gitonup

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by gitonup 2mo ago
No, but it does learn from where we are. If where we are is debt, debt is where we'll remain.
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by gitonup 2mo ago
> [post 1] "One of them is guilty, the other one is responsible" > [post 2] "Of course they share responsibility." I'm not following. We're also still disregarding the fact that none of us can even prove
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by gitonup 2mo ago
There's a lot to unpack here. > that politician trusted some poorly paid staff - I assume that politician is the one / main person in charge of doling out payments. Does that mean they share guilt/responsibility for the r
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by gitonup 3mo ago
> The culture of Google is that you hire "the best" developers (say top 0.1%) and hamstring them with process and cumbersome tools so that you need 10x as many of them as another company would need and pay them 3x market rates,
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by gitonup 3mo ago
> If I had a choice between React (Facebook) and Kubernetes (Google) I would pick the former anyday. Can you elaborate on why these are at all comparable techs to use as a developer? React seems to be the frontrunner in FE, but what do y
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by gitonup 5mo ago
> Things people mostly do when they feel good. This sounds like an inversion of cause and effect. > All three activities are hobbies. [...] It's nothing that gives life a purpose. I find this to be a dire outlook, myself.
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by gitonup 6mo ago
Measurable responses to the environment lag, Moore's law has been slowing down (e: and demand has been speeding up, a lot). From just a sustainability point, I really hope that the parent post's quote is true, because otherwise I&
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by gitonup 7mo ago
Disclaimer: raised Catholic, now Atheist, married to devout Catholic. The Church as defined by the institution is a community. I do not see it as a contradiction that the head of the institution is instructing the leaders to not add more la
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by gitonup 8mo ago
> Your boss, asking for a project to be finished early, may be an overdemanding boor – or just an Asker, who's assuming you might decline. I don't pay for the Atlantic and thus am limited by paywall, but this ignores power dyna
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by gitonup 8mo ago
Reminiscent of the Vogon plans for the highway through Arthur Dent's house being on display in Alpha Centauri for 50 Earth years.
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by gitonup 8mo ago
This is largely "false dichotomies: the app".
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by gitonup 11mo ago
It boggles my Detroit-grown mind that so many people claim this about so many thriving cities. I live in the PNW and regularly visit most of the major cities there and in NorCal. What exactly is more depressing there than any other city of
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by gitonup 1y ago
This is the God's honest. I worked on the MS Word core team for a little over three years from 2010-2014, and de-facto owned a significant part of implementing ODF / OOXML Strict support. The binary format was a liability for Micr
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by gitonup 1y ago
In cultures with more normalized haggling there's a conversation happening between two humans with agency, which this doesn't even have.
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by gitonup 3y ago
> amounts to having political control over land use decisions This exists in America, in ways that have generally escaped the label of "Communism". The most basic example of this most will be familiar with is zoning laws, but
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by gitonup 3y ago
I haven't used it in a while but https://theoldreader.com/ seemed like a fairly drop-in replacement for Google Reader.
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by gitonup 3y ago
Detroit hasn't, downtown has. Downtown has improved wildly since when even when I was growing up near there in the 80s/90s, but people don't realize how large Detroit is. It's nearly 140 square miles. Downtown is, char
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by gitonup 3y ago
> Everyone else they had interviewed had stormed out, pissed off that they had wasted their time; they didn't even realize what they did until I started asking questions after I got off the floor. Uh, those that stormed out did it r
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by gitonup 3y ago
The point is that "escape" in this case means not having to work to American Capitalism levels, not escaping working entirely. Retirement in the FIRE sense does not imply in all cases spending every day by the pool doing nothing,
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by gitonup 3y ago
Do you have an office in Seattle? The Data Engineer role lists both Seattle and Remote.
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by gitonup 5y ago
I've seen this cited several times in this thread, but I've seen no one mention that (according their own FAQ): > medRxiv (pronounced "med-archive") is a free online archive and distribution server for complete but un
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by gitonup 5y ago
Regarding taste tests, it's common for very sweet drinks to win because they give a small amount to taste. The experience of drinking the normal serving size (in the US) of 12oz is a different beast.
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by gitonup 5y ago
It's in the legal complaint by the State of CA. https://aboutblaw.com/YJw
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by gitonup 5y ago
This behavior by recruiters is wildly frustrating to me even without NDAs involved. I can't count the number of times I've actually been looking for jobs and gotten a coy "I have a role you'd be perfect for" messa
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by gitonup 8y ago
As another developer in his 30s, I don't think it's quite the same. Mystery meat navigation is purely opaque, whereas icons like GMail's are at least trying to convey meaning via their imagery. The Wikipedia page for Myste
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by gitonup 9y ago
In the context of that sentence I take independent to mean "unrelated by connection to each other" rather than "unrelated by ideology." In that context I don't see a claim that they're non-partisan. For that m
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by gitonup 9y ago
I've edited my OP and hopefully what I'm saying is more clear. If the entire ecosystem is your IDE, you're not "Turning Sublime Text into a Lightweight Python IDE". I don't know how else to phrase this to make
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by gitonup 9y ago
My definition of what? I literally said there's nothing wrong with taking that approach. I quite purposely did not argue productivity. My issue is with the acknowledgment by the author that the standard for "IDE" includes d
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by gitonup 9y ago
> The final requirement for a reasonable IDE experience is to be able to follow a debugging session in the file where the code exists. > There is no plugin for SublimeText that supports this. But there is a Python package you can inst
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by gitonup 10y ago
Spez (The CEO and one of the admins) has admitted to shadow-editing comments posted by other users without visible tracking (normally edits get a *, and I'm otherwise not aware of any mod- or user-facing ability to do so for comments t

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