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by weq 5y ago
I quit new 4 years ago when the Australian Right Wing extremist government was reelected after a properganda campagine by Rupert Murdoch. I said i wouldnt watch the news until the next election. Come next election, i will never watch TV&#x2
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by weq 5y ago
Social media companies and crypto bros are pretty much the same thing at this point.
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by weq 5y ago
Australia is ruled by Capitalists, so its simply how they reinforce there own monopoly. Aussies have no garentees to anything but as long as the general public allow themselves to be placated by reno shows, sports, and relgious blinkering,
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by weq 5y ago
I caught a bull shark off my balcony this week. I have bush all around. I travelled the world BEFORE COVID and socialised in all the ways while people grabbed onto the dream and pushed foward with their careers. And now? My travelling the w
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by weq 5y ago
THIS ^ :)
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by weq 5y ago
Ahh spot on. ASPIRE to make a billion then STILL go into the OFFICE. LOL. Talk about the disease of the winner who will never actually be a winner in there own head because doing stuff and acheiving stuff doesnt make up the PTSD they harbor
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by weq 5y ago
the cynic in me thinks: You mean walled gardens of monopolies governed by AI get it wrong? No! These companies have like 0.002% good jobs filled by good programmers who launch products that are usually copies off whatever the community has
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by weq 5y ago
Scamming is BOOMING. We are talking entire developing countries getting onboard. The noise ratio is very high on all these services. There are hundreds of "alphabays" running RIGHT now with millions of people using them, right now
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by weq 5y ago
18yrs of C# here and i say YES PLEASE to this feature. $@ does not cut work for this use-case and string processing has always been a performance bottleneck. Times have changed, xml/web is becoming ubitiqos... espically in LOB apps whe
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by weq 5y ago
Password managers just move the the problem somewhere else IMO. Saving passwords with your browser is even worse. Passwords should not be rotated unless they have been comphremised. Password rotation is the problem, not your password. Use d
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by weq 5y ago
DUDE is a FAANG developer! Does he know he can get a sweat salary with a ad agency with those skills?!?
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by weq 5y ago
Yeh lol like WTF its so stupid to think about but unfortunately its how stupid and desensitiesed to giving away information on the internet people are. I saw in a lawtech startup, when i arrived they were transfering data unencrypted over t
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by weq 5y ago
when u weigh 400lbs and eat forty twinkings and hour, sure, 5kg weekly fluctations may be normal. Your fat because you consume to many caloiries for what you put out. Pretty simple. I went week on/off vego, from being a meat eater near
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by weq 5y ago
All you need todo is memoize l33tcode to get into FAANG. b4 that, graduate from a respected uni and u would have a recruiter at your email door setting up a phone interview looking to shape you into a good little employee. Game programming
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by weq 5y ago
My job is to make web tools that people use for free. I can set my own hours, live whenever i like, and someone else shoulders the stress of keeping a buisness afloat. Its the world we live in. Once you break free of the box, your parents d
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by weq 5y ago
So by No-FAANG engineer, you mean someone who isnt a robot ad hawker sell out? Serverless allows anyone to be scale for minimal up-front cost and only pay for the usage they really need. So glad that FAANG attract all this rare talent so us
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by weq 5y ago
YES exactly THIS. When the "No Search results" page was deleted, the internet died.
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by weq 5y ago
omg the experience sucks
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by weq 5y ago
MS grew out of the enterprise, where as AWS/Google exploited the massses. Im liking how Password rotation becoming a thing of the past because of this.
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by weq 5y ago
Ahahaha me to. im not living on the grid, yet i havnt installed a single covid app yet. I do live like i am off the grid, while on it. Have my cake, and eat it to. Ahh the churn of Investor money. HN likes to have go's at crypto about
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by weq 5y ago
> This business model really needs to stop. and the worlds economy would collapse. FOMO is the sugar of the mind. it drives everything from the conception of a child, to its schooling, to marrage and death.
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by weq 5y ago
Chinese in Australia vote Libreal which is our Ulta-Conversative Ring-Wing party (so backwards) This is 100% bullshit made up by our corrupt government just like it does every year during an election. Literly the definition of fake news rig
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by weq 5y ago
LOL tiktok investors are not a thing? twitter won; no doubt - but there is no stick or way to money-tise that doesnt not turn into a facebook slow drain gurrgler on your userbase. this is the conundreum of social enagement based apps. Your
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by weq 5y ago
SAME exact scenario here! Twitter is a pile but its doing a good job doing away with traditional media companies so i hope it doesnt collapse just yet.
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by weq 5y ago
Reminds me of the man who was sent to jail for refusing to reveal his keys. think this happens alot. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/02/man-who-refused-...
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by weq 5y ago
Amen. I havnt watched TV since the 2017 elections. Ive missed on everything including bushfires, natural disasters, pandemics, and capitalism. I can see clearly how the system works. I said i wouldnt watch a single news report (including Co
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by weq 5y ago
Politicans and Miners are indistinguishable in this Australia. The main political party is in cahoots with the large media companies and is a boys club of ex-miners come polticans. https://act.greenpeace.org.au/dirtypower
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by weq 5y ago
Agreed. Microsofts enterprise penetration is ever growing and teams is a new hub in the spoke. If you enroll a mac, its auto-installed. Worst parts for me is its shitty keyboard hijacking and its uncanny ability to eaves-drop on me with its
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by weq 5y ago
None of these questions make sense in the software engineer position i am in. if you on trining, your on training. If its your day of, you dont get a call. Your manager isnt a predator. Your colleagues arnt all out to get you and keep there
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by weq 5y ago
Oh dear god, DONT miss the TRAINING!! WHAT will happen to YOUR MONEY if your MISS THE TRAINING?!?!?

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