adbachman

18 ms·

61.
by adbachman 5y ago
> We need a credential that counts as passing a technical interview This idea already exists in many forms. Pick any language, platform, or technical concept and there's someone offering training and certification. It also describes
62.
by adbachman 5y ago
I think I lost you. > narcissism Is "narcissism" here the choice to be an unvaccinated, unmasked spreader and therefore imposing your sickness on your community, or the imposition of public health requirements on yourself, pers
63.
by adbachman 5y ago
Could be. My experience (in multiple cases) was that they accepted bank deposit slips and Quickbooks invoice records, though. It also has implications for unemployment insurance and SS calculations. Your social security payout will be lower
64.
by adbachman 5y ago
Other replies said it, but to put it more clearly: Is "any money the company makes past $54,000 annually is tax free?" Not even close! You have to pay income tax (federal, possibly state) on _all_ the money you make. That's v
65.
by adbachman 5y ago
(background: I was and adjunct at an art school ( https://mica.edu ) for a couple years, planning to pick it up again in the fall. I asked my students "what is art?" every semester, but they never knew.) This is going to
66.
by adbachman 5y ago
Isn't that just a mutual fund with 0% interest for all but one person?
67.
by adbachman 5y ago
You could go with something like the Adafruit FunHouse: https://www.adafruit.com/product/4985 WiFi, lots of built in hardware (temp + humidity, light, microphone, buzzer, buttons, LEDs, etc), and CircuitPython means yo
68.
by adbachman 6y ago
> A very simple example is that it could partially solve the problem of verifying digital identities. It does not. In fact, it reduces to the public/private key system we already have for verifying digital identities. I have zero wa
69.
by adbachman 6y ago
Ah! This is interesting info and helpful, thanks! I was on the cusp of attending some cross organization "for feds" tech meetups back in March, but... :| I'll keep on the lookout.
70.
by adbachman 6y ago
I'm curious how you've heard about USCIS' work / style? I'm new to the system, so this is the only one I know (wrote about joining here: https://twitter.com/abachman/status/1217795232449859
71.
by adbachman 7y ago
Civil engineering has different, higher, standards for quality than software or even electrical engineering.
72.
by adbachman 8y ago
> middle area where the person doesn’t understand Bay Area culture... > genuine questions get downvoted The problem is these "genuine questions," for other people, are received as: bad faith questions, "sea lioning&quot
73.
by adbachman 8y ago
> It's not just that they don't know which videos will go viral, it's that they also don't know what the rules are or will be, and worse, they are subject to being algorithmically handicapped in a way they are blind t
74.
by adbachman 8y ago
> He holds like $80b cash > ... > now cash is dead
75.
by adbachman 8y ago
The point of money laundering is confusing the origin of money you can’t spend. If you can already spend it on miners and utilities, why go through the pain of cryptocurrency? Just buy jet skis and restaurants or whatever it is you actually
76.
by adbachman 9y ago
We call it "blockchain" now. A lot of the solution in search of a problem work that went into semantic web just shifted to the crypto currency space.
77.
by adbachman 9y ago
Lots of personalization bubbles are fantastically useful. I prefer local news from my neighborhood over news from a neighborhood in another city in another state. I prefer technically detailed articles about software development over techni
78.
by adbachman 9y ago
Until the next fork! Then there will never be more than 42 million bitcoin.
79.
by adbachman 9y ago
I’ve been 100% remote for two years with a trip to the office every 5 months or so and this is roughly the same strategy I use to stay connected during those visits. “What are you working on? What’s next? What do we need most?" 1-on-1,
80.
by adbachman 9y ago
He's already his own boss, the whole point of f-you money is being able to tell your boss, "f you!" That means you can either go for the lump sum or the annuity, either one gets you out from under The Man.
81.
by adbachman 9y ago
If part of the fun for you is acting like a jerk to other people online, then it means you enjoy acting like a jerk to other people. Context is interesting, but it just means that overall, you’re only sometimes acting like a jerk. You might
82.
by adbachman 9y ago
We’re 7 years on from stage 1b, similarly drastic surgery (“the works”), eternally grateful that we had kids before. No recurrence but we’ll be watching and waiting forever. My wife is still the youngest person at her doctor’s office by ~20
83.
by adbachman 9y ago
The auditing firm they hired to do that audit last year just (in the last two weeks) erased all trace of the relationship from their website. No audit is expected at this point, we're getting close to the "exit" phase of the
84.
by adbachman 9y ago
The price still doesn't change unless new money enters, though.
85.
by adbachman 9y ago
> The vast majority of people who have been involved are way ahead. Strong disagree :( Cryptocurrency investment is speculation in a zero-sum game. Every dollar someone pulls out of the system in profit required someone else to put a dol
86.
by adbachman 9y ago
Because it's not a "valid argument", it's snark. The contempt is unnecessary and uninformed.
87.
by adbachman 9y ago
It’s hard to tell if you’re using a massive failure like that as an example of what to do or what not to do. Or is it sarcasm?
88.
by adbachman 9y ago
The article addressed that objection, though. 1. Only activate on sessions where it’s never activated before. 2. Only activate one in, say, seven times. 3. Sniff form once, fail to submit, show user "unexpected error, try again",
89.
by adbachman 9y ago
Which is exactly the point the original poster was making. Software development on "simple" consumer apps is death by a thousand cuts.
90.
by adbachman 9y ago
:/ Fun idea, but I wrote a chunk of code for the third level, bumped the electro thing, died, clicked the restart button and it wiped my script. I should know better than to trust browser based text editors, but it made iteration and e

More ›