davidcalloway

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by davidcalloway 11mo ago
I imagine The Mythical Man Month would have been much more entertaining if written by Mel Brooks ;-)
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
Many years ago I visited some lava tube caves in Hawaii. I had to call and get directions, write them down and follow them... No address I could out into a navigation device, no coordinates. It seemed strange and I thought they could surely
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
The main thing I find missing with hurl is an rc file.
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
While I like the article and agree with the sentiment, I do feel it would have been nice to at least mention the GNU project and not leave the impression that we have free software only thanks to Linus Torvalds.
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
Ah, now that I see this comment, I'm guessing you're one of the ones that flagged the post. You're surely more knowledgeable than the author about America and Europe, but he's not commenting about the differences of thos
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
This is exactly what I wanted to say... Lacking credentials, but still accurate observations.
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
I totally agree with this! So much of what we've come to think as American culture emerged from the political success of the car. It's the main thing I notice that aggravates me when I return to visit the USA: cars, cars everywher
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
So many assumptions here that it's hard to know where to start. The fact that I prefer a mindset which prioritizes time with friends and family is extrapolated into a caricature of me as a freeloader. It's a bit of a stretch. On t
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
I'm curious how the author has much experience with the American mindset, since he didn't mention living in America when describing his background. Having said that, as an American living in Germany, I lately agree with his descri
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
This cannot be right. I've known multiple people in my life whose working shifts do not correspond to the seven-day week. I know of no illness from which they suffer.
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
This reminds me of the discover and defend modes from Jonathan Haidt's latest book The Anxious Generation. On taking a break, I've often found it difficult to stick to the pomodoro technique because the breaks seem too frequent. B
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
I lived in Hong Kong for nearly a year and our building underwent renovation on the facade at the time. We could open our windows and go up to the roof on the scaffolding. Good times.
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
I'm pretty sure the parent comment is pointing out that the quoted sentence from the main page ought to be present in the rationale page that is linked.
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by davidcalloway 1y ago
My teacher did the peanut butter and jelly problem with us in the fourth grade, but we were given the time to write the instructions as homework and she picked a few to execute the following day. The disappointment always stayed with me tha
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
I know this is nitpicking and perhaps a dumb thing to say, but in my view the simple case of drink spilling does not apply. Have you been around children who spill a drink? The ones who experience high levels of stress bury their heads and
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
It is the bane of my existence that in German you cannot just put things in places. The word you would use for "put" depends on the physical relation of the objects involved. Is it lying down ultimately? Hanging on? Standing uprig
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
Isn't this more of a cultural thing, that Germans seem to agree that it is authoritative and use it as a reference? I'm not sure what would even make a dictionary prescriptive other than an explicit declaration that it is so or, r
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
I get the sentiment but I've never really understood why this saying is so popular. A tax is a specific word with a real meaning. It is not voluntary. By this logic alcohol and cigarettes are themselves a tax on people with poor judgem
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
Looks nice but here's some feedback on what is not nice: - breaks the back button pretty badly - when I filter jobs it says seven results but really there are only two
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
I cannot help but think of Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven... "Deserve ain't got nothin' to do with it".
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
I sometimes feel this way even about Google maps. On some level when I make a small contribution I'm aware that everyone doing so profits Google quite nicely. But then again, I think that I've profited quite a bit from having Goog
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
Same here! I thought when I saw it, "ah, so that's what Jeff Atwood looks like".
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
I think you value their work too little. I worked as a realtor for a time and admittedly not a good one. A good realtor has knowledge of current values in the local market, issues to look for throughout the transaction, which services will
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
Yes but it would still feel weird for me to thank my employer for that.
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
Definitely not California but literally the first part of traffic law in Germany says that caution and consideration are required from all partaking in traffic. Germans are not known for poor driving.
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
Thank you I was literally wondering what garbage collection needs to be paid for.
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
I don't understand why you wouldn't feel good about this job. Ultimately, you are assisting in creating (hopefully accurate) signals that help summarize risk to simplify decision-making. Seems like honorable work to me...
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by davidcalloway 2y ago
I like Makefiles as well, and although many people have commented on the limitations and the fact that the author's usage of make is fairly simplistic, I think it's great to get started with the basics. Kudos to the author for wri