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by shantly 7y ago
In high school, they're based around having time after school for sports practice and other extracurriculars, mostly, from what I understand (I know a lot of K-12 teachers). That's why so many districts still make elementary schoo
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by shantly 7y ago
I've had enough mediocre experiences with MBAs and CS master's graduates alike that either puts me on my guard, these days. Not sure what the deal is with that.
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by shantly 7y ago
There's a certain career path that seems to start with a top-tier MBA, and by one's 30s has one running a VC backed company as CEO (you have 40 employees and one of them is your executive assistant—can't let your CEO job take
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, I also don't remember that. I remember being floored that Youtube was hosting so much video (you know, like 0.001% as much as they host now, by disk space consumed—way less of it and it was SD) for free—it blew my freaking mind.
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by shantly 7y ago
A baguette in my Midwestern city close to as good as a standard Parisian corner store baguette is like $6. You can get some that are "good" but in fact way worse than the real deal for $4-5. Approach the 2 Euro baguette in price
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by shantly 7y ago
Part of why I only find React+Redux tolerable with TypeScript. Too much bouncing around, too many files open, otherwise. And that's before you layer any other crap on top of that (Saga and such). TypeScript makes it feel as simple as
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by shantly 7y ago
I think the point was that the market is so huge that snagging a small part of it via a niche offering might plausibly lead to a successful business.
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by shantly 7y ago
Hell, it wasn't yet unusual to only have a landline in 2003.
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by shantly 7y ago
I have to all but disable them (using spacer elements to make most of it blank, disabling per-app buttons so it stays that way all the time) to make them tolerable. Otherwise I brush the bottom edge of it too often, making a variety of unde
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by shantly 7y ago
I'd assumed it was on purpose to push you toward the app. I don't see it as much on desktop.
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by shantly 7y ago
A smartphone that's "just a computer" is probably gonna be pretty bad for most people. Even the more-restrictive Apple App Store has to be constantly on guard against apps trying to get around the rules and spy on users and e
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by shantly 7y ago
1) Just pay a flat fee for a VPS, unless you're trying to learn how to use a "true" cloud provider. Their web interfaces usually make recovery from the worst failure modes ("I can't even ping the box...") tri
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by shantly 7y ago
> I hate dev ops shit for a reason... I notice I was a lot more keen on hosting a bunch of crap myself before I knew how to do it "right", and before devops, orchestration ("you mean running scripts in remote shells?"
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by shantly 7y ago
At least they made it clear to him that he had no responsibilities. That's better than it could be.
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by shantly 7y ago
It's an incredibly difficult place to live? It's probably not much easier than living on the Moon, really. A little more gravity but that's about the only useful thing it's got that the Moon doesn't—not enough atmos
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by shantly 7y ago
Earth could take a big ol' comet strike or a nuclear war—or probably both—and still be better able to support human life than Mars is. You could build a bunch of super-hardened bunkers and pay people to live in them in shifts, cheaper
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by shantly 7y ago
I read on but for me the story was over at the end of God Emperor, which felt like the end of the core arc of the first four books. The rest gets harder to follow—like other Frank Herbert novels I’ve tried to read—and doesn’t provide the sa
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by shantly 7y ago
Someone on here posted something about letting candidates pick an open issue on an open-source project and prep a PR for it, to go over. Easily my favorite version of a take-home assignment I've ever heard of—it's not throwaway ju
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by shantly 7y ago
I think what you're working on has a much bigger effect on skill improvement/retention than hours worked, except maybe for retaining large amounts of trivia.
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by shantly 7y ago
Similar experience, had 15ish years of a terrible relationship with sleep starting when high school started, with a side order of seasonal depression. I blame a combination of: 1) puberty, 2) putting the long break in Summer rather than Win
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, both as just another part of larger hiring panels and in tech lead roles with the biggest say in who gets in. Maybe I've been rejecting people who'd be fine and am committing the same sin but it seems pretty easy to get a
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by shantly 7y ago
> From being a candidate myself, I've found that having someone watch me and being in a room with the stress and all motivates me to show my best. Whereas coding challenges I really lack the motivation and I end up rushing them, doi
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by shantly 7y ago
Hollywood has always been big on remakes & sequels and such. Tons of films had multiple silent versions then multiple talky remakes later, over the decades. Very common to see when you're poking around the history of cinema on
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by shantly 7y ago
Lots of people have something on the TV just about all day long (or at least the whole time they're home—for retired folks this can actually be the entire day) and skew the numbers higher, I think. My parents do it, just leave the TV o
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by shantly 7y ago
Tons of restaurants, chains and local, will give you big take-out versions of several of their dishes at a lower per-serving price than they'd normally be. Same thing a company might do to cater lunch for a largish team or smallish bus
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by shantly 7y ago
When I've described the typical SV-cargo-cult tech hiring process to people outside this world, they've universally thought it's batshit crazy, and usually also insulting and demeaning. Lots of "WTF, seriously?" sor
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by shantly 7y ago
I wanna know who the people are who can talk confidently and intelligently about the details, decisions, and purposes in the systems, technologies, and workflows they've worked with or built, to essentially arbitrary depth, but can&#x2
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by shantly 7y ago
Agreed. Make me whiteboard or live-code if you wanna make me look and feel like I've not actually had over a dozen years of productive experience designing systems and shipping code and fixing other people's broken crap, and you&#
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by shantly 7y ago
Yeah, I can get a bunch of phone screens for opportunities with nearly no effort. If comp's high across the board and I have, say, three or four promising calls within 36hrs of flying my "I'm looking" flag, and one says
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by shantly 7y ago
I think I'd only be willing to do that if I were unemployed. Otherwise I'm already collecting a paycheck for doing tens of hours of software development a week—the last thing I'm interested in doing is more of that, for free,

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