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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I think it's very fair and valid for you to feel however you want with regards to shelter-in-place/wfh/lockdown, but to me it seems somewhat unconscionable to be smug like enjoying your time alone is a huge win against extrov
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
A federal reserve police force would open some interesting additional avenues for affecting interest rates outside of open market operations... (this is a joke)
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
Maybe I'll change my tune when I hit 30, but we had Aerons at my $lastjob and while I liked it well enough, I now work from home in what is essentially a Lazy Boy welded onto rolling wheels, and it cost rather less. I do have a sit&#x2
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I'm not, your ellipses abbreviate too much. I'm seeing, among a group of people who would theoretically be predisposed to not want to stay at home, people still electing to stay at home. This contradicts the OP's glib remark
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I know this is bait, but I want to provide my experience as counter-example. I went to a STEM college where anyone who graduates could quite reasonably expect to be able to build themselves a middle-class career, live comfortably, and perha
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
The thing is, if you didn't integrate Stripe, you'd either be: 1. integrating someone else who does roughly the same thing as Stripe 2. integrating with and maintaining 100's of individual payment methods and countries, and
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
It punishes smaller transactions unfairly, which doesn't make a lot of sense since the size of the dollar amount probably doesn't have anything to do with the incremental cost to stripe to compute the tax bill.
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
It's worth noting that there's the interchange fees that come along with using a credit card in the US aren't just a pure profit rake for the credit card companies. It obviously pays for computing resources and staffing and s
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
Ah, so nothing technical.
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
[I don't do Android, but, ] isn't Google trying to kinda pivot to Kotlin?
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I did a 6 to 8 migration at $lastjob. The upgrade was smooth except for 2 issues: * It exposed a kernel panic bug in our Linux kernel when Hadoop applications de-allocated huge amounts of RAM at once (e.g. a Spark program with a 100GB heap
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
Where does the article mention a website-blocking system? I'm curious as to the technical details. I'm sure it'll work this time. "For Canada to have an innovative and flourishing digital economy, we must protect copyr
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
Confession: For a long time I didn't really think movements like these were necessary. "Why does it have to be for group X? Why not just have it open to everyone?" I still see a lot of sentiment like that on the internet. I f
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
Legacy uses and a smattering of personal preference. Perl was hugely productive in its day, when alternatives were either non-existent or extremely nascent (Python and Ruby) or things like C, C++, Java, or Bash. You can probably imagine how
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I think the difference is that he's directing his question to us, and not to the person in question? I think it's fair, in this day and age, to ask if there's corroborating evidence for the contents of a tweet/article. S
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
That's probably fair. I was in high school during that period. I've mostly only ever known the Java owned by Oracle, where it seemed... reasonably kept? Java 8 happened under Oracle, after all.
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I worked with Java from 2009 until now. I can't account for the 01-09 timespan, but I'd say the big gap between say java 1.5 and 1.8 was less about stagnation and more about letting other languages feel things out. I like that Jav
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I've had good results with the react-rails gem, basically letting me plop bits of react into a rails view. It's not like, the best the in the world from a pure design standpoint? But it does a really, really good job of not having
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I'd argue that options trading is worse than gambling. At least the one-armed bandit only gives the house a slight statistical edge. Option traders - real ones, mind you - are sophisticated armies of statistics PhD's. I suspect th
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I don't get why this is specifically directed at gratis/free software, though. It's not like commercial software is much better. I spent a lot of time in the beginning of my career punching extremely expensive proprietary s
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I think I've seen people I'd describe similar to the way you describe yourself. Disclaimer: I think you sound to be quite a bit better than the 2 people I'm about to describe. Just to be clear. Both people, lots of experience
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
If they're thinking pure CPU benchmarking, prime95/mprime has several options, such as: [this is from my recollection] * completely in-register only, no caches. they warn an organic workload will never ever do this and not to do i
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
I became a software engineer because CS was the only class in school that has ever, ever genuinely interested me at a deep, fundamental curiosity level. It's definitely something about the fact that the work is about the closest you ca
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
Unfortunately for us, nature and evolution "solving problems" frequently involves us all just dying and/or Earth spending a long period of time as a magma ocean and then several aeons as a hot rock.
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
Ah I missed that he was selling calls for stocks he owns. That makes it even less interesting IMO? The premiums on these options are small enough and now you're also capping upside on stocks you already own. And remember that black swa
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by cashewchoo 5y ago
OTM options is one of those things where it works great until it doesn't and then when it doesn't it REALLY doesn't. This is almost literally how we ended up with the inverse volatility trade collapse in 2018. Look up "X
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by cashewchoo 6y ago
I dunno, I see where they're coming from. Someone once asked me what it's like being me, and my off-the-cuff semi-joke response was "sometimes coding isn't fun and I have to play video games to have fun, and other times
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by cashewchoo 6y ago
I think it's a combination of: * extremely, extremely thin margins * in general, users are pretty low-discretion, which makes it hard to meaningfully differentiate your product * deeply entrenched competition (what % of laptops are sol
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by cashewchoo 6y ago
A penny a stream is honestly way more than "a play" of music has cost. I'll admit I'm off the beaten path with how I do music but this is my setup: 1. I buy the CD release of music because I like to collect them, and the
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by cashewchoo 6y ago
No, I think this is the same way in much of the US. Millionaires are just skilled labor around age 35-40 (depending on a lot ofc). And you're going to need about 4x that to retire, depending on the kind of lifestyle you want. It's

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