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Well why then don't you put a sign on your "position ad" (assuming it's real and not dreamed up) saying "no negroes allowed"? Coze surely that's the vibe of your message.

Yeah, well, in today's shallow and blood thirsty culture, one mistake and you're fucked. And doesn't have to be today, it will follow you all your life, when you're more comfortable, bam! Someone finds something you said 15 years ago that no longer fits the increasingly edgy sensitivities of today and you're canceled. Doxxing you, trashing you, death threats, you name it.

Unless you walk on eggs more carefully than in Stalin's Russia and only talk of weather and puppies, you are liable for being torn apart by an angry mob of mediocres who finds fulfilment in destroying a defenseless guy's life.

I swear I read "toothbrush". Took me 4 or 5 passes to realize it's "toilet".

Joking, maybe they did use the sponge alternatively as a bottom brush and tooth brush. Not in this order, probably :)

I had the same experience with referrals until I realized that the whole system is more corrupted than a public system clerk in third world country. Rules are for suckers and about as true to the letter as democracy in China.

What you need is get under the skin of your manager. Then there's no limit for unadvertised "talent" hiring.

I don't know if "meaningful" vs "meaningless" as much as "hate it deeply and sincerely and there's not a thing I do that I find interesting or useful" vs "at least I don't hate it and might use one or two things from what I learn here".

I had the former and couldn't stay in the job. Pay was good, stress was low but just couldn't go along with it.

I'm surprised you're surprised. I guess people from countries with fully functional monetary systems don't have an intuitive view how things work where money are essentially worthless. Most communist countries were like this during the centralized and hence highly disfunctional economy. You were paid a wage but essentially could shove it up your ass coze there was little to nothing to buy with it. Which made barter the only viable alternative. And you know what works best for barter? Non-fungible goods: alcohol, cigarettes and coffee. You can store them for years and still be good.

Those bottles of whiskey/whisky were NEVER drank, I bet you. They effectively circulate as currency, the only one that actually buys you things in a disfunctional economy: a visit to the doctor, exams, favors or just goods that theoretically can be bought with money but are not in stock. Suddenly found in stock for a bottle of whiskey.

My expectation is the exact opposite, CIA chief would be a libidinous drug addict, but my view has been shaped by this character: https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/Avery_Bullock

Doesn't seem so but your comment made me check bilsbie's profile and I realized something. I'm busting my ass off posting real comments and getting downvoted the hell out of it while this clown posts random news titles probably scraped automatically and using a script and has like 100x the amount of karma compared to me.

Well I learned one more thing.

I don't know who you are but chances are they saw you as a guillible sucker. That price is completely unrepresentative for Greece. Two beds and an umbrella for a day range in the 5-10 euro a day and I'm vacationing in Greece since 15 years now so I know. If you know where to look you can find "free" beds and umbrella provided you consume something from the beach bar, starting with 2 euro for a coffee. I'd get like a 5 euro frappe and give 2 euro off record to the lady who hands the tickets and that's it. For a few hours it's enough given that I don't lay the whole day in one place.

Crazy old coot.

>>With interest rates at zero (actually negative given inflation), almost anything is worth trying because you don't need a big return to come out ahead

You still lose the principal, geez! Like if you worked your ass off for a life time to save a million dollars and interest rate is zero, you're saying "I'll bet all my money on red in a Las Vegas casino", quoting you "because anything it's worth trying".

The interest rate has very little impact on the overall risk of starting a business.

When I lucid dream, usually I also have the ability to "fly" and in time I learned one thing. As much as I love to use the "fly" ability to explore, I must not steer too far away from the point I am currently. Otherwise I can examine in quite vivid details the stuff around but if I leap too far it's like my mind says "sorry dude, you've reached end of simulation area, here's where you wake up".

The cashier at the supermarket doesn't do life changing "move the needle", 10x heroics. Yet they need to get shit done.

Most of us need to get shit done so we keep getting out paycheck and not get fired. Routine is pretty much the only way to survive the chore long term. Push it to subconscious and don't think about it anymore.

Only the whitespace. From whitepapers I skim and read the whitespace :)

>> Ask HN: What is the best code base you ever worked on?

LOL. Obviously. Mine! :)

Good!

>> Women can have short hair, too

Yes, pubic hair. Preferably clean shaven, we're well past the 80s when you couldn't find the forrest for the trees.

>> Why an organisation would want to drop Oracle RDBMS, but why move to another proprietary solution?

Bribes.

Wow, the kids discovered Notepad!

Summary: "canceling" someone coze they might not like transexuals entering their children restroom is good because they are nazis.

It's a metaphor. McDonald's business is fries, as software houses jobs is software. Math is entirely incidental to those, effectively don't matter.

If you wanna get (and keep) a developer job, learn development. Leetcode is just an example, learn algorithms and data structures and patterns and languages. Math is literally the least useful thing to learn in 99.98% of real programming jobs.

When they hire you as a cashier at McDonalds, your math is useless. All you need is learn to ask "do you want fries with that?"

In the end it's home office guys bending over and taking it up their ass from office loving fanboys or the other way around. I'd say to the office sickos go work something else, be a fishmonger or something that requires physical presence. Otherwise bend over and shut up.

So bees play, hence they are conscious. But a lot of animals play and they are oblivious to themselves (not self conscious).

I thought it's a repost of the story about a guy who prepared explosive (legally, I forgot which one, perhaps nitroglycerin) in his home lab and had a recepient with the 'thing' explode in his hands.

Presentation is close to entertainment business, a whole domain in itself. Takes time to master the craft but you can take inspiration from parody bits like "Every BBC series about the universe": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOA5vnUt00c

Well it's high in Europe in general. And seems quite similar like in the US. That is you can use a rough estimate of 40%, meaning half the time you're working for the state. So the problem is not taxation as much as low wages. Germany has lower wages than US, Romania has lower wages than Germany. State skims half what you make anywhere. It's the absolute amount you are left with that makes the difference and that's why Americans have more money to spend on businesses than Europe and Europe has more than Asia and Asia more than Africa.

Well, in the "advice-indus­trial com­plex" as the OP correctly identifies it, the OP being in the advice business (sort of) himself, has two choices: join the inflationary 'self-help, you can do it' camp and have a hard time getting himself remarked from the crowd, or join the tried and true 'contrarian' camp, yielding much better results for a minority who wants to hear and feel 'different'.

Truth is that there's no one true way. Statistically there will be people who get second chances and people who don't. My guess is that the latter crwod gets even more bitter and depressed hearing all "it will get better, you will overcome the hurdles".

Well when I board a plane, first I get to my seat WITH MY HANDBAGS IN HAND, then after all the fuss settles down I put my bags in the bags compartment. Seems the sensitive and polite thing to do, not hold everyone in line till I'd done stuffing my bags in the compartment. Yet also what I do is an extreme oulier as everyone just focuses on their needs and fuck others. Also bonus for being considerate, when the commotion finally settles and I reach to store my bags, there's no room anymore because everyone brought not one but 5 bags each and stuffed them in the least optimum way, one layout occupying on average the space for three.

After several such experiences you fall back to the least common denominator: block everyone until you stuff your 7 handbags occupying 3 compartments and fuck the next people in line.

And not interviewing is worse than useless and extremely unfair.