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by paledot 5y ago
Your argument against minimum wage would make sense if labour were inelastic. If it were illegal to work more than 40 hours per week, the total available worker hours would equal the number of eligible workers times 40. But that's not
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by paledot 5y ago
> Neither option is reasonable. Why not? Free tuition + living stipend seems like a perfectly reasonable way to achieve a productive, well-educated workforce to me.
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by paledot 5y ago
Not quite. The counter-notice also includes that language, "I swear under penalty of perjury that the notice-giver is wrong". So there's no penalty for lying in the notice, but the same can't be said for the victim of th
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by paledot 5y ago
Perhaps a better way to phrase it would be along the lines of, "You propose a to-do list app at a team meeting, and you want to demonstrate that it's a feasible product. However, you have a limited time box to ship it in. What do
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by paledot 5y ago
I'd make a note of that response and count it in your favour. But if you get sidetracked enough that you never end up answering the question, that's also not a good sign. IMO your counterexample is wildly implausible, and is likel
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by paledot 5y ago
Which is why I open my conversational interviews with, "There's an emergency, sales promised a customer a to-do list app yesterday. It's getting shipped out and forgotten, you're doing it on your own, only thing that mat
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by paledot 5y ago
My reading of the Tampa Bay Times article is that the company name was copied from that of a supposedly defunct front for a spammer. The individual supposedly behind it has done DoD contracts before and has supposedly retired. Both of these
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by paledot 6y ago
Same naming principle. Erised is desire backwards, DiagonAll[e]y, etc.
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by paledot 6y ago
I don't care if a recruiter knows the difference between React and React Native, but I do care that they know the difference between Java and JavaScript.
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by paledot 6y ago
Not true. The people in the middle expand the pie, the people at the top (the 1% of the 1%) eat it. And the people at the bottom are indeed having a harder and harder time.
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by paledot 6y ago
Yes and no. Acute health care may be free in Canada, but even here, money has a particularly substantial effect on your quality of life if you're disabled.
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by paledot 6y ago
It's not illegal to soft delete your pictures, and it may be illegal not to in isolated cases where a court preservation order is in effect. It is, however, illegal (by the GDPR) to not hard delete your account on request.
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by paledot 6y ago
Given sufficiently generous unemployment benefits (ie. mincome), I fail to see how that's a bad thing.
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by paledot 6y ago
All, by definition. Claiming to be a first world/advanced nation without universal health care would be laughable if it weren't so tragic. Maybe one day UBI will be the same.
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by paledot 6y ago
Wage stagnation has nothing to do with immigration and everything to do with the obscenely rich being permitted to get obscenely richer. It's disappointing that your friends have fallen for that lie.
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by paledot 6y ago
Nothing says "readable history" like 1000 lines in a single commit.
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by paledot 6y ago
Or, let's face it, in the United States.
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by paledot 6y ago
Scaling. You can autoscale app servers by orders of magnitude, no sweat. Database replicas require much more logistical overhead and provide diminishing returns. The less demand your app places on a database overall, the more scalable it wi
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by paledot 6y ago
You convince them in the same way you convince a PM to give you time to write tests for your work: you don't give them an alternative. "You want this done? That'll be 20 billable hours." And your estimate includes the ti
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by paledot 6y ago
I've been a professional software developer for ten years, and I'm on a hiatus right now. One thing I've been doing with my time is reinvent a bunch of wheels, implementing broken clones of this library or that algorithm, and
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by paledot 6y ago
I would say that's perfectly okay, but not for the reason you think. If your status is "still working on the same issue", your team should respond with "how can we help?". If your status doesn't change, that&#x
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by paledot 6y ago
Might be worth being very explicit which icons are trademarks. Facebook is obvious to basically anyone with an internet connection at this point, but there are plenty of brands that, despite (or because of) paying 7 figures to a big name de
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by paledot 6y ago
That jumped out at me too. cURL is one of the most ubiquitous libraries out there. It's worth keeping its dependencies to an absolute minimum, even if it means having to rewrite a function here and there.
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by paledot 6y ago
What amazes me is that some neighbourhoods in the US are constructed without sidewalks. I don't care about the street.
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by paledot 6y ago
The storage chip is wearing out from too many writes, it's not filling up.
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by paledot 6y ago
[citation needed]
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by paledot 6y ago
Depression should not be stigmatized, but neither should we turn a blind eye. Those suffering from depression and obesity should have access to the resources they need to tackle those issues, and should be encouraged to seek them out. And n
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by paledot 6y ago
With you until the last sentence. But yes, it does imply that they're resourceful enough to learn what they know with limited personal mentorship. It's worth gently guiding them towards the canonical pronunciation, but definitely
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by paledot 6y ago
Honestly, this is about the most consistent of the batch in my experience. Many of them vary, but I've never heard anyone beyond the cd/ls level of tutorial Linux say "e t c".
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by paledot 6y ago
I've been in the "sequel" camp, but that changes now. I'm not passing up the opportunity to talk to co-workers about "my squirrel".

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