MCRed

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by MCRed 11y ago
This is a really good point. I've heard the term Chicken Hawking in a very, very different context but it works here as well. I think the illuminating bit of information is there is a real difference between the worldview of a VC and
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by MCRed 11y ago
I worked for a company where this happened twice in three years. I joined the company only to discover that the entire development team (sans one guy) had quit. We built up a new team, put up with an amazing amount of mismanagement, gas li
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by MCRed 11y ago
Here's what I've learned from 20+ years of hiring people: 1. Make all the resumes that come in responding to technical jobs go straight to your inbox. If your company has a candidate tracking system then set up an alias that send
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by MCRed 11y ago
Thanks for the response! I read it yesterday and thought about it and did some investigation and just read it again today. You've convinced me to go with Phoenix for a couple weeks and see how that goes. I think what sold me was you se
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by MCRed 11y ago
I feel the same way. I find that my comments result in three outcomes- nothing significant, significant uproots or significant down votes. The ones with significant down votes are not any different in quality than the ones with significan
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by MCRed 11y ago
Wake me when the president signs a bill into law that ends the Patriot Act, once and for all. To be honest, we should have standards and secret courts and "national security" letters are the very thing that the constitution was de
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by MCRed 11y ago
When I vote, I vote third party, believe me.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Source of the funds doesn't matter. What was stolen from me by the FBI was known to be clean, was not the profits of any crime. They just took it.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Congrats on the popularity of Phoenix. The documentation is quite excellent! I'd be interested in your perspective on the current state of the elixir web framework scene and where you think it's going. Specifically, how would you
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by MCRed 11y ago
Not only that, but violating someone's 4th amendment rights is a crime, and in fact a felony under USC 18-242. That DEA agent (and every TSA agent, FWIW) belongs in jail for a long time. What is it when the laws only apply to you but
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by MCRed 11y ago
It has been, but it lost. I don't remember the case offhand though. That it lost is a big part of the problem-- that Judges are not throwing these cases out of court every time they see a warrant to steal money-- is a problem.
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by MCRed 11y ago
By the way, what I find most heinous is the concept that the money is separate from its owner. This is explicitly forbidden in the fourth amendment. Unless the money is evidence. (which it usually isn't.) That judges allow this shows
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by MCRed 11y ago
I'm not aware of any instances where it was used to fight crime. Seriously, not one.
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by MCRed 11y ago
I really think we need to start using the word "steal" in headlines like this. "How the DEA stole a young man's life savings..." I remember when this was passed (yes I was alive way back in the Reagan era). I was
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by MCRed 11y ago
Well, I didn't vote you up or down, I'm replying instead-- but SOPA was passed... when they tried again and called it "net neutrality". Everyone was for it, but did you read the 800 pages?
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by MCRed 11y ago
This is what libertarians would like. We would also like that the "consent of the governed" be unanimous. Or at least very high. Just because %60 of the population, for instance, wants to ban gay marriage, they should't be
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by MCRed 11y ago
Companies have to keep everyone happy-- employees so they won't work elsewhere, shareholders so they won't sell the stock, customers so they won't shop elsewhere and the government so they won't be prosecuted. Yet we see
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by MCRed 11y ago
I agree. I feel it's time for a better, modern, clear elucidation of these issues- something of which the CAP theorem would be a subset. And on top of that, I'd love a simple test harness that will run a distributed database thru
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by MCRed 11y ago
The one of those is velocity and one of those is present position.
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by MCRed 11y ago
Startup Chile does that and the other programs that do it to greater or lesser degrees are multiplying like rabbits.
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by MCRed 11y ago
This wasn't my experience. I got into Startup Chile knowing nobody in chile. Many of the other teams there were south americans from a variety of countries, including chile. I really don't believe that last name was a factor in t
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by MCRed 11y ago
If I had a fallacy or made a "Fast conclusion" please explain it. I don't get this "fast conclusion"... yes, I know more about a subject than I'm explaining-- I tend to be too verbose -- and so I give a quick
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by MCRed 11y ago
To a greater or lesser degree. In america if you do a startup and you fail, you're not seen as a failure and untouchable. In chile that's more the case, and it can really hurt your career. This is why Startup Chile is such a bril
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by MCRed 11y ago
America is a mix of socialism and capitalism, and everywhere that socialism has touched it's been a bad experience. You give a good example in your response: %45 illiteracy only benefits the people who are currently in power. That&#x
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by MCRed 11y ago
Oh, I'd never say there aren't lots of factors. As another person pointed out, culture is a factor too. The US seems to have been in a cultural decline for much of the last 100 years. You can't make direct comparisons, absol
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by MCRed 11y ago
The primary thing inhibiting vertical social mobility in Chile is cultural.[1] I have worked with chilean high schoolers and college students and they have a lot of opportunity that they don't see because they are locked into a specif
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by MCRed 11y ago
I lived in Chile for several years. I think this is a bad idea for several reasons. First off, one of the things that makes Chile great is that its education system is independant of the government. It results in chileans who are markedly
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by MCRed 11y ago
I'm curious what info you derive from "watching someone code". I've hired a lot of people over the years and found what works best for me is to just talk to them, no coding. But if you're in a screen share and wat
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by MCRed 11y ago
IT's pure PR spin. Glassdoor reviews from the past couple of months, both positive and negative indicate to me that the process is very broken and disrespectful. For instance, multiple people mentioned not being able to get the answer
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by MCRed 11y ago
Personally, reading this article, I doubt even AirBnB does a good job. Lets check it out.... I haven't interviewed with them but I can go thru my normal job hunt process. This may sound harsh but I consider applying for a job to be a

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