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by offtop5 5y ago
>Are you really suggesting that the reason 43% of South African youths are unemployed is because they're lazy? Not at all, it's structural problem. I've seen this in LA as well and it's the number one reason I left. S
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by offtop5 5y ago
Babble. The weird transpilation system constantly breaks. I guess maybe one day they'll be better tooling around this, but it's not there yet. And I've worked with node in some capacity since 2013, things always feel fragment
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by offtop5 5y ago
I've built multiple JavaScript project at scale, and I would never trust it over java or C sharp. JavaScript allows you to make way too many mistakes. I do think Dart is the best of both worlds though. Having real types, not hacked tog
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by offtop5 5y ago
The issue is you'll have to ask for credit card numbers in order to prevent abuse, so you're not really giving anything away. I would still evaluate anything you call free as I would any other product. Plus integrating into my wor
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by offtop5 5y ago
How big of a team do you have. Even if it's from your personal funds, if you're maybe paying a few contractors $10,000 a month, that's still an investment.
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by offtop5 5y ago
Okay, if I send you a study from buygold.net predicting the imminent collapse of the US dollar, wouldn't you be a little skeptical ?
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by offtop5 5y ago
I wouldn't trust a study like this unless it comes out of a university, or a government agency like OSHA. The unions just lost a major fight to try and get into Amazon's warehouses, they have every interest in disparaging Amazon.
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by offtop5 5y ago
There are downsides to eating Oreos, but we don't need articles which state obvious facts. Much wrong has been done in this country by telling people their behavior is a moral. As long as you don't hurt me or anyone else do whatev
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by offtop5 5y ago
Why not let everyone do what they want? I hate these moralizing articles, if we have a drunk driving problem then write an article about that. But if people want to drink in their own homes let them be.
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by offtop5 5y ago
>they can’t afford to house people for free or shoulder the country’s massive rental arrears, which could be as high as $70 billion. I think the eviction moratorium wasn't thought out very well. You can't just stop evictions wh
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by offtop5 5y ago
Oh I'm in full agreement, this is one of the many reasons I left la. Once I went to car free I got rid of about 25,000 in credit card debt in 6 months or so. Much of why so many Americans are so desperately poor has to do with car owne
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by offtop5 5y ago
I've had to commute an hour 30 before. If you're in an expensive city, like LA you're very likely to have this. It's stressful, expensive and dangerous. I'm really hoping work from home becomes a permanent thing.
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by offtop5 5y ago
I had a starling Revelation today. People just don't read anymore, instead they buy a book so they can take some photos for Instagram and then shove it under a couch or something. The biggest problem with so much access to information,
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by offtop5 5y ago
100% unless you have another offer or otherwise don't need the job, don't counter. Don't let perfect become the enemy of good.
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by offtop5 5y ago
What's the unique value proposition here ? You can get an e paper hat for a raspberry pi zero and accomplish the same thing.
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by offtop5 5y ago
Ironically I can't even read this due to the login wall. I hate the social media aspect of LinkedIn so much. I don't want to validate you , I don't think physical appearance was any role in the hiring process, but LinkedIn ke
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by offtop5 5y ago
Back when I was 19 I learned you could steam vegetables in a rice cooker, you can actually live very cheaply if you don't eat meat. I think I probably spent about $10 a day on food, compared to now where I probably average between 30 t
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by offtop5 5y ago
I'd pay for HN to be honest. But just talking about society on the internet isn't really worth while to me. More people should focus on themselves. I've long accepted no one cares about how I live my life. A friend of mine sp
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by offtop5 5y ago
I find stack overflow to be the absolute best resource for experienced software engineers. However for anyone who has less than 10 years of experience, it's outright hostile. If you ask too many stupid questions in a row you just get b
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by offtop5 5y ago
Couldn't Tesla agreed to pay out 4 weeks of salary instead.
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by offtop5 5y ago
I've moved cross country a few times, and for the most part it always makes more economic sense to throw everything out and buy it again. Now I'm planning on traveling abroad and I'm realizing a lot of my junk is only holding
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by offtop5 5y ago
I actually left a job once because not only was the code bad, but my manager wanted me to effectively lie to make him look better. Ran out as soon as I could. In general it's worth remembering that if your overall team isn't perfo
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by offtop5 5y ago
Bright Memory was created by a single person. Keyword being theoretically, in reality you'd just go insane
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by offtop5 5y ago
I'd be a bit honored if a billionaire took the time to insult me. Most successful people tend to be a bit above that. I enjoy HN since the discourse here tends to be fairly intelligent. I've already gained a great deal of very val
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by offtop5 5y ago
People tend to complain about game engines because they're just so accessible, yet allow you to do extremely complex things. For example if I wanted to make a 3D platformer in unity, I could probably commission an artist to create the
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by offtop5 5y ago
Your other option is W3 which fills their site with ads. If I could, I'd pay Google 50$ a month directly to disable all of their advertising across all sites which use ad sense.
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by offtop5 5y ago
I really like this. MDN can't be maintained for free after all, it's by far the best resource I've found for web development. The next time I have a web dev job I'll buy this
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by offtop5 5y ago
But you're not chastising me, or my physical appearance. Having people call you ugly all day is probably one of the worst parts of Instagram. You're merely chastising a few of my opinions. There's so much detachment from the
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by offtop5 5y ago
I'll give it another 5 years before social media is viewed on the same level as cigarettes. The best thing I've ever done for my mental health was deleting social media. I realize I'm not significant enough to argue of other
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by offtop5 5y ago
That sounds like a very good startup idea. Crowdsourcing for translations, with each chapter being a stretch goal. Of course you would need to navigate international copyright law, but I could definitely see a market for this

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