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throwawaysalome
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
You think you're helping them but the people you're arguing with believe they're helping you.
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
You don't. For most people, the commonly used tricks (e.g., Leibniz's rule) are sufficiently nontrivial that you have to review them in the new context. What you've yet to experience however is just how vastly long life is a
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4y ago
I plan to balance out the sodium intake with pt. You'll excrete more sodium with aerobics than physical therapy.
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
If prostitution is legal in your country, I would suggest paying for ego stroking.
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
Everything you've said points to "no."
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
Taiwan's number of crypto startups relative to total is much higher Such a statement can't be robust or meaningful. Nationwide measures see what they want to see. But for argument's sake, what if crypto were replaced with
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
instead of trying to pull off the next scam. To clarify, my guy intended this as a general admonition unconditioned on nationality.
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
The length and tenor of this non-response is precisely what OP is disgruntled about.
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4y ago
Love it. Don Draper approves!
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4y ago
Am I just a total piece of shit Not totally. Realize money doesn't come from sound technical design; it comes from paying customers. Regardless of "this will hurt us in the long run," the PM emphasis on "what have yo
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4y ago
I didn't. One-for-one products like AWS instances lend themselves to less obtrusive enforcement. One-for-many products like desktop software require pain-in-the-ass key management. You're an IT guy for a [insert commodity here]
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Had to reread five times before realizing "fellow researcher" was not "in your institute." Commercially-licensed software is a true pain I'm sorry the fruits of our labor don't come free. Some of us enjoy re
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4y ago
Take any household name from the tech sector. Do you think any of their founding ideas were novel or good? The one I always bring up at cocktails is Uber. Get in a car with a total stranger? Are you crazy? It's all marketing and ex
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4y ago
As another poster notes, it's remarkable how much time I spend on YouTube. As a child of the 80s I remember it was tough keeping my tv watching below two hours per day. And that was content of limited quantity I had no say over.
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4y ago
Correct. 19th century classics became so only because a good chunk of the populace was still illiterate, and not only could Austen, Balzac, Tolstoy, etc., write, they could write a thousand pages! So glibness was mistook for wisdom. I rea
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4y ago
A common two-bird-with-one-stone approach of experienced programmers is to rewrite the code to fewer lines, and to condense long-winded comments. This not only aids understanding, but also imparts ownership to the rewriter. This approach o
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4y ago
One reason we failed to convince companies were privacy and security. Business is like dating. They're just "not that into you," and will offer the most ready response to make you go away. I can assure you open-sourcing yo
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4y ago
You don't learn marketing. You merely pay for it.
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4y ago
I tried meditation Meditate harder.
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4y ago
I hope you like dudes.
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
Your 12yo will look at Asian chicks a lot differently after Ex Machina.
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
Nice. The applicability of this heretofore unnoticed pun would seem endless!
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4y ago
"Son, don't blame the phone. You're just a loser." That kind of tough love might just put the whole matter to rest!
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throwawaysalome
4y ago
tried to explain how you can side-load apps from F-Froid Wow, talk about missing the point. My parents were well-to-do but frugal immigrants. I got railed on constantly in the faddish 80s for my home haircuts, my second-hand gear, and my
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It's your responsibility to know this stuff, if you don't, you are a liability for your team. The fuq? I feel sorry for your spouse.
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4y ago
At some point every stellar student who graduates to a technically demanding role realizes the money doesn't come from the mastering of minutiae but rather the glad-handing of the popular kids he disdained in high school.
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I was all excited to learn about the 70,000 years before man learned to farm, and then he bait-and-switched to a woke-ist screed (DEI, ESG, etc.).
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There's no secret. Speed evolves from talent and experience. I remember at university some guys could follow lecture in real-time, and I just assumed they'd seen the concepts before. Some did, but many of them were just wicked
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Vanilla emacs is unusable. You need to find a popular starter config and run through the tutorial (C-h t). I generally advise against evil, spacemacs, and doom, as using vim bindings with emacs would be like eating pizza with a fork and k
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Two ways to make money, financial speculation or selling to other people. Most prefer the latter -- less of a chance of going broke. To the extent that any business school (undergrad or later) introduces you to other people, that helps.
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