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by the_only_law 3y ago
A while back I decided to see a movie in theaters after a night out and it was allegedly the billionth iteration of some horror franchise (Scream I think? Maybe Halloween?). Turned out to not even really be a horror movie, but some dopey dr
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I had to do a drug test prior to my start date for an F500 some years ago, but never again afterwards.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I should have known it was a fucking substack blog before I even clicked.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Lol https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shaw_(laboratory_own... Leave it to HN to fall for grifters, but then again I suppose this must just probably just a massive conspiracy by the big bad Illuminati or something
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by the_only_law 3y ago
It really is comical to watch
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> but assumed the level of discourse on HN was a bit higher than that :) You know what they say about assuming…
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> What makes you think the crowd here and yourself are above that universal and highly ubiquitous human emotion? Probably the same magical fairy power that allows you to deterministically read emotions without any context. > Now, did
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Speaking of naive and dumb…
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> People on HN think the US looks like San Francisco. California has one of the highest rates of homelessness in the US. That’s just the general shtick here. You take your own SV bubble, extrapolate it to the whole country/world&#x2
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by the_only_law 3y ago
“You’re just jealous” has for a while now been HN’s go to any unwelcome criticism, whether the criticism is valid or not. I suppose that’s what goes for “thoughtful and substantive” comments nowadays. In that spirit l, I suggest these peopl
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> It's amazing how quickly they explain away seemingly credible testimony from a real intelligence officer. Yes because intelligence officers would never lie to congress or to the public. They are established paragons of integrity
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Ag yes, the new HN creed: “anyone who disagrees with me is a redditor”. Seriously has this site been taken over by children?
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by the_only_law 3y ago
And look just how many people support it.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
You could tell these type of idiots that Tylenol is a drug and they’d be up in arms trying to have it criminalized.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Layoffs were mostly in tech no? I don’t see much complaining about a shortage there anymore. Certainly not compared to some years ago when every HN idiot was copy pasting some phrase about software eating the world in response to concerns o
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Learned that the hard way.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
My sister quickly dropped out of getting an English degree. She just had no realistic idea or plans for what to do after HS, and college was pushed as the thing to do. When I was in HS, councilors looked at me like I was an idiot when I sai
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Also I don't see how sysadmin is worse than programming Probably pay. Neither is incredibly prestigious, but it seems development work can cap out much higher.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I like the language, but I never really used it for much. It’s the same with various other languages I’ve wanted to use, for example Ada. I sit down to work on something, fumble around for a bit, and realize it’s easier just to go back to u
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> Is it just me? Nope, I remember seeing a comment a while back and I had to save because it resonated with me so much: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32713325 I’m sure there’s something, somewhere out there, I cou
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I think their main problem hiring is that they are looking for perfect candidates. I’ve noticed this with government and government adjacent stuff: they are choosing beggars. The salaries they offer tend to cap well below what you can
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Yeah I’ve been surprisingly impressed. I remember the first thing I saw like this was Instagram’s fact checking which almost immediately turned into nonsense with people leaving fact check posts for obvious shitposts and memes. The communit
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> I don't know enough of Fortran to claim there's nothing "interesting" going on for it You mean in the language itself or its applications. Honestly I’ve heard about a lot of really cool things written in Fortran. Ho
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by the_only_law 3y ago
This is the type of material HN wants in the front page I guess. Not surprising, it’s basically just a regurgitation of widely circulated here.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> That's not the steel man, that's a straw man where you just flipped the politics of the scenario. That’s just HN
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> a candidate told me they forgot what the job they applied for was and who we are How long from the application to the interview? I’ve damn well forget what some random company or job I applied to was when they reach out months after th
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by the_only_law 3y ago
Is Hired the one that’s supposed to have the employers reach out to you. Even prior to the market crash, I never got any lead off of hired (though I would get a ton from other sources) despite them sending me constant email spam about how “
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by the_only_law 3y ago
I gave up.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> The ghosting is worse than online dating at this point. Honestly, when I do several rounds and travel 2 hours to your stupid office, I’d hope I’d at least get a fucking yes/no.
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by the_only_law 3y ago
> So much for "Free speech is now legal on Twitter". I mean, if you believed that in the first place you were an idiot anyway.

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