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by spadros 4y ago
Disagree hard. I’ve been given so many garbage gifts that I immediately threw away or donated. I tell my family members to just do cash or gift cards for me. I’d rather get exactly what I need than some junk I’ll never use.
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by spadros 4y ago
If you work with git, you should be proficient with git. All of your points are dancing around the fact that your main point is that “being sloppy with git is OK because I don’t know it and it’s not like what I like using”. And no, I’m not
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by spadros 4y ago
If you’re a senior at a company that uses git, these are all terrible answers. As a senior you not only should understand how to stash local changes and handle merge conflicts, but also generally use your VCS to elevate your development abi
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by spadros 4y ago
What are they going to do if he says no? Fire him? Not give him the promotions they haven’t been? If he’s been doing as well as he claims, he can sit on his hands for a few months and start slow rolling his work.
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by spadros 4y ago
The stress from not having a job lined up would have eaten me alive. I wouldn’t recommend that for anyone. I’m glad your case panned out but I would tell OP to line up a new job if they can.
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by spadros 4y ago
Why can’t you do both? You can line up a new job and take a break in between. I regularly take a month or more between jobs. Most employers are fine waiting a bit longer for top talent.
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by spadros 4y ago
Don’t just quit your job without another lined up. Milk the current company for everything you can while finding a new job. They’ll find a way to offer you the position and pay you deserved from the beginning when you put in your 2 weeks. D
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by spadros 4y ago
In all my years I have yet to see HDMI output from a laptop to a monitor work on the first try in Ubuntu. Always need to install the proprietary drivers for that to work at all. If it can't even do that without a headache, after 10+ ye
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by spadros 4y ago
But to imply that the inspection time doesn’t affect the solve time at all seems totally disingenuous. I agree with the thesis of the video. “Time to solve a cube” should mean exactly that; how long, from first seeing the cube in front of y
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by spadros 4y ago
Need to track who said what for libel cases. There are plenty of unfairly scathing Glassdoor reviews. If Glassdoor can’t point to who said it, they’re the one who gets sued.
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by spadros 4y ago
It annoys you that Tim Horton’s is considered a Canadian institution? I get that it’s mainly owned by a Brazilian company now, and quality has gone to all hell, but it will probably always be a part of Canadiana due to its history.
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by spadros 4y ago
This is the attitude I think the author should be writing about. It should be that you love your partner, even with their trivial flaws. The glass was never the real issue. It’s a sign for the relationship going off the rails. Not a sign th
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by spadros 4y ago
Where’s the limit here? How trivial of an action is one allowed to build resent over? At what point should one just grow up and try to love the imperfections of the partner they married? Sounded like the wife was the one with the issue. And
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by spadros 4y ago
I agree with you. I think this article is meaningless click bait TBH. The whole time I was thinking “or the marriage was ruined by the wife not being able to let a trivial non-issue go”. Seems like she was the one building resent over somet
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by spadros 4y ago
What? You want more negative experiences? That defines a good relationship for you? I can’t think of a better goal than to be with somebody so compatible that you have minimal friction and minimal issues.
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by spadros 5y ago
The author’s not wrong, he’s just an asshole. People have different ways of communicating. I actually like getting to know my coworkers and appreciate a little fluff in my conversations. Heck, if you can make me laugh with a sassy story or
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by spadros 5y ago
Yeah, I’ve been finding my one on ones useless recently, and this article seems to have some more useless “wisdom” here summed up in a nice package. Kind of annoying to me that the writer implies the one on one is for me to fill his valuabl
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by spadros 5y ago
Interesting. I think the field of using electronic brain stimulation to help disease is moving forward in a good direction compared to the lobotomies and craziness of the 60s. That seems to be what you’ve linked here. I’m talking about a si
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by spadros 5y ago
Interesting. Care to elaborate?
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by spadros 5y ago
Unfortunately, we’re in the stone ages of mental health. There is no blood test or brain scan we can do to assuredly find depression, bipolar, or any other common mental health diseases. Hopefully you’re correct and in the future we will ha
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by spadros 5y ago
As an atheist that left Protestantism due to arguments like this, I find the "we need suffering" a bit naive. Where do we draw the line with unfair suffering? Disease. Pain. Rape. Poverty. There are abject lows that some people st
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by spadros 5y ago
In Canada your freedom of speech as a broadcaster or entertainer is limited to non-harmful, intentionally ignorant, or violence provoking language. So it’s not censorship here to take someone off the radio for spreading slander and lies tha
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by spadros 5y ago
I think it’s insane to expect any household to pay $200 a day for basic utilities.
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by spadros 5y ago
Yes, someone else is doing something morally reprehensible, so it clears my morally reprehensible behaviour too. Now you're sounding like a Ferengi Putin.
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by spadros 5y ago
I didn’t realize we had any Ferengi on Hacker News. You’re ignoring his point that it doesn’t justify the waste and damage that’s being done.
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by spadros 5y ago
> Sending your mail yourself is the real hard part No, having quality spam and fraud filtering, and quality security, that you host yourself, is by far the much harder problem. I would argue that outsourcing your email to Proton or Tutan
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by spadros 5y ago
Your examples seem to all be contradictory though. It seems you have your own barometer for value that doesn't line up with your arguments.
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by spadros 5y ago
If you're judging value by pay, math and chemistry and (and pretty much anything STEM) will kick philosophy's ass. If you're judging value by abstract value, haven't we left the territory of your argument? Aren't yo
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by spadros 5y ago
I disagree. I'd be willing to bet that the better educated a populous is, the higher the vaccination rates would be. I also believe that it's not a high bar to expect people to understand basic physics and biology and chemistry be
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by spadros 5y ago
Came here to say this. Was greatly disappointed by the lack of jargon and etymology.

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