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by pnathan 7y ago
My somewhat puckish opinion is that go and php are siblings and have similar social patterns. Easy to deploy, easy to write, tons of docs on the official site, massive deployment bases, and also genuinely holding back progress in reliable s
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by pnathan 7y ago
if you just use html 4, minimal css, and no js, you'll get a good old internet experience. :)
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by pnathan 7y ago
> They haven’t fucked up hosted chat yet, which is the benchmark. well put - and - even more so: hosted business chat. all they have to do is keep on keeping on.
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by pnathan 7y ago
Ha, I'm up front: "this is a synthetic question, which has the purpose of x,y,z". Synthetic questions don't rely on specific tools, or specific problem framings, it can be thought of in isolation. E.g., I usually put a d
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by pnathan 7y ago
from the comments: > I'm not trying to defend all current interviewing practices, but Leetcode-style interviews became popular because they're designed to find people who are good at programming without requiring overly special
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by pnathan 7y ago
Question: do you see your income being suitable to live a decent lifestyle in the USA when supporting a family(1-2 kids) - paying for their healthcare insurance, other misc bills? Rationale: if a career line can't sustain supporting a
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by pnathan 7y ago
I think about the lack of accountability inherent in large corporations. Tech is foregrounded in our lives right now, but it plays out in more quiet industries too.
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by pnathan 7y ago
Always happy to meet strangers from the internet in Seattle (particularly downtown). Love nerding out with fellow nerds. :)
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by pnathan 7y ago
I thought that the point of the article was that he was reflecting on wealth, and answering his children in such a way that they did not walk around like privileged gits, while still being truthful. Comfortable is also my answer that I&#x27
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by pnathan 7y ago
I have a friend whose story was similar: she found grad school extremely hard because it was the first time she had to work at success. I probably would have fallen into the gifted category, had I not been homeschooled. I was pushed to exce
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by pnathan 7y ago
I would love to read a full translation of these remarks - along with a color commentary regarding the cultural expectations of what a proper Chinese CEO is expected to say vis-a-vis what a proper American CEO is expected to say.
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by pnathan 7y ago
I use cloud profiles heavily. All bookmarks, history, plugins. However, if ads get re-enabled for Chrome, then I am definitely going to have to figure out how to port myself back to Firefox. Very, very, very, annoying.
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by pnathan 7y ago
not offhand. I really should sit down and examine that in relation to our build pipeline.
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by pnathan 7y ago
Hi! I'm one of the (less active) maintainers. Four years ago I migrated the CL cookbook from sourceforge where it'd been gently resting for quite a few years (nearly a decade), and put it onto github, put together a CI system, and
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by pnathan 7y ago
Is there a decent translation in English available?
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by pnathan 7y ago
I've found that groceries run for and by immigrants have a similar approach. The "experience" Americans crave is revealed to be so vacuous.
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by pnathan 7y ago
Hadn't heard of this outlet before - quite an interesting article, but the conclusion started to get more than a bit esoteric. Looking through the chain of funding, we find that the funders are > https://eppc.org/abo
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by pnathan 7y ago
Aline says good things here - as always - but I want to note that an overly groomed company or one where many of the employees are pushing the company's job openings starts to feel really bogus. In other words, if you take this too far
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by pnathan 7y ago
> Ageism is embedded in our society, whose best attempt at inclusion and diversity is based on colour of skin and gender. I don't think it will change, it has probably been the same for thousands of years. Typically, societies are g
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by pnathan 7y ago
This is also a major problem; I have no problem buying Cheap Generic Wotsit from Factory X in Shenzhen - just don't give me 300 different "brands" to "evaluate". The French Press category is awful for this, for exam
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by pnathan 7y ago
One of the classic bikesheds. I've wound up writing a low key system in, at the time, Scala, that did something to the effect of: class Select { fields: Either[List[String], All] table: String wheres: List[Clau
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by pnathan 7y ago
I've been involved in pioneering Jenkins, maintaining Jenkins, and using Jenkins for the past 7 or so years off and on in different roles, often that of the Jenkins admin. The original article has a lot of good feedback that I'd s
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by pnathan 7y ago
How very strange! Rock on, you strange ones, you crazy diamonds.
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by pnathan 8y ago
TFA arguments seem ... ill informed. "Not a replacement for music?" Uh, ok. Entertainment is more important than information? sure bro.... I don't care for podcasts either. (1) Most are too infomation-lite and too long. I can
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by pnathan 8y ago
Seattle is a rough place to try to jump into independent living. The entry level to normal housing is pretty high. I don't think there's a lot of onramps to doing that that don't involve years of training. Ms. Twigg is a very
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by pnathan 8y ago
One of the fundamental reasons why I haven't really bothered doing startups or running a small business myself is the radical uncertainty over health insurance for myself and my family. It's not just plain $$$ and career risk, it&
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by pnathan 8y ago
the US had a tremendous number of rockets lost early on in the space program. Each was a learning opportunity. hats off to SpaceIL! I look forward to following their next go at it.
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by pnathan 8y ago
oil painter here..... basic linseed oil takes ~70 years to cure properly. pure linseed does, in time, a nice hard firm. there are a number of plant oils for painting (saffron, sunflower, walnut, linseed, poppy: different dry rates and hardn
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by pnathan 8y ago
that is typical of oil paint, due to the way linseed polymerizes.
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by pnathan 8y ago
Yeah, that's super annoying. As someone with an insta, and as someone who kinda would like to be able to figure out how to get some visibility- surfacing my own content seems to be obscure.

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