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by ok_coo 7y ago
Don’t hate the player, hate the game. :) I would do the same if I felt I had to.
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Your son's situation sounds a lot like my own, but I am married and maybe am a bit more responsible than him. :) So, we're a couple that doesn't want to / plan to have children and we've discussed the "getting
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by ok_coo 7y ago
My personal anecdata is that I started saving more money and contributing more to my 401K after I got a substantial raise from switching jobs. Before that? The majority of my income went to expenses and keeping my head above water. There ar
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by ok_coo 7y ago
I started doing PHP dev during the 5.2, 5.3 times and since 7, it feels much better to program in. It even has RoR-like frameworks like Laravel. So, use Symfony or Laravel if you need to use PHP. It has some historical baggage that some peo
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Because in America the free market applies to everything except for labor. /s Seriously though, in the US practically every other option is considered before wages are raised. Wage suppression is real even if people don't want to
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by ok_coo 7y ago
This typically means 5 paid days off per year. The rest is maybe paid holiday that other people get like Christmas. All other days taken off are unpaid and subject to approval. This was what I got at my first office job in the US.
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by ok_coo 7y ago
I understand the sentiment but there are many good organizations that do positive things with people's money, like the ACLU, etc.
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by ok_coo 7y ago
I find this observation interesting because, in my own biased perspective, people are finding it more and more difficult to compromise. And maybe that's because we're not forced to compromise with people to live our lives anymore.
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Agreed. As an added bonus, if they really need him to fix something, they can contract it out to him. And if he doesn't want anything to do with them anymore, he can just charge a high enough rate that they'll bugger off after the
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Search engines could bias towards our preferences as consumers if they weren't a monopoly and didn't sell/place ads in the search results. That's the problem with Google and I think we're too far down this path for
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Correct. I guess I wasn't clear. I'm talking about the personalizing of search results based upon search history, search terms, personally and in aggregate. Not based upon the structure of the web itself.
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by ok_coo 7y ago
We could start with what they had before they started biasing results based upon user activity. i.e. What search engines like DuckDuckGo do.
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by ok_coo 7y ago
You make a compelling argument that Google is biased against new entrants into market(s). How are people supposed to know about these products/services if Google is showing what people already like? i.e. incumbents. They are forced to
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Thinking about myself when I was that age, the biggest problem is that they don't know what they don't know. (myself included) And I'm still there, there's a ton I still don't know but looking back, it was egregious
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by ok_coo 7y ago
These would be big problem, but even worse is that you wouldn't know if they know. Like getting ghosted after a job interview. You will have _no idea_ what caused the rejection. Or, as to your examples, you will have no idea if and&#x2
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Yep, one of the hardest and most important things in life is the ability to agree/compromise with people you have fundamental issues with. This is one of those cases and his tweet is correct, they can just wait this out until the next
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by ok_coo 7y ago
This is the part that's going to bite them when antitrust comes around. They are largely unaccountable and there's no real way to get a hold of a human being unless you shame them on social media and it gets enough traction.
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Even worse, in this model they can effectively just build in the cost of the fines in the business model. It's just a cost of doing business at this point. I'm sorry, but this shit isn't going to end until the U.S. actually p
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by ok_coo 7y ago
Listen to this NY Times podcast and tell me you're comfortable flying in these planes. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/23/podcasts/the-daily/boeing...
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by ok_coo 8y ago
40+er here. I feel similarly. I wouldn't say I'm happier but I definitely worry a lot less about saying "no" and BS in general. What's weird to me is that I never felt that transition happen. It just seems to have o
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by ok_coo 8y ago
I'm not saying you're able to do this at your current workplace, but if I was stuck in this type of situation, I would heavily advocate for the ability to work from home at least 1-2 days a week. Having worked in an open office li
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by ok_coo 8y ago
Are they given time during normal work hours to grow? Are they given adequate assistance and resources? Is training a priority? I've run into two different situations in my work life: a) You should learn new tech and keep up, but it&#x
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by ok_coo 8y ago
For me, this was the biggest fail of Facebook and the main reason why I stopped using it about a year ago. Conversations are meant to be had with a certain group of people, not a random number of unknown people in your list. We need more co
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by ok_coo 8y ago
Google still has complete control over how well your web app is ranked in search results and they change rules and criteria all of the time, sometimes with little notice. Google search console is infuriatingly vague. Google is inescapable a
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by ok_coo 8y ago
We have similar people at our org. Most of the time the idea is the easiest part. They don't want to be bogged down in the details, compromises or restrictions necessary to bring it to life. Why stick around for the hard part when you
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by ok_coo 8y ago
IMHO they are practically begging to be regulated. It's too bad nothing has happened yet because some guard rails need to be put in place or this type of questionable behavior will never stop.
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by ok_coo 8y ago
There are plenty of times when in/out network is an impossible thing to determine or plan for. I had an out patient surgery about a year ago and while my doctor and every admin I talked said that everything would be in network, I still
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by ok_coo 8y ago
I think you tagged the main offenders. I've been gaming since the 80s and if you look at the top games that have come out this generation on Metacritic, games and the gaming industry are hitting it out of the park. There are actually t
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by ok_coo 8y ago
I think this hits close to home for a lot of people. It's not about the small amount of money to pay for the app, mostly what stops me is that I don't know what I'm getting for that $5. It feels like I'm potentially thro
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by ok_coo 8y ago
I understand business people having this kind of mentality, but don't they realize that it can create resentment? I've gone out of my way to cancel (and permanently ignore) certain services in the past when I discovered how diffi

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