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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Yes. In my case I only learned to use a calendar at the ripe old age of 33 and even then I can now only sometimes remember to use it.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Well... I work at a company that makes a bunch of noise about neurodiversity and my honest opinion is it's been one of the worst experiences of my life due to certain elements of the structure/culture. I don't think it has an
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I'm in the process of leaving a company after 6 months at the moment and I know I'm going to probably get this question forever now, but end of the day I have my reasons, and I think they're valid and will likely be judged as
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
If anyone hadn't noticed even entire countries do this. I'm looking at you Democratic People's Republic of Korea!
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
As a developer I want the damn thing to work So I don't have to tear my hear out
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>Why do developers prefer the dark theme? Because the light attracts bugs. Rofl.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I hated it and rallied against it for so long and couldn't understand why anyone liked it and then I learned this was a thing and it all suddenly made sense.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>I remember watching a documentary a while back saying some people were totally addicted to it not necessarily a good thing
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>AR is the space I'm least excited for. The more we push AR the sooner we will have ads in our face everywhere we go. Yup. AR = Awful Reality.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Nice. My favorite bit of code I wrote like that was when upgrading a bit of logging that previously caused a very scary outage last time another dev tried it. To mitigate the risk of it happening again when I attempted a similar upgrade a s
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>On the other hand, because of commission, it is in the recruiter's interest to get you as much money as possible so you might get a better offer via them than you would if you went direct. It's in the recruiters best interest
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>Safe to say the quality of tech recruiters in New Zealand is even lower than those elsewhere. Can vouch for this. Made that mistake. Never again.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
>and are generally incentivized to get you as much money as they can since they generally get a percentage of your yearly salary as their pay This is not quite true. They're optimizing for throughput, not max dollar value. If they o
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I have also been bitten by this and I also ascribe it as the worst part of my career. A warning to anyone who hasn't experienced this, if you're ever tasked with doing this the correct answer is "no" followed by "go
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
After trying to fight very hard against leadership that wanted to build something contrary to reality and burning out I have decided to never fight again. I'll build it, no questions asked, and I'll relish in wrecking the company
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
A civil war would look more like The Troubles in Northern Ireland in the 90s than 1860s type conflict.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
For those inside the US yes, but I'm considering about the impacts to those of us who live outside the US. Edit: the media may opt to call it Civil War 2.0 as another option.
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Any particular angle on how such a collapse might come about? The biggest threats I see are the debt problems in the Chinese property sector explode causing their "commercial paper" market to set off a chain reaction causing globa
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
I was considering possibly private hiring of armed security forces to enable those facilities to continue to operate could be one response from said elites...
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by throwaway6532 5y ago
Well, I don't live in the US, so I'm well insulated from any disruption that would happen on the ground, but I'm a software engineer, so naturally my income is tied to tech much of which domestically and internationally relie
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Ask HN: Would the cloud survive a US Civil war?
6 points by throwaway6532 5y ago|19 comments