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by yks 6y ago
There are millions of people currently living who were born in the Soviet Union and about 0% of them identifies or is identified as “Nationality: USSR”. I think what matters is whether the existence of an independent country is contested. N
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by yks 6y ago
This sounds bad in theory but in practice I am not sure why developers would purchase an expensive city land to build a coal plant there. But okay, let's have residential/industrial zoning. I am not okay with any restrictions insi
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by yks 6y ago
I wonder the same about zoning, can’t still wrap my head around it actually. Your neighbor dictating what you can or can’t do with your property is communism.
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by yks 6y ago
A rather predictable position for a person owning a business that makes the future worse.
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by yks 6y ago
> A data structures and algorithms test is fair and objective. Anything but! For starters, in 2020 brute-force solutions are not acceptable anymore. Then, there are often several working approaches and substantial percentage of interview
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by yks 6y ago
Author says that he is humble but he is not humble enough, he still thinks that his achievements should mean something. They actually do but not all the time, at some point the fate can and will be decided by a 1 yoe junior dev who thinks t
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by yks 6y ago
> our country (USA) is strong enough to survive either the republicans or democrats in control of both houses or Congress and the White House. Usually yes, but the executive branch has currently gone rogue, i.e. been firing investigators
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by yks 6y ago
Could you go to court as a private person to negotiate the bill down?
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by yks 6y ago
GP referred to the prestige as a workplace for SWEs and not to the viability of a business.
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by yks 7y ago
yep, 10+ years in industry and that's how I usually debug (and I know how to use a debugger).
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by yks 7y ago
or g = ./gradlew
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by yks 7y ago
I remember watching some demo where authors put a separate server per REST endpoint of a basic JavaScript/AJAX shop-like app. That was a peak microservices time.
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by yks 7y ago
I don’t know, maybe I don’t have luck with my dentists or my insurance but on every bill some procedures are either downgraded or outright refused to be covered based on some technicality. As usual, insurance finds a way to scam you.
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by yks 7y ago
what is the reasoning (genuinely curious). Are democrats somehow failing America re: COVID-19?
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by yks 7y ago
What is the best modern file manager for MacOS? Using ForkLift but it's not Total Commander.
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by yks 7y ago
(Maybe unlike you, maybe not) I enjoy my work, and I even enjoy life and the beauty of the world yet I support your view, you better understand the true reality of human condition than the majority of people.
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by yks 7y ago
Yep, the most convenient setup so far for passing notes/urls between a phone and a laptop. Slack is good too but somehow scrolling to your personal chat on the phone is cumbersome.
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by yks 7y ago
Scorchingly hot summer is just a few hour drive away though
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by yks 7y ago
Works very well with "how to answer behavioral interview questions" web pages
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by yks 7y ago
Currently it seems that rural states push all the bad things on themselves, e.g. climate change and other environmental destruction, so how much worse can it be for them?
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by yks 7y ago
There is an art culture in the Bay Area and not everyone likes hip hop or country culture either.
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by yks 7y ago
Btw, the letter I used as an example was definitely not from a minority person and not about SoCal neighborhood. Regardless, these people are not "natives" who got SF entirely in its current state from God, it was growing up, as p
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by yks 7y ago
And then you what, die in the appreciated property? If you want to make money, it's already very profitable for you to sell the house for condo development but no one is doing that. Instead residents write open letters about how they m
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by yks 7y ago
By buying a $4 latte you're depriving retired yourself of $8 (if you're going to buy a latte per day until retirement)
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by yks 7y ago
There are private clinics in Europe (and I suspect Canada too) to splurge on, it's not a unique American feature
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by yks 7y ago
There are plenty of HTML-to-PDF web APIs though so if you want to spin a SaaS off of it you need to spend more time than just host it somewhere, e.g. some kind of market differentiation, SEO, work out pricing etc. If you're a lone deve
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by yks 7y ago
The notion that this life is not really that important is the only rational conclusion we can make
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by yks 7y ago
Jump bikes strongly follow commuter pattern, e.g. if you're going downtown in the morning or back at 5pm, you won't find any but if you're doing the opposite (or midday ride downtown) then, of course, Jump bikes are plenty.
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by yks 7y ago
Unfortunately there is no guarantee that I receive any better support at the more expensive provider though
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by yks 7y ago
what are the problems with showing the place around? literally everyone else is doing that. besides, WeWork once responded to my appointment request a month after the date I requested it for, so they even can't get their brilliant appo

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