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by xor1 9y ago
>Define "real" work. Things that generate profit. In 2017, that mostly means CRUD backends and mobile apps. Before you get upset with my definition, don't take it up with me, take it up with capitalism.
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by xor1 9y ago
>Fortunately, these become apparent in the workplace and filter out in the first few years. "Filter out" aka get promoted to management and earn more than they ever did as developers.
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by xor1 9y ago
>I wonder how the health damage of sitting at a desk for years compares. Not comparable, the only real risks of brain damage sustained while working a cushy software job are injuries sustained while commuting and reading really bad HN co
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by xor1 9y ago
>I think it would be exhausting to get dressed up and eat at Michelin starred restaurants every day - most of the time I just want something from a restaurant down the road. Come spend some time in LA and you'll see that only the pl
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by xor1 9y ago
Not surprising, no one has figured out how to monetize it properly.
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by xor1 9y ago
Not exactly an ELI5, but this is a good writeup: http://archive.is/3rYqa
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by xor1 9y ago
>When sex becomes an obligation to your partner In a healthy relationship where neither partner is asexual, both partners should regularly want to have sex with each other, what is this nonsense about "obligation"?
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by xor1 9y ago
>HN nerds have a really bad habit of conflating and projecting Go read up on personality disorder clusters. No reason to paint with such broad strokes when you have wikipedia a click away. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by xor1 9y ago
Is there some sort of aggregator for these early crypto offerings? Still kicking myself for not participating in the Ethereum pre-sale after a friend linked it to me and I just wrote it off completely. Love me some gambling.
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by xor1 9y ago
what if you get banned without making alot of money?
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by xor1 9y ago
>yes, there are some career risks, but they are minor I wouldn't refer to getting put on a blacklist as minor
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by xor1 9y ago
>Theoretically there's no reason why a quality broth can't be reduced to powder form and used with instant ramen. I think the biggest issue is that dried animal fats will significantly reduce the shelf life. I've tried a b
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by xor1 9y ago
Uhh what kind of places are you going to? And what kind of ramen did you buy? I consider Shinsengumi to be my minimum acceptable standard for restaurant ramen here in SoCal (I think there's plenty of better places here, but it's s
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by xor1 9y ago
>The difference is that you passively wipe the phone screen inside your pockets or its sleeve This is some of the worst grasping at straws I've ever seen on HN. Just admit that you are wrong here, you're being completely ridicu
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by xor1 9y ago
I would love to know more about the person behind and responsible for screwing over the writers.
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by xor1 9y ago
I've only been in situations where I was hoping to be fired (sadly, it didn't happen).
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by xor1 9y ago
How about learn all 3
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by xor1 9y ago
I've never even heard of anyone moving to an area because of elementary schools, or factoring them into a decision related to moving and/or purchasing a home. Only the quality of high school matters from what I've seen (in ri
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by xor1 9y ago
I'm constantly amazed by how many people either don't understand this or simply refuse to acknowledge it.
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by xor1 10y ago
shrug, david choe is worth 9 figures and did the first mural a year before llamaguy started working there
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by xor1 10y ago
They have, it's a private gamefaqs spinoff that's slowly dying ever since Megaupload shut down, since all of the site's content was hosted there. There are less than 300 active users at any given time when it used to peak at
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by xor1 10y ago
I remember GBS FM :) I'm actually really surprised to see this on the front page of HN today. I wonder how many people who actively read/post on HN were also on SA back in the day, or still hang out in Cavern Of Cobol and/or
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by xor1 10y ago
SA lost lots of good people to 4chan, mainly because a bunch of them were banned for loli on a Direct Connect hub (Raspberry Heaven). All of the original 4chan admins, mods, and posters were also SA posters, including moot himself.
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by xor1 10y ago
The SA forums were so amazing from 2000-2004. I spent some of my most formative years posting there (no regrets!). It's pretty crazy to think how many people who were active on SA around then went on do Big Things: - CliffyB - moot - n
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by xor1 10y ago
>Has Apple ever seen a single dime from the "Hackintosh community"? My first three Mac systems as a poor student were Hackintoshes. Couldn't afford a real Macbook. The first one was a Dell Mini 9, which was a $200 netboook
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by xor1 10y ago
I've come to associate the term with individuals who have undiagnosed Borderline Personality Disorder. It's the only good explanation I've seen for why they're so easily offended, and also why they have practically no bo
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by xor1 10y ago
Do you have any recommendations for major metro/tech hubs to avoid settling down (i.e. planning to spend the next 10-20 years) in due to significant threats from climate change? And/or any recommendations for regions in the US tha
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by xor1 10y ago
>player-made bots can be competitive at the highest levels of ranked play Any source for this? I refuse to believe it.
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by xor1 10y ago
https://www.amazon.com/Olay-Total-Effects-Anti-Aging-Moistur... Don't buy it off Amazon, you're likely to get counterfeit product, and it's also much cheaper in stores.
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by xor1 10y ago
>because most people correlate good looks with low intelligence Where is this coming from?? I'd argue the opposite of this, if anything.

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