I agree with other replies to your comment that the internet became prolific/mainstream much faster than the printing press, I think your point still stands when looking at things from the perspective of a human life or culture.
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say while that's true, it's a reaction the 'liberals' essentially having won. Biden one, one of the most right-wing of Democrats, instead of Bernie. Most of the 'left' seems very deflated, based on ar
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by mercer 6y ago
You're in my "show new comments from particular users" Telegram bot, and I find you to be among the better commenters here, so you're definitely not shouting into the void :).
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by mercer 6y ago
I'd say based on the number of friends I have who use old or cheap Android phones with terrible latency, it really was the touch screen and UI/UX that played the main role. Sure, for many, iPhones are still preferred because of th
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by mercer 6y ago
I disagree in that internet on the original iPhone was terrible, and everyone I knew who bought one didn't really do much browsing on it. It was the UI/UX. Being able to touch-drag was so different from the indirectness of the but
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by mercer 6y ago
Obama is very much not a leftist.

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