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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
Usually there are two buttons "Prev-Next" or something like "Page: 1,2,3,4..". And I just checked, it's actually just "More". Maybe it's me but it's not immediately obvious that a link (not even
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
Pagination. I'm sure most people don't know that you can click on "More replies" at the bottom of the page to read more comments. At least I didn't know at first and spent many years reading only the first page. Edi
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
We can draw a comparison with online discussions on websites like hackernews. Pre-internet we could only have conversations with a limited number of people and we had to meet in person to do so. But now we can reach to millions of people vi
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
Exactly. Our societies/cities were built for in-office workers. The fact that despite that there are many people who still prefer remote work shows how much potential there is for a remote lifestyle. Every house has a bathroom. Now ima
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
One might wonder whether google employees are even creating value at this point or if they are just burning cash. What was the last product launched by Google that was a success? Which Google product hasn't gotten worse in the last 10
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
If no one ever pays those bills why bother making these numbers up? Why not charge $5B? Or even $3T for that matter. Wouldn't it save everyone time and money to give the right price first? What is the purpose of this game?
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
What if you want to start a business and have no significant other? Do American entrepreneurs bet that they won't fall sick before they strike gold?
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
> You could pick an undergrad, offer them 600k$, and they could take the job, but that won't make them top talent. But that's exactly what is happening. People are paid these insane salaries because they're either born Ame
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
For reference: 600k USD is 508k euros. 500k USD is 423k euros. We're already down a notch. People tend to assume $1 = 1€ in this thread.
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
But could email be invented and be massively adopted in today's world?
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
In the end we need to tag each piece of code written by copilot. Doing a code review on a piece of code written by a human and on another one generated by copilot is going to be a very different experience. I would be way more wary of a PR
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
Every complaint about remote work at scale should be taken with some caution. It's possible that managing remote employees is not more difficult in itself but is more challenging right now because we evolved from a WFO (work form offic
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
Interesting comment and I agree. Reading and writing code seem to involve different parts of the brain. I wonder if tools like this will create some sort of code review fatigue. I can write code for a few hours a day and enjoy it but I coul
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
I guess the last thing you want when you're debugging something during your work is for the whole word to watch over your shoulder.
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by stackbutterflow 5y ago
Hi Peter, What's the straightest path to the US for a tech worker?