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Now I work from home 2 (two) jobs, one full time that used to be the office and one contract. I make 2x what the single office job pays me and only so I'm close to a decent pay while still below US average for developers (I live in EU).
No ducking way I'm going back to half pay plus wasting half a day in traffic for free.
It's primary purpose? Fast lane for a couple of items purchased.
If I buy a full cart of groceries, detergent, power tools and what else, I'll go to the human operated checkout. Also although not illegal, I think it's grossly morraly offensive and deep ashholeness when people go to self checkout. 100% of the times they'll fuck up something, require assistance and take 5 times as much time as if the experienced cashier would have operated checkout.
But when I storm in the mall and buy me a toothpaste and a can of soda, I use self checkout. Expecting it to be largely available and not all 10 desks blocked by idiots with full carts.
I've even shown it to my 9 years old kid, he was flabbergasted. Might have not understood everything (he doesn't have the context) but overall he said it was the best movie he ever saw (so far).
Also don't use them while walking, they bother me. I feel like my eyes dry out or something, very unpleasant. It's a bit blurry but don't really notice it, also -2 is not really advanced myopia. I can't read car plates from the distance but I sure see the car coming and know not to bump into people.
Salaries in Europe are shit compared to US and I've zero incentive to move to Western Europe for the average wage I'd be making there.
I used to have a tight schedule switching from tasks to learning to meetings to more tasks and more learning, 50 minutes work, 10 minutes break, relentlessly, like a robot.
Then I realized I'm not a fucking robot. Now I work 2 hours per day at most. Complete my tasks and can do this shit in a sustainable way as opposed to burning myself for what?
I'm super engaged. For two hours tops :D
Similarly, the Pentium was just released and a friend of a friend of mine had one (wealthy parents). Just once, I got to visit the Pentium's guy home tagging along my friend. The guy played a small VIDEO-CLIP with sound output in a Soundblaster-driven pair of speakers.
I had never heard any game sound but PC speakers or NES (Famicom). There was a popular software at the time which I don't recall, which was playing MOD files into the PC speaker and we would listen in awe how that would sound.
Now imagine being hit simultaneously with full-blown digital sound AND VIDEO. Flabbergasted is an understatement. The Pentium guy kept saying something about choppy video and crappy quality but I couldn't notice a damn thing, seemed the most amazing video I ever saw and all I could think (but of course couldn't say it out loud) was "shut the fuck up, I can't hear the soundtrack".
A lot of this, I think, is the result of geography rather than the Finns (or rather, their leaders) being different / special.
Romania never participated in the colonial era as well but it's not they wouldn't have liked to. Only neighboring Habsburgs, Russia and the Ottomans there was little direction to go. By the sea, they'd have to cross Bosphorus and Gibraltar straits to reach the open ocean so forget it either.
But once the opportunity present, there was no hesitation to jump and snatch. Took Dobrudja from Bulgaria after they got beaten shitless in the Balkan Wars by a coalition of Turkey, Greece and Serbia. Invaded Hungary opportunistically in WW1 after posing neutral for a couple years and managed to shoot a few poor unsuspecting border guards before being pushed back and nearly wiped out by German troops (lead by a young Erwin Rommel), after which sign an armistice with the Central Powers and invade Moldova to "secure" some space. Then 12 hours before the end of WW1 declare war to Central Powers again and be technically on the winning side. Invade Hungary again and "secure" Transylvania.
>> There is xenophobia and racism as elsewhere, but there is no historical past we should be particularly ashamed off.
The past is mostly presented as "special military operation" :P
I've got a desktop machine from around 2010 with 32-bit OS, Core i5 760 (510 / 1611 point in geekbench single/multithreaded) and 4 Gb RAM, runs my current Java code in IntelliJ from those times at blazing speed. Modify a line of code and run in debug, it's up an running in less than a second.
Same code on a 2018-ish laptop, 64-bit OS, 16 Gb RAM, i7 6700 HQ (798 / 3073 in geekbench) and latest IntelliJ takes up to 10 seconds to start.
It's not "Java", it's bloat.
I drink coffee but can't drink six of them in a row without risking a heart attack, while a sixpack of beers gives me only a mild headache next day.
Tried smoking, really tried to catch the habit but they don't do nothing for me. Feel nauseated, also at some point I smoked a packet (20 cigarettes) in a row - never felt so sick in my life. At least with alcohol you throw up and feel better but when stuff's in your lungs what can you do?
Maybe if it were legal here as in Canada or California, I'd try weed. But it's not so I'm stuck with alcohol on occasion.
1) US: has a two-party system, the "left" and the "right". Most democracies have the political power concentrated in just two parties - the "socialists" and the "conservatives", even though some minor contenders may exist on the scene and the main parties compete in bribing them so they can ensure majority.
The two parties hate each other's guts and compete for resources (how much they will divert to their own pocket) but both know very well that the show must go on, so don't count on anything but a shallow surface-level "competition" between them. If the system really is in danger of changing and they might lose their grip, they won't hesitate to leave aside their differences and unite in their common goal of ensuring long term self-preservation.
2) Communist system has a two-party system: the "party" and the "police". The communist party and the secret police mirror exactly the deep antagony between the two parties of the democratic two-party system and also their just as deep complicity when it comes to long term continuity.
It's just a matter of time until #2 realizes the only thing separating #1 from them is apparent legitimacy. Some level of oppressiveness is required for #2 and that's consuming resources, while #1 has the advantage that it frees those resources since they no longer have to force people in accepting the system but can tell them "you are free to make your own choice". So if and when those freely elected turn out to be the exact copy of the people they "replaced" you are free to f*k off and vote again next time, like that would change anything.
"And if I could do it, you definitely can."
Go f yourself.
>> You spend half a day stuck on one bug before you ask your more senior teammate for help. They look at it, click around the codebase a bit, change one of the parameters you’re passing, and it’s fixed in 10 minutes.
The trick is that senior teammate wrote the overengineered, byzantine atrocity, where each functionality spans over 53 levels of call stack, 18 clases each with 12 parameters and 7 parametrized template / generics and talks to 5 microservices in a k8s cluster.
The stupidity of junior engineers is to assume they compete in a fair game.
The catch ... his wife is working from home. So in fact she is doing all the hard work child care. He... essentially took a paid-off sabbatical B-)
Makes me vomit.
I'm willing to bet you are violating a license agreement (and cartel of market data providers but that's another story) and won't be long until you either:
1) Shut down your website. 2) Are facing a lawsuit which will have you pay through the nose. Think working the rest of your life to pay for "infringement".
Every now and then I see some naive schmuck pulling a "free market data!" website, which lasts a couple of weeks till they find out what they're dealing with.
Also had to wait for years to buy one. In fact you had to pay it upfront and then maybe in 5 years you'd get it.
It's a free market, there's a million job ads, recruiters and what else. If you are worth $500k/year, you'll get $500k/year. If you can't take $500k/year either coze you're incapable of putting up with the job requirements or you're just incompetent in general, that's entirely on you.
You're not starving. Just penible.
Well if there are 1 billion genes and one virus strain has 1 mutated gene while another virus has 1,000,000 mutated genes then the latter is "very mutated".
Like a white human and a black human are somewhat mutated relative to each other but both humans are "very mutated" as compared to a chimpanzee. Although 98% humans and chimpanzees are the same animal, let's call it humpanzee.
I had a friend, haven't seen him in a while then met for a coffee and a chat. 10 times in 20 minutes he would pick up a call in the middle of the conversation and "hold that thought".
Made a huge effort not to tell him to go f himself at the end but that concluded our "friendship".
What I see is that most of these project implement first the switch on the wall and the outlet to plug in the TV, washing machine and so on but then they start to go on and try to invent other tools that would support the reorganization of the wiring. Someting like a cross connection table at the electric center of the house where the customer can plug in wires to have 12V direct current in some of the outlets, 120V alternating current in other outlets and 220V in the guest room when visitors come from Europe.
I hope you get the point: DSL solutions become just too complex for the customers. First it starts off with a simple text file. Later on it is an Excell table. Then a whole buch of sheets with many columns. Even later somehow scripts emerge that help the editing and the conistency maintenance of the data. And it all supposed to be maintained by the customer.
Why do most of the DSL projects fail then?
What I see is that most of these project implement first the switch on the wall and the outlet to plug in the TV, washing machine and so on but then they start to go on and try to invent other tools that would support the reorganization of the wiring. Something like a cross connection table at the electric center of the house where the customer can plug in wires to have 12V direct current in some of the outlets, 120V alternating current in other outlets and 220V in the guest room when visitors come from Europe.
I hope you get the point: DSL solutions become just too complex for the customers. First it starts off with a simple text file. Later on it is an Excell table. Then a whole bunch of sheets with many columns. Even later somehow scripts emerge that help the editing and the consistency maintenance of the data. And it all supposed to be maintained by the customer.
The house will burn down! Call the firebrigade!"