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by shados 5y ago
I'm a big UBI advocate, but even if we went that route, it will require a certain maturity on both the government and the citizens. It won't be long before people are in the street saying UBI isn't enough as you can't bu
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by shados 5y ago
Most new software devs go through that phase. A few decades ago, it was about the Gang of 4 design patterns. We were all reading that book and then looking for every possible place we could implement those patterns, even when they made abso
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by shados 5y ago
I agree with this. On top of that, the experience in games is often downright weird. I'm no Apple user, but on Android, you're in the game, you try to buy something, it pops the Android payment UX, you pay, then you wait a sec or
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by shados 5y ago
This. Back in the XML days, I had to spend way to long reading XSLT and WSDL specs just to do basic things. JSON Schema takes 15 minutes to learn and it's a heck of a lot better than writing my own validator.
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by shados 5y ago
They like to produce complexity, else they get bored while writing the code. But they don't like OTHER developer's complexity.
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by shados 5y ago
America is amazing at passing feel good laws without thinking about the enforcement logistics.
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by shados 5y ago
Yup. These type of quotas are often used for promotion opportunities, too, so the carrot on the stick is very tempting. If they can just push themselves a little harder, they could make more money. If you push that to its extreme, you end u
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by shados 5y ago
I've worked in logistics and supply chain for a while, and that type of quota is pretty much the norm (honestly, it kind of is in any job that is easy to quantify, like call centers, sales, and some segments of retail). The way the quo
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by shados 5y ago
I would absolutely die with half of those responsibilities. Kudo to your partner.
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by shados 5y ago
I was about to post that. Anyone who reads the little PDF Google gives you when you apply there knows pretty much exactly how the interview will go, and the questions they frequently ask are all over the internet. At that point its just abo
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by shados 5y ago
Yes, there's an overarching plan. But I can't tell what they're going to build across the street. I'm in Cambridge, and the time between the neighborhood hearing and the jackhammers starting was a couple of weeks last ti
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by shados 5y ago
> there is a ring of NIMBY inner suburbans Which makes sense when you think about it. Imagine you live in Boston, and things are changing and being built up. You don't like it. People tell you "If you don't like it, leave&
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by shados 5y ago
This. The reality is that finding a home you like is hard. You'll research neighborhoods, city policies, construction projects in the area, what the neighbors are like, what internet is available, taxes, etc. Then you find a place that
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by shados 5y ago
Im not super fond of the idea of having a brand lock-in to make it easier to work with the governments. This feels a bit like a world where Turbotax was the only game in town for softwares to file taxes. So you'd have either the manual
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by shados 5y ago
> Very few firms want to hire juniors It's not that they don't want to hire juniors, it's that you need a solid ratio of mentors to mentees. I've worked at a LOT of companies, and for the more well known one, the rati
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by shados 5y ago
no but you need a GPU, and your average person with a work lap-top can't run it and probably postponed buying a desktop computer, if they ever considered it.
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by shados 5y ago
The oculus quest 2 sold like 6 million units in 8 months. It's no Switch or PS4, but hardly niche.
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by shados 5y ago
Dunno how Turbotax does things under the hood in the US, but when it prompts me for the username and password of my broker to import my info, it certainly make me very queasy.
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by shados 5y ago
That's kind of like saying that a backend developer has managed to avoid needing a frontend component frameworks for 20 years, so the need for such a framework is rare. It's a self fulfilling prophecy. The OP didn't pick jobs
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by shados 5y ago
> and I've yet to be unable to make a program go "fast enough" regardless of the programming language or runtime it's in. That's because you won't even attempt to do things that that can't run that fast
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by shados 5y ago
Many companies do pay for people to stay, but its debatable if its worth it. The last company I worked for gave me significant golden handcuffs. Probably 30-40% more than I could get elsewhere. They had a "cost of replacement player&qu
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by shados 5y ago
> insurance will pay for most of it. Ehhh. Insurance will pay for what they want to pay. That means some treatments will be completely covered, and other treatments that your doctor really think should happen, won't be approved. So
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by shados 5y ago
You can get your own insurance in a state exchange thanks to Obama care, but thats expensive as F......
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by shados 5y ago
Because in the US, if you're reasonably healthy, employed, live in a city with good hospitals and have private insurance, it "feels" better. It's easier to get better care. I'm Canadian, now living in the US, and I&
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by shados 5y ago
How does #1 work in practice? I've went through several insurance providers over the years, and they always have "Amount billed by the provider", "amount negotiated", "co-insurance" which is on the amount
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by shados 5y ago
Time is money, and cooking is a lot of work. We cook a lot, have a kitchen that's better than what the average restaurant has, and have eaten at some of the most prestigious restaurants in the world. Yet sometimes I crave a fried chick
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by shados 5y ago
Thats more a solution for the customer. That comes up a lot, and times and again its pointed out that the employees hate the idea (likely because of survivor bias, where those who are making it in the current system would be worse off in a
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by shados 5y ago
First, because they increase their chance of being a burden on society (giving a kidney isn't without significant risks). Same could be said of smoking or overeating, but "not" giving an organ is much easier than stopping tho
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by shados 5y ago
Time to find a way to move crypto to proof of desalination.
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by shados 5y ago
This is unfortunately very common. The building I live in is not that old (about 15 years. I moved in 10 years ago). We have the original plans, which were somehow never registered with the city (which has been part of the permitting proces

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