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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I went to a screening of Vertigo in 70mm at the Castro recently. Its projectionist came out of retirement specially for the event (which was marvellous!).
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
To expand on why I think it's a bad question, "Yes, and I think they're right to do so, and here's why" is probably the best response I could come up with, and makes the interview adversarial for no good reason. It
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
> I think a much better question would be "how are information security and privacy controls implemented" Agreed, that's a great question to ask.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
It's a fair point -- and there are plenty of standard interview questions which fall squarely into that bucket. E.g. "Tell me your greatest weaknesses" is a horrible question that I for one never ask.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Sorry for being a bit snarky here, but I did chortle when "You might also note that Google does give all their developers root access to their own dev machines" (which is true) is followed by things like "Anything under 10 mi
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Is expertise the means, or the end? How would be an expert in x or y improve your day-to-day life? Counterpoint: on a whim over Christmas I bought a flute. I don't play a musical instrument, I've no particular musical talents, but
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
In a sense, I don't disagree. But when the only Labour politician of my lifetime to win an election is Tony Blair, you have to consider that the UK is a pretty Tory country, and you have to work with what you've got...
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
There's an alternate history in which it was David Miliband who became Labour leader, not his brother. Who knows of course, but there's a decent chance it would have prevented the disaster of Brexit (and the related disaster, for
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Ah, no hello! There's a lot of that where I am. Seems... a bit much? Like, I can't spare a second to say hi back again?
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Many others predicted excess deaths owing to people skipping regular checkups/missing out on cancer treatments, etc etc. This was widely reported and debated as a cost of lockdowns. It's implausible that there would not be excess
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Being only semi-serious, but: wouldn't an auto-generated Netflix look pretty much like Netflix?
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
> "b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments." After readin
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I didn't realise this until going through JFK recently. Cabs: no wait, fixed price, professional driver. Uber: long wait, twice as expensive, driver and car a complete crap-shoot. Feels like the economies of scale only work when you ow
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
That begs the question: it assumes that that _is_ the "established" male approach. Moreover the premise of the article is that he's discovering that it is an approach that, increasinly, isn't working for him, and is a ro
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
"You might be a laugh, but you have a vibe where other people aren’t going to share their innermost personal stuff. They get a feeling that you’re not able to give it back." Or, you know, rip the piss out of them for sharing anyth
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I'll check that out! And I should say, Grim Fandango was great.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
This is definitely part of their fall. Everyone -- from producers to players -- _thought_ they needed 3D. But it's poorly suited to adventure games. Shadow of the Templars is an excellent example of this: new enough not to be pixel art
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I'm unpersuaded. To begin with, _is_ it such a waste of time to study programming problems, as, you know, a programmer? Also, more specifically on this piece: can anyone explain how Theranos fits in here? I don't get the connectio
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
+1 to that. I don't want to be in ultra HD in meetings. I mean, I also don't want to look like a character from a 90s CD-ROM game -- but that's a matter of bandwidth, not the camera. In a way, 720p or below is a non-vain vers
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Well, sure, it's probably legal to fire them. But it smacks of "one rule for me, one rule for thee" from Mr "free speech absolutist" Musk, right?
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
True. And I'd go further: once the campaign stops becoming "get rid of the monarchy" and becomes "set up exactly this system X", support will go down even further. It's a very useful fiction that the monarch is
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
> A drawn out conflict favors Russia Probably true. But there's no situation in which Russia ends up richer for having gone to war than had they not bothered in the first place. Which is to say, everyone has lost already. It's
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Similar! I'm British, so the weight of everything is in kilos; unless it's very heavy, in which case it's interchangeably tons or tonnes; or it's a person, in which case it's in stone. Except that now I've been
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Not directly related to your comment, but from the linked piece: > “A cousin of mine was a broker for people looking to invest in these pyramid schemes,” explains the CEO of Tirana Business University, Artan Hoxha (no relation). “She was
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Graeber spends a lot of time arguing against exactly this assumption in The Dawn of Everything. I.e. that agriculture must come before civilization. Pretty persuasively, IMHO.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
This does feel familiar -- except that in my case, after a couple of years in that position, all-of-a-sudden I realised I wasn't that good a developer any more. That I had stopped learning a while before. The solution for me, and it wo
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I LOVE Danger Mouse. It still totally holds up. Also Count Duckula! David Jason (who is very English) did an American accent in that. Which I don't recall finding odd at the time, as a child.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I think that's right! Incidentally, I was recently very surprised to discover, via my young nephew, that the Turtles are still very much a thing. Who'd have thought of the Ninja Turtles as a piece of 90s culture that would endure?
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
I'm surprised. I only know the US and the UK, but in the UK it can go down as far as a 5% deposit. Honestly US deposit requirements seem high.
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by throwyawayyyy 4y ago
Random, but I interviewed at Knight Capital for a software engineering position a few weeks before this all went down. I was in London, so the interview was done over the phone. Picture me in the evening, handwriting C to solve some problem

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