otaviokz

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by otaviokz 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. I worked 2 years 100% pairing, it's just too much. I also have some mildly introspective personality and the extra overhead of communicating every single word typed not only interferes with my deep thinking, b
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by otaviokz 6y ago
Amen! Taking a common perception and wrapping it in a lot of cheap psychoanalysis (without even providing references) belongs somewhere else.
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by otaviokz 6y ago
The feeling of guilt is, unfortunately, normal. Just try to keep in mind you didn't really do nothing wrong, and it will help overcoming it faster.
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by otaviokz 6y ago
As soon as read "hacking" being used as a synonym for coding/development, I started to get angry. I still read it just in case I was wrong, just to end up being right, and angry.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Saw it happening a few times in my 12 year of industry. I suppose it's specifically common in companies that use social media (and other media) presence as a recruitment boosting tool. Twice the "leader" of the "Totally
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Answering to a "male problem" (e.g. men pursuing less education) by stating it's actually another example of bias agains women ("that's because women need more education to get the same job") is not really a co
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Yep. That's probably why you'll never met a developer without a rudimentary understanding of written english.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Also, it seems out of question for people who're employed. Not sure how to "WFH one week", paid or not, when you have another job.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
As a slightly above average dev in London (and I mean it), I feel that for many big companies the interview process always achieve on thing: to avoid hiring anyone who could really transform it for the better.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
"The thought of some ux monkey using npm anywhere near our ICBMs makes my physically ill." Almost spilled my coffee reading this one.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Unfortunately there's always people living in the 1800s...
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by otaviokz 7y ago
To be fair, I believe a big part of this kind of reaction often comes from being pushed trendy "easy fix for something important" from HR or top management quite frequently.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
I'm not sure I got it right: Did it cost you ~$50k to file your patent?
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What about the Iraq Protests?(nytimes.com)
4 points by otaviokz 7y ago|1 comments
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by otaviokz 7y ago
"The new Find My app combines Find My iPhone and Find My Friends into a single, easy-to-use app on Mac, iPad and iPhone. Find My can help users locate a missing Mac even if it’s offline and sleeping by sending out Bluetooth signals tha
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Bob, Is that you? Whenever I go to the pub and meet old timers still working there keep telling me funny stories about how you swear loudly every time you open a code file I've touched. Thanks for all the laughs.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
This helped me in quite a few interviews, and I'm only 39yo. Thanks for putting it in a clear, logic and fun way. My brain had guessed the basic mechanism, but hadn't formulated it in words yet. For that, I humbly concede you the
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by otaviokz 7y ago
So, if I get this right, her addiction got so bad she needed to upgrade from posting on social media to writing to the NYT? </irony>
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Should they need a special motive/excuse to unionise?
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by otaviokz 7y ago
I think the probability of you being right is definitely above 50%.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
"A 10x engineer is usually levitating, and farting out 1's and 0's as they whiteboard a proof that P=NP. They stopped sleeping before they were born. They are usually typing on two keyboards simultaneously."
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by otaviokz 7y ago
This level of one sidedness scares me. It's just as easy for a Russian/Chinese/Iranian/etc citizen to say the same about US. I'd say it's easier, if you take into account the ludicrous number of military bases
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by otaviokz 7y ago
It has the largest inmate population in the world, in total number, not %. Can you imagine if China locked up the same % of it's population?
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by otaviokz 7y ago
"You value security and loyalty, because that's what your generation was raised with." How could you possibly know that much about the person you're responding to? He only state he's "older", but didn&#x27
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by otaviokz 7y ago
What news do you read? From here it seems quite divided.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
My anecdotal experience agrees with your point. I'm a Brazilian living in UK, and have worked for 2 different big American companies (Dell Computers and Ford Motors). It's very obvious that, comparing to both Brazilian and British
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by otaviokz 7y ago
"What’s really rare, he adds, is his annual week of paid holiday" I may be getting it wrong as I don't live in US, but does it mean he only gets one week of holidays per year? Is there any other form of paid off time?
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Spot on mate. Not only a sharp and valid point, but also made me laugh.
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by otaviokz 7y ago
Text interpretation should also be valued, as well as the importance of "not completely twisting another person's comment to suit your own views". Your comment extrapolates wildly from the one you responded too, and thats AMA
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by otaviokz 7y ago
So, after the 6 months of "grace period", does only students with and a minimum wage get to pay it? I thought you just had to start paying after 6 months.

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