throwaway9475

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by throwaway9475 9y ago
Lotta male tears here, but then again, it's Hacker News...
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
So clearly we should all look at language through the lens of your childhood experiences. Got it.
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
> It's not as if you can simply work around and pick similar words for that individual's particular noun We're working with an arbitrary constraint here (and I, for one, am enjoying it, actually); we kind of /have&#x2
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
"Missing third individual that both must grasp to carry on."
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
"I'm saddened by some of the comments here. It's true that COBOL is not safe. It's true you shouldn't be using it for large portions of your professional setting. It's true that these sort of libraries appear t
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
Individual who is not I and whom I do not know. :)
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
It also pays to realize that when people say something makes them feel "deathly ill", they're probably using it as an expression to signify how shaken they are by something.
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
I guess it's a kind of armchair environmentalism: it's easy to "go green" by switching to canvas bags (which _does_ help, a little), but then not make large, more sacrificial changes that would _actually_ benefit the env
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
I don't understand the mentality expressed in the article, where environmentalism is only observed for tiny pieces of waste that don't matter. These same people (like you mentioned) fly dozens of people on airplanes, which is so m
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
Well-played! I was testing you! Not really; I made a mistake. Still, though, I'm not doubting that packaging in aggregate isn't a problem, but as far as anyone individually is concerned, a few bits of plastic are the least of the
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
Third choice: Slack exists, but doesn't hold your data hostage until you pay. I mean, on my list of things I care about ideologically, this is lower than my concern for warm gin and my dislike of sweatpants. It's legal and totally
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
It's true. Most of our climate issues don't come from teeny tiny packets of soy sauce. Consumer recycling might make people feel warm and fuzzy, but remember that a few years ago BP spilled 780,000 cubic meters (780 cubic kilomete
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
I'm confused. How is this different from just following a recipe and going to the grocery store?
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
And for that, the top 1% of earners are truly thankful.
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
No, a test will tell you whether or not that test passes; it says nothing about the correctness of anything else. But at this point, you're doing the job of a typesystem.
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
I think it's also hard because it's not as if crappy hours, tight deadlines, and low pay are directly killing people. Sure, stress is bad for you and you deserve to make enough money to provide for yourself and have healthcare, bu
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
It's different if you get paid for overtime, though (usually time and a half). Companies threaten action against people working overtime because then the company has to pay more and that's a Bad Thing (TM), (even though the employ
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
No, they hold your data hostage because they can. Welcome to capitalism.
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
I don't think it's necessarily a generational thing. I know people in their 30s who don't know what IRC is (or who at least haven't used it), and I know people in their 20s who DO use it (or at least know what it is). An
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
How is it down there in Galt's Gulch?
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
You should publish because I know I and a lot of other people would be incredibly interested in divining this information during a job interview.
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
Sure, because poor management, crippling technical debt, and a toxic work environment are totally plainly presented to you in an interview. /s
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
Religion is the result of changing the world to fit your beliefs. Lack of religion is the result of changing your beliefs to fit the world. Cognitive dissonance can be resolved in one of two ways.
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
100% this. It's all a game, except prospective employees are guilted into thinking they're the only ones lying (or that doing it is wrong). It works the other way too: Candidate: "What do you dislike the most about working he
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
A) A recruiter isn't necessarily going to know that. B) Even if they did, companies do illegal things all the time and get away with it. Maybe it's technically illegal, but also maybe your company would come after you for somethin
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
Does that include inappropriately frisking children because what if they're secretly lightning rods and they're going to kill us all? No. Because that's ridiculous. Just like it's ridiculous in airports.
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
What's more likely: that everyone needs to know intimate details about basic data structures or that the world is held together with duct tape and Perl and 95% of code is written by people not in Silicon Valley who need it to just work
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
According to the Cato Institute [1], the probability of being involved in a terrorist attack by a foreign-born terrorist from 1975 to 2015 was 0.00003%, or 1/3,609,709. The probability of you being struck by lightning this year is 1&#x
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
Moreover, it's not actually about fighting terrorism. I'm sure some individual TSA agents (the ones who don't get their jollies from groping ten-year-old boys [1] believe they're doing the Lord's work, but most of t
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by throwaway9475 9y ago
> I am not sure how you would twist personal development and remaining up to date with "do more of their job outside of work for free". Well, unless you're doing personal development at work during the 40 hours (or so) tha

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