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by rjbwork 4y ago
I worked with a great Nigerian dev some years ago. He contracted for us to do our frontend work. The stories this dude told were insane. He lived in Lagos, notorious for traffic jams. He would frequently get stuck in multi-hour long traf
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Rest assured you still seem ridiculous to me. You choose to use an exclusionary and proprietary messaging protocol, and then ostracize people who prefer not to spend an absurd amount of money on a phone. Your gripes are absurd and self in
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Sounds like a shit friend group tbqh. I have never had it be a point of contention with anyone I know. Anyone who actually cared about this green bubble, which I'm just finding out is a thing in this thread, would make a swift exit
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by rjbwork 4y ago
It's not super addictive to me currently. When I was a youth I used to great excess and it eventually drove me to using harder drugs - one of which, xanax, or alprazolam, nearly ruined my life. I had to take anti-psychotics for years
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Well, it's more German than either of those, especially wrt structure, conjugation, and helping verbs. But we do take a huge amount of vocabulary from Latin and the romance languages, especially in the realms of the arts and science.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Into the room I'm cooling. I suppose it would be possible in theory to do so, but the particular layout of the room makes it difficult to impossible to exhaust both the AC and computer, I think.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I actually did this...I got two dedicated circuits put into my room - one for the window unit AC (no point in cooling the whole house when I really just need to cool this room most of the time), and one for my gaming computer. My work lapt
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by rjbwork 4y ago
It would cost a shitload. Morgan City would have to be build up tremendously, since that is likely where the bulk of the flow would end up, through the Atchafalaya river, basin, and delta. New Orleans and Baton Rouge would see one of the m
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I have to ask, do you listen to Sam Harris' podcast? His last two episodes have touched on both aspects of your post - the paradigmatic shift that can occur simply by changing the perspective from which you view something as simple as
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by rjbwork 4y ago
New Orleans even being able to continue existing at all is due to the Army Corps Of Engineers. The Old River Control Structure keeps it from flooding too hard, and a LOT of resources go into keeping the river along its current route so tha
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by rjbwork 4y ago
"Letting people own private property and engage in usus, fructus, and abusus as they so choose is communism." That was absolutely hilarious. I really love finding me a "communism is when capitalism" out in the wild.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I think what they mean is in general, resources. Like funding and willing workers to help if it was a viable career path to actually help society. Not that there are currently enough resources deployed in such a way as to help them all.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Agree. I'm about to be on the road for a bit over a month and am not looking forward to working just on a laptop screen.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Thank you for this. I've recently been promoted into a very senior engineering role and feel out of my depth, especially WRT communication and politics. I think this is a really insightful way of connecting oftentimes invisible engin
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I think I'd be a great teacher. Multiple of my co-workers have asked me if I've ever considered being a teacher, because apparently I'm really good at explaining things and taking on mentoring responsibilities. But the media
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by rjbwork 4y ago
No it's not. From the start the US was intended to be oligarchical - hence the franchise originally only being extended to white landowning males. There has always been a strain of politics dedicated to keeping barriers up to enfranc
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by rjbwork 4y ago
They certainly COULD do some of that stuff, but so much is open at this point, that I tend to think that a consortium of large businesses with hundreds of billions on the line would get together and form the .ORG alliance or something like
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I think it would actually probably hit the top spot if it was a legitimate attempt that used crypto, E2E, provable security, maybe TOR. There's only one example in history AFAIK and it only lasted a short while. https://en
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I blame the email spam. It's made email nearly useless for me in my career except for when I worked at a global investment bank as an intern many years ago. I'm mid 30's principal and I basically ignore email. I check it o
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Had a little bit of Deja Vu reading this. After I clicked around the site I realized it's because I read it in the book https://staffeng.com/book which the author of this post wrote. I was promoted to principal engine
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I forget the name of the phenomenon, and my search-fu is failing me, BUT - there is something like the "first mover disadvantage" or "innovator's curse" when it comes to infrastructure and technology. Compare somewh
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by rjbwork 4y ago
>The costs for internet in the US still surprises me, how on earth can it be so expensive?! Monopolies and regulatory capture. I can't get ANY wired ISP where I'm at. Even AT&T ADSL which was like .5Mbps and ~50% packet l
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by rjbwork 4y ago
It's a description of the legal system as a whole. It does not pursue justice, it merely seeks to enforce the laws as written. And I think it's pretty clear that our laws do not seek justice. For, how can locking up a man - a ma
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by rjbwork 4y ago
RIP. Was good while it lasted.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Indeed. I think your mind can really be opened by having to answer complex business questions with an expansive and well designed data warehouse schema. It's a shame it's such a relatively niche and unknown topic, especially in
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Except you haven't really to almost anyone because now your comments are flagged dead and most people don't have showdead on.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Not an appropriate comment for HN. You should read the guidelines. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by rjbwork 4y ago
I totally agree. His guests are great, he stinks. I'm sure he's a perfectly nice and amiable person IRL, but as a podcast host I am not a fan. I can't really watch it.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Tons of us have worked at failed or middling startups or been pushed out of one. Sometimes with not a damn thing to show for it. There's nothing wrong with failing - not everyone's gonna bat 100. I'd suggest developing some
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Weird. In my circles, and the circles of people who are in the market for such a product, snowflake indicates a particular design pattern for designing data warehouses.

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