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by xtracto 2y ago
This reads so fucked up... pardon my language . But after every paragraph I was shouting "why don't you go to a private psychiatrist, even if it is out of the insurers network!!!!" Of course I already know the amswer: appar
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by xtracto 2y ago
This! It seems as of individuals doing OSS nowadays are expecting something in return. In that case, they should setup a business, not release OS. I've got aplenty of code I haven't released because I think at some point I cou
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by xtracto 2y ago
I've contributed PRs to several OSS projects, some have been merged, others have not. I'm fine with that. The reason I open a PR is so that it becomes public. Most of my PRs solve stuff that I wanted to solve. For example at so
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by xtracto 2y ago
Aaah the time of WinModems. "Get a real modem" . I remember.
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This for me yields a more general "generational" discussion: It seems to me that the current youth generation is less "giving" than previous ones. 70s , 80s and 90s where full of "sharing is caring" mantra.
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by xtracto 2y ago
I understand where you are coming from. But for ME I have personally ever wondered why are people afraid of others knowing their medical history. This I know is a very unpopular opinion, but for my specific case, I've got plenty of m
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by xtracto 2y ago
In Mexico my experience was this: * 8am arrive to the emergency room in a private hospital * 8:10am get seen by an internist doctor and after initial review, tell the doctor that I would like to get an MRI. 8.20 get a doctor prescribed mri
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by xtracto 2y ago
They are entering their IBM phase.
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I find it very difficult and out of place to discuss these kind of matters in HN. particularly because it is a very US centric forum, the user base share a lot of preconceptions and ideals that come from the education their society gave the
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by xtracto 2y ago
Right. There's even an in-famous story of 3DFX lost the 3d graphic cards war: The quality of cards made in Mexico just couldn't compete with that of Asian countries. https://level2.vc/a-short-story-of-3dfx/
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by xtracto 2y ago
Ooh and I've worked with several Indian people who are great as well. I was just mentioning the stereotype of how mexican people in tech see them. I even had a great indian engineer who emigrated from India (his parents are still ther
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by xtracto 2y ago
I've heard from people working there that Amazon tech is full of Indian managers. And the "hearsay" here in Mexico is that Indian work "ethic" is terrible. That they are terrible bosses (same with TCS and HCL who al
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by xtracto 2y ago
Linkedin when you actually ONLY could get introduced to a 2nd degree connection by a mutual contact introducing you both. Before MS bought them, it was great. Now it's just a stupid Facebook clone with pathetic spam posts of people tha
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by xtracto 2y ago
I just paid for a subscription to phind.com it is extremely useful for most of my search needs. I don't use Google search at all I also have been using Edge as my main browser in Linux (it's vertical tabs have no match for my use
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OVH Cloud Major Outage Incident(status-ovhcloud.com)
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by xtracto 2y ago
It's amazing how the web with all the progressive apps access to your location, microphone, etc , still can't get access to the pixels dimensions of your screen.
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by xtracto 2y ago
I'm 43 now and you couldn't pay me enough to do several things at job now, like working saturdays (normal here in mexico), working from an office, doing death marches and whatnot. But, I did all that and more in my 20s as IC and 3
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by xtracto 2y ago
This look very interesting to me. Just commenting to have visibility for later. Great work you've done so far btw.
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The presented idea tangentially touches on what IMO is the main issue with the current system.: The objectives of customer and company are unaligned. Insurance companies fight tooth and nail to avoid paying once incidents happen. And peo
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by xtracto 2y ago
Aaah the windows network applet. I still remember fiddling with ipx/spx settings in that interface. It's been several decades! Good memories.
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by xtracto 2y ago
Golden handcuffs. I've had them in previous industry jobs as well. I understand how frustrating it is.
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by xtracto 2y ago
>You are literally taking a pay-cut, willingly, in order to make the world a better place This is a pretty interesting take. I feel that it may be even a bit "western " if not 'American ' centric. In my country Acade
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by xtracto 2y ago
For me it was more of a 'good riddance' moment haha . But I ded finish my PhD and a postdoc, so I didn't leave with a feeling of 'I have failed ' I remember though, that feeling when I was doing my PhD and I got t
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by xtracto 2y ago
Let me add another point of anectdata. I did my CS PhD with a full scholarship in the UK. Then a 3.5 year postdoc in a great Leinbiz institute in Germany. Part of a huge EU project (in Framework Programne 7) By all measures, I was "l
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by xtracto 2y ago
If the US government didn't have the muscle to break up Microsoft, which had a pretty evident monopoly in the 90s, I am willing to bet they won't manage to put a dent to Google. Particularly given how more "friendlier" h
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by xtracto 2y ago
My company "inherited" some medium-sized Ruby on Rails codebase, and OMG what an abomination it is. Everything is "magic", everything is implicit and to find out what does what is horrible. I've done Ruby developm
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by xtracto 2y ago
Something else... US current political climate vs immigrants doesn't help. In addition to the life prospects of potential immigrants. I'm a drop on the ocean only, but my case is the one I have: PhD in Computer Science, highly
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The time thing makes sense, although there are poor mexican people that have no trouble getting an ID over here . Regarding cost, it should be paid by the state. At least it's so in Mexico
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I don't understand why Americans are reticent to a voting ID. Here in Mexico it's pretty normal and there's like nothing crazy about it. It identifies yourself and makes sure only people legally allowed to vote can vote.
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Wow, your comments make me have two thoughts: 1. When did you experienced the UK health system? 2. US health system should be REALLY good then. I had to use the UK NHS between 2004 and 2008 kind of "extensively": Started with GPs

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