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by trashface 7y ago
It seems like small companies using this will probably fail. They will hire batches of AI-approved, but actually bad candidates. Or they will go long periods without being able to hire for core positions because they "can't find
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by trashface 7y ago
Anecdata, but my S5 is still working after...6-7 years I guess. My brother also has one and his works. My charging port broke so I have to remove the battery to charge it, but I have three batteries that I rotate between so this isn'
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by trashface 7y ago
Age discrimination is real. If you choose a programming career and don't enter management, then when you are 40+ you might find that you have trouble getting hired for a decent paying job, even if the industry otherwise appears to be
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by trashface 7y ago
This is a much of a style problem as a choice problem. As a guy in the suburbs I don't give a shit about style, but my hands are basically like ice cubes all winter. So I have two cheap non-matching hats that I shove into my coat poc
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by trashface 7y ago
There are 200+ people working on the Rust language, but only single digits are paid for it [1]. I don't take the OP as a complaint, but perhaps the embedded community is going to have to take a stab at fixing this themselves. [1] htt
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by trashface 7y ago
All of those are illegal in the US. And living there, you really, really, REALLY want to avoid the criminal justice system. Especially if you have anxiety/depression, which will trigger that system's "abnormal" profili
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by trashface 7y ago
Google isn't going to stop tracking my every move and building/selling a secret advertising profile on me just because I pay them a monthly fee.
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by trashface 7y ago
Also known as "decontenting" and widely practiced in many industries.
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by trashface 7y ago
Thinking cynically, could an Oracle win increase demand for programmers? Companies may need to hire lots of extra programmers to audit what they have, and possibly rewrite or make trivial and mechanical API changes to avoid infringement.
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by trashface 7y ago
An even more problematic example: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/String.h... So...I guess this api signature for string concatenation is on the verge of being owned by orac
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by trashface 7y ago
I believe the Max will never fly again, at least not outside the US. The FAA might approve the final "fixed" design based on political pressure, but what international regulator will do that? So then you have a plane design that
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by trashface 7y ago
I'd also argue that US government should shut down Uber's self-driving research division. If they want self-driving cars they can license from Waymo, or someone else who is actually taking it seriously. Its pretty clear that Uber
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by trashface 7y ago
I was working at a startup that had SF and Mountain View offices at the time of 9/11. SF offices for tech companies were somewhat unusual then, though a lot were under construction. Most companies still had their main HQ somewhere on
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by trashface 7y ago
I'm 44 and worked at various bay area startups you never heard of from 1998 to 2005, at which time I moved out of that area. I don't have precise numbers, but based on a cursory scan of my linked-in connections, some of my cohort
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by trashface 7y ago
As an old salty programmer, I don't understand why people are upset at this. Sure the syntax is unusual, but they had good reasons for it, and people are adaptable and get used to things. Personally I like the fact that ".await&q
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by trashface 7y ago
As an alternative perspective, I'm totally fine with FF disabling the extensions when the cert went invalid, and I'm also happy that it auto-updated itself to fix the issue. To me the optics are pretty good: a mistake happened an
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by trashface 7y ago
I think many economists would say that while you had an employee-based plan your costs were actually going up significantly, you just didn't see it because those increases were coming out of (what would have been) your yearly salary ra
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by trashface 7y ago
The government subsidizes ACA plans for many participants. That was partly meant to soften the impact of requiring coverage for pre-existing conditions. And then there is/was the individual mandate, to get everyone to contribute even
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by trashface 7y ago
I don't know the details but my understanding is that it is partly covered by tax law - if the employer kicks employees who get sick off the insurance, they (and all the other employees) lose some or all tax deductions for health care
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by trashface 7y ago
The ACA barely touched employer-based insurance. It definitely did not make things "modestly worse for most people". You are blaming the ACA for problems that existed in the health care system before the law went into effect. A
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by trashface 7y ago
This is solvable. Rather than just "deny" treatments, the insurer (public or private) can just pay the customary amount for treating the given disease. The rest is the patient's responsibility. So rich people can still get
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by trashface 8y ago
When I lived in SF I once cut into my finger with a rusty fish filet knife (don't ask). I went to the bernal hospital ER and they gave me a tetanus shot, but nothing else. A few weeks later I went to my family doc and mentioned this,
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by trashface 8y ago
That may be so-called "balance billing". It is illegal in some states.
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by trashface 8y ago
I hope the future is not so terrible but I can't really disagree with you. I had one executive tell me "programming is becoming a blue collar job". And general programming companies are adopting the bad practices that were p
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by trashface 8y ago
Thanks! They definitely didn't teach us to do it that way when I was a kid, but that was back in the dark ages. I'll have to try it to see if it works for me.
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by trashface 8y ago
A kind of off topic question: in that video you can see that not only is Katie breathing every 2 strokes, but her stroke timing is "staggered" - 2 strokes, pause, 2 strokes, pause - like a heartbeat. I think Phelps does the same