purringmeow

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by purringmeow 11y ago
Reading HN is really weird for me. Everyone is talking about how the industry is struggling to find new people. Meanwhile, being in Central Europe, I almost can't find a junior position to even apply to! I am a 2nd year CS student look
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by purringmeow 11y ago
the upper house of parliament yesterday voted to support an amendment to a draft economy bill that would require search engines to display at least three rivals on their homepage That's just absurd. Can someone acquainted with the si
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by purringmeow 12y ago
They already have an insurance that covers the passengers.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Absolutely, I agree with you! It's time to deregulate the taxi industry, because needing a license to drive people around is absurd. Yes, you should need insurance, but in most EU countries, the already required insurance covers all pa
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by purringmeow 12y ago
How do you know that people can't live on the wages you are talking about? Why would people drive for Uber if they aren't profiting enough from the job?
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by purringmeow 12y ago
How does Uber exploit its employees? Nobody is making drivers sign-up for Uber. Nobody is keeping them signed-up by force. The whole problem with Uber can be solved if governments deregulate the taxi industry. I absolutely agree that you ne
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by purringmeow 12y ago
I am pretty much a beginner dev, so can anyone briefly explain how this works? It's not really clear to me from the code. It's mentioned in the README that packets are being sent as base64. Let's say I would like to send a GE
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Some of us like that you get cross-browser and device tested code that is super easy to use. You can choose what parts of Bootstrap to include in your app, so you don't bloat it. Would you elaborate what you mean by fighting? Bootstrap
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Cold call and email what companies? About what work? I doubt most of the mid-sized and big companies will hire a contractor with no recommendations from someone close to the execs. I am not nitpicking, just sharing that what you've sug
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by purringmeow 12y ago
There is also a strange obsession with consulting. How do you find customers that aren't mom and pop shops looking for someone to build their site for $200?
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by purringmeow 12y ago
How did that happen? Did you need more XP for the higher-paying jobs and got it from the previous ones?
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by purringmeow 12y ago
And that's why truck driving is the perfect job to automate.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Nope, it seems counterintuitive that educated people might support someone who is pretty much a dictator, but they do. Russian mentality is different and seems odd to westerners.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Why have manned gas stations? That's actually pretty easy to automate, since the trucks are stationery and there is already a standard for fuel tank holes. I am 100% sure that 30-40 years from now on, we are going to have automated tru
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by purringmeow 12y ago
True, it's expensive to replace new trucks. But if it's a lot cheaper in the long term, it would be a serious incentive to push for the removal of drivers. And yeah, I too think that computers will get gradually implemented. Thoug
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by purringmeow 12y ago
That occupation will disappear, save for a few high-end human driver services, IMO. After the taxis come the trucks. I am quite certain shipping companies will be the quick ditch humans. After all, this means no more travel expenses & s
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by purringmeow 12y ago
That kind of offshoring is definitely bad, IMO. We aren't talking about outsourced PHP web development sweatshops, but incredibly high-tech research. As one poster below mentioned, you are losing institutional knowledge & tradition
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Then maybe look for someone in Central or Eastern Europe? This salary would be decent there.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
True, but I don't want to do enterprise Java or PHP, so there isn't anything else left for me in my region :(
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by purringmeow 12y ago
What do you mean? I am 20 years old and I can't have XP with 20 stacks/languages, although I am quite open to learning new stuff. Sadly, there are only so much technologies in demand where I am located.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Seems nobody is hiring interns for RoR or JavaScript backend/full-stack in Europe. Pity :(
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by purringmeow 12y ago
I don't think so. I believe that code is really tightly coupled with the hardware and at least some part of it covers unique cases. However, these LoC have been written almost 50 years ago! That's truly fascinating.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
False allegations are far from being rare. You also have to acknowledge that when you have a rape accusation, there isn't a boolean result(either the allegation is false, or it's true, meaning there was rape). It's a broad sp
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Sadly, I doubt it will go away anytime soon, people just dislike the different, which isn't a bad thing in every case. Sometimes it fuels constructive criticism and discourse on a topic. There is a reason why less women than men are go
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Not to mention the mocking most of us had to endure from the cool kids . I was systematically bullied, because of being a geek, who loved tech.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Find a used one, mine costed $7, albeit an older edition. It's an extraordinarily written textbook. For me there are 2 types of technical books - the ones that I have to plow through with sheer willpower, and the ones that I read kinda
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Oh, I just noticed it. But it's only the title, the rest is Merriweather.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Why? Are you worried it might bring forward discussions about race superiority and that kind of crap? In my opinion, this study can start a reasonable discourse on the difference between education systems.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
No, not necessarily the richer - I can spot a direct correlation between the quality of the education system and the IQ reported here. Finland, the country with maybe the best schools(not Universities, schools) in Europe is leading.
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by purringmeow 12y ago
Nice collection, although one in my opinion awesome font is missing - Lato.

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