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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Isn't this the same as the premise of the movie Office Space?
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Haskell is a bad language, in my opinion, because you can't tell what the O(n) run-time is for any operation. Instead you just have to "trust" that it'll be fast enough. More on this: https://www.reddit.com&#x
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Sorry, my bad. For some reason I thought these were loans and not actually renting.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
If one party has to make monthly payments, then what else do they think it is? And how can adults in this world not understand how interest rates work.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I don't think they had coastal cities or farming back then.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Missing Elysium and Children of Men.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
In feudalistic society there were hundreds of small "governments" in a society, all of which had to defend their own rights.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Reminds me of when I used to work at Cisco. All the software there for routers must be written in C. As a result everything takes much longer than it should.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
In typical conversation people will say "800 A.D.", so I think you're wrong.
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Why don’t software development methodologies work?(typicalprogrammer.com)
3 points by xyzzy4 10y ago|0 comments
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Sounds like they are doing great things with investors' money.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Schools are more similar to prisons than infrastructure.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Why do you want to sit near other people? Then they can see what time you come in or leave the office.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I'm going to mount an umbrella in a few days to block the overhead lighting. I requested that the lighting be turned off, and it was, but another employee (who only comes to the office once per week) had it turned back on a few days la
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
It makes me feel like the sun is shining on my face, and I want to seek shelter.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Having your back to the wall and no overhead lights.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Or maybe it's to produce as much CO2 as possible.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
SQL is an amazing and very useful tool to work with. I will never understand why people want to abstract it away.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Plastic is the least of Delhi's problems. First they should be banning vehicles that don't meet emission standards. I visited there twice and I'll be lucky if I don't come down with some lung problem. Edit: They should b
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
You're also allowed to own 100 Lamborghinis, but that doesn't make it feasible for most people.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Public stock is much more liquid.
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Vietnam war deserter arrested 38 years later (2006)(theguardian.com)
5 points by xyzzy4 10y ago|0 comments
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Procrastination is often caused by wanting to do something but not knowing exactly what to do. The solution is to cut it up into bite-sized pieces and start doing them one at a time.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
They're potentially able to profit from it, but they feel the need to have thousands of employees.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
I stopped drinking coffee because it was making me feel too anxious. I also stopped caring about my total productivity per day for the same reason. Instead I make sure I just do something per day.
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
If the price collapses then the cost of electricity will be greater than the mining rate
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
If you've been to India, you'd see it's much closer to anarchy than the US. There's almost no respect for the law. Car drivers don't even pull over to the side of a road to let cop cars with flashing lights go by. A
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Do infants ask?
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Animals
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by xyzzy4 10y ago
Healthcare isn't truly 'universal' until it is also applied to non-humans.

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