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by notJim 5y ago
> it's very hard for me to imagine someone becoming say a competent web dev without picking at least some basic English along the way, so they can handle at least the documentation and stay in a loop on new tech coming out all the
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by notJim 5y ago
Can the availability of this fuel be scaled readily, or will most people be stuck with leaded fuel still? Can companies other than GAMI make this fuel?
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by notJim 5y ago
And if the price is reasonable, and they can actually deliver them, it will sell like crazy. Most people are looking to get around, not be inspired.
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by notJim 5y ago
That's a bizarre argument. All humans need shelter, whether it's a tent or a house.
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by notJim 5y ago
> cheating involving secret messages in yogur > hiring a hypnotist to be in the audience > hiding a computer in her lip balm This is the kind of thing I'd support as far as cheating being allowed. Lots of intrigue, weird custo
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by notJim 5y ago
I think it would be better if there was a little more of a barrier, like you had to get a prescription from a doctor or addiction counselor, but it was free. I think we should allow people already addicted to use clean/safe drugs in sa
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by notJim 5y ago
> By the way, free mental healthcare doesn’t actually work because many of these folks don’t want help and won’t seek it willingly. There needs to be a way to forcefully separate them from the addictive substance for a time, stabilize th
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by notJim 5y ago
Learning these esoteric languages seems like the opposite of what you want to do if your goal is to create employable engineers in as little time as possible.
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by notJim 5y ago
I agree that Java has a lot of silly boilerplate, but I don't see that as a huge hurdle. Most people will use an IDE that populates it for you. Keep in mind this is for a complete beginner. Dependency management with either Java or Pyt
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by notJim 5y ago
I honestly think these things are somewhat overrated. If you want to work at Google right out of school, maybe they matter more (particularly credentialism.) But I got my first three tech jobs simply by applying on the website, including on
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by notJim 5y ago
I agree with this. It seems like they should start with python or even java to learn the basics in a relatively straightforward environment, but one that also implements a lot of constructs in a fairly standard way. They also both have well
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by notJim 5y ago
> two of our best junior devs (at Arist YC S20) are Lambda School and Ironclad grads I just want to echo this, I have also worked with some really really sharp engineers coming out of these bootcamps. They were also people changing caree
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by notJim 5y ago
I have no problem with this. We should not have to rename ourselves, or change our language because of computers or because of lazy companies' refusal to modernize. Both computers and companies serve us, not the other way around.
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by notJim 5y ago
Two nice coffees per month, not so bad. Can fund it by canceling a rarely-used streaming service.
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by notJim 5y ago
There's no need to get a new TV, unless your Roku TV lacks HDMI ports. Mine has plenty. I've been thinking of moving away from Roku anyway though, because they seem underpowered. Most of the apps on mine are a bit laggy, whereas m
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by notJim 5y ago
This seems to only consider salaries, which means it's basically meaningless. Personally speaking, 2/3 of my take-home pay is RSUs, and that number has risen much faster than my salary.
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by notJim 5y ago
A yellow light is not a stop sign, you are allowed to drive through it if you can make it. And it is safer to do so than to slam on the brakes, which might cause the car behind you to hit you.
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by notJim 5y ago
Traditional insurance companies have been offering a version of this for a while now. Apparently the term of art is usage-based insurance. https://wallethub.com/edu/ci/usage-based-insurance/14118
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by notJim 5y ago
The tremendous scandal here is that the median salary of a union longshoremen is $100k? I'm not sure why this is such a huge problem. Other skilled blue collar work pays in the same ballpark.
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by notJim 5y ago
The comment is difficult to read, and makes a bunch of vague and unsupported arguments that are unrelated to the topic at hand.
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by notJim 5y ago
I take screenshots in Windows all the time. Maybe your keyboard is broken? ;)
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by notJim 5y ago
> I look forward to video players using the TPM preventing screenshots or recording Haven't browsers supported DRM for some time now? Anti-cheat like this has also been around for a long time, with the apocalypse you posit having fa
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by notJim 5y ago
Does anyone know how the actual conversation for something like this goes? I just can't imagine having the chutzpah to ask for a bribe. Is there some kind of euphemistic lingo people use to make it clear they want a bribe without sayin
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by notJim 5y ago
They're not moving away from USB-C, right? It'll still be there, and you'll still be able to charge using it, I thought.
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by notJim 5y ago
I don't understand this dongle stuff. You just buy a USB-C to HDMI cable and plug that in. I don't see how it's any different than buying an HDMI cable. I'm a photographer, so the SD card slot is nice for me personally,
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by notJim 5y ago
If they don't build housing, they will rapidly have all these problems. There's no magic here, no curse on the Bay Area and Seattle, it's all economics, though the geography of SF and Seattle don't help. From cursory Goo
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by notJim 5y ago
> High earners pay an effective tax rate of > 50% How so? I put a salary of $300k in SF here, and came up with 38%: https://smartasset.com/taxes/california-tax-calculator#c0piT... . Obviously Fremont workers do no
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by notJim 5y ago
> Nobody cares. Because they have nothing to lose anyway and will just start over. Because the underlying economic issues did not change. If crypto was only these people, I'd have more sympathy for them. But in reality, it's
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by notJim 5y ago
Overall this sounds very similar to Etsy's sharding setup, which I think descends from Flickr's sharding setup. Interesting that this is still the way to do it.
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by notJim 5y ago
Notion may have a much higher proportion of write volume than stackoverflow, given that most of stackoverflow's traffic must be from people who come in from Google, read the answers, and leave. Notion is productivity app, so I would gu

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