BrandonM

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by BrandonM 5y ago
What do you mean “not temporarily”?
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by BrandonM 5y ago
I’ve done both, too. Both the treatment and the pay is better in office jobs. When I worked labor, though, I could think about whatever I wanted to during the day. White collar employers own our thoughts for 8 hours a day and often beyond.
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by BrandonM 5y ago
Did more millennials also opt to live in city centers, which had hollowed out during the previous generation? You can still buy suburban and rural housing for $1xxK, or even five figures if you’re willing to compromise. I just looked, and r
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by BrandonM 5y ago
This cannot be accurate in any absolute sense. How is wealth defined in this context? 25 years ago, the median car and house didn't have (central) A/C. Cell phones and the Internet were expensive and not widely available. Truly
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by BrandonM 5y ago
Doesn’t the higher population affect both numbers? More UHauls are leaving CA than entering, even if both numbers are large. I think I see what you’re saying, that if you normalize per capita, they could be anywhere in the “net leaving” coh
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by BrandonM 5y ago
https://www.uhaul.com/Articles/About/2020-Migration-Trends-U... > 2020 Migration Trends: U-Haul Ranks 50 States by Migration Growth ... Growth states are calculated by the net gain of one-way U-Haul trucks ent
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by BrandonM 5y ago
git blame WS_COMMIT^ -- FILE You’ll need to change the file name, though, if it’s been renamed since the whitespace change.
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by BrandonM 5y ago
Not all religions are centered around a 100% belief in God. That assumption seems to be a very common mistake among atheists and agnostics who are most familiar with Christianity.
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by BrandonM 5y ago
Sorry, I can't resist... I just noticed from the URL that my comment was the 9,224th item ever on Hacker News. Hacker News was a very different place back then. YC wasn't well known at all. Hell, the iPhone hadn't been rele
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by BrandonM 5y ago
Haha, thanks for pointing me to that comment. It’s especially hilarious to me because I wrote a blog post nearly 10 years ago about exactly how to configure SSH+VNC like that[1][2]. It was even featured in the now-defunct Hacker Monthly .
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by BrandonM 5y ago
Hello. I’m honestly loving this conversation. Thanks for engaging seriously about it. It also means a lot, dang, that you took the time to both understand my points and also to counter the narrative, all these years after I commented. As mu
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by BrandonM 5y ago
This is way more bleak than the reality, IMO. The biggest tech companies are thriving on the back of free software, and producing a bunch of free software themselves in the meantime. Watch this talk by the creator of lichess: https:/&
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by BrandonM 5y ago
Yep, sorry, I double-checked and edited it quickly. Sorry about that!
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by BrandonM 5y ago
> Leadership in the University of Minnesota Department of Computer Science & Engineering learned today about the details of research being conducted by one of its faculty members and graduate students into the security of the Linux
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by BrandonM 5y ago
I like those axes. I also enjoy conversations with someone where I disagree, and I wouldn't downvote purely based on disagreement, but generally due to some other factor. Perhaps I'm only acknowledging that I'm less likely to
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by BrandonM 5y ago
I use downvotes to signal disagreement when, from my perspective, someone is giving bad advice, not accurately representing the truth, speculating in an unproductive way, distracting from the discussion with completely unfounded claims, etc
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by BrandonM 5y ago
> Maybe predictable conversations, and a bit of a echo chamber, is more appripro? [...] It seems like we have hashed out the important scientific stuff, and most issues computer related. I think you're totally right with the first
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by BrandonM 6y ago
Awesome ending. Thanks for everything, pg.
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by BrandonM 6y ago
You don’t need to MitM. Squid can use SNI to allow whitelisted hosts, for now at least.
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by BrandonM 6y ago
My comment didn't say that the product was useless, and it certainly didn't shit on the idea of an online storage solution. In that thread, I was saying that I already had an online storage solution, and it was working pretty well
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by BrandonM 6y ago
Was it? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by BrandonM 6y ago
I would imagine so. But you generalized a universally bad bespoke software industry experience to say, “after a few honeymoon years he will discover almost the exact same problems with industry.” The OP didn’t even get that kind of job: he’
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by BrandonM 6y ago
There are numerous counterexamples. AI/ML is huge in industry right now, but that’s just the most visible field. Hardware manufacturers certainly have employees pushing forward the state of the art. Google regularly publishes cited res
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by BrandonM 6y ago
I've been in industry for 12 years now, and none of your second paragraph rings true for me. "Useless client projects" and "boss/company save face when things fail" sound like they might describe some kind of c
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by BrandonM 6y ago
I commented because I think academics may underestimate how much freedom there can be in industry. My experience has been that after establishing a baseline of trust (by delivering on goals, making good technical decisions, behaving honestl
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by BrandonM 6y ago
Care to share some concrete examples of how academia is more free and how you expect that to make your daily life better overall? The author touched on that point a bit, especially when he described that tenure wasn’t as freeing as he expec
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by BrandonM 6y ago
We generally don't have 6-month old branches. We don't shy away from assigning big projects to devs, though. They iteratively collaborate with our Product team to carve out a v1, and then get to work. We throw out reliability on d
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by BrandonM 6y ago
We make basically no attempts to estimate how long a feature is going to take and then update those estimates along the way. An individual feature could take a few days to implement or several months (years even). Periodic check-ins are com
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by BrandonM 6y ago
I really don't think so. We have processes that happen on a 4-week cadence, and about 10% of the engineering team rotates through duties in shepherding those processes. For all other devs, the experience is to pick up a feature, work o
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by BrandonM 6y ago
Everything I've read to this point seemed to describe sprints as chunking every task so that it takes no more than 1–2 weeks to complete (depending on the company's sprint length). I inferred that a dev would be expected to pick u

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