humble_engineer

I'm so sick and tired of seeing a company silence free speech, but then as soon as someone doesn't agree with what is being said, the answer is, "but they are a private business." Have some god damn principles, either you support free speech, or you don't, it doesn't matter what is being said, imbeciles.

The Vatican was raided a few weeks ago at the same time AG Barr was visited the Italian intelligence minister. I would bet money this is related somehow.

If you find yourself alone around a woman you work with, leave the room, building, or do whatever you can to not be alone with them.

Its absolutely ridiculous that people are down voting you. I'm not eating bugs.

What is Snowden's problem with Russia? Its a beautiful country, the people there revere him as a hero, he's employed because of his talents as an engineer. The women there are beautiful, the common person is sincere and generous. Maybe he is constantly being harassed by Russian intelligence?

They can beat us at any type of game that doesn't require split second thinking.

And what is still happening in Tibet is sad, and the internet is full of angry atheists who have somehow been taught Tibet was a theocracy where monks held absolute authority and because religion is bad, China must be right.

Thank you for this, I am a self taught software engineer about 3-4 years into my career and I've been studying lots of algorithms on my free time, especially using HackerRank to solve the problems with Python. It's nice to have such a complete list of lectures like this. I struggle remembering all the operations on the data structures like percolate a tree, or some types of graph operations.

You used up so many words to say Chinese money influences actor's politics. It's that simple.

My parents took away my computer when I was young and locked it in their office. They found me at 2am in the morning having broken into the office using a screw driver to take the door knob off and pull the bolt lock back manually.

I just had a flashback and blacked out for 15 minutes in a spat of PTSD from your comment, please sir use your words more carefully they are powerful and over the target.

>experiences of beginners are as valid

What does this even mean? Their experiences are valid?

Its always like this. Last month the article was about how OOP was useless and a waste of billions of dollars, yet the author had like 2 years of experience as a Php developer (in 2019?). It didn't stop 2 of my sub par coworkers from sharing the article and acting like the author had any creds or experience at all to be saying such things. Generally I never read blog posts from no name people claiming industry standards should be destroyed. Its just a pointless exercise.

Back in the 90's you used to see famous actors walking around with shirts that said "Free Tibet", but you never see them anymore, could that be because China is now heavily invested in Hollywood? Come to think of it I haven't seen a single actor talk about Hong Kong.

Dark energy is a placeholder word to explain a phenomena scientists can't understand. Before Einstein they didn't know what the medium was for light waves. For water waves it is obviously water, what does light use to travel through? They created this phrase called "ether" light traveled through "ether". Dark energy and dark matter are exactly the same case.

I've seen a lot of people point to the fact that when the oil companies broke up many of these people just got richer because they invested in each one of the child companies. I don't think the purpose of the antitrust actions is to stop people from getting rich, the point is to break up the monopoly. In this regard, splitting up the companies does actually distribute the power, albeit it can make the original owners much more wealthy. The point is the concentration of power, not necessarily the concentration of wealth which people often let their own insecurities befuddle.

I was a gmail user a few months ago and I switched my entire life over to protonmail because I didn't want to contribute to Google. I would have to say the most frustrating part of the switch is the somewhat perplexed look I get from people when they ask why I don't have gmail, they have to learn to spell proton, fascinating. I would imagine we will see quite a few hit pieces against protonmail in the coming years, and likely other email providers as more and more people make the switch to a service that markets privacy.

Curiously, this is also why memes are much better at conveying complicated political or sociological ideas faster and more efficiently than a few paragraphs on the topic.

"However, the prime minister's office said specially developed software is helping with the count."

I have no doubt people are planting trees but this quote makes me feel like perhaps someone should do so numbers on this, 300 million just doesn't sound right unless somewhere like 500,000 people are participating, if that is what is happening I feel like getting 500,000 people to participate is a story in and of itself.