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by ctheb 6mo ago
Not usually one to complain about AI, but I felt that there was some superfluous content here - maybe the use of AI has made it longer but not stronger.
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by ctheb 10mo ago
What would a better approach look like?
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by ctheb 3y ago
Are you saying that it’s a counterfeit? Apple sells this as a MagSafe charger: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MHXH3AM/A/magsafe-charger
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by ctheb 4y ago
This reddit post questions the accuracy of the crash bug story and offers an alternative explanation - that the game was designed with the expansion pak in mind in the first place: https://www.reddit.com/r/n64/comm
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by ctheb 4y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20150803225629/http://robrhineha...
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by ctheb 4y ago
In a distributed system it may not be appropriate to rely on a timestamp like this without accounting for the possibility of clock skew (unless the system provides a guarantee that timestamps are monotonically increasing.) SQL databases hav
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by ctheb 5y ago
A recent HN submission [1] highlighted that a surprising amount of detailed employment history is shared by employers with third parties. When I pulled mine it said “SW Dev Eng 4”, curious to see if that’ll change to “Associate” after I qui
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by ctheb 6y ago
The average California tech worker maybe not, but plenty of them are sitting on $500k+ in cash with yearly incomes in that same range. At that point what does $100k mean? $100k makes no difference in the person’s day to day life. If you lik
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by ctheb 6y ago
> According to prosecutors, he used that information to seek unjust enrichment through a series of beneficial stock trades that generated $227,000 in profits and avoided $377,000 in potential losses. This seems like a trivial amount of m
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by ctheb 6y ago
We can’t be afraid to change code. If your code change caused a production issue, what’s stopping someone else from causing a similar issue even if they aren’t refactoring? I have worked on teams where people don’t know what the code does a
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by ctheb 6y ago
> The obsession with status and notoriety and money to the complete exclusion of intellectual curiosity. To me this resonates with the idea that FAANGs swallow up promising engineers and have them work on mundane problems to help generat
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by ctheb 6y ago
Take advantage of the resources available to you and learn as much as you can. You can do good work at any company, but FAANGs especially will reward you with compensation and opportunities if you stand out.
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by ctheb 6y ago
The remote areas you refer to are a small fraction of the population compared to the GTA (greater Toronto area.) Should a highly visible revenue-oriented corporation really aim to improve connectivity out in the boonies?
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by ctheb 6y ago
You have clearly elucidated the major factors in your decision: 1. Career / salary 2. Moral hazards Taking into account what other comments have touched on, I’d say that you should be sure to weigh your own personal interests. Honestly