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by thatguymike 3y ago
The article implies he was pressured not to leave his pronouns blank, so his move was a petty escalation.
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by thatguymike 3y ago
I’m genuinely puzzled by the people around me who don’t want kids. They have stable jobs, they get to travel, they give to charity, they go to restaurants and go out on the weekends. It seems so dull to me. I’ve been to a lot of parties, do
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by thatguymike 3y ago
Still strong disagree with that, having kids involves a lot of rote activities that are infused with meaning and joy if they’re for your kids. If you have a strong enough reaction that babysitting will give useful information (because you o
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by thatguymike 3y ago
Funny, I’d heard that football is a gentleman’s game played by thugs and rugby is the thug’s game played by gentlemen.
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by thatguymike 3y ago
What makes those videos infuriating is that they miss out… any of the parts where she does actual work? And that’s a video choice not an indictment of the industry. Surely nobody thinks everyone at linkedin just wonders round the office sip
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by thatguymike 3y ago
He's also personally magnetic, wise and loving in a way that few are? If you want a political slant on it - he represents a certain anti-consumerism, generalized love for humanity, and a throwback to a less capitalist era which appeal
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Or, you started doing something stupid!
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by thatguymike 4y ago
CEO is slightly tardy replying to an email, then declines to give a detailed reason for passing on the candidate? OP's reaction here makes it pretty clear that the company made a good decision.
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Ahaha, it’s… not actually reading the article. That is a hallucinated summary of what it thinks an article is most likely to say given the url, which contains the title of the article.
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Lex interviewing MrBeast a couple months ago was the most unintentionally hilarious interview I can remember. Lex could not engage MB on _anything_, they speak entirely different languages. I don’t expect MB to be a genius, but Lex couldn’t
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by thatguymike 4y ago
OpenAI is open in the sense that it makes its modes freely available by API for the lowest price in the industry. Open doesnt have to mean Open Source.
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by thatguymike 4y ago
It’s a thing for me, Teslas have become much less psychologically desirable over the last few months. Nothing personal to anyone who bought one, but now I see them and wince/feel sorry for the owner rather than feeling mildly impressed
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Places where data is the product are categorically different experiences to places where data is ancillary. Having a direct link to revenue or cost makes your team and your work self justifying, which is good for meaning, for influencing de
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by thatguymike 4y ago
I agree with you for capital-A Art, but it turns out that most of content produced doesn't need to meet that bar - book covers, adverts, filler paintings, and so on. Those are the ways that a lot of people make their living. Is it OK t
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by thatguymike 4y ago
...Because OP is getting paid a big salary to do what the business requires, not what they wish their responsibility could be? > Also, if someone wants to write code, in a team with other senior developers, where should one go? > Star
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Me three!
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by thatguymike 4y ago
The creepy thing is not that Google is listening to you. (They're not. Period.) It's that they can get so good that they can convince a large segment of the population that they _are_ listening to you. As others have said, correla
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Reach back out to Meta. They're not offended that you turned down their offer, they understand that situations change, and they very well might still want to hire you.
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by thatguymike 4y ago
51s -- "We are truly grateful", says the heartfelt thankyou card that was written by an algorithm in a spreadsheet.
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by thatguymike 4y ago
The thing with Sinema and Manchin is that the alternative to them isn't a non-obstructionist Democrat, it's a Republican. "Getting rid" of them would do nothing to help Dems.
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Did this job as my first job out of college. Can confirm, I was considered “the techie one” because I knew the difference between a client and a server. I quit after a few years to go into software engineering. OP, your first career choice
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Just gonna add my voice to the time to get a job train.
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by thatguymike 4y ago
That’s a pain, but not uncommon. I’ve heard of big, good companies that do this in some cases. Could be one person was unsure about your performance, or they’re deciding between two levels for you, or even that the person that did your codi
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by thatguymike 4y ago
Depending on your exact field and desires, but you may very well not need a portfolio. If you’re going for very design-heavy frontend job then maybe, but after I got some work experience nobody needed to see code I wrote in my spare time (w
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by thatguymike 4y ago
When you lift weights, you can choose a weight that’s appropriate to you. When it gets too heavy, you stop. When you’re finished, you rest for a day or two. When you feel a twinge, you easy up or take a rest day. When you’re lifting heavy t
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by thatguymike 4y ago
And yet we have a huge and lauded Finance industry…
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by thatguymike 5y ago
One major difference between UK and US undegraduate courses is that when you study undergraduate at a UK university, you _only_ do courses in your chosen course of study. No faffing about for a year or two picking a major, no time spent fil
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by thatguymike 5y ago
The high-level tech stack, not the memory stack.
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by thatguymike 5y ago
Article needs examples of work done with Flourish.
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by thatguymike 5y ago
I don't think the poster necessarily said that nothing else in the world will make you a better person... I think it's impossible to deny that learning kindness, patience, humility, acceptance makes you a better person. Is it the

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