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It's only when I'm with others when I end up doing something different. And that different meal option almost always ends up being something I don't really want to put into my body.
Monotony is a great way to save money too. If you're cooking the same meals there is a lot of efficiencies you discover every day. The only difficulty comes when/if you want to eat seasonally.
Sometimes the desire for variety is just that. A desire.
It's also frustrating when it's not discussed at all. It's hard to bring up the biases and subtle discrimination that occurs as a PoC without making a privileged person run for the hills.
I applaud people whose job is focused on bringing change to organizations. I can't imagine how difficult it is to do this work effectively.
These articles are always going to come up. We're going to act surprised for 5 minutes, and continue to feed the machine.
-I'm not saying there shouldn't be any, but a lot of it is baseless.
What are some good things to build when getting into a new language? Data structures? Chat server?
But I definitely know some people do it out of guilt. Indulging themselves, and their co-workers in Productivity Theater.
I might be a pessimist though, I hope they add the feature.
As you work with more and more people in this industry, you frequently run into people without a degree, or, more importantly, no true know how, as I do stand by the fact that it's not required to have a degree to learn this stuff, who behave as if they are experts regardless of their poor mental model of how computers work.
It's important for these people to know what they don't know. Reminding people that Code is not CS is a good way to make that happen.
As a freelance developer, I don't care how many hours you want me to work. I get compensated for it. Though, I'll still optimize for 40 since, I don't know, I want to live my life, and I want to do a great job.
If I'm starting my own business, I'll work more.
All that said, I strongly believe in working sustainably. I'd rather have a steady rate of work, than some erratic graph with lots of spikes (followed by crashes).
Eat right, exercise, spend time with loved ones, and work hard.
Without me having to reach out, figured out the details, then they apologized and provided a refund.
I tried doing this before with SquidCube but it was a bit too broad, and lacked the required focus to be compelling.
However, I just feel that his experience opens up a higher level discussion of America's (poor?) implementation of border patrol.
Also, in terms of unfounded comments. There is a chance you haven't read this: http://varnull.adityamukerjee.net/post/59021412512/dont-fly-...
Race is always complex, especially because racism illegal. It becomes a subtle and hard to describe thing. Maybe "random search" is a good way to describe it. Ultimately, it makes me feel like I'm being delusional. I hope I am.
The mishandling is the primary issue at hand.
I wish there were honest statistics available, so that people could know for a fact that yes, there are or are not actually a lot of extreme cases like this.
If the definition of what it is to be American is warped, specifically, that it takes more than citizenship to be welcomed home, then that should come into the discussion of these cases of mistreated foreigners.
Law or not, I don't think that makes sense.