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On the other hand, a family makes you much more dependent on the job, which is what employers want too.

Did you notice a dip in your job performance?

In-demand devs do contracts instead, which pay very well.

If you don't aspire to be a pro player and just want to have fun, you can compete in limited only. I have friends who do that. I myself chose phantom sealed deck tournaments on mtg…

That is only true for constructed (I've known people who made a living out of playing 8-4 drafts on mtgo). And even for constructed, it is only pay to win up to a point where every…

Only in constructed formats (where you build a deck out of your entire collection). In limited formats (which are hugely popular), you and people you play against build decks out o…

In Magic at least it's not pay to win - the better you are, the less you need to spend.

That's one of the points of code reviews - as you get feedback on how you should improve tests in your commits, over time you learn what "well-tested" means.

I though it was a short way to make a clear point. Let me write a longer version then: Is it barbaric? Maybe, but, whether we like it or not, the world has a defnite component of b…

> "In harms way"? Doesn't that seem rather ... barbarian. Was your grandpa that fought in WWII (assuming for a second you had one) a barbarian?

I didn't listed to the podcast. Is there a high chance of being killed? Maimed?

These are not battles. These are just people/companies having careers and making money. Even the researcher is usually forgoing the well paid job to do the research because the res…

A hero is someone who puts himself in harm's way for the benefit of others. A guy in a desk job is not a hero.

There's a ton more variety in the US tech jobs. If you want to work in an interesting niche, such as computer vision, rendering, self-driving cars etc., I think US is the place to …

Didn't he have something like 17% support? That's hardly minor.

A decision to start your adult life with borrowing large amount of money and spending it on studying an esoteric subject would be considered extremely irresponsible in most societi…

In my experience, the more expensive brands are no more reliable. Cotton t-shirt is a cotton t-shirt, there isn't much you can make to make it more durable. You could use a thicker…

> Some of the specific ideas for demonstrating high status included not moving your head when speaking, speaking and moving slowly, beginning statements with a long 'uhhhh' (a shor…

> Small business does not have the capital to pay employees properly. So really it should not exist in the way the economy is structured. So it won't exist if you take cheap labour…

How about blocking Google search? You can easily stumble upon some nudity/porn in the image search.

In general: lower wages, higher taxes.

Are there really hundreds of thousands of developers who make a living out of an app store?

Because: we understand that there is a relation, but we're having a hard time actually quantifying it (the models predict a wide range of possible future temperatures, and they the…

That's old news, the civic proposal to harden the laws on abrotion was later overthrown in the parliament by the "extreme rightwing" ruling party. I wonder if BBC reported on that.…

> When I go to a Polish festival, there is sausages and beer. It isn't broadcast that the government has gone extreme right wing, that womens right to abortion is being removed and…