J-dawg

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by J-dawg 11y ago
You've raised an important point here: the 'human vs self-driving car' is something of a false dichotomy. The human driving experience will become more and more augmented by technology, with auto-braking, lane-assist, smart c
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This is great! Is all of that income from affiliate links? Does it take up a lot of your time curating the list of items? Where do you get most of your traffic from?
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Ask HN: How do you feel about the ethics of what you do as a programmer?
2 points by J-dawg 11y ago|2 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
There is a Chrome extension for Genius. I haven't tried it yet but I've always liked the idea http://genius.com/web-annotator
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I guess you could say it's also the point of most tech startups, but only for the founders and the first few employees.
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by J-dawg 11y ago
It would be cool if you could expand on this. Do you live in one of these places? I'm also wondering when there's going to be a sea change. London is full of people in their 20s spending ~50% of their income on rent, and pretty mu
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I don't think I've ever faced any direct age discrimination, I'm just aware that there's no reason why anyone would hire me when they can have an enthusiastic 22 year old who's fresh out of uni.
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I've often thought about the possibility of designing a company specifically to maximise the wealth of its employees. Choose a location with a low cost of living, give equity to all employees, maybe provide accommodation / food as
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I'm a programmer who doesn't really get to program. I work for a consulting company. Most development work is off-shored, which means most roles for UK staff are more client facing. Right now I'm building a web front end for
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by J-dawg 11y ago
When I travel for work, it always surprises me how quickly I get sick of eating in hotels and restaurants. To begin with it's a great novelty, and it's nice when my employer is paying, but there always comes a time when I'd r
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Drowning in rubbish, Lima sends out the vultures with GoPros(theguardian.com)
1 points by J-dawg 11y ago|0 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Great story! But who buys 1000 piñatas for an office party?
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Good point, but it seems low in absolute terms as well. £37k really isn't a lot of money to live on in one of the most expensive cities in the world
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I think you're right, and it's something I've only started to realise very recently having lived in the UK my whole life (a culture is hard to understand when you've only ever experienced the world from inside it).
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Startups have got so weird that I can't figure out whether this is a real thing or just a promotional piece for a digital agency. I wonder if there is some potential in the "drone delivery as a novelty" concept though?
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Answering my own question, but this Quora thread contains some good answers: https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-salary-of-software-engineer...
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by J-dawg 11y ago
> enable vibrant mutually beneficial partnerships > take full advantage of internal and external synergies Sounds like marketing speak. What would the product actually do? Also, based on what I've witnessed in meetings recently,
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Ask HN: Does the Glassdoor UK average software engineer salary seem low to you?
2 points by J-dawg 11y ago|6 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
That didn't fix it for me, every time I tap the address bar it crashes
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Ask HN: What to with 2 weeks off?
2 points by J-dawg 11y ago|3 comments
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How we made the Eurostar(theguardian.com)
3 points by J-dawg 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: UK salary survey?
2 points by J-dawg 11y ago|1 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I was told the "7%-38%-55% rule" during an awful management training session on giving presentations. The instructor said that this rule is based on research that people get only 7% of the meaning of what is being said by a speake
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Ugh, I'm right with you. When I renewed my car insurance recently, I avoided using either of the 2 comparison sites for exactly that reason. I wonder if brands ever do market research on the number of people actively repelled by their
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Paul Graham's essay on plausible, but ultimately bad startup ideas comes to mind [1]. "The danger of an idea like this is that when you run it by your friends with pets, they don't say "I would never use this." They
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Ask HN: Why is dev work the first thing to be offshored?
7 points by J-dawg 11y ago|6 comments
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Although there are plenty of other factors, this is basically the answer. Every time a friend has bought a house (and none of them have done it without being loaned the deposit by their parents), they have reported that the mortgage payment
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This clip [1], from the UK game show "Golden Balls", is a very entertaining example of a two-player zero-sum game EDIT: As explained in the replies, this is not actually a zero-sum game. [1] https://www.youtube.com&#x2F
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I've read this too, I guess I'm still a little sceptical based on my own sample of one. When I was a child I spent loads of time outside, but also loads of time on the computer. I guess the computer won. I also don't understa
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I don't think myopia is something to be trivialised. As a shy teenager I hated wearing glasses. Contacts aren't for everyone, and if by permanent fix you mean LASIK then well, you're braver than me.

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