notapenny

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by notapenny 5y ago
Letting him threaten and invade any country he wants because he doesn't want said country to do something that isn't in accordance with his will doesn't seem like a good idea either.
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by notapenny 5y ago
That must be nice. An uncle of mine had a room filled with books (he was a teacher and an avid reader). The room had a real library smell to it, was really nice.
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by notapenny 5y ago
Did a rough count just now but about 200. I've actually begun marking a ton of them as ready to be tossed/donated because I just don't have space anymore. About 75 of them are programming related, books I bought or school boo
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by notapenny 5y ago
Lol, yeah that's a good question. I guess that goes for just about anything including our thoughts on the topic. I guess that's up to the reader.
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by notapenny 5y ago
Yes to all for me as well. Though to be fair on actions v. words, even if the two don't match up, I wouldn't say it invalidates the words. It'd just make the person uttering them a hypocrite or a liar. Or maybe just someone w
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by notapenny 5y ago
No you're pointing to the logic of the argument which the parent doubts, and indeed doesn't seem to be that much of a statement very few people agree on. If you read my comment again, I was referring to why that needs to be follow
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by notapenny 5y ago
I suppose for people like Thiel it is a good question because he's an entrepreneur/VC. Looking for opinions that no one holds but may present an investment opportunity is what he's looking for.
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by notapenny 5y ago
Why is that noteworthy with regards to the article or the question? Is it just so you can try to invalidate his point by using the phrase "anti-democratic political right wing"?
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by notapenny 5y ago
I'm reading it right now. Does that mean I get a pay raise? :D
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by notapenny 5y ago
Knowing Dijkstra's algorithm off the top of your hand doesn't show a general competence in computing. It shows that you've memorised Dijkstra's algorithm and can get through leetcode "problems". Does the person
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by notapenny 5y ago
This article is a key example of why I can barely stand to read U.S. media anymore; the authors' bias drips over it. Everything is regarded in terms of "the left" vs. "the right", us versus them. Within the introduc
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by notapenny 5y ago
"It's safer to become a podcaster than tell a good joke". Too bad this by-line isn't actually explored. Instead, we slide into calling Joe Rogan and Russel Brand anti-vaxxers (not directly of course), misinformation, etc
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by notapenny 5y ago
You don't want to scare away the candidate, but the alternative is worse; i.e. you either lie or downplay the issues in your organisation. As a potential candidate, this tells me you and/or the organisation cannot be trusted. Our
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by notapenny 5y ago
I wonder what the reason was to move to Vue in the first place. We had similar discussions in a company I worked for, but most of the senior devs decided that trying to align frameworks for the sake of everyone working in the same one didn&
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by notapenny 5y ago
"And we'll be free from having to learn a new JS framework every 6 months" You are already free from this. The only one putting that pressure on you, is you. Pick something and stick with it, and spend your time learning _how
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by notapenny 5y ago
Indeed, focus on what to build and how to build it. What you build it in is largely irrelevant.
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by notapenny 5y ago
"I think" sums it up nicely. It's not a fact, its your opinion. Maybe it was actually designed stupidly, or maybe someone just made a different choice given a different set of circumstances.
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by notapenny 5y ago
If you let that feeling in for a bit, can you figure out why you feel like you're wasting your time? Is it inefficiency or just plain waste? I felt this way about Diablo 3 for a bit, at some point I thought "I could've learne
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by notapenny 5y ago
You have the option to do all of these things. I went back to school in the evenings when I was your age after being unfulfilled in my career. Turns out part-time education is full of people ranging from 20-somethings who chose the wrong ca
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by notapenny 5y ago
I started reading about the universe and everything in it sometime last year. I was in a shit place due to some stuff in our family, but I found it liberating as well, to think about how small we are in the scale of things or against the ti
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by notapenny 5y ago
You have time. You're 35. Realistically that means you've probably worked about 10 years and still have about 30 to go. Relax. You've got some money saved; I was in a similar situation a few years ago and took a sabbatical ye
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by notapenny 5y ago
"I fail to see how anyone can seriously listen to Joe Rogan". Maybe you should start there. It pays to learn to empathise with and try to understand other people. You don't have to like someone else, but its not that hard to
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by notapenny 5y ago
Might I ask what "fringe people" are? I've watched his podcast and he certainly has a whole spectrum of people on. He may have his opinions and biases, but a person is allowed that right? Who are these fringe people, people w
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by notapenny 5y ago
Predictably, people who are fine with censorship try to frame it as just business. A shoe store not selling books is your argument? Really? Spotify didn't decide they don't want to offer those episodes, they decided to do so after
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by notapenny 5y ago
"What's that? I can't hear you over how much money I'm making" I pretty much only look at messages or invites once per week and don't use it for anything else anymore. The constant self-congratulation is indeed
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by notapenny 5y ago
I'd cut that whole message down to this: "Thanks for reaching out, could you send along the company name, a job description and total compensation details for the role?" Get to the core of what you're asking. The rest of
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by notapenny 5y ago
I chuckle at something similar where books on programming languages are titled "The Definitive Guide to <Insert Programming Language>". Our industry changes, and fast. Everything is chaos.
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by notapenny 5y ago
Youtube is the reason I installed an adblocker in the first place. I don't mind watching an ad, but at some point they went from an ad every other video, to unskippable ads in-front of every video (love a 1m ad on every 10s video when
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by notapenny 5y ago
Thanks for clearing that up, had to look around a bit but this clears it up https://road.cc/content/news/press-misrepresents-highway-cod... "It is already an offence to open a car door, or cause or permit it
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by notapenny 5y ago
For those to lazy to read, it's basically opening the car door with the hand furthest from the door. This automatically turns your shoulder/eyesight and makes it easier to look for passing cyclists. Its taught as a good practice i

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