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by variety 16y ago
Yes, it gets better. Much better. One big difference you'll encounter after working for just a bit in the commercial world is the amazing, energizing power of a (fat, steady) paycheck. Which somehow really, really helps us bear down and
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by variety 16y ago
You know, there are often hidden fallacies embedded within these "massive spending == job creation" arguments. Chief among these being, all of the regional governments are currently facing major budget crises, and (no matter whom you chose
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by variety 16y ago
What that article says may be true for DSM III (or IV) alcoholics (which as a class may or may not include the OP). My point is simply that in the general population[1], patterns of alcohol (mis)use seem to fall on a fairly wide spectrum, a
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by variety 16y ago
Interesting to consider the extent to which his core philosophy would be met with scorns of derision (or at best, uncomprehending looks) from most United Statesians. Just try to imagine someone running for major political office here, expr
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by variety 16y ago
We do not take our % out of your salary. We add our % on top of your salary and charge the client. KoZeN, I also hate sounding harsh because I think I've read comments of yours in other places that sound very clueful -- but this very comm
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by variety 16y ago
Rather than dig into the question of whether higher-level math (like calculus) is really good for the masses or not, I think it's pretty clear that there's still plenty of room for improvement in making sure that basic quantitative and cr
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by variety 16y ago
It's all about going with the flow. For good customers, I actually offer good-faith, (virtually) unlimited free bugfixing within some reasonable time window (6 months, 1 year), for something that's genuinely a bug (and my fault that it's a
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by variety 16y ago
Yeah, you can at least try to make the ad sound non-discriminatory: "LGBT-sensitive Programmer" sounds a lot better, and gets the basic point across. (Someone who's not LGBT themselves but has had a friend or relatives going through som
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by variety 16y ago
Umm, it's one thing to have an existing substance problem to help soften life's blows; it's another to sit down and think to one's self. "Gosh, I'm facing so many problems. I should start taking substance X to deal with them!" Especially c
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by variety 16y ago
Many things are black and white, but alcohol use isn't one of them. There's a substantial body of medical evidence emerging (not to mention 10,000 years of recorded human experience) indicating that lower levels of alcohol consumption (~1 d
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by variety 16y ago
It's all about discipline. I definitely enjoy drinking within certain limits, but I've also come to realize (after a career trajectory pretty similar to yours) that excessive substance (ab)use of any kind is basically incompatible with a se
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by variety 16y ago
Really now, a major part of dealing with "burnout" is to think of it as a necessary part of personal growth and self-discovery process -- more like a simple need to detach and "sleep" once in a while, rather than a kind of a crash or a brea
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by variety 16y ago
Max Frisch, Homo Faber: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_Faber_(novel)
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by variety 16y ago
you might say that Perl's lack of (obvious, first-pass) readability is a two-headed dog from hell: - it's a (very) good thing, in that there's -a- -lot- of expressive power hiding in those corner cases (esp list v. scalar context). in fact
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by variety 16y ago
actually, he doesn't make any assertions that Python is more flexible than Perl (which would be rather doubtful), only that it is more readable (which, as a perlista, I'm sad to say is probably true). but I also get the sense that this is t
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by variety 16y ago
modern-day brownshirts
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by variety 16y ago
I'm not downvoting the post, but the service does sound kind of gimmicky. And also, more than a bit off-topic, in that most of the job offerings posted here are far above internship or entry-level.
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by variety 16y ago
What matters isn't so much how often we make mistakes, but how we react to them - which includes making prompt fixes just as much as admitting to the team that we actually made a mistake. Especially if it's a "silly" mistake. In a developme
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by variety 16y ago
Well for one thing, $18.33 an hour is pretty bottom-barrel for qualified front-end work. $35+ up is where the decent price range _begins_ for reasonably skilled development work in any non-trivial category (which definitely includes front-
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by variety 16y ago
please see my collective response to these remarks: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1848152
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by variety 16y ago
Responding collectively to sibling responses here (to my post, above): I just think it's at least an ethical area, given that it seems not to be common knowledge that cards can continued to be billed even after the card expires; and given t
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by variety 16y ago
Well, basic utility service isn't such a good comparator: in fact it's on the opposite end of the spectrum from a magazine subscription (which is essentially a fluff purchase, in the vast majority of consumer cases). In fact with gas provi
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by variety 16y ago
From the article. The flip side of the fact that the interviewer has had time to carefully prepare while the interviewee has not is that what you get from that inherently contrived, lopsided discussion, kind of a long, drawn-out game of "g
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by variety 16y ago
Or, they simply didn't have failover in place at all.
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by variety 16y ago
You can look up the Star Trek reference, but in an interviewing context, it refers to an question that is essentially impossible to answer and/or basically never occurs in real life and yet is somehow meant to judge a candidate's ability to
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by variety 16y ago
Upvoted. Just for once, I'd like for an interviewer to present a question that they themselves don't know how to solve (or didn't know how to solve in the first few times they thought about it).
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by variety 16y ago
Maybe he thought he was making a joke, but the point is that it comes off "Ha, ha, only serious": http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/jargon/html/H/ha-ha-only-serious.html
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by variety 16y ago
Part of what's problematic about this interviewing approach is that while your (secret) internal mindset may be "I'll accept pretty much any viable answer", the full-court-press interviewing style effects the exact opposite impression on th
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by variety 16y ago
not exactly ethical, dipping into all these expired accounts. but what's that got to do with anything?
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Gleen Greenwald on the media's Pentagon-subservient WikiLeaks coverage(salon.com)
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