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by xkqd 3y ago
Well don’t be silly, we’ll be post-employment and we’ll just pass life recreating and eating grapes all day. In all seriousness, your opinion doesn’t seem to be popular here, but I was hoping to see some debate. I personally think you’re cl
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by xkqd 3y ago
> good for consumers as it will mean much more content It is my personal belief consumers could benefit from reducing their medium consumption, and many of us myself included could touch a little more grass
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by xkqd 3y ago
How are integers simpler? Even generation of unique integers is more complicated, let alone migrating them or moving them around.
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by xkqd 4y ago
The article does go on to say it’s probably immigration related.
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by xkqd 4y ago
In these circles and at this hour of the night on a Saturday? Families are inconceivable and children are best not contracted. Edit: It’s either Saturday or Sunday at this point. It’s a weekend. None of us should be here. I’m not going to b
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by xkqd 4y ago
Right, but I don’t think it’s a stretch to imagine you would be happier to have a family outside the concrete jungle. At that point, you would do everything in your power to flip this. I get it’s a bit over the line for me to make that assu
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by xkqd 4y ago
The article doesn’t take an ounce of oxygen to mention it, but how many people are being forced back to the office or city for risk of losing their jobs? I’m not giving an ounce of fucking credit when people are having their livelihoods thr
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by xkqd 4y ago
> I interact with people outside of work Ding ding ding. I think this right here is the key. It was eye opening to learn how few of my coworkers had anyone outside of work. It’s heartbreaking but clearly a burning epidemic. I also learne
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by xkqd 4y ago
> My take away from this is cloud compute utilization is still in its infancy and will continue to grow faster than most sectors of the tech economy. There's still a lot of stuff on-prem, but new deployments are mostly cloud and tha
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by xkqd 4y ago
I know we’re talking about the macro level, but as an individual stowing your earnings away is certainly a much better idea than blowing a 6 figure income.
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by xkqd 4y ago
I think a lot of us would agree we’d get more fulfillment with fighting off those wild animals and going through through that shit than cranking out Jira tickets and moving them between columns.
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by xkqd 4y ago
And usually a position of sacrifice. Therefore, it’s pretty respected over here and making a false claim is pretty taboo. Definitely taboo enough to get you chewed out, and almost enough to risk a physical altercation.
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by xkqd 4y ago
In terms of turnover? Yeah.
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by xkqd 4y ago
Also gives folks the opportunity to hold off on the new house or luxury car.
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by xkqd 4y ago
While I agree the notion is noble, I believe it’s simpler to assume he incorrectly saw value in owning the town hall, and allowed his own hubris to suppress any of his own doubts. I genuinely don’t believe this was originally about free spe
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by xkqd 4y ago
And let us not forget some of the other intangible costs, such as high tech workers becoming out of touch with average everyday people. The look of surprise on my coworker’s faces when they learned building maintenance doesn’t get RSUs.
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by xkqd 4y ago
Yeah. Does this apply to forex fees I incur via my banks?
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by xkqd 4y ago
That’s a difficult determination to make, but usually that’s the difference between someone who can walk me through the solution and stumble on the implementation, and someone who can’t explain to me what’s going on. Lots of this stuff is l
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by xkqd 4y ago
Absolutely preposterous. Are you suggesting we interview folks for the job at hand? Sarcasm aside, I’ve started interviewing people with “mock work day” style materials and it’s been pretty effective at determine who has been doing this for
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by xkqd 4y ago
Until you find that no one is willing to pay your hosting bills because they’re not interested in a product that’s like, “Uber for birds”
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by xkqd 4y ago
It’s a solid summary of the most commonly known complaints and confirmed condition, and the commenter’s opinion is clear. If someone values working for a firm that doesn’t have a questionable relationship with their employees, the comment p
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by xkqd 4y ago
> as I want to be able to sit down at my computer and do five minutes of work and then go off and do something else and come back and do five minutes more of work. A seamless experience of passing off a single session across multiple ent
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by xkqd 4y ago
Depending on when your pal worked there, they were in the middle of a huge standardization process. I'm not sure what's going on there anymore, but they made a company wide effort to only use a single infra framework that handles
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by xkqd 4y ago
Sweatshop is right. I remember a dude joking that after project end, one of the new dads would finally be able to meet his kid. Maybe it's the stacked ranking. All of the FTEs were super bright but realized that if they were going to b
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by xkqd 4y ago
Not for nothing but we have plenty of slow coders that are “low volume” but some of the most diligent and edge case counting engineer’s I’ve ever met. Even then, if the business doesn’t depend on everyone working like a banshee, my team may
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by xkqd 4y ago
I agree with everything you said but saying > You must live in an all-white people world is kinda ill-mannered considering half of white folks don’t speak English. You might be conflating the Anglosphere with all white folks.
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by xkqd 4y ago
Not the commenter, but yes that’s the only use of the acronym I’ve ever heard.
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by xkqd 4y ago
> No but being quiet unless prompted to speak, will make a team work environment dysfunctional. I probably can’t be convinced that individuals who keep to themselves will create a dysfunctional work environment. If I’m reading your state
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by xkqd 4y ago
> ... believed that CS programs filled students' heads with theoretical garbage I'm not sure I'd call my algorithms, operating systems, and core CS classes theoretical garbage, but I guess I value not dedicating semesters
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by xkqd 5y ago
You run the heater to defrost the glass in your car. It often takes a few minutes for it to be effective. Otherwise, you can’t see and you’re a danger to yourself and others. In the winter, it’s more common than putting gas in your car. It’

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