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by voodootrucker 6y ago
> Especially not in the most wealthy nation in the history of the world. Everyone keeps repeating this, but it's not true. Switzerland beats America by mean net worth. And look at median... whoa 22. By government deficit (and likely
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Boiling down to a loss of faith in the existing financial structure.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Put your faith in the entire human history of scarcity leading to optimization, or you can try the US Federal Reserve and Bretton Woods.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Lol. I took the teaching job because I was bored with "software assembly" (nice name). It was fun to get drop shipped into a random location in the world and go toe-to-toe with their best and brightest. I've since moved on to
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Amen. Working there would be exactly the same. Hamstrung by process.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Authentic.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I'm not sure what language you work in the most, but based on the build issues I might guess c++, in which case I'd say check out conan central. It's still sad compared to other package managers, but if you're building c
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
As a consultant to large orgs who was paid handsomely to fix the situation you describe, I can say that is exactly what they think, and also exactly wrong. [edit] Many people in these orgs are doing exactly that. Having come in, diagnosed t
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I was a teacher for a laughably short time, and I think what you are talking about would be called an "authentic performance task". Also, I think what interviewers are attempting is called "assessment", and I can say the
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Thank you, this is brilliant advice. Despite decades of experience I was nervous due to this trend and spent way too much time on hackerank. The company I ended up with didn't ask any of that crap (despite being founded by a PhD), and
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Exactly this. The parent takes no systemic affects into account, only individual actor greed. In the academic sense of those terms.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I can't over-stress how important this is. Societal trends come and go, and unfit ones eventually go. Stand your ground, and do the right thing, always. You won't necessarily win if you do, but you will lose yourself if you don&#x
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I think Journalists would. Not sure what to call the people we have writing stories now.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
> I'll send my small quid to whomever appears to be really in favor of openness That would be these guys then: https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Amongst other things, they use their marketplace to collect data on which 3rd party resellers are making money, then they implement the product themselves and put the 3rd party out of business, resulting in an anti-competitive trend towards
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I think someone just did this to a monkey. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200618150301.h...
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Not only do they lie, but they are often poorly implemented. I was pairing with a coworker, and a download was taking forever despite his fast speed tests. (I think this was chocolatey) and we tried again after 15 minutes of waiting with `-
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
> unless Son finds another Alibaba. Government controls don't run out like that. Thanks, you made me think. You might be right. An unsubstantiated part of me wants to think that oil being pegged to the dollar and the dollar being pe
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Due to work, I spent: - 3 months in Japan - 3 Months in Germany - 3 months in the US - 3 months in India The transition was alarming. I see bits of both Germany and India in the US. Unfortunately (having grown up in America) I see the trend
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Despite being sarcastically phrased, the GP is very warranted. Google is so renowned for making breaking changes, there's a site to track not just their dead code, but their dead products: https://killedbygoogle.com/ I
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Fair point. Given their business model, it seems like the whole segment of co-working (renting long term leases and reselling as short term ones) never really made sense to begin with. (Despite it being to many people's advantage, incl
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
It's called "dumping", and yes it is. But in America the law is used to protect the rich from the poor, not the other way around. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dumping.asp
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Precisely, and this is a form of anti-competitive "dumping". There are laws to regulate it, but they aren't enforced because Washington is both incompetent and corrupt. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumpi
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Thank goodness. They haven't innovated in decades and x86 is a mess. I can't wait until RISC-V does the same to ARM. It's super frustrating to see America, which used to be innovative become the complacent corrupt incumbent.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Walmart destroyed smaller shops doing this all over the US for decades. https://ilsr.org/walmart-charged-predatory-pricing/
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Thanks, your comment caused me to learn what a lense is.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I _really_ struggled to not use contrived examples when teaching OOP. It was very hard because you don't really need it until your application becomes non-trivial so I see why all the college classes use cars & trucks or whatever.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I'm talking to a bunch of UVC webcams using https://docs.rs/rusb/0.6.4/rusb/ for some conferencing software. So sadly no help for your (very valid) concerns.
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
I wrote an exercise once while I was teaching: "pure functional pacman". Really I did it to teach myself Redux, and it was a pretty fun way to learn. Totally agree with the article: sometimes functional is the right tool for the j
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by voodootrucker 6y ago
Rust is good, Kotlin is the best I've seen at it.

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