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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
I find myself struggling with somewhat related situation, everything in my life is going good, happily married and a great job that I love however I find myself wanting to watch the world burn, I get excited about the prospect of war and th
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Junior developer salaries here are low enough that people just change industry. It's also not just about the salary but the way that they work. That all being said there are start ups out here that do look for experienced devs and pay
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
I work out in Asia and over here a big reason for ageism in tech is a misunderstanding of development talent, there is a belief that coders are coders and that's all there is to it, young coders tend to be willing to work longer hours
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
"Don't push buttons if you don't know what they do!" That statement makes me a little sad, it's pretty much the exact opposite of the way I was brought up and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be where I am witho
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Greater Los Angeles - 87,490 km2 England - 130,279 km2 87,490 * 1.5 = 131,235 Pretty close if you ask me.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
An anti-corruption drive is nearly always just a power shift. Look at the various ones in China, it's never about corruption and more about one branch of the political elite taking out another.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Almost every time we have a BBQ or other outside event someone buzzes a drone overhead and just sits there watching us. Almost every time I go out hiking I hear the high pitched whine of a drone flying around the country park. It seems no m
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
I'm pretty sure that's half of the point, stop any radicals from forming large followings.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
This whole index funds outperform actively managed funds claim needs a lot more context. I always see adverts from people like Vanguard claiming such things but they are always just talking about raw returns they never take into account ris
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Our Bloomberg usage these days is pretty much entirely the chat. I think the only other feature that gets regular use is the excel plugins.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
It was a joke, relax.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
I guess things have moved on from this Perl-Vista nightmare, I was personally looking forward to having all the coders around me screaming at their desktops in a fit of frustration and rage. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
That's pretty crazy, how do these people exist and get jobs? What kind of development were they supposed to be doing?
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
> and there's more genuine fear of hiring someone who can't fizzbuzz. I always hear this fear proclaimed but have never heard an actual story of a candidate failing to fizzbuzz, would love to hear an anecdote or two from anyone
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
That's because it has nothing to do with skin colour and everything to do with the age old religious concept of light and darkness. However people will find a reason to get upset about anything so at this point it might as well be.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Oh dear, what's next? Gender neutral electrical connectors?
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
I'd say just double down and have a job for life, https://github.com/Droogans/unmaintainable-code
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
I always find the use of per capita GDP as measure of development as a rather strange measure of development. You could have a country with massive oil reserves or similar natural resource wealth that would have a very high per capita GDP b
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
"There are many popular trends that I believe are not suitable for every situation" Doesn't that statement apply to pretty much everything? Horses for courses and all that.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
One part of the article I really don't understand, "The researchers relied on the millions of transaction records that are captured on the public ledgers of all virtual currency transactions, known as the blockchain, to spot patte
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Do you have the scourge of zero hour contracts in the US? Basically a person can be contractually obligated to work when demanded but with no guarantees of minimum hours or salary.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Oh yeh me too, even when you use a similar app with taxis the service is awful. At least half the time they call you and cancel as they've just picked someone up on the way to you.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
I wonder how much the true cost is to the driver, not only are they having to pay fuel costs but the more miles a car does the less it's worth. It's almost like swap deal, swapping the future value of your car in return for cash t
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Interestingly where I live Ubers are usually 50% more expensive than taxis.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
I wonder how kids today get away with texting in class, that was like the height of spy craft when you'd be texting a friend in your pocket while pretending to be writing notes on what the teacher was saying.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
On a similar to theme to the ever present facebook button, I wonder how much tracking Google is able to do through Google fonts, an absolute ton of sites use Google's CDN to deliver fonts to your browser.
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Reminds of that article posted here a week or two ago about the jet set entrepreneur types, outsource all your work to the cheapest possible option while you sit on a beach drinking mojitos or more likely whine in a blog post about how your
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Not really relevant as this is an example of when you can sign away your rights but I thought I'd just mention that it is impossible to sign away certain protected rights, no matter what a contract says. A good example is a paid parkin
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
"'people with passion' will be less impacted by the unavoidable organizational BS" Funnily enough I always find it that the people with passion are the ones that get themselves all worked up and distracted with the BS, t
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by FundThrowaway 8y ago
Seneca's Dialogues, I can't recommend them enough

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