taway_1212

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by taway_1212 9y ago
Not using Emacs myself, but read reports of long-time users getting RSI from all the keyboard shortcuts.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
It's true that you need to eat the same shit, but at least upper mgmt/leadership pays much better.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> All that air space that could be condos, homes for people, anything at all, wasted so that "people can see the mountains better". Meanwhile, my friend and his girlfriend are paying $4000/month for 1000 sqft. My guess is
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Sharing home with strangers is just a no-no for me. In other places, only extreme poverty (ex. as in early USSR) forces people to do it.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> I spend close to a decade of my life trying to understand the subtleties of a single paper. Wow. Out of curiosity - what paper was that?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I'm assuming The town/state people are taxing themselves to provide affordable education for people in their community, not for random exploiters.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> Basically, the claim is that people over the age of thirty being productive in math is an anomaly. It can be speculated that young people often don't have a family and are eager to prove themselves to the world - so they have both
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Bakers make bread. Soldiers eat bread to have energy to kill people. Do bakers help government kill people?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> Their democracy is even more of a joke than that of the US. What democracy?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
C has become a niche language used in some tech companies (for OSes, drivers, embedded etc.), while Python has application also outside tech (finance, e-commerce, etc. etc.). The non-tech jobs far outnumber the tech jobs (maybe at 1000 to 1
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Agreed, but it seems to me that, in the context of our industry, race and gender diversity is way less important than the other kinds of diversity(ex. age, industry background, type of personality).
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by taway_1212 9y ago
10x exit for a company with the word "Humble" in their name would be very ironic.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
I'm guessing a lot of murders go down among gangsters and within bad neighborhoods. Terrorism, on the other hand, deliberately targets places where middle class (and tourists) congregate.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
2015 and 2016 in France averaged at over about 120 people killed in terrorist attacks per year. That's of course less than people killed in traffic, but it's still an extra threat to you that is (can be) constantly on your mind.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
In London, many (most?) experienced people do contracts at £100k+ per year.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
When you moved to US/Canada/Norway etc., you have secured your right to be there. Meanwhile, (depending on the details), Brexit can take away your right to work/stay in the UK.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Does Google pay more than decents contracts in European big cities (i.e. 120k+ €)?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
The people I think of weren't playing WoW all day, but rather coding/working through papers etc. all day, for years. For most people digging up this kind of intrinsic motivation without any external rewards in sight is hard.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
The "Big Data" (Hadoop etc.) stack takes years to become good at, and is a natural progression for many bored enterprise devs.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
While I mostly agree in principle, there are some counter-examples as well - people who mostly just played with personal projects who got hired at $300k jobs for the niche skills they've gained. These people are top-notch though.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
The parent's point was that there actually aren't many nails, at least in terms of race/ethnicity ("no diversity"). To me it looks like a good situation to be in, because such homogenous society should much more fri
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> It's unrivalled social cohesiveness comes at the cost though of a lack of diversity. Why is that a problem though? Does it make their life worse in some way?
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by taway_1212 9y ago
IMO, in the UK the FT employment (for "senior" roles) is for suckers who don't realize their actual value. If companies can't find enough of them, they bite the bullet and supplement with contractors. Hence the two separ
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Supposedly Miele's white goods are better than most other brands. They're on average 3-5x times more expensive, so they have plenty of margins to make durable products.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Maybe that's true at companies selling to consumers (everyone is a consumer, so everyone can conceviably have valid ideas for new features). However, at companies selling to businesses, the developer is usually more or less clueless ab
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> when you retire @ 37, you can start to do yoga/tai chi religiously, 1-2 hrs a day, so when your 80 years old your not old/frail. Ever heard of diseases (not to mention just plain old aging)? Tai chi/joga is not a ticket
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Happened to me a dozen or so years ago when I left the uni. In the end, what worked was rekindling some of the older friendships. I didn't make any permanent friends in the 8+ jobs I've worked at.
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> accessibility is good Pretty much nothing is 100% good or bad. In many cases, accessibility rules (or fire safety rules for that matter) can prevent a business from being viable. Are we better off with a store that has a huge sign &quo
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by taway_1212 9y ago
> It’s just not right to say that so few people should get to control the entire continent just because they were there first. That logic could still be applied today. Asia and Arica combined are over 5.5 billion people. I bet a lot of t
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by taway_1212 9y ago
Oh yeah, by "communism" I mean whatever was implemented in Soviet block, China, India, Vietnam etc., not what Marx and others envisioned in their theories.

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