trchek

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by trchek 1y ago
I gotta say still pretty regrettable take, if you will humor I am happy to explain why I say that. First let me say I definitely value the hundreds of hours you would have spent on hard theoretical problems and while I wasn’t exposed to you
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by trchek 1y ago
I gotta say I’ve heard this take a lot, and I find it regrettable because I think everyone doesn’t understand what they’re missing, this is a pretty human trait. It’s pretty impossible to just know it all and to not know it so much that you
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by trchek 1y ago
You may know all this and are just singling out the Hacker News crowd. But I read your comment and thought "surely he doesn’t think Java is much bigger than Python?" I’m not even sort of sure Python is smaller. Edit more succinct
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by trchek 1y ago
Solidly Germanic with an absurd amount of French, down to nearly identical spelling for many common words. I’m not talking about cognates but actually 100% the same spelling and meaning and they’re often not from some recent century but fro
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by trchek 1y ago
I have this in French. Despite having worked 10x harder at it than I did Portuguese or Spanish. When speaking those two languages, it’s close enough to a correct accent that people often will ask if my family is Latino or Portuguese once th
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by trchek 1y ago
So I think some of us have done it out of having no other choice and found it lacking. From the time I had to live a year going to paycheck advance every month because of an unexpected auto repair bill (leaving that cheap typically requires
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by trchek 1y ago
Well met, I love that part of the world and I have many happy memories of my time there. So I guess I just misunderstood where you were coming from but I’m interested as I also see in another thread you commented on this : > Citizenship
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by trchek 1y ago
I learned fast enough it was my 4th language. I have passed the C1 level exam (advanced, I would have struggled in my mother tongue), responses below you are correct though, you can learn as you arrive. This is IMO the best of all worlds, a
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by trchek 1y ago
You are very right! For example, my work contract was in French and English. The French was the legally binding text. I found this an excellent balance.
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by trchek 1y ago
Re France listen the French are super duper proud of their language and rightfully so, it’s still practical to communicate to your residents important information. Re San Antonio, they actually are counting the metro area which brings in a
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by trchek 1y ago
I understand everyone has different experiences and I have the advantage of having personal experience to the contrary so I don’t judge this opinion, I knew people where I grew up that believed this to be fact. To better inform everyone the
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by trchek 1y ago
Thanks I appreciate it, re safety violations, yeah some of it was those laws were just badly applied across the board, and it was hard to find a place without some degree of violating the letter of the law, so I think they just got flippant
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by trchek 1y ago
I’ll be honest I would have left by now if I could have, but I don’t regret my career in the slightest. I still code for fun, but our jobs are rarely about just coding, and the money has brought in a lot of toxicity.
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by trchek 1y ago
I’m sorry this caused such a negative reaction but I think you stopped reading too soon, we agree more than disagree. Listen, I’ve paid my taxes on those jobs that I miss, so I know what it is I’m saying.
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by trchek 1y ago
Yes was talking about the grounds crew, no one was harvesting trees for money, it was my favorite job and would happily do it again if I didn’t have family obligations (I had mentioned this in the post). That said the farm I worked I knew t
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by trchek 1y ago
I gotta say I worked as a farmhand, waiter, fast food manager, line cook, grounds crew (by far my favorite job, it was at a university and I got to do everything), plumber, electrician, day laborer, delivery driver for many things and I did