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vjdingdong

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    I second your experience with Python. I've been coding in Python for 10+ years. When I get passed down some 'data scientist' code, I often it breaks. With Rust, it was amazing - it…

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    True. His ignorance proved fatal.

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    Comment #28051284

    German unification was unthinkable until the soviet union collapsed. Maybe in 25 years, the 2 Koreas will be reunited, making Korea an even bigger power on the global stage.

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    Comment #27793292

    The author describes a context while he's debugging. I think an analogy would be a chess game, where the player has built/planned your stack of several 'look ahead' moves. And then…

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    Comment #27793263

    That's a pretty disfunctional state of affairs you describe in Health-care. A little bit like what we have in Tech. Where career managers/MBAs/PMPs control execution of projects wi…

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    Comment #27793253

    Looks like you discovered where your motivation knob is, and come to think of it, being dis-satisfied with something is a very common, and rational way to be motivated.

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    > gained insane last minute skills Nice way to put it.

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    Your interruptions/work-context are way out there in terms of stress/impact etc. APL and J : Agreed. Haskell is my refuge when Python starts getting verbose. Even if you're interru…

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    Re. the darker possibility becomes the bias, since the organization (maybe due to its size), with its focus on success, has a low tolerance for an employee who is struggling.

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    That would be true. However, the word excellence, especially in IT companies is a relative term at best. We have seen others in this forum refer to Amazon's work as fixing broken c…

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    Comment #27790387

    I recently left my employer after about an year and half. I was on the edge of a PIP - so I thought - and constantly felt like an imposter. Making it past the year-mark surprised m…