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by novel 10y ago
For those who are bored with the "new opportunity" emails from Google and maybe other companies: rather than trolling recruiters with obnoxious responses, you can just ask them to add you to the non-contact/ignore list and mo
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by novel 10y ago
>> > 20-year-old white guys with no responsibilities and/or with enough income to "buy" more free time > Good old racism and man hate is doing just fine. This is a strange generalization indeed. Esp. considering t
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by novel 10y ago
> Everyone knows this is bad for improvement and health, but company owners keep pushing everyone with salary and punishment, along with moral pressure, that only fighting this way, the company can survive in the big race in almost every
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by novel 10y ago
yeah, esp. when he says "too little done"...
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by novel 10y ago
Mutt is a very nice MUA that I use daily. The only thing that is bugging me is its slowness when working with large mailboxes. Opening an IMAP mailbox with 100.000+ messages takes 60-90 seconds. And caching does not make things much faster.
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by novel 11y ago
Beware, once you learn some of the git useful patterns and features, most likely you'll start feeling very uncomfortable when you have to go back to svn ;)
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by novel 11y ago
probably because the pool of candidates for positions that imply better wage is much smaller and it's harder to find and recruit a candidate, so such small things like free beer and snacks become more important? ps also, most likely wa
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by novel 11y ago
Agreed. I follow this topic for quite some time already, but I cannot understand few fundamental things. I understand that indeed people could have "issues" because of their gender, race or some other quality. I support they in th
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by novel 16y ago
I believe that while LinkedIn is useful and having it won't hurt in any ways, having resume is also necessary. I cannot say a receive lots of work requests, but the usual pattern for me is that HR people find me on LinkedIn somehow, contact
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by novel 16y ago
What's terrible with 72 char wrapping? 72 char wrapped text looks almost like an average printed book or pdf for example and reads perfectly well. And people who have really large screens could use vertical splits or maybe tilling window ma
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by novel 16y ago
Was never much into coffee, so only drink not strong coffee with milk in the morning. During the day I drink pure water and black tea with strawberry of maybe fruits, something like that. In the evening I drink fat-free kefir ( http://en.wi
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by novel 16y ago
I wonder why programmers think so much about keyboards. My speed is about 65-70WPM as typeracer shows. I'm pretty comfortable with that and can reach the speed on almost any more or less sane qwerty keyboard. I don't feel like I will be way
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by novel 16y ago
I wonder why would one want to put an effort into making people feel like they're most important person in the room? Obviously, there are a lot of interesting people around, why spend time and energy into communicating with others?
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by novel 16y ago
IMHO, there is a difference between 'release' something and 'upload on github'. When you releasing stuff, yeah, it should be briefly documented at least, but when you just upload some new thing to hack on it, it's not the same at all.
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by novel 16y ago
Moreover, you have to be careful when uploading new code, when a new idea strikes into your head and you quickly implement a prototype, probably not in a very clean way and without unittests and stuff. This doesn't go well in conjunction wi
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by novel 16y ago
I have an impression that FreeBSD are being strongly supplanted by Linux in these days of virtualization. There were times where jails ruled the parties, but now these days are over and Linux has a number of great virtualization solutions l