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by watermelon59 6y ago
I get what the person means immediately, but it is quite jarring.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I'm gonna be a pedantic Portuguese speaker and point out that they should've named it Parceira. Amigo parceiro. Amiga parceira. To be clear, I mean to this lightheartedly. Great work!
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Thank you :)
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Oh hey :) I remember your username. I replied to a comment of yours yesterday. Interesting. I'm gonna watch that movie when I get chance.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> My friend, on the other hand, just seemed like a French person but with a faint speech anomaly and an oddly limited vocabulary at times. Damn, now I wonder if that's how I come off when speaking English. I'm from South Americ
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> Our friends and extended family disappeared as soon as our daughter was born. I don’t know if it’s American culture or what, but people get extremely uncomfortable around people who are mourning or going through trials in their lives.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I hope those products have enough customers that think the way I do. The reason I use and pay for Dropbox is that the primary focus of the company is to offer a product that syncs my files across multiple machines and keeps a copy of those
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Health and dental insurance can be a huge cost though.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
It's so weird because we go from being treated like children one year, to being treated like adults the next. There's no in-between.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Oh hey, that sounds interesting and I already speak the local language :)
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I don’t think it’s taken for granted. Those complaints stem from fear of turning into a place like Turkey and other nations with strict censorship. If we don’t complain now, it may be too late later on.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Do you mind sharing in what space you work on? Just curious about where Common Lisp finds professional usage. It's not something you see every day. Also, do you have any tips on landing a Common Lisp job for someone who's already
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I love it that it doesn't load by design if the referer is HN. For anyone wondering: yeah, you have to copy and paste the link. Don't click it, it won't work. n-gate is my favorite way to consume HN.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I’m that person in my current team and it feels very lonely. I keep speaking up about our tech debt and poor processes. Management pretends to care but nothing changes. Meanwhile people keep doing the rituals as you say, as if it were a nor
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Happy holidays! :)
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by watermelon59 6y ago
A number of folks in this thread seem to listen to Jordan Peterson's ideas, which seem smart and reasonable but are actually very toxic. See my reply to the post you were replying to. Thank you for being a voice of reason.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
You are probably not wrong in your statements about biology influencing behavior, but in my opinion that kind of thinking ignores the fact that we humans are capable of recognizing all of that and acting upon it. We do not have to succumb t
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by watermelon59 6y ago
That sounds like something the likes of Jordan Peterson would say. One of the best things my therapist did to me this year was get me off of Jordan Peterson. I was spiraling down in self-doubt because I listened to him so much. It’s one hel
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by watermelon59 6y ago
When I first heard of Vitess I thought it was gonna solve a bunch of issues for our team. But then as I started taking a closer look at it, I realized it was more likely to introduce a host of new, hidden issues, than really solve any of ou
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Things are slow because of garbage bloated software. If devs stopped piling on ever more crap on existing systems and switched to optimizing their code, things would at least stay at the same performance or even gasp run faster.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I think the sweet spot for using Kotlin is to adopt it as "Java with nicer syntax." If you try to embrace the ecosystem, a lot of tools and libraries are still immature as other folks have pointed out. But if you stick to the exis
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I think it's sad that the vast majority of people in our field (at least in my experience) is so damn excited about building new stuff all the time. There's no appreciation for maintaining, optimizing, and improving existing sys
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Do you have total freedom in how you use 20% time, or do you have to plan it out and tell your manager exactly what you're working on? My company tried doing the 20% thing but they put so much process around it that no one does it.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
By 5+, do you mean over 5 years of experience? Or is that a reference to the internal leveling structure?
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> We've changed around what we index on for performance evals/promotions and what work we assign them so that we can better accommodate these sorts of work preferences and skills. It's really cool that you've that. An
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Some areas of Brazil suffer from a lot of that too. Day-to-day violent crime was the #1 reason that I wanted to leave the country.
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by watermelon59 6y ago
I hope this doesn't get buried, because there's something that I feel like I'm a bit of a unicorn about. > The problem then with that is everyone who is working on those services is usually trying to get off of them. After
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by watermelon59 6y ago
Years ago I worked with image processing and thought of writing a CLI image diff tool. I then thought meh, anyone can quickly roll their own. Turns out it seems to be something people care about. I should just start writing the CLI tools I
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> Instead of fight it, I accept it and look at it as a natural part of growth, not stagnation. It opens up the possibility for you to take your job for what it is—a job—and explore new hobbies and interests. I know what you mean there, a
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by watermelon59 6y ago
> government-issued employer list Do you mind sharing where you live? That’s such an odd concept to me.

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