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2011.
by pc86 3y ago
I suggest you watch at least 30 seconds of the video. "Nostalgia's a very powerful and good thing" referring to our desire to come back to these games, "20, 30 years later." This comment is very relevant to the gene
2012.
by pc86 3y ago
Pseudocode isn't coding, but sufficiently advanced pseudocode is indistinguishable from Python. Regardless, I don't see why the parent would have necessarily mentioned pseudocode for any reason?
2013.
by pc86 3y ago
In every case I've seen layoffs-but-expanding-hiring it's always been completely separate teams, maybe even completely different business units - which in a sufficiently large company might as well be different companies. Have you
2014.
by pc86 3y ago
This seems like an overly simplistic "capital owners greedy/labor-good-capital-bad" kind of take. I don't know if you've applied for any tech jobs recently but at least outside of super-senior and FAANG positions th
2015.
by pc86 3y ago
I'm sure many have the same feelings as you, however for me procrastination has always been (to use a college example not super relevant these days) "I'd rather do $A than $B, even if that means doing $B later means I'll
2016.
by pc86 3y ago
Is this the fringe r/personalfinance opinion that you should buy some 15 year old car in cash and never ever have any sort of car payment? Having an $800/mo car payment and "paying $800 extra every for a car" are objecti
2017.
by pc86 3y ago
The average sales tax in the US is 5.1%.
2018.
by pc86 3y ago
This may have changed now with used prices what they are, but back when you could get used vehicles for $5-10k it simply wasn't worth the time. Yeah you can save a few thousand dollars but when you're looking at something that&#x2
2019.
by pc86 3y ago
Nobody is paying $800 extra every month on their car.
2020.
by pc86 3y ago
We spent a decent amount of time discussing this is one of my econ classes in college, and while I can't speak to this person's experience, statistically speaking, your best bet strictly from a financial standpoint is to buy a 2-3
2021.
by pc86 3y ago
It actually took me a bit to break out of the lease cycle; I leased a nice-but-not-ostentatious Volkswagen right out of school that was quite a bit more than 10% of my take-home. Hedonic treadmilling what it is I wanted to buy something but
2022.
by pc86 3y ago
There are only three cars you can get in the US for less than $20k new, and at least two of them are objectively garbage - the Kia Rio and Mitsubishi Mirage. I don't know anything about the Nissan Versa but it can't be that great.
2023.
by pc86 3y ago
The thing that really gets me, which I've only ever seen in Chicago is this mysterious 3-5% fee added to every bill, but which the restaurant will immediately remove for you if you ask what the hell it's for.
2024.
by pc86 3y ago
So it's okay for us to stop tipping at Chicago restaurants and coffee shops now, right?
2025.
by pc86 3y ago
Everything is a button if you're persistent enough.
2026.
by pc86 3y ago
Nobody thinks anything is getting "padded" with sales tax other than Europeans who have never heard of the practice before and can't get over the fact that ~5% (the median US sales tax is 5.1%) wasn't disclosed as if tha
2027.
by pc86 3y ago
US developer pay is easily 2-3x that of our Western European counterparts. The gap widens tremendously as you move further East in Europe and especially into the middle east, Asia and SE Asia. But you get American developers (myself include
2028.
by pc86 3y ago
I'm not sure using Google Analytics qualifies as an "externality" but even if it does the UK government has proven time and time again it doesn't give a damn about anyone's privacy, so what makes you think any in-ho
2029.
by pc86 3y ago
It's not a strawman just because it hurts your argument. :) The point is that you can't reasonably say SQLite is not open source, and the limitations around SQLite and this book are comparable. So it's not an immediate "
2030.
by pc86 3y ago
Say there's 8,000,000,000 on the planet, you line up starting at #1 with all the people with 0 legs, then all the people with 1, then all the people with 2, then all the people with more than 2. Person #4,000,000,000 has 2 legs.
2031.
by pc86 3y ago
Perhaps "Open Access" as used on the edition notice is more technically accurate but I'm not seeing how getting any "build" assets to generate this PDF is any better or more free/open than having the PDF and be
2032.
by pc86 3y ago
You know as I get closer and closer to official graybeard status I start having more of a hair trigger when someone says "just use __________" as if that solves everything and doesn't just create a list of a dozen or two oth
2033.
by pc86 3y ago
Other than making the PDF freely available what in your mind would need to happen to make this book open source? I'm not even sure what an "open source" book would be in the FOSS meaning of the phrase. From the edition notice
2034.
by pc86 3y ago
They'd probably be fine.
2035.
by pc86 3y ago
This is very obviously not the case. The odds of all 21 parts being found and them knowing same-business-day that the same part of the same supplier isn't on any of their other planes is approximately zero. The odds of even finding all
2036.
by pc86 3y ago
"Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith." https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html You have no id
2037.
by pc86 3y ago
"Making all consensual acts legal" is certainly an easy strawman to argue against, but maybe there's a middle ground between that anarchist hellscape and "owning this fish that is not explicitly illegal in the US but is
2038.
by pc86 3y ago
I don't really understand the point of this comment. "Credit cards don't need this network, except realistically they do , they just didn't used to." So in some scenario where electricity is unavailable, credit car
2039.
by pc86 3y ago
What? SO launched in 2008 and PHP had a bad reputation prior to that.
2040.
by pc86 3y ago
It's been too long to edit, but I just went back and looked. I claimed for a few months in 2009 and it was capped at $675 per 2-week pay period, so about $18k/yr.

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