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Tried installing Linux on MBP last month. Ran away screaming after 30+ hours of dealing with drivers issues. I do this every couple of years, hoping that finally THIS time I can ge…

Can you give examples of friends losing “everything” when following their dreams? What happened? Excellent comment BTW.

It’s also possible that you’re more tired and sick because of the workload’s burden on the body.

Anybody else except the owner?

There’s a huge difference between actually killing someome like the Soviets did (by a bullet to the head or by enslaving and working someone to death) and “killing” (like you call …

At least in the gamedev area, there's infinite number of games to build (the same way there's infinite amount of novels to write and songs to compose).

Am I not mistaken that in the US it's already common to get paid for blood donations? (Here, in Poland, you only got a couple bars of chocolate for it). So, people in the US are al…

My policy - you can do whatever you want, incl. working 30 minutes per day, as long as your boss is happy with your performance. If at any time the boss points out that you're not …

> Portability is nice but the reality is that almost no one uses it. On the contrary - for example, lots of people develop on MacOS and deploy to Linux.

Find better people? I know it's easier said than done.

Fair enough. If I ever get a laptop with USB-C, I think I'd replace at least my monitors and keyboard mouse to USB-C devices, so that I can get the "docking station" effect. Sucks …

What's wrong with USB-C? Sounds like a cool idea in theory - you essentially don't need a docking station.

Dunno about US, but in Europe all banks are like that. They know the work is frustrating and boring (they almost never want to rebuild stuff from scratch, so you end up building on…

> The thing I find really hard to understand from a business perspective is that bullshit jobs are the low hanging fruit from a cost saving perspective. Why do they persist? What d…

I was like that in my twenties in well, now it's no longer an issue. I dunno if it's because I got my life in order (much more excercise now) or if it has just changed with age.

> In social science research there is often a tradeoff between measurement quality and sampling quality. Do you want to measure your variables really well in a small sample, or mea…

In Poland it's similar. However, in UK, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden, Denmark, Finland (just examples of countries where I or my colleagues have contracted in…

That's true for large companies like Accenture, but there's plenty of setups where the consulting company is essentially doing nothing (only providing a legal intermediary between …

Maybe tech writer (author of documentation, tech blog posts on company website etc.)?

> No, prosperity is "financial success" and that's related to the people around you and to some basic standard If that's the case, then prosperity is purely relative term (as I sus…

C/C++ are basically languages used only for technical products, while Java/web is used internally by pretty much every large company on Earth. This puts immense pressure on salarie…

> Poor people eat worse food; don't get as much exercise; and smoke more How is choosing to smoke more an inequality?

To be fair, posting on HN under a nickname is closer to writing an anonymous rant on say a toilet wall. I wouldn’t say he’s doing it “publicly”.

To be fair, I don’t think anyone working in CPUs ever claimed that branch prediction is AI.

Don't quit my (shitty) job, and bank the (awesome) money.