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by qubax 8y ago
> Everybody at my job is always complaining about how busy they are Probably busy browsing social media and updating their pinterest. It's a lot more exhausting than people give it credit for.
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> Someone else said this on HN: Python is the second best language in almost every field of computing. It isn't. Frankly, it isn't even top 3 in any "field of computing" depending on how you define "field of comp
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> It’s a sad state of affairs when the Washington Post is advocating censorship of wrongthink. They've been advocating for censorship for a while now. They along with the NYTimes and CNN are the main proponents of censorship. They&#
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by qubax 8y ago
I try not to click on nytimes, washingtonpost and all the corporate/state propaganda junk. And most importantly anything with a question for a headline ( except for Ask HN obviously). Other than that, I'm open for anything CS&#x2F
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More useless clickbait nonsense. All advice is awful and useless in one form or another because life is complicated. "Find your passion". One person could take that advice and becomes einstein. Another takes that and become a fail
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If this is what a founder of WeWork is focusing on, I can't wait til they IPO so I can short it. I doubt this company survives the next recession. As for livestock vs vegetation being better or worse for the environment, it isn't
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Even better than being alone, not having foot traffic anywhere near my desk would be nice. I don't know how the guy sitting right by the door does it. People coming in and out all day and walking right by him.
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Your town/municipality doesn't have a website with all that info? Granted, most town websites are horrid to navigate, but the information should be there.
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It's the way social media is going. From google news to facebook to twitter to youtube, instead of seeing what you want to see, now you see what they want you to see. Social media is now parlaying its giant audience into social enginee
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> The data they process and what they do with it is worth more to society than any number of petabytes crunched to target ads. No it isn't. You are getting defensive for no reason. If propublica ceases to exist or never existed, it
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> Also, it’s a lot easier and less error prone to compose dynamic queries with Linq That's the general assumption of people not familiar with SQL, RDBMs and full stack architecture. One of my issues is that ORMs and LINQ have become
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> Pretty obvious I would have thought: as long as reddit remains the platform of choice for all the worst hate groups in America, the harder it will be for them to attract advertisers. Hate groups? Are you talking about the DNC, liberal
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> Indeed. My understanding of LINQ is that a where clause, for example, creates a matching clause in the SQL it generates, so the database only fetches the elements that you want. In contrast, the Java solution seems to "select *&qu
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Ah, the petty media attack on elon musk continues after elon musk called out the biased media. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2018/05/25/business/tesla-... The atlantic and others already attacke
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Not just wired. Almost every news site. Ad block, update your host file, etc. Ever since forbes had viruses/malware for ads a few years ago, I don't visit a news site without protection.
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> But it's never really impacted my professional life to my knowledge. Depends on the level of attainment you are hoping to achieve. If you want to become a major player in your company or industry, it most definitely has affected y
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> Why are there even discussions about this on a work forum? Thank you. It's strange how everyone from the CEOs to the journalists to ordinary people missed this. Why are any employees wasting time and resources on such unproductive
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> Is the "Universe is a Simulation" more than a dreamy internet theory, though? It's a theory that predates the internet. In the expanded view, the theory goes back to antiquity. The modern version is a thought experiment
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It's a pretty recent phenomenon. Having worked in a couple of fortune 100 companies, there was rarely any discussion of controversial topics. We talked about our families, sports, movies, the weather, etc when we talked. We rarely disc
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The WTO is only 20 years old. It was founded in 1995. And china only joined in 2001. There isn't much history to the WTO. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Organization Historically, trade disputes were se