thecardcheat

4 ms·

1.
by thecardcheat 5y ago
> is considered more stable Was not stated. > Why shouldn’t they use stable technology they are proficient with? This perspective is one of the major indicators of an engineer with more experience managing real projects. Making a tech
2.
by thecardcheat 6y ago
All of this - and maintenance. The house that may be "inexpensive" re: sale price may cost just as much to fix. The cost of fixing X sq ft of thing or replacing appliance Y may certainly increase with the size of the home, but eve
3.
by thecardcheat 7y ago
In my 30s here, so past the heyday. I have lived in several regions of the US and traveled to the rest - these aren't very common.
4.
by thecardcheat 7y ago
Comcast may add a modem rental fee to your bill automagically even if you have your own modem (even if you have always had your own). This happened to me and the phone support told me they do this intentionally and they expect people to cal
5.
by thecardcheat 7y ago
For the sake of your time and your sanity you should do neither of those things. You should file a complaint with the appropriate state labor body, particularly in a US state like CA where the agencies are well funded. The chance of it bene
6.
by thecardcheat 9y ago
That's surprising to me as I have updated a large production Django code-base on my own for every version from 1.5 to 2.0 and it has never taken me more than a day, with an equal or lesser (typically lesser) amount of time dedicated to
7.
by thecardcheat 9y ago
For US Generation Student Debt, there's a significant long-term cost to that decision. If you don't have to double the years it takes you to pay back your debt to do so, maybe moving abroad is more of an option.
8.
by thecardcheat 9y ago
Beyond the obvious etymology that others have stated, the terms "sanctuary", "refuge", and "preserve" are used far more by the US to represent the idea you describe for animals, so the equivalence in terminolog
9.
by thecardcheat 9y ago
The larger the org and the closer to government (unless you ask for more work), the more likely I find this to be the case.
10.
by thecardcheat 9y ago
I think @jcadam was being snarky, not serious.
11.
by thecardcheat 9y ago
A lot of opaqueness for a decision that apparently affects the steering of an open project. A rather peculiar set of half-elaborated and [REDACTED] posts that doesn't tell the whole story and makes the governance seem pretty closed off
12.
by thecardcheat 9y ago
> Or, put another way, they choose to accept a high rate of false negatives to avoid false positives. Which is how it is typically presented because it sounds much better than "reject a lot of candidates who would probably have work
13.
by thecardcheat 10y ago
What matters is how much the company you want to work for expects you to whiteboard or code to pass their screens. Big company? You almost certainly need to have your CS challenge question toolbox full. Smaller company? Many follow the big
14.
by thecardcheat 10y ago
> The industry lobbyists’ ace-in-the-hole argument is that if they can’t hire more H-1Bs, they’ll ship the work overseas. But for projects on which H-1Bs are hired in the U.S., face-to-face interaction (between themselves and their Ameri
15.
by thecardcheat 10y ago
Everything about this act, including the fact that the countries chosen don't actually represent active sources of terrorism and seemingly avoid harming Trump's business interests, are exactly in line with how he presented himself
16.
by thecardcheat 10y ago
https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/43 states the maintainer hasn't been commenting on PRs. I looked on the keepassx GitHub and some issues with no response are over 2 years old.
17.
by thecardcheat 10y ago
> I don't think you're suppose to depend on the ordering of dictionaries. It's an implementation detail which might get changed, although it wont actually ever be changed because people will come to depend on it. I came he
18.
by thecardcheat 10y ago
The article states: "Multiple studies show that while under-compensation can definitely contribute to employee churn, over-compensation won’t make up for a bad workplace." Does anybody have links to these studies? The under-compen