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by soneca 5y ago
I don’t think the opposite of ”idiot” is ”well-educated” . And I also didn’t like the quoted person in the article that said they had to (my words) “dumb down” their technical conversation whenever an American entered the conversation or
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by soneca 5y ago
Yes, I would guess that in Brazilian portuguese the expression "jogos de azar" comes from this original meaning of the word "azar", as randomness. But the isolated word "azar" took on the specific meaning of &q
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by soneca 5y ago
The fundamental difference is that what you refer as ”uncomfortable opinions” are, for me, plain misunderstandings of why other people do stuff. My perspective is that viewing hobbies as ”another job” is plain and fundamentally wrong. T
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by soneca 5y ago
When you say that hobby is ”another job they’re not good at” you are obviously judging them. Most of your examples are dripping with judgment. I am not sure why you even bothered to start your comment with ”I don’t judge, but...” When y
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by soneca 5y ago
You lack a lot of imagination if you think that the only thing someone would do with an extra 20 hours a week is watching TV.
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by soneca 5y ago
You mention Asia and Australia, but all the remote engineering roles are ”anywhere in the US”
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by soneca 5y ago
Even the blue bird apparently
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by soneca 6y ago
Hmmm... idk about Snapchat, it doesn’t seem all that big around here, but Instagram use main focus seems still to be celebrities, just not distant Hollywood celebrities, but local, more ephemeral, themed, niched celebrities that we call _”i
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by soneca 6y ago
So that’s what nuclear fission is?
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by soneca 6y ago
Madoff made his ponzi scheme last 17 years with a limited network. Imagine how long a ponzi scheme accessible by the whole world could last. Possibly forever (or at least longer than my lifetime). I am thinking about Bitcoin here.
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by soneca 6y ago
There is another option that is not being angry nor doing the dance. Learning the dance takes time, a lot of time. And there is no guarantee of success. It is a risky time investiment. I went with the third path of ignoring all that and app
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by soneca 6y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Remote | Part-time Tech: React Native / Expo Hey, I am looking for someone who has experience implementing in-app purchases in a React Native mobile app published in both app stores (App Store and Play Store). So
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by soneca 6y ago
In this sense, I see Nextjs more like a Swiss Army knife than a hammer. And the author (and the Vercel CEO tweets) explained that he used the exact right tools of it. In the end, it was a static page that handled an incredible amount of t
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by soneca 6y ago
Well, in my view this was actually a very fitting nail for the hammer he had.
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by soneca 6y ago
I think the learning for you should be: don’t repeat other people’s words without understanding what they are supposed to mean, what’s the context, what’s the reasoning behind them. I would say that a proper answer to _”What do you mean?”_
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by soneca 6y ago
My first take on the article is that the author overestimates the impact and even the causality of an investor giving founders advice to swipe roles. It makes it sound simple and so reduced that to turn a company around is just having found
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Painting Puzzles – game based on National Gallery of Art open access policy(paintingpuzzles.com)
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by soneca 6y ago
And the post couldn’t be older since it has a photo from a satellite that was launched this year. My guess it is some automated task that got confused because the post is in a forum, not a regular blog post with a publishing date.
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by soneca 6y ago
Best answer to the clickbaity title question that the article could provide: ” "Apparently he just kept a very low profile, which was really the best thing he could do," says Ms Boutrup.”
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by soneca 6y ago
Very unlikely that they won’t exist anymore. And whichever low number they are reduced to, they will start to grow again because there will be people willing to pay for their services.
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by soneca 6y ago
I would not blame solely company PR departments for this, often the press exaggerates claims for clicks. I remember working on a non-profit that provided philanthropy advice to millionaires. Once we hosted a small conference and we ran a ve
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by soneca 6y ago
Decided to Google it. He moved on to a new project which is a platform to help other young inventors [0]. He went meta. To be fair, any misalignment between what he has done and how it was presented in the press I blame 100% the press. He d
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by soneca 6y ago
I am already earning money that I would expect to earn only close to my retirement in my other careers, if successful. So I am very happy with my choice financially-wise. And I still enjoy a lot coding everyday. Also I am lucky to never hav
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by soneca 6y ago
By your standards a lot of very toxic people would get a pass by saying toxic stuff and they later saying _”I was just joking”_, thus ever denying their bad intent. And that kind of toxic-then-deny people are very, very common in workplaces
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by soneca 6y ago
Of course you can! I decided to learn to code when I was 37yo. Now I am 41 and I earn a lot more as a junior developer than I ever did in any other job. I wrote a lot about my path and I think it can help both in the why and the how: https
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by soneca 6y ago
> because donations are a zero-sum game What? No, they are not. Because you never saw evidence, it is true? I worked for 4 years convincing millionaires to start doing large donations that they simply weren’t doing before. I myself sta
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by soneca 6y ago
Oh, it’s good to be back enjoying a PG essay! :) Even if it is just a short message rather than a grandiose statement (maybe that’s the reason I like it). I worked with nonprofits (and philanthropy advice in particular) for a long time and
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by soneca 6y ago
Thanks for the video, it was awesome! Essentially this is what I do. Good to know a “champion” using it too! Fine grinding because the brewing time is short and fast pouring without initial “bloom” (just learned the term). I am ok with this
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by soneca 6y ago
If there are so many variables, why not talk to people to learn the results of those experiments? The alternative is to make all those experiments yourself, which will take a lot of time. I like coffee myself. I noticed that I usually prefe
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by soneca 6y ago
I got a few interviews after posting on “Who wants to be hired?” and got a job after a post on “Who is hiring?”. I know a friend who got a job offer from Square and Google after one of his blog posts (very deep, technical, explaining a new

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