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by rifung 8y ago
> I thought the purpose of meditation was ultimately loss of ego, gaining perspective and understanding of our endless yet futile cravings and desires. Not the ones I have been to. > The reality is If you step into meditation wonderin
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by rifung 8y ago
I feel like I am missing something here but are the things mentioned in the article (tail call recursion, first class functions) unique to LISP? They seem available in other functional languages. I was under the impression LISP was unique d
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by rifung 8y ago
Have you tried meditating? If I understand correctly it is supposed to train you to do exactly what you want: to be able to focus intently on one thing and not get distracted.
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by rifung 8y ago
What do you consider a healthy work-life balance? 8 hours a day? 6 hours? If we assume you sleep 8 hours then you spend 16 hours awake, 7 days a week for a total of 112 hours in a week. Even if you only work 6 hours on the weekdays that&#x2
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by rifung 8y ago
I work for Google but not on Search. I think the issue is that besides the money they don't really have a competitive advantage so it'd be difficult to catch up given how long Google has been doing this for. First of all Search is
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I don't think that's true at all as I have gotten jobs while doing this despite having had my background checked.
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by rifung 8y ago
> As the other poster said, it is hard when your last jobs meant you were overqualified. These aren't things you can simply leave off your application without absolutely lying. Is this really lying? And I guess more importantly is t
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by rifung 8y ago
I'm not really sure wasm is meant to compete with JS like that though? To me the main benefits of wasm are that you can * make web pages with languages besides JS * do lower level things not possible with JS (low latency real time game
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I agree completely. Also I feel what usually happens is that requirements change over time, and things get repurposed as "hacks" because ain't nobody got time to rewrite the entire thing. But at some point the effort to rewri
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> A classy phone not from a giant tech company or with questionable governmental ties? No forced bloatware? Fast, reliable updates? There's really no market for that? The market is stupid and wrong. How is this a differentiator thou
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by rifung 8y ago
I also used to not tip on takeout orders for the same reason until someone who used to work at a restaurant told me I should. The explanation made sense to me though: The same waiter that waits tables has to package your food for you. Obvio
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by rifung 8y ago
> happy employees are more productive and more compliant with company policy And also less likely to leave but why is that a problem? In the end all employees are only there to make the company money. I really don't see why HR is an
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by rifung 8y ago
> True, their are companies that have founding principles that are employee friendly, but once you have an official HR role, their job is the complete opposite. I really don't like or agree with this characterization at all. Sure pa
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by rifung 8y ago
Hm strangely I find the opposite to be true. I actually think personality is really hard to change but if you aren't good at something you can be trained. Without the right attitude though it's hard to train someone.
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> that's exactly what i thought -- getting a "promotion packet" is absurd. your promotion packet should be the job you have been doing all year long. I'm guessing you don't know how the process works? I'd li
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by rifung 8y ago
> Honestly, I don't care enough about getting promoted to go through that whole rigmarole, nor would I quit a job over having to deal with that in order to get promoted. Of course, that's also probably why I don't work at
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by rifung 8y ago
I THINK the commenter was referring to the Computational Theory or Complexity Theory of which they do indeed have no recommendation (Sipser is the common one).
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by rifung 8y ago
> Forget learning new frameworks we were still talking about Java at the end of the second year. Personally I don't think people should be learning frameworks in school except for elective classes. CS is so vast that there is more t
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by rifung 8y ago
Probably the same things that my work funds currently but more/better! Piano, music composition, hanging out with friends/family, and social work. Basically the things in my life that I think actually matter to me.
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by rifung 8y ago
> Couldn't we just slow down tech a little bit and let people do some good old hard work to keep getting their cut? Frustrating. I'd much rather we eliminate the need for jobs so people don't need to work anymore. Working
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by rifung 8y ago
That is an interesting perspective that I admittedly did not think of. However why do the prices have to be inflated? Can't the company just accept lower profits? That would be progressive since most of the profits currently go to the
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by rifung 8y ago
If a job doesn't provide the means to survive then the government is subsidizing these jobs assuming you make sure everyone has enough to live. Another issue is that the unemployment rate is no longer meaningful although that could be
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by rifung 8y ago
> I really wonder why deleting all the cookies for a given website as soon as you close it isn't the default behavior Probably because users would find it annoying to have to log in to all their websites again. The sad reality is th
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> When you look at all the purchases you make over a week, I assert you are only interested in paying the overhead of open, reversible transactions for very, very few of them. I thought that the benefit of reversible transactions would b
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by rifung 8y ago
"The suit seeks an order from a judge barring Musk from serving as an officer or director of a public company, a request often made in SEC lawsuits, as well as unspecified monetary penalties." Does this imply that they want to rem
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by rifung 8y ago
I started using FB well before I joined Google =]
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I think the comment you're replying to meant more that they should be obliging businesses to do things but not specific businesses. E.g. make laws that apply to all companies as opposed to picking on one company or another. So I think
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by rifung 8y ago
What does that have to do with my opinion about not being concerned about my Facebook use..?
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Earlier comment said "Once people understand, they care." Your comment basically implied "maybe they don't really understand which is why they don't care". So I am refuting the original statement because I pres
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> Doing the "right thing" for 99% of your users isn't actually the right thing if it does harm to your most vulnerable users. But aren't the most vulnerable users the one who actually aren't tech savvy? And, ar

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