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itscompiling | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla Wants Young People to Consider ‘Ethical Issues’ Before Taking Tech Jobs

Speaking from recent experience, that offer seems like a lot of money when you're eating ramen for the 4th time this week and have $30k of debt.

itscompiling | 7 years ago | on: CCleaner v5.45 Introduces Data Collection with No Way to Opt-Out

Is there something malicious about Malwarebytes now?

itscompiling | 8 years ago | on: Quiet

This gets asked all the time everywhere but I have to ask again, how do you get started?

I've tried a million different apps (even got a Headspace subscription for a while), read Mindfulness in Plain English along with a tonne of other guides on it but it just never seems to click for me.

itscompiling | 8 years ago | on: Poll: 71% of Americans Say Political Correctness Has Silenced Discussions

People have said this to me and whenever it comes up I find myself a little put off by it. I'm not "offended" per se and I don't believe that I'm voluntarily making the decision to be put off by it. However, it just seems weird to me that this person automatically assumed that the brown people country I grew up in couldn't teach me how to properly communicate using one of the most important languages in the world.

I definitely agree with you that it's wrong to call it an aggression and there definitely shouldn't be any rules about saying something like that, but I do think there is something wrong with going into a conversation assuming that the other person does not possess a skill because of their ethnicity.

itscompiling | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Am I a software developer?

What were some of the questions that you struggled with? Most of the time interview questions are pretty awful and have nothing to do with real life problems, which you might be really good at solving. Keep your head up, keep looking and things will work out.