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I am not OP but have found myself in his post. I was laid off at the tail end of 2019, a mere week after I returned from my honeymoon. No explanations: money was tight, the higher …

By this time last year I was starting to enjoy my first summer with a driving license, finishing the first renovation on my recently bought home (no mortgage!), choosing a venue fo…

cool! I opened it just to check it out and ended playing my first solitaire game in (probably) a decade.

In some countries you can get huge fines and even jail for animal abuse.

lastly: vaporwave. anything from Vektroid is fine.

I have a non-functional Sparcstation IPX that spent _years_ in the trunk of the car of one of my dad's coworkers. I took the electronics out and intend to build something cool insi…

For any kind of work that takes place in an office (as opposed to manufacturing or services), the default should be remoting instead of commuting to that awful places.

videogames damaged a man's liver and KILLED him? nah, i don't think so.

Lo de los padres inmigrantes no era ningún tipo de crítica malintencionada ni nada por el estilo. Me refiero a que seguramente existan dificultades a las que se haya tenido que enf…

because I read what he posted before I post myself: > My parents are also from Ukraine, and in my part of Spain the language commonly spoken "on the streets" is Catalan, so within …

as another spaniard almost 20 years older than you that went through a similar thing: - get a service job (supermarket, fast food, warehouse hand, whatever) so you can pay for your…

seems like you didn't have that much 'flexibility' if you had to argue each diversion with your company. it's not the hours, it's the results.

Sou, let's say a new deadline sets you up for failure. You communicate this perspective. You manage the pang of panic, get to work, do your best. It's still failure. It's not that …

as one who took a pay cut to work on a place like you describe: this is not 100% good solid advice, although i'm sure it comes from good intentions. it might work for the OP, but t…

Visible signs of anxiety might make the clerk think he was shoplifting. It has happened to me.

Maybe you should practice what you preach. I'm 34 now and I'd side with the OP on this. I did a similar thing on my first job: took their web app codebase and totally remade it in …

so... it would be a ploy by an early version of Winterm.. I mean IBM's Watson, who is using bitcoin-laundered money to bootstrap itself into a weird-art-making godlike IA?

aaaand there's the expected pay-to-win.

I have always wondered what use is this with regards to spam and sneaky address lists. What exactly prevents someone from cleaning up the addresses before letting them out? If I we…

it saved me some work recently as I got to the 'ok, time to dress this up a bit' phase of a project. still recognizable as Bootstrap, but also an easy way to inject a bit of design…

I read it last week. While I enjoyed it, at times it seemed almost like a Da Vinci Code of teenage scifi, and sported an enormous namedrop of culture pop memes for advancing the pl…

Yeah, well, reject Apple yourself and put it into the Play Store. I use a Macbook Air and multiple idevices. I don't develop mobile (yet). I'm sorry, but I find all these 'daddy Ap…

Rainbow's Edge read to me like an up to date, go-with-the-times version of Neuromancer. I'd should probably revisit it.

Anathem (especially the last third of it) is an awesome reading. It's slow-building and the first two thirds took some will to get through, but it was really worth the struggle. In…

In the rare event of me buying some DRM protected content (rare ebooks, for example), I will usually do whatever is needed to strip it for my own archival purposes, and share with …