throwawaysalome

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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Where is the Chinese open-source community Did you not read Vonnegut's Slapstick (1976). They're everywhere! The bulk of it is on gitee.com since China skews towards a NIH bent dating back to dynastic times.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
No one is questioning the love, the sina qua non for disappointment.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
that I will never be disappointed in them They may not be gifted but they can see through this lie.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Elementary school teachers would read to their classes in the 80s. They always picked books like that Shel Silvertein shit whose message appealed more to adults than children. I remember being bored into fits of rage and thinking "Thi
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Applied math.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
No one cares.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
special word to distinguish those who drop out to work We say those students are "on leave." Gates and Zuckerberg often commend Harvard for its flexible leave policy. Given Harvard's overambitious undergrads, the bureaucr
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
You managed to burn another 212 words that added nothing to the statistic you were replying to.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
It would be nice to go back in time but still remember the fun I had smoking a bowl when I should have been working.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Try picking up the pieces after a massive hurricane when money can't buy a sudden scarcity of manual skill. Max Brooks captures this in World War Z when white collar workers become cannon fodder in the zombie apocalypse. You spent you
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
I'll bring da lube.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
We in the software sales biz call them "champions." Ultimately everyone just wants to go home at 5, and a new system jeopardizes that. So the only way to make headway is to get a disgruntled insider to move the chains.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Find a stepped over middle manager of a Fortune 500 company and tie his fortunes to your own.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
“If we had been able to just talk,” she [plaintiff] said, “we wouldn’t be here today.” Disingenuous statement of the year.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Long story short, I'm sort of a 'useless inventor' And yet you still managed to eke 226 words out of it.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Law enforcement.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
True, the wrong spouse takes more years off your life than living under the Heathrow flight path. But my point was spend time with your kids if you want. Kids are awesome. But if you still give a shit about your career, don't feel gu
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Give the front-end guys write permission to the backend, and tell them salaries will adjust next year depending on who fixes what.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
All of recorded history suggests nature dominates nurture in positive outcomes. The better advice would be, your spousal choice deserves more time and thought than most people give it.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
I'm as homophobic as the next backed-up, jizz-addled American. What I don't do is couch my squeamishness with a bullshit "due respect" clause.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Sounds like a textbook transition to gaiety. Don't fight it with substances.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Well, could you elaborate? A fool points out other people's failings. A smarter person profits from them.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Any thoughts? Yes, stay in your lane.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
When you get older, you realize "world champion" is meaningless, and the adjudicating organizations are profit-driven, even if they're legally non-profit (the NFL being the most brazen example).
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Exchange hall passes with your wife. That'll put the spring back in your step.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
As a neurodivergent person You can just say "stupid." We don't judge. In the words of comedian David So, "if I stole your identity, I'd kill myself," which encapsulates the general idea that the prior probab
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
How do you dig out emacs-related threads that are so far down the Ask HN list?
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Wow. Wasn't expecting that. The typical apartment building in Taipei contains more considerate tenants than almost anywhere in the world. Sorry for the reverse racism; it's just true.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Threaten the noisy neighbor to stfu or you'll kick his door in. Try to get the crazy guy to help you.
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by throwawaysalome 3y ago
Yeah, I just stare at my desk; but it looks like I'm working. I do that for probably another hour after lunch, too. I'd say in a given week I probably only do about fifteen minutes of real, actual, work. -- Office Space, 1999.

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