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by pault 7y ago
You'd need a wider sample of sedentary office workers than just sales and marketing to make that conclusion.
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by pault 7y ago
I think sound design is one of the few domains that really really benefits from visual programming languages. You really can't work effectively without 1. instant feedback and 2. the ability to quickly alter the signal path. I know the
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by pault 7y ago
Uplift[0] also sells treadmills and exercise bikes specifically for standing desks. I purchased one of their desks a few months ago, and while it's a bit spendy, the quality is fantastic. I expect to be using it 15 years from now. [0]
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by pault 7y ago
Alternative explanation: overweight people don't get hired for sales and marketing jobs.
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by pault 7y ago
I agree with you, but I don't think this is great advice. If you tell people that aren't already physically fit that they have to do high intensity training five days per week to be healthy, they'll think it's too diffic
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by pault 7y ago
I respectfully disagree. Simple and elegant code is extremely difficult to write, and the ability to do so is mostly orthogonal to intelligence. However, below a certain threshold of skill and capacity for reasoning about spatial complexity
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by pault 7y ago
The future is privacy™
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by pault 7y ago
Ordering transactions from large to small so you are hit with the maximum number of penalties. It can easily end up costing you many multiples more than ordering chronologically.
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by pault 7y ago
Maybe maximizing efficiency to increase shareholder value is not the sole metric for a life well lived.
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by pault 7y ago
What are the consequences of a star that mostly radiates infrared light for habitability? Would it restrict what kind of life could evolve there?
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by pault 7y ago
As other commenters have said, we don't have the tools to see that far yet, so it's only through a miracle of math, physics, and engineering that we can deduce the size, distance from the star, and atmospheric composition of exopl
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by pault 7y ago
Well, there's the possibility of liquid water under icy moons.
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by pault 7y ago
So the Apollo "earthrise" photos are just "earth"?
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by pault 7y ago
Going to Mars may be routine some day, though!
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by pault 7y ago
I have these kinds of arguments with my C# co-workers all the time, and they usually have some annoyingly reasonable solution like "create a database serialization class with a linked list consumer". :)
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by pault 7y ago
I spent a few years in Belize, and their currency is pegged 2:1 to the USD. Given the size, capability, and general competency of the Belizean government I always felt it was a major catastrophe just waiting to happen. Worse, nobody there s
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by pault 7y ago
"Mmm. I look good. I mean, really good. Hey, everyone! Come and see how good I look!"
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by pault 7y ago
I was really entertained by the banter between the crew as they're orbiting the moon, given the gravity of the moment. They're almost jovial, which is a pretty stark contrast to the way it's depicted in hollywood. Especially
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by pault 7y ago
I can't imagine how complex the development of the UI must have been. Can you tell us a little bit about the technical implementation? What languages and frameworks you might have used, things that were particularly difficult? Edit: lo
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by pault 7y ago
The solution is to keep your scripts private, automate your job, and work on whatever you want while making sure you always look busy when your boss walks by.
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by pault 7y ago
> They are one successful software project from losing their jobs. Maybe. However, consider how successful Google has been at automating customer service.
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by pault 7y ago
I think the try/catch block is confusing commenters; it's irrelevant to the control flow in this case. You could consider it equivalent to: for i=0; i<3; i++: doSomething(); if i<3: continue; else:
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by pault 7y ago
user: FPGAhacker created: January 14, 2018 Checks out!
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by pault 7y ago
The app in question is used by retail employees at hundreds of locations to manage inventory. It runs on a tablet, has to work offline, and has a very dynamic UI that has to keep thousands of complex relational entities in local state, and
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by pault 7y ago
That's all true, but it's not really relevant to what I was saying. We don't do whiteboard interviews; that was some code I found during a code review. My original comment was in response to the assertion "my resume spea
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by pault 7y ago
Correct. Any one of those answers would be acceptable :) (except mapDispatchToProps, that will fire the API request every time an action is dispatched anywhere in your app). Also, the context of the question is very specifically "withi
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by pault 7y ago
Sorry, I think there's a couple of confusing things there. I mentioned a try block that always throws, but that was a different bit of code. In the example I posted of the for-loop the try/catch is unrelated to the previous, so we
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by pault 7y ago
I'm getting tired of replying to troll-ish posts, but: > Honestly you don't seem to be a well put together environment That is a pretty bold and unfriendly statement to make based on very little information. > you expect to
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by pault 7y ago
Thanks. Unfortunately we can't afford to pay front end developers $300k/year. And what we are paying is more than competitive. It's not an issue of pay, it's an issue of availability and not having the resources to stalk
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by pault 7y ago
> Is this person routinely writing code so bad that passes all the automatic tests? Yes, a linter or a test cannot know if you are writing silly, unnecessary code, or re-implementing functionality that already exists elsewhere, or making

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