world32

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by world32 7y ago
> I design and build technology in Vancouver. I spend most of my time working on Slack, a paradigm-shifting tool for team communication. In my work I strive for usefulness, beauty, and positive impact on the lives of others. From this ch
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by world32 7y ago
I like how you managed to turn a question about VPC networking on AWS into an advertisement for MongoDB!
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by world32 7y ago
The fundamental concepts haven't changed but the applications certainly have. The amount of things you can "do" with technology these days is far more vast than it was 25 years ago. It seems to me like you expect that coding
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by world32 7y ago
> Asking him to change his personality and what he "enjoys" just so that he can fit in is so absurd to me because it hints at the idea that you should surrender your individuality in order to fit in with the group. I think you
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by world32 7y ago
Sure but now there are two separate codebases for the same API. A lot of code will be duplicated between the two codebases, you'll have to maintain two sets of issues on github etc. If it were me I would aim to merge the firefox puppet
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by world32 7y ago
Its possible. More likely is that this attitude is a defense mechanism for this person to feel better about their lack of emotional and social intelligence. A stereotypical jock/lad will look down on guys who are not athletic or can&#x
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by world32 7y ago
Yeah, that doesn't answer my question though ;)
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by world32 7y ago
It says its based on the mozilla remote protocol: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Remote "The Firefox Remote Protocol is a low-level debugging interface based on the CDP protocol."
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by world32 7y ago
Nice work, I have been using puppeteer with chrome recently and it is a great piece of kit. If the prototype is successful will you keep the chrome and firefox packages separate or merge them and have an abstraction layer so puppeteer can i
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by world32 7y ago
Consider that you might not be as intelligent as you think you are. I'm sure you are aware that there is more than one kind of intelligence right? Although you might have a PhD and be very knowledgeable in many subjects, you sound like
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by world32 7y ago
Absolutely, you are right about that. My point was more to argue against the idea that in eastern europe, kids can run free on the streets because its a mostly white society. More likely is that the kids run free because the parents are not
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by world32 7y ago
Ok fair enough, but then why is Romania such a sh*t-hole? (Sorry Romanians). Surely the racial homogeneity there should mean that things are better over there?
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by world32 7y ago
No they don't. Gypsies are a large ethnic minority in many eastern european countries. Also, although a religious minority instead of racial, there are a large percentage of Muslims in many of those countries too. Don't forget tha
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by world32 7y ago
You know what else has a carbon footprint? The computer that your're using to post on hackernews. How about instead of wasting electricity you go volunteer in your community?
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by world32 7y ago
I love dogs and have one myself, but I don't think this is always a good idea. Maybe bring your dog in once a week or something like that but every day is too much. Some people have allergies, some dogs are poorly trained etc.
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by world32 7y ago
In my experience people like this think in terms of tools they can use. They read an article about some shiny new thing and watch a conference talk about it and think "wow thats cool, what can I use it for?". Often times their shi
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by world32 7y ago
"outrage outrage outrage".
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by world32 7y ago
No its not normal to speak four languages in Europe.
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by world32 7y ago
I'm not saying this kind of situation is the norm, but it happens often enough for it to be "a thing". EDIT: Academic qualifications are also only a small part of what I'm talking about.
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by world32 7y ago
Its a buzzword that essentially means "is the candidate similar to me?". It can be a cover for clear racism/sexism/agesim etc. but can also be used to discriminate on less clear terms - i.e. maybe all the co-founders at
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by world32 7y ago
Horrible advice. Deadlifts are a great exercise but can go horribly horribly wrong if you try too hard to lift an amount of weight that is too heavy for you. Instead you should focus on maintaining perfect form on every lift and incremental
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by world32 7y ago
> However - excercising these quitting fantasies have actually lead to a lot of personal growth, as I was able to test myself and to get to know myself better, not to mention branch out into different areas of life (my projects weren&#x2
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by world32 7y ago
"camera in bathroom"
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by world32 7y ago
Hmmm, a £150k salary seems much harder thing to achieve than a £750 day rate, I can see quite a few DevOps contract jobs at £750 / day but no permanent ones at £150k! As you say though, it depends on how you look at it..
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by world32 7y ago
Really? Thats not my experience at all that contracting earns roughly the same as permanent. Why would anybody do contracting if that was the case? Maybe earning double is an exaggeration on my part though. For myself I earn 50% more as a c
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by world32 7y ago
> Being snarky and name calling against site guidelines. Ha, OK. > Has this always been the case with Java? With C? With C++? Its funny to see all the logical fallacies being used to try and counter a perfectly valid argument! What do
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by world32 7y ago
Fair point but do we have any actual data around the correlation between years of experience and value to a company? Admittedly its probably a hard thing to measure.. Because I can also tell you another anecdotal example of some developers
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by world32 7y ago
This mentality is an issue across all age ranges in the UK. For some odd reason employers seem to have a fixed idea of how much an employee should earn for a certain job - and if they can't find any good people for it they usually end
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by world32 7y ago
You are clearly very bitter about this. > The C# compiler is free and OSS. Has this always been the case? > .Net Core is available for Linux and MacOS. A quick wikipedia search shows that .Net core was first released in June 2016, tha
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by world32 7y ago
I think this is a very good point and is definitely part of the reason why we have apparent ageism. This aspect is also compounded by the fact that technologies and paradigms are changing so fast - yes I know software re-invents the wheel a

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