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burade··on Blocking Kiwifarms
So you admit you had support. What about the people who don't?
burade··on The Birth and Death of the Office
As someone with lots of weird quirks, and who is very likely on the autism spectrum, working from home may have literally saved my career.
burade··on I Don't Want to Be on Call Anymore
what would you say is big bucks?
burade··on How Americans Became So Sensitive to Harm (2016)
If you expose yourself to macro-harms... you tend to... die.
burade··on Farmer born in 1842 talks about life and change (1929) [video]
We don't really have it good though, simply because the universe doesn't work like that. There's no such thing as a free lunch and you're paying a price for all this "goodness".
burade··on San Francisco raises Tesla 'self-driving' safety concerns as public test nears
The difference is: you can understand a drunk driver, you can arrest them, and possibly feel some sense of "closure".

What are you gonna do when a car goes rogue and murders somebody?

burade··on Once an Addict, Always an Addict?
That's not where health is though...

Health is balance.

burade··on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home
Leaving home at 18 is really mostly an american thing.

Go to a place like Italy or India or Pakistan and you'll find 30+ year olds living with their parents and it's no big deal at all.

burade··on Fewer young men are in the labor force, more are living at home
29 here, living at home. I do have somewhat of a career though.

I Honestly don't know when I'll leave. I have the skills to live alone, but my self-esteem is so low and my social life so limited that it gets really scary to leave.

burade··on Why People Feel Like Victims
These types of books are made to sell, bro, not to be completely truthful.

You got duped.

burade··on Association of sleep duration in middle and old age with incidence of dementia
Sleep is in there, trust me. I'm 29 and look 40.
burade··on CUPID – the back story
>When you're writing a library

99% of developers are working in boring business software with 2-3 other developers.

99% of codebases will be touched by maybe a dozen developers in its entire lifetime.

burade··on CUPID – the back story
It's a good point though. Who decides what "one reason to change" is? a 10-line method could easily have hundreds of reasons to change.
burade··on We live in an age of distractions, dealing with constant mental stimulus
It's called being young. They're emotional and inexperienced.

50 years ago this used to be normal. Now for some reason everybody expects perfection out of everybody at all times.

Insanity.

burade··on Highest rates of teen bullying are between friends and friends-of-friends: study
Mental health is waaay more important than anything you could ever possibly learn in school.
burade··on Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index
Gold is a real thing that has value though. Bitcoin literally stops existing if you stop believing in it.
burade··on Talent Is Largely a Myth
Lol What??! You think Tyson went out and looked for a trainer?

No. He just happened to be an explosive beast who could knock out grown men at age 13.

burade··on When You Know
No, that's not the argument. That argument is that the global bitcoin network is slow as shit, and it would take 5 entire months just to process 140 million US citizens' taxes. Meaning that it's not really viable, unless some technological breakthrough happens.
burade··on What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
Hum... maybe it's because they have so much technical expertise that they are able to have insights into other things?

Technical knowledge is still very important, and it's the basic foundation of being a software engineer, and maaaaannyyyyyy people out there don't even know the basics.

burade··on GitHub blocks entire company because one employee was in Iran
>2. Then there's the geopolitical aspect. Is it fair to impose sanctions on Iran.

Yeah. Nobody else should be allowed to have nukes, or else the U.S. is gonna take his ball and go home.

burade··on Most of what you read on the internet is written by insane people (2018)
>the people in my feed in serious need of a wellness check.

Like, uuh, the president of the United States?

burade··on More than 73% of American adults are overweight or obese
dangerously thin hahahha omg
burade··on FAA issuing new rules to allow drones to fly over people and at night
Is it really worth it to have your peace disturbed by hundreds of annoying little helicopters just so you can have a panini sandwich delivered in 2 minutes instead of 10?
burade··on How to Be a 10x Developer
Ugh.

10x developers are usually people who have the lucky combination of:

-Having a close family member who understands computers

-Programming since 9 years old

-Naturally high IQ

-Decent emotional development and communication skills

burade··on I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
"Old" in what sense though? In the style/fashion sense?
burade··on I've been merging microservices back into the monolith
People are godamn hopeless.

I just saw a guy trying to argue that writing functional-style Java is the "new" way to write Java, and that not using functional interfaces means you're writing "old" style code.

burade··on I assume I’m below average (2010)
Lmao no it doesn't.

Your salary is simply the amount of money you have convinced a company to pay you. You could waste 3 years making 100k a year only to deliver a failed project that resulted in 0 revenue.

burade··on Death by 1000 layers: the perils of over-abstraction in Java (2017)
Are they not? What's the sole purpose of a car other than to go from point A to point B?
burade··on Who Americans spend their time with, by age
It's only meddling if you're way too stressed out by trying to keep up with capitalism.

If you live a simple life without too much stress then it's not really meddling.

burade··on Can developer productivity be measured?
Any decently competent technical leader can tell if a developer is being productive or not. It's stupid to waste time trying to measure something that is virtually unmeasurable.
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