taway_1212

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by taway_1212 8y ago
Tried installing Linux on MBP last month. Ran away screaming after 30+ hours of dealing with drivers issues. I do this every couple of years, hoping that finally THIS time I can get off Windows. Next attempt will be circa about 2021 probabl
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by taway_1212 8y ago
Can you give examples of friends losing “everything” when following their dreams? What happened? Excellent comment BTW.
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by taway_1212 8y ago
It’s also possible that you’re more tired and sick because of the workload’s burden on the body.
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by taway_1212 8y ago
Anybody else except the owner?
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by taway_1212 8y ago
There’s a huge difference between actually killing someome like the Soviets did (by a bullet to the head or by enslaving and working someone to death) and “killing” (like you call it) by not sharing resources (health care) with someone. The
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by taway_1212 8y ago
At least in the gamedev area, there's infinite number of games to build (the same way there's infinite amount of novels to write and songs to compose).
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by taway_1212 8y ago
Am I not mistaken that in the US it's already common to get paid for blood donations? (Here, in Poland, you only got a couple bars of chocolate for it). So, people in the US are already ok with selling their flesh (at least the part th
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by taway_1212 8y ago
My policy - you can do whatever you want, incl. working 30 minutes per day, as long as your boss is happy with your performance. If at any time the boss points out that you're not as efficient as he'd like, you can choose to eithe
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by taway_1212 8y ago
> Portability is nice but the reality is that almost no one uses it. On the contrary - for example, lots of people develop on MacOS and deploy to Linux.
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by taway_1212 8y ago
Find better people? I know it's easier said than done.
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by taway_1212 8y ago
Fair enough. If I ever get a laptop with USB-C, I think I'd replace at least my monitors and keyboard mouse to USB-C devices, so that I can get the "docking station" effect. Sucks if you don't want to do that (ex. becaus
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by taway_1212 8y ago
What's wrong with USB-C? Sounds like a cool idea in theory - you essentially don't need a docking station.
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by taway_1212 8y ago
Dunno about US, but in Europe all banks are like that. They know the work is frustrating and boring (they almost never want to rebuild stuff from scratch, so you end up building on decades-old layers of undocumented crap - COBOL etc.) , so
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by taway_1212 8y ago
> The thing I find really hard to understand from a business perspective is that bullshit jobs are the low hanging fruit from a cost saving perspective. Why do they persist? What drives managers, teams, companies and cultures to accept b
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by taway_1212 8y ago
I was like that in my twenties in well, now it's no longer an issue. I dunno if it's because I got my life in order (much more excercise now) or if it has just changed with age.
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by taway_1212 8y ago
> In social science research there is often a tradeoff between measurement quality and sampling quality. Do you want to measure your variables really well in a small sample, or measure them crudely in a large sample. Wouldn't it be
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by taway_1212 8y ago
In Poland it's similar. However, in UK, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Finland (just examples of countries where I or my colleagues have contracted in the past) companies are open to paying 100k-200k EUR d
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by taway_1212 8y ago
That's true for large companies like Accenture, but there's plenty of setups where the consulting company is essentially doing nothing (only providing a legal intermediary between the consultant and the client) and its cut is belo
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by taway_1212 8y ago
Maybe tech writer (author of documentation, tech blog posts on company website etc.)?
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by taway_1212 8y ago
> No, prosperity is "financial success" and that's related to the people around you and to some basic standard If that's the case, then prosperity is purely relative term (as I suspect the "basic standard" w
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by taway_1212 9y ago
C/C++ are basically languages used only for technical products, while Java/web is used internally by pretty much every large company on Earth. This puts immense pressure on salaries.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> Poor people eat worse food; don't get as much exercise; and smoke more How is choosing to smoke more an inequality?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
To be fair, posting on HN under a nickname is closer to writing an anonymous rant on say a toilet wall. I wouldn’t say he’s doing it “publicly”.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
To be fair, I don’t think anyone working in CPUs ever claimed that branch prediction is AI.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Don't quit my (shitty) job, and bank the (awesome) money.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Even if you do your best, you won't know if it's enough until you actually try. That's why, from a practical standpoint, it's indistinguishable from a gamble.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
If he fixes it, the prices will rise, making Amazon less wonderful.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I am guessing people were off-put by a combination of grandiose goals (can sound crackpot-y to some people) and advertising.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
This. If only 10% people had such goal (and did half-decent job at it), maybe it would spread like a virus and transform humanity for the better?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Consumerism requires very high prioritisation of one’s career (as otherwise you won’t be able to afford all the nice stuff), which means working very hard, moving around the country/world for better jobs etc. This must come at the cost

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