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by slimed 7y ago
This is the sad truth of it. As a candidate I greatly appreciate feedback but I know there are others who will try to paint their not getting hired as due to bias (classism, racism, sexism, etc) without any evidence. I don't blame thos
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by slimed 7y ago
Typical Basecamp. Lots of hype with little substance.
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by slimed 7y ago
Ding
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by slimed 7y ago
The bar is low for such tools regardless of programming language. In a language as dynamic as Ruby it's several miles into the Earth's crust. The tool won't be able to tell you much of anything you shouldn't already know
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by slimed 7y ago
The problem is that they are abusing a statute that we all know is harmful more generally and creating precedent for others to do it.
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by slimed 7y ago
Exactly. All they did was remove an open source repository. It's still trivial to access their services in a way that they admit is harmful to their customers' privacy. As a bonus, now it's on the front page of Hacker News. I
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by slimed 7y ago
Stunning naivete on display here
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by slimed 7y ago
Unless society is willing to allocate a larger percentage of GDP towards medical research it really is zero-sum which diseases get funding and which do not.
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by slimed 7y ago
I highly doubt "most people" even know how to do this.
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by slimed 7y ago
You don't need a government agency to test for THC potency. Businesses can and do already solve that problem. That doesn't seem to be what the parent commenter was getting at, regardless. As an experienced grower I would trust my
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by slimed 7y ago
Do you really believe that people would "cut" legal marijuana with "dangerous chemicals" and sell it from their dispensary? This barely ever happens with illegal marijuana. The reason drugs like heroin and cocaine are
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by slimed 7y ago
"Marijuana laws" are what caused this mess in the first place. The title of this post makes it sound like government is doing something rather than getting out of the way.
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by slimed 7y ago
You're missing my point. My point is that those places are even more culturally distant from NYC but no one ever tells them to "go back where you came from". Btw, also a Midwesterner. Recently left NYC. Finally took the advic
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by slimed 7y ago
Au contraire, you'll be celebrated for it!
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by slimed 7y ago
More so than Aleppo or Mogadishu? I think not. Sounds like a cop out to me.
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by slimed 7y ago
I'm willing to bet you wouldn't refer to other groups as "flooding" NYC. Why do New Yorkers find it acceptable to say such things about Midwesterners?
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by slimed 7y ago
This is why people are so outraged. We were supposedly past the days where something like this can happen in a century old industry like commercial aviation. I understand that ensuring the safety of new airplane designs is more complicated
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by slimed 7y ago
I hope you're right but this reminds me of the very sad saying, "Bike lanes are painted in blood". Why can't we properly value safety over convenience and profits before there is a huge accident?
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by slimed 7y ago
> I think the target audience is people who don't like to learn, and I find that worrying in the context of programming. A strange comment to make about someone trying to tackle a text like this > I also have a modest, optimis
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by slimed 7y ago
I'd hire someone qualified, motivated, and hungry to improve over someone who barely scrapes by without wasting a single cycle worrying about their word choice on an internet forum. Perhaps we have a different understanding of what con
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by slimed 7y ago
That's a pretty narrow view of the teachings to be gained from SICP.
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by slimed 7y ago
If you've really not put in any time for independent study and have only 4 years experience on the job, you are not "average". You are below average, and apparently unaware of it. Not to mention a cancer on the industry. It&#
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by slimed 7y ago
There is a simple explanation of course. You are not the intended audience. Ditto for the blockbusters you mentioned.
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by slimed 7y ago
The thing about software engineering is that it doesn't require expensive post graduate education like med school. The barrier to entry is much lower. Many status seekers will eventually realize a few things about software: 1. Wait, I
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by slimed 7y ago
That's already how it is at other "unicorns" like Uber and Lyft. I know from firsthand experience. Unbearable work environment. Constantly being sniped by your co-workers who are more interested in playing the game the accomp
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by slimed 7y ago
It's really not a career path you should get into if you're just in it for the money. Your friends will probably wash out within 3-5 years after they figure out they're not actually interested in software engineering.
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by slimed 7y ago
Actually it's illegal in the U.S. and Europe to "show people the door" because of a medical disability.
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by slimed 7y ago
While I'm not surprised that a Chinese company was the first to do this, the criticism has nothing to do with them being Chinese. Show me an American or European social media company that discriminates in this way and I will show you t
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by slimed 7y ago
You realize that you're comparing obese people and adults with Tourette's Syndrome to children? This argument seems like trolling trolling, to be honest.
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by slimed 7y ago
Couldn't agree more. Well put.

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