lgieron

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by lgieron 10y ago
On the other hand, a family makes you much more dependent on the job, which is what employers want too.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Did you notice a dip in your job performance?
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by lgieron 10y ago
In-demand devs do contracts instead, which pay very well.
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by lgieron 10y ago
If you don't aspire to be a pro player and just want to have fun, you can compete in limited only. I have friends who do that. I myself chose phantom sealed deck tournaments on mtgo, which, provided you don't suck, are basically f
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by lgieron 10y ago
That is only true for constructed (I've known people who made a living out of playing 8-4 drafts on mtgo). And even for constructed, it is only pay to win up to a point where everyone has access to all the cards (by either buying or bo
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by lgieron 10y ago
Only in constructed formats (where you build a deck out of your entire collection). In limited formats (which are hugely popular), you and people you play against build decks out of a common pool of cards. There is an entry fee and there ar
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by lgieron 10y ago
In Magic at least it's not pay to win - the better you are, the less you need to spend.
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by lgieron 10y ago
That's one of the points of code reviews - as you get feedback on how you should improve tests in your commits, over time you learn what "well-tested" means.
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by lgieron 10y ago
I though it was a short way to make a clear point. Let me write a longer version then: Is it barbaric? Maybe, but, whether we like it or not, the world has a defnite component of barbarism to it. There are wars going on as we speak, and the
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by lgieron 10y ago
> "In harms way"? Doesn't that seem rather ... barbarian. Was your grandpa that fought in WWII (assuming for a second you had one) a barbarian?
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by lgieron 10y ago
I didn't listed to the podcast. Is there a high chance of being killed? Maimed?
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by lgieron 10y ago
These are not battles. These are just people/companies having careers and making money. Even the researcher is usually forgoing the well paid job to do the research because the research is interesting to him - he's just trading of
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by lgieron 10y ago
A hero is someone who puts himself in harm's way for the benefit of others. A guy in a desk job is not a hero.
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by lgieron 10y ago
There's a ton more variety in the US tech jobs. If you want to work in an interesting niche, such as computer vision, rendering, self-driving cars etc., I think US is the place to be. Not only there are many more positions, but they al
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by lgieron 10y ago
Didn't he have something like 17% support? That's hardly minor.
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by lgieron 10y ago
A decision to start your adult life with borrowing large amount of money and spending it on studying an esoteric subject would be considered extremely irresponsible in most societies ( assuming the person does not have any assets or marketa
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by lgieron 10y ago
In my experience, the more expensive brands are no more reliable. Cotton t-shirt is a cotton t-shirt, there isn't much you can make to make it more durable. You could use a thicker fabric, but then it would not be the same t-shirt. The
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Some of the specific ideas for demonstrating high status included not moving your head when speaking, speaking and moving slowly, beginning statements with a long 'uhhhh' (a short 'uh' sound, however, demonstrated l
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Small business does not have the capital to pay employees properly. So really it should not exist in the way the economy is structured. So it won't exist if you take cheap labour out of the picture. If the result is people renovat
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by lgieron 10y ago
How about blocking Google search? You can easily stumble upon some nudity/porn in the image search.
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by lgieron 10y ago
In general: lower wages, higher taxes.
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by lgieron 10y ago
Are there really hundreds of thousands of developers who make a living out of an app store?
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by lgieron 10y ago
Because: we understand that there is a relation, but we're having a hard time actually quantifying it (the models predict a wide range of possible future temperatures, and they themselves are super complex and change often so we cannot
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by lgieron 10y ago
That's old news, the civic proposal to harden the laws on abrotion was later overthrown in the parliament by the "extreme rightwing" ruling party. I wonder if BBC reported on that.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> When I go to a Polish festival, there is sausages and beer. It isn't broadcast that the government has gone extreme right wing, that womens right to abortion is being removed and criminalised. Probably because neither of those thi
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by lgieron 10y ago
In the same way as an abused prisoner has a lot of similarity to its oppressor prison guard I guess...
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Scotland & London vs. Wales & the rest of Britain How is Wales less coastal than Scotland?
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by lgieron 10y ago
> 95% prisoners are there on plea bargain It could be because the people who know they are guilty take the bargain and save themselves some years, while the innocent go to court and prove their innocence.
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by lgieron 10y ago
> Really hard to see the defensible "moat" in the business models of these delivery companies. Couldn't the same be said about a lot of the "unicorns"? For example Dropbox or AirB'n'B don't have si
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by lgieron 10y ago
> I could make the same argument about farm equipment eliminating farmers' jobs, and not leaving as many jobs for farm equipment repair. This. 300 years ago, 90+% of population was working in agriculture - now it's around 2% in

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