rjbwork

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by rjbwork 4y ago
Save/invest so that I can escape the rat race before I'm too hold to do anything I actually want to do with my time.
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by rjbwork 4y ago
Indeed. Actually the opposite of a windfall. You've given the government an interest free loan for up to a year. I try to do minimal withholding and pay my taxes as late as possible.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Efficient systems are brittle systems. You wring all the slack out of it and any shock is going to cause failure. In this case, the slack is the nurses and other healthcare workers' mental health and burnout limits and pay and cultur
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by rjbwork 5y ago
> Wow I thought 2022 nobody would still be so 90s in this regard. “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” Although in this case, I have to imagine that first understand
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by rjbwork 5y ago
I don't, actually. I pay for a number of things that I feel deliver value. I've bought movies and TV off of amazon video/youtube. I pay for some podcasts. I buy audiobooks off of Audible and eBooks from kindle (despite the
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Your obtuseness and just general attitude in this thread really actually makes me want to start pirating again. Boutta go "steal" from you just to do it.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
No, it's not economic at all. You've repeatedly failed to grasp this in this entire comments section. It's about convenience. It is actually more convenient to pirate the handful of movies or TV shows people want to watch
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by rjbwork 5y ago
What are your thoughts on me and all of my friends and family getting together in my home theatre and watching the latest movie that I paid 4 bucks for on something like Amazon or Youtube? Is everyone there except me stealing? It feels to
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by rjbwork 5y ago
You might be that rare breed of manager that knows how to manage their subordinates without micromanaging people and gets a sense of accomplishment out of seeing your organization of your reports resulting in tasks being completed rather th
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by rjbwork 5y ago
You assume people are going to pay for it. If you provide a good service, they will, as shown by Steam and Spotify and, at least initially, Netflix. If you don't, they won't, as shown by the proliferation of shitty streaming serv
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by rjbwork 5y ago
I, and nobody I know, has pirated games or music since Steam blew up about 12-15 years ago and Spotify/RDIO and similar blew up about 10 years ago. There was about a decade when Netflix went full in on online streaming and was offering
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Find better work. I'm currently on a team with a number of women (and many, many more men) who are great.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Unfortunately it is difficult to trust anything coming out of the Chinese regime, especially if it has the potential to make them look bad.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Smalls was on Chapo Trap House last Thursday. Good interview IMO, if you're into that format.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Neat! A bit over a decade ago, I had a similar experience with Lucene (not that I implemented it from scratch, but certainly used it in a fairly unorthodox, for the time, manner). I had to implement some search stuff and Elastic Search wa
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Totally agree. I have a hard time taking seriously a perspective on the merits of a data technology that is so dismissive towards concerns like MVCC, ACID, and normal forms. These have been foundational to data technologies for nearly 50
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Indeed. I have been assumed to be attacking those struggles when criticizing the zeitgeist on this very forum within the past 2 weeks.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Ahh, an optimist!
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Probably not...c-level execs are usually owners of the business.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
I've had showdead on for years and years at this point. >see how much crap gets silently removed from HN by the mods. Consistent with what I've said. >Offtopic remarks are mercilessly downvoted into oblivion by the community
621.
by rjbwork 5y ago
The difference is that HN doesn't pretend to be something it's not and AFAIK the guidelines and the things dang has said over the years are pretty straight forward. It doesn't pretend to be a place for any and all opinions t
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by rjbwork 5y ago
HN is pretty liberal in terms of the discussion it allows to take place and the breadth of ideas and viewpoints it allows to propagate. It does tend to have guidelines for tone and rules of engagement, however, and strongly discourages out
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by rjbwork 5y ago
There was no point at which I saw my post upvoted. I guess I'll have to take your word for it. But yes, this is one reason I generally like HN. I can be as unorthodox or devil's advocatey as I like and generally have a decent c
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by rjbwork 5y ago
At this point, the doublespeak and blatant contradictions are expected. We all know what this means - as long as you kowtow to the kind of blasé, Bay Area, lefty twitter, woke scold, "polite society" zeitgeist, you're good t
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by rjbwork 5y ago
This likewise ignores the individual. "Oh you don't like the politics where you live? You want human rights? Leave your family and friends and everything you've ever known and move a thousand miles away."
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Poe's law right here. I really had no idea if this was genuine or satire the first 3 times I read it. I'm pretty sure it's satire.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
And Google really only has itself to blame for that, TBQH. They have had how many mediocre chat apps that they could have turned into Discord with a baked in user base over the past 15 years?
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by rjbwork 5y ago
Hobby based Discords can often yield good results if you ask, and many have pinned posts in gear recommendation channels.
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by rjbwork 5y ago
At my company, most of us write on windows in VS. A couple of us use MacOS. We use WSL pretty often, largely for Docker and dev ops work. Our build pipelines are mostly run on Windows, unless we're making containers. We deploy to Li
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by rjbwork 5y ago
More like blue flu than any real policy changes. The society at large threatening to hold the police accountable for their actions seems to have made them decide not to do their jobs even less than they were before.

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