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kuchenbecker

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    Comment #40535696

    Spanner and competitors shows you can to both.

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    Comment #40247491

    Insurance covers being stupid.

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    Comment #40110008

    Hack programming language (Facebook's php++). They are called coeffects and can range from "this is pure with no side effect" to "this can modify local members" to "this has I/O".

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    Comment #39998110

    It needs to be scoped to the dep so conflicting deps have independent dependencies. If foo 1.1 takes a dep on Bar 1.2, and baz 2.3 takes a dep on Bar 1.4, both Bar contexts are tes…

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    Comment #39991292

    Monkeypatching, dll injection, Jar Classpath - Huge sources of pain. It Is how it's done but in certain contexts any benefit is immediately outweighed as the bugs start accumulatin…

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    Comment #39986691

    I feel like me and everyone I know exclusively use wireless but the Internet would have me believe I'm weird.

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    Comment #39958747

    Seems like a lot of work when leaving the state is possible.

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    Comment #39918633

    Your implying this is their first Rodeo and don't have others in various stages.

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    Comment #39912364

    One big realization I had how sophisticated the ancient world is, the Antithikara Mechanism. Device built by ancient greeks in 200BC using thousands of years of astronomical learni…

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    Comment #39846820

    My wife covered the slack that week and I'm 100% family after 6pm most nights

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    Comment #39846811

    I got about 5-6 hours of sleep, and meals were 10 minutes. Basically most waking hours for a week. 1 week of that is not that big a deal as long as it's not expected.

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    Comment #39846355

    Ive worked a 110 hour week, a few 80-100 hour weeks. But stable state more than 60 burnout is within a month.

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    Comment #39835086

    I was at ER today for an ear infection due to high pain, sudden onset, and urgent care wait of 6 hrs. Waited 20 min. Sometimes it's the best option.

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    Comment #39809113

    If you lose 5% of your customer base every min version bump, compounds fast.

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    Comment #39738932

    Depends on the dealer. But definitely not all.

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    Comment #39738408

    Car dealerships are a big source

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    Comment #39738403

    When I worked at a carwash half the cars came from the local car dealerships.

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    Comment #39662764

    Never heard of tha but definitely going to check it out. I kinda feel like that's how cities are today and will increasingly be so as we get further into the future where people ar…

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    Comment #39613288

    I interned there and got an offer over a decade ago; notnsure if better now, but starting pay was 50% silicon valley.

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    Comment #39532946

    Consistently unreadable would train you to pick out syntax cues to read the code if actually forced to fix these issues.

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    Comment #39532805

    I live in the bay area and routinely get told to go down a one-way mountain road without cell service. If there was cell service Google would know they created a traffic jam.

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    Comment #39495773

    Just wait until you disagree with them.

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    Comment #39450400

    I'm getting that opportunity, however I expect it will be the last as most have migrated to the cloud and smaller companies are appealing to me; smallest company (of 5) I've worked…

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    Comment #39449753

    Sports scores and stocks. If kagi inlined those results I would be very happy to not need to use the Google bang. Additionally, the google bang destroys suggested terms and with no…