bulditand

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by bulditand 4y ago
I did the same thing, and I don't regret it. And my advice to my younger self would be to find a middle ground: do meaningful work but don't neglect the necessities. The trouble with getting rich first is that you can't know
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by bulditand 7y ago
No, the surveillance. Edit: Not the web browser. I believe the current surveillance practices are dangerous to a free world. Hence the analogy with the train that goes to a bad place. And newsbinator was talking about some feature, which is
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by bulditand 7y ago
That's great and I'm glad you find joy in this. Me, I spent nights going to a show named "Nuit des Publivores" and loved it. But like every pleasure in life, it needs to be consensual.
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by bulditand 7y ago
> the concept of advertising is essential to all of us having jobs Citation needed.
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by bulditand 7y ago
The point is not if it works, is if you should do it. A lot of people don't want this to be done to them, even if it works for you. We outlawed slavery, human trafficking, rape, fraud, theft etc even if it worked for some, because work
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by bulditand 8y ago
Coding is the easiest part. Understanding the actual problem and solving it is the hard part. > A lot of coding is simply banging your head against the wall, search SO over and over, changing things around, until it does what you want. I
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by bulditand 8y ago
GitLab is talking about (not) training python people to do ruby work, which indeed needs months of work. OP is talking about not knowing framework xyz, I'm assuming like knowing JavaScript but not knowing Vue or knowing Python but not
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by bulditand 8y ago
> If you believe that is the case, then why not spend a couple weeks learning XYZ, so that the next time you need XYZ you can say you know it? Because there are many things to learn and it doesn't make sense to learn everything just
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by bulditand 8y ago
Then why not 15M, the more the happier!
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by bulditand 8y ago
> We really don't want to advertise to children, they're absolutely awful for any meaningful non-impression metric for the advertiser. Yeah, that's the reason not to advertise to children!
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by bulditand 8y ago
That's really great, thank you! Edit: maybe you can make it official on the website?
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by bulditand 8y ago
If it takes you 30 minutes to answer, of course I'll do something else. Which is good, because I don't want you to rush the answer and you don't want me to waste 30 minutes while you think of a good answer. You probably talk
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by bulditand 8y ago
I guess the silence is an answer too :(.
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by bulditand 8y ago
I think (s)he is referring to "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar .
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by bulditand 8y ago
I've read your posts in this thread and I realize you won't get it even a hundred people explain it to you. I only hope you won't meet some day a man who wants to "acquire as many resources as possible, even if that incu
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by bulditand 8y ago
> Have you looked at government infrastructure projects? You assume that they work with the same enthusiasm on the projects we benefit and on the projects they benefit.