rprospero

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by rprospero 2mo ago
That's interesting, because I had the opposite experience. I started getting into Lisp around 2004, but bounced off of the community because the culture I was experiencing hewed heavily toward imperative code and global variables in
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by rprospero 1y ago
It's been an odd running theme for me today that I've misinterpreted posts. Up until your final sentence, I thought that the thesis of your post was: The standard document may say one thing, but what people do in the real world i
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by rprospero 2y ago
I'm curious if you count Pass ( https://www.passwordstore.org/ ) as not being "in town" or if it has issues with user freedom that I'm ignorant of.
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by rprospero 2y ago
When I was in the Boy Scouts, a local judge came to speak with us about the legal system. I asked a similar question and he admonished me that innocent people never wind up in court. He explained that every person who is in a trial (crimi
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by rprospero 2y ago
The COM file exploit worked because it is relatively unknown. I remember a worm going around when I was in grad school where you'd get an e-mail with a link to https://giftcard.customerservice.savemoneyonanew.tv/amaz
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by rprospero 2y ago
The truth is that, if a candidate competent enough to work for us, then they can get hired by a firm thirty miles down the road who pays way better than we do. Thus, one line of questioning during the interview process is figuring out why
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by rprospero 2y ago
I also find this thread interesting from the opposite direction as someone not in the Bay Area. In the past ten years, the longest job interview I had was two hours long. Honestly, most of the interviews I've been in (on both sides o
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by rprospero 2y ago
Honest question: how often do you do Tornado drills in Japan? A quick look look at the wiki[1] indicates that you do get them, but fairly rarely. I honestly don't know your cultural perspective on them. [1] https://en.wik
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by rprospero 2y ago
Many things about that company were not idea - the founder left his CEO position in handcuffs. However, the policy was not communicated to new and future hires in any manner. So why would anyone stay? The founder was very public with
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by rprospero 2y ago
I happen to work at a government job partially because I saw how my father was treated by the private sector. However, our institution is failing at the requirements that you put forth. The government ministers complained back in 2015 tha
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by rprospero 2y ago
When I was young, my father worked for a place where asking for a raise was a fireable offence. The founder had been a pioneer in the modern cattle-not-pets attitude toward servers, except he applied it to developers. When an employee ask
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by rprospero 2y ago
> It's impossible to plan without an internal monologue I once had a teacher claim that people who claimed to have aphantasia were lying, because those people have read books and it is impossible to read a book without picture the s
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by rprospero 2y ago
Even more self-explanatory is " Duck into the bathroom. Cover the toilet seat with toilet paper. Hold your bladder until you're on the toilet." I'm still not sure what I'm supposed to be holding onto. Do I br
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by rprospero 2y ago
What I find extra-annoying about the tracking is that it stopped pretending to be helpful. I remember chatting with my spouse on Google Messenger around 2012. We were discussing what to have for dinner when whatever the google assistant w
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by rprospero 2y ago
You're right that this place is ridiculous. However, as I mentioned in a cousin comment, I don't see the stigma and you haven't done a good job of explaining it. Is it because the word "pig" implies that the victim
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by rprospero 2y ago
I'm also in the UK and I'm not seeing the victim blaming part of it. I don't think it's a great term, given that I had no idea what it meant until I read the article. Then again, I would have assumed "financial gr
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by rprospero 3y ago
Concrete examples: The web interfaces for both Jitsi and Zoom fail to recognise my web camera. I've gone through the permissions settings a dozen times and Firefox says that it sees camera, but it only displays a black feed. Vivaldi
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by rprospero 3y ago
I had always heard that the "single exit" focus on "break" and "continue" was a misunderstanding. When wild GOTOs roamed the earth, with was common for a subroutine to end by jumping to a new part of the code,
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by rprospero 3y ago
> unless you actually build something, the money isn't going to arrive, and you'll be out of a job. The sad part is that many employees have come to the rational and correct solution that the above is not true. Out of the peop
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by rprospero 3y ago
Support tickets don't increase costs. Whether you have one support ticket or a trillion, the one guy responsible for clearing those tickets gets paid the same salary.
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by rprospero 3y ago
The "if you are lucky and get a good text" is carrying a lot of weight here. My school identified certain young students as having high mathematical aptitude. While other students were learning the basics of addition and multi
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by rprospero 3y ago
I'm Adam Washington. I was a couple of years behind you, but we bumped into each other socially a few times over the years. As a refresher, I was also the sophomore with the glasses in Shadiow's class that accidentally kicked ov
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by rprospero 3y ago
Congratulations, Greg! You've come a long way from Mr. Shadiow's CS class
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by rprospero 3y ago
It's interesting that you mentioned the good devs leaving, because they never got the chance. The owner had a policy of only hiring average devs and 10x devs were fired with extreme prejudice. His hiring theory was similar to modern
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by rprospero 3y ago
Along those lines, one of the most toxic places I've ever encountered for developers was at a company that sold b2b software. You would think that developers would be valued for creating the product, but they were fully treated as a c
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by rprospero 3y ago
I remember a grad student who went through a similar incident. While I appreciated his frustration, I also understand the anxiety of the poor server trying to remember how to mix a Woahtuh before my colleague decided to enunciate the coda.
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by rprospero 3y ago
We've recently tried Game Pass and it's been saving us money, though not in the way that it's usually framed. We've been using it to demo games that we were thinking about buying. Multiple massive disappointments have
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by rprospero 3y ago
Having been in a similar, but not the same, situation, I resorted to an HTML file with some JavaScript code in a script tag. Was IE locked from running, even though the machine was air gapped? Or did you find VBA more convenient that Java
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by rprospero 3y ago
No, I've worked in enough countries to know that my experience cannot be extrapolated to the remainder. I'd love to hear your experience and how this did work out for you.
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by rprospero 3y ago
Honestly, this is more of a problem for blockchain than it is for the old system. Let's say that an 80's movie villain gets his goons to beat you until you sign over the deed to your house (he wants to open another dojo). Today,

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