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by zaccus 11y ago
I love the liberal arts, but the idea that everyone needs to study them in order to be a good citizen is overstated at best. It's like saying everyone needs to learn to code to be a good citizen: a pretty thing to say, easy to find p
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by zaccus 11y ago
You can definitely default on student loans; plenty of people are. You just can't get them discharged in bankruptcy.
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by zaccus 11y ago
Unless you can decline benefits and have an equivalent dollar amount tacked onto your paycheck, I don't see why they should be taken into account.
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by zaccus 11y ago
My train commute is one of my favorite parts of the day, due to all the reading I get done. It's what you make it.
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by zaccus 11y ago
That seems like an overgeneralization. Some humans are more social than others. We're very complicated.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Bullshit. Everyone else doesn't "need" to put in longer hours so I can have a reasonable schedule, and it's in no way my fault if they decide to do that. I'm not a "free-rider". If my employer isn't s
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by zaccus 12y ago
>I don't believe that most children have an idea what they will do for work until late in to their adolescence Don't most kids look at what their parents do for a living and assume they will be doing that? I know I did, and it
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by zaccus 12y ago
Not a day goes by that I'm not thankful for ditching FB.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Whistleblowing on mgmt is a great way to get blacklisted, and one person's ability to quit their job does not address the root cause of the abuse. Why should the burden be on the worker to find a new job anyway? If the abuse is coming
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by zaccus 12y ago
Family and career both require massive amounts of time and energy. It should be acknowledged that there is no way to fully commit to one without taking away from the other. So you'll have to make a difficult choice.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Grandparents/other family might not want to take care of your kids every day while you're at work, which is understandable.
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by zaccus 12y ago
>Can you give examples of this kind of job, other than those created directly by the government? The guy standing in front of Little Caesars with a Hot N Ready sign, dancing. All HR jobs All jobs and businesses related to sales and marke
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by zaccus 12y ago
Traditionally, middle class has always meant that you own your own business. A hot dog vendor who owns their own cart is middle class. A doctor who works for a hospital is not. It has nothing to do with income or prestige.
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by zaccus 12y ago
As someone who does have a deep leftist bias, I honestly would not care if a Republican was doing this, unless the law was actually broken. Didn't Cheney have a man-sized safe in his office or something? I don't remember anyone on
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by zaccus 12y ago
Nobody in their right mind would ever answer this question negatively. Of course I'm a good programmer, because I'm the go-to guy on my team, or because I know how to google stuff, or because I'm a polyglot, etc etc etc. See
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by zaccus 12y ago
This is so stupid. If you want $10 for your product, then charge $10 for it. If you're offering your product that your team worked hard on for $0, then someone paying $0 for it is not cheating the system. Your company's profitabil
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by zaccus 12y ago
why?
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by zaccus 12y ago
>There have been fairly long-term experiments on BI, and people who choose not to work do things they enjoy - learning to paint, going to school, etc. How are those things not work? They require focused effort, just the same as any job d
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by zaccus 12y ago
I have no interest in working with a recruiter at all. I'm fully capable of applying to a company directly if I am interested. Recruiters are parasites who need to get a real job.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Where I work we say "y'all". It's a useful word and I like it.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Can they freeze your youthful energy as well? I'm not sure that having kids in high school when I'm in my 70s sounds like much fun. Also, it would be nice to know my grandkids someday. So this isn't much of a solution.
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by zaccus 12y ago
>I wonder what you think about what the company should do Very simple: give the raise that was asked for, or get ready to find someone else for the position. It's the same decision to make, whether they have some kind of process to
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by zaccus 12y ago
There might be tons of people with knowledge and experience, but they're not in your typical applicant pool. They tend to already have jobs.
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by zaccus 12y ago
I don't think finding a way to get along with your coworkers despite personality differences is a specific personality trait. It's something any grown adult, or at least anyone worth hiring, should be able to do.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Right, like I don't have enough on my plate as a developer. If developers should learn design, then they should be paid double their salary. Personally, I still wouldn't be interested.
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by zaccus 12y ago
That's not an answer.
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by zaccus 12y ago
Those kids who are "there for the paycheck" got hired just the same as you did, plus they have a life outside of work. Meanwhile, you've sacrificed any semblance of a work/life balance, all for the sake of an impressive
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by zaccus 12y ago
It matters because discriminating on the basis of gender is illegal. Period. Not saying that's what happened (highly doubt it). But a pissing contest about who is discriminated against the most is not going to move the conversation for
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by zaccus 12y ago
Yo isn't any stupider or less innovative than 99% of other tech startups. It just doesn't pretend like it's making a difference in the world or other such nonsense. The fact that people are offended by it is actually pretty a
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by zaccus 12y ago
How can you be certain that 0 times any other number will always equal 0? Have you tried multiplying it against every number? Of course not, that's impossible. Does that count as uncertainty? So I'll put it this way: I am as certa

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