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I gotta say still pretty regrettable take, if you will humor I am happy to explain why I say that. First let me say I definitely value the hundreds of hours you would have spent on…

I gotta say I’ve heard this take a lot, and I find it regrettable because I think everyone doesn’t understand what they’re missing, this is a pretty human trait. It’s pretty imposs…

You may know all this and are just singling out the Hacker News crowd. But I read your comment and thought "surely he doesn’t think Java is much bigger than Python?" I’m not even s…

Solidly Germanic with an absurd amount of French, down to nearly identical spelling for many common words. I’m not talking about cognates but actually 100% the same spelling and me…

I have this in French. Despite having worked 10x harder at it than I did Portuguese or Spanish. When speaking those two languages, it’s close enough to a correct accent that people…

So I think some of us have done it out of having no other choice and found it lacking. From the time I had to live a year going to paycheck advance every month because of an unexpe…

Well met, I love that part of the world and I have many happy memories of my time there. So I guess I just misunderstood where you were coming from but I’m interested as I also see…

I learned fast enough it was my 4th language. I have passed the C1 level exam (advanced, I would have struggled in my mother tongue), responses below you are correct though, you ca…

You are very right! For example, my work contract was in French and English. The French was the legally binding text. I found this an excellent balance.

Re France listen the French are super duper proud of their language and rightfully so, it’s still practical to communicate to your residents important information. Re San Antonio, …

I understand everyone has different experiences and I have the advantage of having personal experience to the contrary so I don’t judge this opinion, I knew people where I grew up …

Thanks I appreciate it, re safety violations, yeah some of it was those laws were just badly applied across the board, and it was hard to find a place without some degree of violat…

I’ll be honest I would have left by now if I could have, but I don’t regret my career in the slightest. I still code for fun, but our jobs are rarely about just coding, and the mon…

I’m sorry this caused such a negative reaction but I think you stopped reading too soon, we agree more than disagree. Listen, I’ve paid my taxes on those jobs that I miss, so I kno…

Yes was talking about the grounds crew, no one was harvesting trees for money, it was my favorite job and would happily do it again if I didn’t have family obligations (I had menti…

I gotta say I worked as a farmhand, waiter, fast food manager, line cook, grounds crew (by far my favorite job, it was at a university and I got to do everything), plumber, electri…

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