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ranci

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    Comment #31181217

    Typically nurses are women. Typically women are married to men. Men worthy of a relationship or marriage to begin with typically have an income significantly higher than min wage, …

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    Comment #27613554

    We have never found a cave painting of a loaf of bread. It was all hunting animals for meat. This is absolutely delusional.

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    Comment #27449053

    They'll eventually use lightning network.

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    Comment #23580290

    I load the website and it doesn't work.

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    Comment #23563222

    Is there even any evidence that RN or Flutter are better for smaller budgets? Like actual data that doesn't live in the mind of a RN/Flutter enthusiast?

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    Comment #23563187

    As a user I certainly appreciate it, but I think the actual content being delivered plays a much larger role than how many milliseconds its delivered in.

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    Comment #23559581

    The fact that they have people optimizing that obsessively is an indication of how little real work there is to be done. The thing plays videos, its played videos for years upon ye…

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    Comment #23559478

    They did need them at one point. And the product was successful enough that nobody in management ever had to get around to cost cutting, in the cases of Netflix, Facebook, etc. But…

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    Comment #23559462

    Totally agree. I have wondered what exactly engineers at... Netflix, for example, do on a day to day basis. The product plays videos, right? Its played videos for...years. Their ne…

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    Comment #23417142

    What if I told you I don't care?

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    Comment #23162519

    You don't see why maintaining a work environment wouldn't be necessary if the entire company were allowed to work from home?

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    Comment #23162499

    I guess that's why you have multiple slack channels instead of one. You're trying to justify paying someone over 100 grand a year to be a worse form of communication than the softw…

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    Comment #23162019

    How exactly does it help to pass communications through a person (the manager) that, for the most part, does not understand the technical details of which they are speaking? We lit…

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    Comment #20313199

    "I don't think Boeing would outsource anything even remotely critical to a company like HCL...So, there is no way they would have outsourced safety critical stuff to HCL." From the…

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    Comment #20312773

    Yeah, it was a hardware failure! God forbid the software engineers write defensive code in the case that hardware fails................

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    Comment #20312762

    "I'm going to dismiss this because I don't like it"

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    Comment #20291422

    Keep outsourcing your developer jobs to India, seems to be working out really good for you.

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    Comment #20291083

    And we should assume that there is an infinite number of industries for humans to constantly move onto why? It's not like there is a law of the universe that says there must always…

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    Comment #20290986

    Why in gods name would anybody pursue any of this if it resulted in the same amount of jobs, except the new jobs cost a company more money than the old ones? That is completely and…

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    Comment #19855799

    Probably inevitable

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    Comment #19713286

    only a programmer could produce such a pedantic comment such as this.

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    Comment #19709064

    how in the hell would you "never detect a poor performer"? It's one of the most obvious things about the workplace if it is going on.

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    Comment #19708267

    So that it weeds out rational, reasonable, honest people and the company can continue to receive people who are prone to overconfidence, lying, and other pro-social psychopathic tr…

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    Comment #19708240

    "I find it strange, as software developers, that we discuss the effects on automation all the time, but no one seems to understand that automation has made searching for new employ…

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    Comment #19708191

    Then you don't need the work associated with that job to be done very badly. Yet it will still be marketed as "an opportunity to change the world".