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by volkk 5y ago
this is such a classic HN argument, it's almost comical. pedants from every part of the world going at it and even including google search results, picking apart each word that the original author meant to prove their point. this is th
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by volkk 6y ago
what kind of work did you get into after programming out of curiosity? rare to see people go the other way
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by volkk 6y ago
that's akin to saying, "so just because a gun misfired and almost blew your head off, you're just always going to be afraid of guns?" in this case the gun being your career shattered by idiotic accusations of sexism in t
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by volkk 6y ago
i feel like everyday at this point (at least from the time i've noticed which started with the GME craze) there's some get rich quick scheme happening and i keep missing out. i'm still happy in life but there's a not so
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by volkk 6y ago
this sounds horrible. what if you walk on it and track it home? then you get to walk on crushed glass with your bare feet? yikes
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by volkk 6y ago
i really like the new yorker, but it is 100% pretentious and it seems like the people who read/collect the magazines always fall into a bucket of "look how smart and well read i am"
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by volkk 6y ago
> That's about the farthest explanation from "mostly positive" you can get without admitting to physical pain. It sounds more like you learned how to navigate in an apathetic and disconnected bartering economy. "City
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by volkk 6y ago
because i understand it's not perfect, and probably never will be. so i adapted. i think all of the positive experiences that i had outweighed all of the negative. that's all there really is to it for me. it also allowed me to mee
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by volkk 6y ago
honestly it's all extremely subjective. my experience with modern dating (read: endless tinder dates) was mostly positive. of course i had plenty of heartbreaks, a LOT of wasted time. but mostly, i got to meet some really interesting p
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by volkk 6y ago
> empathy through conversation. "Let's have a talk" why is it that clubhouse will do anything differently than what a FB post does? AKA devolve into mindless attacks in the comments sections about the way you look in your
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by volkk 6y ago
can you expand on that? and also what do you mean by ways you couldn't even imagine?
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by volkk 6y ago
i think that's reductive and while it feels true, it probably isn't. it's the same logic with which i can say HN is a bunch of mostly male programmers who take themselves too seriously, think they are much smarter than everyo
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by volkk 6y ago
an interesting point which begs the question of what is a threshold of intelligence required to lose interest in a species. and if intelligence isn't the only parameter, what are the others? predation is an obvious one, curiosity comes
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by volkk 6y ago
> The vast majority of people this past year understood the seriousness, behaved well, did the right thing voluntarily I don't buy that. Where do you live? I spent a couple of months over the summer in Texas (in a non liberal part)
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by volkk 6y ago
considering i'm already being tracked in every which way from my phone to my credit card usage, to my website usage, to toll roads every time i drive, etc. i wouldn't mind having this feature to save money on my insurance. to each
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by volkk 6y ago
When were you in NYC? During the first 3-5 months of COVID, NYC was a complete ghost town with nothing open aside from essential stores. Once we got our numbers down to some of the lowest in the country (compared to other cities with simila
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by volkk 6y ago
I dont disagree with the theory of a lockdown when necessary, but now that I look back at our year in the US...it now seems so obvious that this was never going to work. This place is simply too big with too many selfish idiots that want to
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by volkk 6y ago
Serious question: the numbers are completely out of control as of right now (at least in the US). I'm not really seeing any benefits from any lockdowns so far (albeit we did do well in the summer). Most of the outdoor seating is just s
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by volkk 6y ago
You sound exactly like one of my best friends. He couldn't get into med school due to very average MCAT scores and so he started working in research making pennies. After some odd years of that and racking up a ton of credit card debt,
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by volkk 6y ago
i see your point and i know OP asked about why Go instead of python, but having a statically typed language isn't limited to only Go. you could replace everything you wrote with Java/C++/C# and still have a similar answer (mi
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by volkk 6y ago
Should also add that an inefficient solution for a mostly fixed input size is still going to be efficient. If you have to write a double for loop but the outer loop is iterating on a 1000 element array and the inner one is operating on a 26
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by volkk 6y ago
yep. me too. i think it's a demographic thing, but i remember when i stopped taking it seriously is when i had the utmost success. i guess that's just the moral of living in general
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by volkk 6y ago
highly disagree considering how much bs exists posing as fact/information.
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by volkk 6y ago
the argument you're presenting, at its core, is "if you dont give an evil person a chance to be evil then they wont succeed," which is correct, except how are you to interpret who is evil and who will be successful at being e
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by volkk 6y ago
You're taking a personal feeling and extrapolating onto others. Not everybody finds sitting on leetcode 3 hours a day a fun task. I'm one of those people. It's absolutely mind numbing. A few hundred coding challenges is month
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by volkk 6y ago
this was fascinating to read. a tale of utter manipulation. i've read startup failures with grandiose dreams and insane founders, but this one really tops the charts for me.
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by volkk 6y ago
> Manager is a path, but an IC shouldn't need to become a manager to keep growing in their career. I 100% agree with this, but have never really REALISTICALLY seen any of this methodology in the companies that I've worked at. H
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by volkk 6y ago
agreed, i really think theres a spectrum. some are more, others are less. but creativity is creativity. i do think that to be a household name posthumously, you need to be leaning heavily towards questioning everything
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by volkk 6y ago
is this supposed to be sarcasm? in case its not: just because you've created something that didnt exist before doesn't define you as creative. quality and ingenuity also matter
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by volkk 6y ago
i think theyre saying that to be creative, you need to think in a way that's not thought of by everybody, so that by definition makes you contrarian. its an interesting point, not sure how much i agree with it, but i think it definitel

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