slothario

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by slothario 7y ago
Well, this is the way I saw it as a student: the purpose isn't to provide "the right answer," the purpose was to understand the test, give the answer that they wanted, and use school as a springboard to better things. If you
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by slothario 7y ago
I'm assuming you mean you try to give people honest feedback, but people object to it because it's too harsh? It's completely possible to honest, assertive and kind at the same time. I see this false dichotomy all the time: &
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by slothario 7y ago
America copied a lot of ideas from England during the industrial revolution. From my cursory understanding of things it seems like copying technology is how you get up to speed, before you can start really innovating yourself. I think a lot
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by slothario 7y ago
It's fake work until your web application reaches a point where server loads take your web API down, and endpoints frequently take well over 10 seconds to respond. Yes, I worked at a place where both of those things were true. Switchin
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by slothario 7y ago
> All that said, I of course don't promote saying only hello and then waiting for a reply before proceeding. That's just silly. Well, that's what the article is arguing against. No one is saying you shouldn't start yo
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by slothario 7y ago
Someone needs to write a Slack extension (or whatever the plugins are called) that simply replies to "hi" or "hello" with "Hello! How can I help you?" and hides those opening salvos from you.
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by slothario 8y ago
That's the main reason I would write a book: to tell people that I wrote a book. You can literally say, "I wrote the book on that."
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by slothario 8y ago
Actually, I started to type "I don't know why a company is willing to pay twice as much for an engineer in Silicon Valley than for one in Houston," but as I was typing that I had an epiphany. What they're REALLY paying f
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by slothario 15y ago
> As income inequality has grown dramatically in the nation, the very wealthy are blamed for all manner of social ills. Boo hoo.
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Informal equity agreements
2 points by slothario 15y ago|1 comments