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by spdionis 6y ago
You're probably on point. This globalization thing is just taking a while, and the transition period is not ideal. Give it a few more generations and the relevance of smaller cultures will shrink more and more.
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by spdionis 6y ago
Similarly, if I go to some new place with a friend or a group where I'm not the one leading, I would never remember the road. Even after multiple trips. If I go by myself even once, I will always remember how to get there. This phenome
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by spdionis 6y ago
> A very holier-than-thou, assuming comment > Most parents aren’t present, even if they are in the same room Seems like you're probably not aware of the irony.
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by spdionis 6y ago
So you're telling me that macOS is more performant than Windows 10? Have you used both? Do you not feel the delay in every mouse click you do in macOS that is so maddening after coming from Windows? Both the UI lag and general perfor
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by spdionis 6y ago
You are effectively "saying no" to your manager. In your estimation helping your colleagues is more impactful to the company than doing your current task. I don't think there's anything wrong with the attitude. The manag
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by spdionis 6y ago
Really good article. Context sharing is really powerful. Your job as a staff engineer involves going into a cross-team meeting and explaining in technical detail a given piece of work, thanks to which your/another team re-estimates a g
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by spdionis 6y ago
As a staff engineer, you have multiple responsibilities you need to cover, and you can delegate some of them. The reality is that in most teams you can delegate the "Deep Diver" responsibility most of the time. "Context shari
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by spdionis 6y ago
Everything the GP has described is essentially only the mechanics part of a Dota 2 game. The strategic part of the game has way more depth than "use your abilities at the right time in the right order".
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by spdionis 6y ago
Not if the rest of the world aspires to first world standards of living.
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by spdionis 6y ago
> One of that is the realization that our sensory inputs, how we process them, and also how we understand ourselves, the world, and the separateness of the self from everything around us - are not preordained. The way we look at all of t
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by spdionis 6y ago
> The thing that PHP does right that so few languages do is having a stateless core in the webserver. I never understood why the HN crowd always ignored this massive benefit of PHP, in a world where it's becoming clearer everyday
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by spdionis 6y ago
You can easily setup and use queues in PHP projects too.
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by spdionis 7y ago
Managed Postgres still needs to be restarted for config changes and instance resizes for example.
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by spdionis 7y ago
Everytime I see a news piece like this I wanna write a very snarky comment. Then I change my mind because I am not being productive. But, after all, it is impossible to talk on the subject productively.
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Germany will issue coronavirus antibody certificates(telegraph.co.uk)
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German minister commits suicide after ‘virus crisis worries’(euractiv.com)
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by spdionis 7y ago
Reminds me of Life is Strange, which is a really good "adventure game" btw.
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by spdionis 7y ago
> smokers are less likely to get serious illness from COVID-19 Source? I thought the contrary.
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by spdionis 7y ago
Sometimes we just get stubborn like little children and no amount of logic can get us out of that. Happens to me too sometimes. Sometimes getting that little meaningless thing you want in your life is very important. If you can't even
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by spdionis 7y ago
> It's flu season, be cognizant of hand washing and cover your mouth when you cough - how's that a harmful message again Well, you don't get to say you're helping to combat aids by giving out that type of advice. If y
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by spdionis 7y ago
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by spdionis 7y ago
You can look at the rank distribution of every competitive game and this concept becomes obvious. I've played Dota for many years. Managed to reach the Divine rank last year which at the time iirc started at the 95th percentile (maybe
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by spdionis 7y ago
We do it so much better that the quantitative difference becomes a qualitative difference.
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Being responsive when CPU bound in Golang(blog.ellation.com)
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by spdionis 7y ago
Except when you can't reply to a message on your phone cause you don't want people around you to hear that. Let's be real, "conversational computing" may work in movies, but in reality you don't want people in
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by spdionis 7y ago
Yeah, my comment is relevant only for non-euro countries.
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by spdionis 7y ago
An important point here is that you probably can't get reasonable financing to buy said apartment. Mortgages in a similar country start from 6%.
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by spdionis 7y ago
I could argue that all 3 are true statements.
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Detroit-School TDD and London-School TDD(github.com)
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by spdionis 7y ago
https://github.com/testdouble/contributing-tests/wiki/Test-D... This wiki has great content about the different types of TDD. Reading it helped me get useful insights about my approach and my gripes with TDD.

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