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by _tom_ 5y ago
I'm sure this varies by location, but lots of companies are willing to hire older adults. And 40 is nothing. No one will care at that age. I mean, a startup that is trying to convince you to live there 24x7, maybe. But most real compan
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He's right. No one wants to do manual QA and it sounds a lot like your current job. It could be a good stepping stone.
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Bear in mind that risks are different when you have a lower salary. The risk for one person might be "have to sell some stock", for someone else it might be "homeless in a month".
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One of my friends was recently hit for the second time. Same car. Insurance did not want to pay to install a shield, the first time. He no longer drives a Prius. Was in a nice part of Mountain View, CA
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Analysis tools that show where large transitive dependencies could be avoided would help. Right now there is no feedback to encourage people to not have HUGE lists of dependencies. And for trivial reasons. This compounds the problem hugely.
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Another option is reducing number of dependencies. Doesn't cure the problem but can cut the vulnerability surface by orders of magnitude. Transitive dependencies can, and frequently do result in The majority of the code in an applicati
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I think that the rise of automated dependency resolution tools, like maven, has made this exponentially worse. It's routine for tools to to have hundreds or even thousands of dependencies, something that would never happen if you manua
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Looks like the website has been hugged to death, for now. I wonder if the web server is hosted on toarus?
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I simply ordered a foam mattress from a foam mattress company. Saved me all the hassle of figuring out what type of foam and cover etc. still only ten percent of the price of a fancy mattress from a mattress store and took ten minutes on am
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And if you can't convince smart people to work on it, maybe you want to think about the idea a bit more!
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And Bearings Bank was founded in 1762. And made it to 1995 before imploding. Likely to survive, yes. But at least one is likely to fail over any reasonable period.
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Enter "Mountain View", and "mountain view mobile home park, Montana" ranks above the city of Mountain View, CA.
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Doesn't work. Enter an address. Backspace across the whole field to clear it. It kicks you to a map with "unexpected error has occurred". Can't get back to input fields. Can't find San Jose, ca, or any permutation I
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28821316 "...Eclipse Adoptium, built by IBM, which is the only distribution built by a team that isn't involved with the OpenJDK project, isn't very familiar with it, and
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Could you use a laser at a frequency that the cornea is opaque to?
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9% ? I'm guessing you mean 9% of net profit, as I don't believe you can print and ship for 9%. You should specify what percent of gross sales the author actually gets, as it's not 93% Indie authors sales these days are almost
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What is wrong with Leetcode and similar, in a nutshell.
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Then there is the case of things are illegal, but are not enforced. Leading to the question of what is the law? What is written, or how it is enforced? How many of you went above the speed limit today? I suspect that much of what goes on in
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Looks like "NFS" in the hacker news font.
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There's a world of difference between saying "we will do great things" and claiming "we have done great things".
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Google is way better at some classes of searches, still.
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If I trusted an app that I expect has to look at every url I ever visit, $3 is a no-brained.
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I had a similar flashback recently. I remembered the old Star Trek game game from the seventies. Many versions of it are available on line, but each was specific to a particular version of basic - versions I didn't have. I ended up dow
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That's because she actually said "ten to the fifteen" not "ten to the fifteenth", so you have to decide if you autocorrect by removing the "the" -> "ten to fifteen" or by adding the "th&q
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Not "ten to fifteen", but "ten to the fifteenth" A bit larger. :-)
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Does hacker need even support downvotes? I only have an upvote button.
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If you want to attract collaborators, the first thing on the page needs to explain what morashon is. No one else knows.
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So, Facebook? :-)
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I don’t think this is a characteristic of languages or a large ecosystems. It’s a side effect of dependency managers making it seem like zero cost to include another library. Including one dependency can end up pulling in an entire ecosyste
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Can we please avoid clickbait titles?

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