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leethaxor

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    Comment #33802691

    Rust was beta for many years and started becoming mainstream only 2-5 years ago. Go was in production almost its entire existence, it's specifically a simplified language.

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    Comment #33799082

    Kek (I bet I read the book more times than you. It's sitting right there on a shelf next to my desk :-))

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    Comment #33781342

    The labor theory of value has nothing to do with collecting profits and isn't concerned with who gets it. It argues that the economic value of a good or service is determined by th…

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    Comment #33779692

    It's never true. It's like a broken clock - it's right 2 times a day. When the conditions are exactly correct, it seems like the labor theory of value is true - but it's not. Consi…

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    Comment #33766216

    Ah, okay, that makes more sense. Sorry I misunderstood. This is not really something applicable to my line of work (standard software development tasks on a larger project in an ag…

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    Comment #33764203

    > finding clients, invoicing, server maintenance, customer service, training, documentation, implementation consultants Clients find me, not the other way around. Documentation and…

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    Comment #33763628

    I don't understand... I work as a software contractor in EU. I don't see a single thing I'm missing by not being in a coop. 5% of my income is a lot of money. For that money I can …

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    Comment #33754581

    Rust compiler is much faster today than it was in 2020, btw. > This is a side project and it has to be fun for me to work on it. I respect this 100% - but then we shouldn't assume …

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    Comment #33754566

    So what did you mean by this? > Because different programs, implemented differently, run at different speeds... We're talking about two programs with exactly the same purpose - ing…

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    Comment #33754012

    So you're saying they wrote exactly the same program in Go and Rust for the comparison, changing the syntax only? Well then it's no surprise the Go version was faster. Don't write …

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    Comment #33753971

    If they paid 5x the normal price of toilet paper and they were picking it up in the middle of a desert then yes I'd assume there's something shady going on.

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    Comment #33753649

    > A real world example is esbuild, the author implemented it both Rust and Go initially. The Go version was faster and the code simpler. Which is why it's implemented in Go. But wh…

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    Comment #33748516

    > the law authorizes the President of the United States to use "all means necessary and appropriate to bring about the release of any U.S. or allied personnel being detained or imp…

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    Comment #33746974

    Would you really date someone who dates their subordinates?

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    Comment #33746010

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Service-Members%27_Pr... "Hague Invasion Act" is in the first sentence, not hard to Google...

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    Comment #33745909

    Sorry my clients are confidential

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    Comment #33745577

    I'm a contract developer, currently charging 60 EUR/hour. Doing Golang, Node.js, React. It's a full-remote job.

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    Comment #33744888

    > They'll only let him come to the US if the U.S. guarantees he'll go back to the Bahamas for their charges. The US has a law that says they will invade The Hague if the court ther…

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    Comment #33744332

    Financial advisor without professional insurance? Why would anyone do that? Shouldn't they be the people who know how to use financial products and services to protect themselves?

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    Comment #33741692

    Don't think so. Having two different networks in a building is pretty common, but I haven't seen any in-building net not using Ethernet in the past 20 years. Fiber is still being t…

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    Comment #33741407

    If I was designing a security camera I'd have a way to connect two completely different networks to it so all my cameras don't go out in case one of the networks goes down. I do th…

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    Comment #33741135

    This is why the managers are on us with grooming and estimations and then are unhappy when every minute is not accounted for. Stop stealing, you're making the job much worse for th…