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plumbees

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    Comment #49244281

    on this day, hn made thousands crack their knuckles

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    Comment #49006535

    If the more skilled programmers become managers, then it's theoretically their job to become teachers, as their goal is to be force multipliers as opposed to people who can't deleg…

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    Comment #48639427

    For me is the fact that before I was worry free, and now I'll be worried until the grave.

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    Comment #48639421

    I read, "Our kids sleeps like crabs" It was interesting trying to figure that out.

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    Comment #48639395

    The lack of tolerance towards BS is like a super power gift now! I wish I had this backbone before.

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    Comment #48639382

    Before mine was born at the workplace they complained about how long paternity leave was and how unfair it was to those without kids. Now that I'm on the other side, anybody who th…

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    Comment #48639369

    150 of em. Just gone, for no reason. That week was agonizing.

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    Comment #48639361

    The changed I noticed is twofold: + If a situation would not be acceptable for my son (bullying) then I shouldn't have to tolerate it at work (workplace bullying) + Priorities shif…

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    Comment #48063948

    And now you have to create your own portal that hosts the pdfs so that the client can download it. yeah at some point my job was: "I create complicated PDFs for clients that want t…

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    Comment #48063930

    Very interesting site. I share the consensus that the premise is bold and it has the "feeling" of having some good questions. I never thought of asking whether a computer is really…

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    Comment #48049308

    Oh I'm sorry, but this makes total sense. I say sorry so much that I have seen people take it as admission of responsibility. And it's not good. Glad there are laws that understand…

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    Comment #48049252

    Sub question if anyone is interested. I often have to ask people to repeat themselves but when I go get hearing tests they say I'm perfect. It's a little annoying. I've copped it o…

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    Comment #48049200

    I came here to say sorry. Actually interesting I remember saying sorry in the sense of, "Can you repeat what you said?" and it annoyed one of my friends so much that she essentiall…

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    Comment #47937482

    The friction in everyday interactions feels higher than it used to be. I'm noticing a common thread: a lack of emphasis on training. I see the gap shows up everywhere. The result i…

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    Comment #47836059

    Many mangers shouldn't be managing anything.

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    Comment #47836036

    Without context of who these people are, yes perhaps malicious but perhaps not consciously so. Merits a frank conversation of indicating that the action of AI reinterpretation intr…

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    Comment #47835934

    Based on other comments in the thread but not any direct reply to mine. I would also express that I was surprised when a coworker of mine complained that nobody read message boxes …

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    Comment #47835811

    I thought the reply was generally helpful. Something to consider about in my equally exacting wording as I share the same frustration as the original comment and this give me a fra…

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    Comment #47835059

    Something that peeves me where I'm at is that the transportation system here (not Chicago) is not coordinated across the systems. Here there's a bus that could take me to where I w…

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    Comment #47834675

    I guess I'm struggling because I also do like the IDEA of the unix commands being text that is piped around through commands so I do enjoy the concept of the purity of that mechani…

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    Comment #47834655

    I agree that debugging these pipelines are a nightmare sometimes. It's something that frustrates me sometimes because even though in OOP it won't be terse the action would be clear…

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    Comment #47794636

    I'm genuinely trying to understand this comment. Can you /explain

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    Comment #47575776

    I've been wanting to get into OpenScad. Wondering what you've identified as an issue. I dabbled a little and I think I remember wishing it was more object oriented to make it a bit…

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    Comment #47575349

    Also I do understand the whole, if you lead you will be respected bit; but counter act that with mega corps that will let your wage stagnate and being a leader might be detrimental…

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    Comment #47575311

    > Park as far as you possibly can from the store and walk that thing for a solid 3 minutes both ways. Find one with a really noisy wheel. Make a whole production out of it. Leading…