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by MCRed 11y ago
None of the above, really. It's cargo cultism. It's written by the people who implemented things that were architected by engineers, without understanding the engineering principles behind what they did. So they try to "re
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For people who are early in their careers, let me tell you a little secret: these organizations, com score, gartner, etc, they produce reports that say what the people who hire them want them to say. In other words, you can slice and dice
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by MCRed 11y ago
They're actually operating in a way that is very profitable to them. If you own property- a house or business real estate- you want a moratorium on new supply. Because not giving new supply will cause the value of your current proper
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by MCRed 11y ago
Built a team from 2 people to 12 in 2014, starting 8 months before elixir hit 1.0 and didn't have trouble. We attracted a number of people simply because we were using elixir. We also got a number of people who were interested in f
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by MCRed 11y ago
For your first couple programming languages, it's intimidating to learn a new language. Once you're experienced, though, you discover that its easy and quick to pick up new languages. Because my experience is, as I related above,
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by MCRed 11y ago
Nope. And I have real world experience to contradict that. Last year started a project with elixir, about 8 months before elixir hit 1.0. Despite starting with me and another engineer we both built a team, taught them elixir (the ones who
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by MCRed 11y ago
The problem is the JVM. There's a reason erlang has its own virtual machine. Without virtual machine support, doing concurrency is really just faking it, and will result in significant bugs later on that are essentially impossible t
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by MCRed 11y ago
I just heard about this the other day: http://slicingpie.com Not sure if it works or not. I think the current trend of 4 year vesting with a 1 year cliff (and 0.1%-0.5% for very early engineers in startups less than 7 people, as
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by MCRed 11y ago
Because government wants control, and while we have to raise a lot of awareness in a short period of time to bring pressure to the politicians on this issue... those who propose this legislation just go back when "Defeated" and re
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by MCRed 11y ago
I followed the link and clicked on the letter from the BSA. I did not see any reference to the CISA in the letter. It seems to be endorsing more restrictions on government surveillance, not less. (at least, thats what the letter claims.)
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by MCRed 11y ago
Is this happening so often that it's no longer even news? No appearance on the front page. People always talk about how you should just use AWS because its cheaper than having "ops" people... but the ops load of AWS is highe
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by MCRed 11y ago
That's worse than arresting a kid for a clock you think is a bomb. Also, whenever this kind of thing happens, people claim that "someone didn't feel safe". I don't believe it for a second. When you have to lie t
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by MCRed 11y ago
This may seem trivial, but those changes correspond with real economic changes.... and [LAUGHTER] is proportional to how much damage to the economy the FOMC is doing. We now have a time where "gold" (paper gold) trades on commodit
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by MCRed 11y ago
I've been on a high fat, low/no carb diet for 5 months and lost an average of 12.5 pounds a month on it. My exercise regime has not really taken hold as well as getting on the diet. Besides the weight loss (and I still have a way
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by MCRed 11y ago
Yes we can do a lot to make things better! 1. Nerds should run companies. The core problem is this assumption the CEO needs to be a "biz guy" like this seeming frat boy. I don't know why nerds think this, I think it may be
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by MCRed 11y ago
Can you give me a reason for "subpoenable" as a requirement? I mean wouldn't the github data be authoritative and easy to check? Or do we really need to be forcing githubs lawyers to get involved to provide answers to a sub
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by MCRed 11y ago
I believe turning over this data by the employer without the employees consent is illegal, forbidden by the FCRA and privacy acts of 1974. I know the article you linked to claimed it was legal, but what this is telling me is that I should
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by MCRed 11y ago
>A more prominent and successful company would have jettisoned him as soon as it found a qualified and, in all probability, more loyal applicant. Notice the implicit assumption that employees should be loyal to companies, but companies a
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by MCRed 11y ago
You realize that "We cannot afford to pay that" is also being dishonest, because they can afford to pay. Basically lying is standard procedure for employers, yet why should it be a moral smear for employees in negotiations?
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by MCRed 11y ago
How is equinox getting the data? Is it from self reports? (EG: you apply for credit, say you work for XYZ and make $QWR -- that goes in your credit report.) Or are employers turning over this information to equifax? By what right can t
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by MCRed 11y ago
Don't give a company you're interviewing with your social security number. You only have to give it up if you accept their offer and become an employee. Generally this happens on the first day of work or when doing the on boardin
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by MCRed 11y ago
I spent two years in Chile and so my Facebook friends list is full of Chileans. One really interesting thing-- that I haven't seen before-- is Facebook has a feature for them to check in and say they are safe. I can see at a glance wh
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by MCRed 11y ago
United States Code 18-242 makes it a federal crime (a felony if armed) to violate a citizens constitutional rights under color of law. There are several rights that I think were violated here, or appear to have been enough to make it indict
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by MCRed 11y ago
Yes, from what I understand the Colorado law has a requirement that taxes justify their rate based on the revenue they will raise. This tax far exceeded the revenue, and so the constitution (or law or both) requires "payback" to
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by MCRed 11y ago
You do realize there are multiple ways to implement a feature, right? And if you want to talk about having two windows on a screen at once, that feature didn't originate on the surface, but on the 1984 Macintosh (with overlapping windo
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by MCRed 11y ago
I mention this because I keep running into people who have never heard it, but the "infamous" Apple visit to Xerox resulted in a licensing agreement where Xerox was paid in pre-IPO stock for a license to use the elements that they
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by MCRed 11y ago
This is consistent with my experience in the UK in 2011. The cable internet was terrible, very slow, extremely expensive, and I was living in a "rich" town. There were several occasions where I resorted to using cell data service
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by MCRed 11y ago
Apple is basically free of backwards compatilbiitly concerns, since they use LLVM and Xcode. They have previously required all new apps to be recompiled for the current version. It won't be too long before Apps that have not been upda
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by MCRed 11y ago
Apple has an Architecture License with ARM. Basically the broadest license that ARMS sells. If you didn't know this, ARM was founded as a joint venture between Apple and Acorn. Their history goes back to the day the company was creat
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by MCRed 11y ago
After a few years people get acclimated and if you dare to criticize the corrutpion you're seen to be evil. For instance, try telling the average american that the TSA needs to be shut down. They'll think that they're keeping

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