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by MCRed 12y ago
Would you give up $10k a year in salary for a free parking space? What if that space's market value was $289 a month? EG: I'm not sure what's getting subsidized here. If it's worth less than 7k is probably better to tak
782.
by MCRed 12y ago
I don't see anything that supports the hypothesis in the title. There's no indication of what these people who have "decades of experience" are earning, on the graph. And going by those numbers, it appears they are way
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by MCRed 12y ago
I've gotten interviewed by people who thought they were great but didn't know what they were doing. And I mean for serious companies like Pebble. 22 year olds who can't even properly phrase interview questions. Whose the te
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by MCRed 12y ago
If you fire your commandos, that means that you've settled on your one business and are no longer needing the people to innovate. That doesn't reflect well on you. Your company should always be innovating-- and the people who got
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by MCRed 12y ago
The problem is, these companies are being run by people who can't tell the difference between X and X/10, let alone X and X+1. But they think they can because they got VC money and they are high on their own fumes. Fire fast if so
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by MCRed 12y ago
Oh, I think it's ok if the manager, with an engineering background, spends a lot of time managing and not a lot of time writing code. They may be further away from understanding the details of the product, but that's ok. I exper
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by MCRed 12y ago
But part of the problem is that in a meritocracy you need people to know who the bad actors are. It seems pretty obvious from outside Github that something has gone rotten in the company over the past couple of years, and the is the latest
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by MCRed 12y ago
Incompetent management is a plague on the industry. And the cause of it is that programmers are relatively low status. In so many businesses, there are "business guys" who end up managing the engineering staff-- at one level or a
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by MCRed 12y ago
Part of the obsession with the Nazis is because so many people don't understand what they were about and why. For instance, this article implies that they were just racists. Racism is a consequence of their ideology, not the reason f
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by MCRed 12y ago
People who recognize that the internet has been a free market for most of its existence, and has consequently resulted in a massive economic boom. Without which, by the way, there would not be the startup culture we have now. (prior to the
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is really the difference between a liberal and a libertarian. Liberals think that somehow the regulation will never be tainted by economic forces. Libertarians realize it is, and that the best regulation is the itchy feet of a free m
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by MCRed 12y ago
The cable franchise agreements are exclusive. That's why you don't see two companies offering cable service. If they weren't you other companies would compete. Regarding wireless, you don't seem to understand how the in
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by MCRed 12y ago
Right, the advocates for increased taxation don't want to pay more themselves-- they could do that now-- they want the other guy to pay more. How they think this won't make them poorer as well shows they aren't really thinkin
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by MCRed 12y ago
We're talking about the US government regulating a US industry. You say you live outside the USA and you have lots of choice and therefore what I say is "bullshit"? Really? That's your only attempt at an argument? Es
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by MCRed 12y ago
Bottom line is that net neutrality comes out of the desire for people to be able to access any site they want without penalties due to traffic shaping or other shenanigans. The reason they are concerned is that the cable companies and to a
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by MCRed 12y ago
Why are there only one or two ISPs in your area? Because of regulation. Cable companies are government granted monopoly. The reason you don't have cable choice is that monopoly. Local phone service, similar thing, though regulation
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by MCRed 12y ago
DR Chrono has an add on the front page where people do their "challenge" in order to compete for an interview. Worst example yet. Apparently the company side generates scores based on whatever arbitrary factors HR chooses, includi
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Tell HN: Don't work for companies that use hackerrank
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by MCRed 12y ago
.... and the chances of success are a hundred fold better.
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by MCRed 12y ago
This is a list of prejudices that don't hold up in my experience. First off, while younger people have more energy, they are also much less efficient. Experience means you can produce more for a given amount of energy. I'm single,
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by MCRed 12y ago
Someone who does not understand how software is produced cannot manage the process of producing software. It's easy to learn to manage programmers, I've done it, and I did it by dealign with a lot of bad managers. In 25 years I&#x
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by MCRed 12y ago
Absolutely true. We need a culture where management is done by engineers. This means we need to step up as engineers and start becoming managers. But we also need to refuse to work for managers who are incompetent. IF you're a programm
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by MCRed 12y ago
20 years ago, colleges taught you to program slowly, with good architecture and with maintainability. When I was taking CS courses we were taught to flowchart our programs, write them all out, and really create the software on paper before
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by MCRed 12y ago
Sponsored posts might come up in long tail searches, but most of the pages on the DF site, at least, are monetized with a display ad on the left. This will show the current ad at the time of the page view, not the ad at the time the articl
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by MCRed 12y ago
To be honest, I left FP for a long time after learning lisp, and erlang is what brought me back. The erlang syntactic is really quite good. IT's new, yes, it's not lisp, it's not C, you have to learn a new syntax. Get over y
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by MCRed 12y ago
I helped build a new team of elixir programmers up to about 8 people in 6 months all in a third tier tech city. Most of that hiring was done before Elixir hit 1.0. I don't buy the bus factor argument. In fact, it's quite the cont
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by MCRed 12y ago
Nope, that's what I'm talking about. That article shows how to optimize this constant checking of errors. What I'm trying to say is that in elixir you handle this at the level of the process. In go the whole thing is one pr
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by MCRed 12y ago
I've recruited and built a team which was writing code in Elixir, even more obscure than Erlang. It wasn't really a problem finding people who knew it or were strong programmers who were interested in it. Good languages attract g
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by MCRed 12y ago
I'm much more productive (in terms of bug-free-functionality-per-hour) in Go than I am in Java (and even more so in Elixir than go). It seems the value of those 3rd party libraries are not as much for me as for you and others. I guess
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by MCRed 12y ago
It's the verbosity that I'm talking about. In go I end up with %70 of my code being error handling or error related... with Elixir it's close to %0.01. I'm giving estimates here, of course, but they aren't off by

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