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by alexbanks 6y ago
I am emailing you about this same topic - I just don't want it to look like spam.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> Good programmers care about their work, doesn't matter which language. Yes, but the whole purpose of my post is to point out the difficulty in _finding_ the good programmers. > Also, use the right tool for the job. Not sure how
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Yeah, I wasn't necessarily trying to get into an argument with the person who responded, but there's so many factors not being accounted for in that study that it might as well be measuring nothing at all. Choosing Github projects
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I have quite a few gripes with this article, and overall question the validity of its assertions, but interesting nonetheless.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I mean, yes, but that's not stopped anybody. The reds want people back to work, not to live a long and healthy life. The reds are getting what they want.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Or, as I'm asserting, it's just totally bogus.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
It also probably depends on your definition of "crisis", no? If republicans view the crisis as "government forcing businesses to close", maybeprobably we're past it. We're not even close to done with (unnecessa
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by alexbanks 6y ago
> It is nature of the problem space which requires you to produce high quality code. Would love to see any actual data or studies showing that functional programming implicitly produces "high quality code".
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by alexbanks 6y ago
If you go into something with a set of beliefs and are only looking to confirm them, you probably won't gain anything.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I would argue that elections are enough to drag the USPS along at literally any cost.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
How do I do mail in voting via Amazon, FedEx, DHL?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
https://www.deccanherald.com/content/238699/yoga-can-cure-ev... Just pointing out that some of them claim they can cure diseases.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Did the article imply it wouldn't?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Yes. The industry moves at a snail's pace, and is very different from what you'd read on HN. A huge % of dev jobs are still using old software/processes, with managers that haven't written software in 20 years, if at all
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I don't think YC really has "good discussions" as much as "A large group of people that already agree on most topics, communicating about those topics." And this site breeds just as much outrage as the next. This is
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by alexbanks 6y ago
If you do not understand, I cannot help you.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
"We want to hire the best talent" - Some company making insurance software that pays below market. Understanding that you aren't the best (company), and you don't need the best (talent), but instead you need people that
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by alexbanks 6y ago
You're talking about lotteries. I'm talking about savings accounts. My point is that savings accounts should be held to a higher standard, because obviously.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
You should definitely rethink this. You're a savings account. Be honest (read: obvious and clear) with your customers.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Without being aggressive or overly meta, your profile literally says "Ethically challenged." It seems strange to draw this line in the sand.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I think there's a kind of adorable naivety to equating planting a tree with administering a lab at an American college. If you yourself are conceding a professor "doesn't even necessarily involve being in the same room at the
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I don't think high risk people should "consider the tradeoff" at all. Of course they're interested in alleviating their own personal risk...do you understand what's they're risking? Would you show up to work if
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Not really. I spent countless hours at a mall as a kid - it was just where my parents would drop us off to waste some time while they had to go run errands.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Selecting a tech stack is 75% about your developers skillsets and 25% about how easy it is to hire for that skillset, IMO. Anything else is just hype. HEY picked their stack because their founder is literally the creator of Rails, so obviou
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Happy that Shroud and Ninja get to come back to Twitch
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by alexbanks 6y ago
This has been said for the past two decades. I have yet to see anything beyond ideas/hype.
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by alexbanks 6y ago
Is the current public market not a casino?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
But, is there any value add to casual investors like myself vs. RH?
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by alexbanks 6y ago
I was speaking less about options trading and more about general adoption. I've never done options trading, just small-ish buys and sells. My experience with e-trade was a flat 10 dollar txn fee, which was totally unreasonable for the
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by alexbanks 6y ago
In 10 years there will still be plenty of companies that never adopted "current" trends.

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