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by xmprt 4y ago
If pop politics is something considered "insincerely-held" then how can the viewer/audience decide if something is pop politics. I got into an argument once with a few people a while back about gay rights and they dismissed m
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by xmprt 4y ago
Complain about terrible storylines all you want but now isn't must different from what it was in the past. People considered interracial relationships and being gay in the past the same way you consider "fresh sexual and gender id
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by xmprt 4y ago
That's actually surprising to me. In most languages that I've worked with, strings are immutable so the fact that url doesn't update is more obvious to me and I'd be surprised if it did update.
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by xmprt 4y ago
In my experience, people make 10 goals during planning and then later decide on the 7 that they're going to hit. I wouldn't mind if the goals were ambitious but efforts were made to achieve 70% of them. However, in practice it see
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by xmprt 4y ago
What if the solution to that hard problem is improving the incentive structure and paying/promoting people for fixing bugs? That's something only ELT or SVPs can do and they aren't getting promoted for that.
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by xmprt 4y ago
It's all about how you twist it. If you say "I built 2 new services that could have just been a feature in an existing service" then you'll probably get a bad review. However, if you give a reason for building the 2 new
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by xmprt 4y ago
Missing OKRs always seemed a little weird to me. It strikes me as a lack of vision and makes the numbers and goals chosen seem very arbitrary.
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by xmprt 4y ago
When people say their "liability insurance covered" something it probably means the insurance also fought whoever they could so that they had to pay as little as possible. In this case, it's possible they went after the hotel
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by xmprt 4y ago
For me, the value is somewhere in between. Priority number one is getting the data into the second brain. Afterwards try to do a little organizing but don't fuss around too much with it because I can always make improvements later (esp
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by xmprt 5y ago
The best workflow is to consciously underthink it. If you find yourself spending more than 10 seconds thinking of where to put something then you're doing it wrong. Force yourself to go with the first place you were thinking. You'
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by xmprt 5y ago
Cryptocurrency trading can be a legitimate way to diversify risk. Of course people should know what they're getting into before they start and it's very likely to fail but I trust institutional traders more than anyone else to act
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by xmprt 5y ago
I'm not American and know how great it feels to come to the US. I also know the feeling of getting citizenship and the freedom it gives me. I also know that many of my Indian friends will never see that privilege because of how long th
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by xmprt 5y ago
Congratulations. You got lucky. Now say the same thing to the many Indians stuck in a dead end job and unable to leave during probably the best market for software engineers because they're worried about their visa status. Or the engin
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by xmprt 5y ago
In my experience, the conversation goes like this: Me: I'd like to take a 5-week vacation Manager: Why? Me: I haven't taken a long vacation in about year. Manager: Sure thing. Approved. This is what happens and it's better th
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by xmprt 5y ago
The house building analogy is pretty good and I think that frameworks are pretty close to how house building works right now. Pre-fab is like using cookie cutter components and throwing them together into a website using something like Word
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by xmprt 5y ago
It's owned by a Carl Sagan fan and not Carl Sagan himself. Carl Sagan passed away in the 90s. I'm not sure why you're saying $50,000 is fair as a matter of fact and what you mean by dry-ink manuscripts.
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by xmprt 5y ago
I used to feel like you do but nowadays I applaud that (while still not really using Apple products much due to the walled garden ecosystem) because it's really hard to take something away when you know it's good but could be bett
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by xmprt 5y ago
Also there's a lot of research into musical training however this doesn't mean that playing sports or video games can't have similar (or potentially even better) benefits.
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by xmprt 5y ago
What do you mean by "couldn't be play"? I feel like the best way to learn/improve at something is by making it fun. Often times different people find different things fun so if I'm able to have fun doing something t
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by xmprt 5y ago
A big part of education is spacing and repetition so completing a full course quickly before starting the next one doesn't sound like it's very good for learning even if it might speed up the degree.
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by xmprt 5y ago
I find that I often need to have quick conversations with coworkers while working. These can't be pre-planned meetings because if they were then I'd be blocked for up to a full day. Personally I'm much more in favor of 3 or 4
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by xmprt 5y ago
I think it works for either very tech savvy (who tinker but know how to fix things) or completely not tech savvy people (who will never tinker and use the computer for very basic things). If you're medium tech savvy then you run the ri
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by xmprt 5y ago
Linux is quite reliable. Maybe even more reliable in day to day use. However it occasionally breaks for me in very subtle ways and when it does break, I have to use technical skills to resolve the issue. That doesn't happen to me on Wi
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by xmprt 5y ago
> you're comparing speech to actions other than speech in order to justify that speech being curtailed because you don't like it I think it's more than this. Trump's tweets have had significant real world consequences
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by xmprt 5y ago
That's mostly true however there's a lot of data that shows worrying trends. For example, millennials don't have anywhere near as much share of wealth as Gen X had at the same age. Wealth is being pretty heavily concentrated
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by xmprt 5y ago
Working at a FANG or FANG adjacent company on a good team and getting a few lucky promotions. My stock hasn't appreciated much but another way people get their is by being lucky with stock appreciation even if they don't experienc
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by xmprt 5y ago
I spent the last 2 years still enjoying myself (hobbies, meeting up with friends when I could, traveling occasionally although maybe not as much as you, etc) and now I'm making 400k+ a year with 3 years of experience. You don't ha
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by xmprt 5y ago
I don't think you're an outlier. If anything, you're the majority. Most people I know use Facebook and Instagram sparingly and communicate with friends directly using Snapchat, iMessage, Messenger, or Whatsapp. It's not
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by xmprt 5y ago
I think the biggest issue with the grandparent comment's approach is that it makes things extremely difficult for newcomers as was already mentioned. Turnover is inevitable in an organization and that means that eventually there will b
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by xmprt 5y ago
The initial comment was quite snarky too, implying that there cannot be any competition in a duopoly. If anything, duopolies have some of the strongest competition compared to a situation where there's only one winner or one where all

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