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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Second, salaries are garbage, especially for migrants. There is a term for this situation called "Canadian Experience": employers claim that because one does not have experience working in Canada, they deserve a crappy salary
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> This means that foreign-trained doctors (as an example) can easily get a federal visa to enter the country, but the province will refuse to recognize their medical training, forcing these skilled immigrants to work low-skill jobs inste
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> People are increasingly getting into the field for the pay rather than for a love of programming, > the quality of the software being produced is decreasing I feel these two are related. I mean, one could say the same looking at com
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> It tells me I need to get out because it represents a shift to a higher level of abstraction in programming. In the ideal I hear expressed, instead of programming you'd be just describing the code you want and letting someone&#x2F
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Likewise, I find it absurd that anyone running a startup outside of the US would ever incorporate in Delaware. What if I told you it's sometimes easier for a foreinger to setup a corporation and sell in the US than it is to do so
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> My daughter thinks I'm one of those nerds that married a regular girl from college and can do magic with software because I can make her computer go back in time and bring back versions of her files. Wait until she discovers git!
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
With shrinking recess time and PE disappearing from some schools, boys with normal needs for physical activities are increasingly labelled as "sick" and medicalized for completely normal behavior by the taxpayer funded school syst
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> many countries have their own laws and policies regarding air quality exposure. Often times these regulations use metrics about time-average exposure (e.g. the annual average 8-hr maximum ozone concentration) and can't trivially b
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
It means you'll be getting a "This phone isn't available in your country" pop-up when shopping online and all SKUs sold in Europe by the maker's subsidiary will have different model numbers. Of course, because of th
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Unsubstantiated [0] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/04/210421151224.h... [1] https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202106/1225792.shtml
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> I remembered growing up with a the children of a customs officer. Every now and then he would show up with boxes of confiscated pirated movie / game days discs, asking us to pick what we wanted before he was going to return the re
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> tend to take up the less dangerous, more comfortable low-wage jobs. Think teachers, nurses, secretaries against soldiers, police officers, construction workers. > less dangerous, more comfortable I don't think a modern school o
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> what my local government/news says about air quality That's assuming the local government is giving the truth regarding air quality and that their "official scale" is made to reflect reality and not obscure some mea
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Are they just extremely rare cases or am I just not aware of the valley and their customs? Not aware. That's not unusual compensation for key contributors. Especially in AI or other niche fields. Even outside the valley. We acquir
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
A lot of what Turing did was kept classified or not publicized too much by the British government. They seem to have done a complete 180 on this relatively recently (now that tech and SV are all over the news) and seem to want to brand anyt
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Until the 1980s or so, Turing wasn't known much outside mathematics, and was considered a minor figure in computing. Von Neumann was the big name in computer architecture, and Friedman was the big name in cryptanalysis. Big part o
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> when bad luck gets hold of you > Children's cancer wards exist. They definitely do, and this is pure bad-luck. But go to a hospital today and take a look at the patient census: a great percentage of them have completely prevent
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
I recall a story someone told me a while ago. Software business that did local CoL/prevailing wages. Hired an intern one summer that was just running around in circles around the other, more senior devs. Useless to say they loved him a
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
I don't think people realize how relatively easy it is today to have a healthy lifestyle. Don't smoke, don't vape, drink a little and cook at home. There has never been a better availability of fresh produce everywhere in Ame
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> Apple didn't keep raising money to pay for the development of their next iPhone. But they did raise more money (from Mike Markkula) than what they made from the Apple 1 sales in order to fund the development of the Apple ][.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> I find Russians to be highly political apathetic That's a good survival strategy. You'll see them side with the winner as soon as it becomes obvious who that is.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
That's what modern Chinese politics expert call "the mandate from the heavens". As long as the average (Han) Chinese gets richer, they won't mind the oppressive regime and the collectivist nature of the CCP (welding door
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
One simple question I ask is to count the words in a string. It's a warmup question and a way to get the candidate comfortable with the format of the interview and the optimal workflow (discuss requirements, propose an implementation,
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
That's the reason I advise against them. Unless you are the top company in your bracket, your completion rate will also not be so great for a take-home (people have limited time: they'll sort by how good your company is). Sure the
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> EU-wide booking system. Maybe they can achieve what we had in America back in the 60's with SABRE [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_Corporation
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
"The OceanGate CEO who is trapped on a 22-foot submersible on an ill-fated voyage to see the Titanic wreck once explained how he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience to captain his vessels because they weren’t
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
What's crazy is that, unlike this ESA engine and prototype rocket, Raptor and Starship R&D is all privately funded by SpaceX's profits. Starship will fly payloads to LEO before this European rocket reaches the Karman line.
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
3) Something else than naive "The OceanGate CEO who is trapped on a 22-foot submersible on an ill-fated voyage to see the Titanic wreck once explained how he didn’t hire “50-year-old white guys” with military experience to captain his
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> I believe Foxconn, the main assembler for Apple, still sleeps 6 workers to an apartment. The thing is, if Chinese labor becomes more expensive, these workers will get replaced either by an automated factory elsewhere (maybe in America!
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by 908B64B197 3y ago
> That is a slippery slope. It's par for the course in a country that bans paternity testing (to "protect the 'unity' of families"! ) [0] [0] https://idtodna.com/paternity-test-in-france/

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