angrybits

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by angrybits 12y ago
have looked at an S&P 500 5-year chart lately?
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by angrybits 12y ago
Offending the people trying to screw you out of your earned rights and compensation should not be at the top of your list of things to avoid.
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by angrybits 13y ago
Oh I don't, it's a system that works quite well for us. I was adding a counterpoint to this statement: "Increasingly business wikis and social networks are the norm." I don't believe that to be the case outside of
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by angrybits 13y ago
Yes, and believe me the business world at large still runs on Windows/Office from top to bottom. I work at a major financial institution on a data team and we log into Windows 7, open up Excel, log it into our SSAS cube, make pretty g
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by angrybits 13y ago
Office is a major part of this. Practically every workflow on the planet is glued together with emails and excel spreadsheets.
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by angrybits 13y ago
The phrase "the right way" always makes me chuckle a bit. We all seem to know what it is, yet we seldom agree on it. My first 10 years of programming was spent working on a system built on Windows. First ASP/COM and then l
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by angrybits 13y ago
The thing I had to realize is that there is no web framework that I will like everything about. It sounds like such a simple statement, yet it took me a long time to come to grips with it. So find the one that you can "think in"
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by angrybits 13y ago
No, it's the keyword of an investment. You're trying to grow your capital by investing in companies that you expect to grow in value. It's all about potential.
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by angrybits 13y ago
"All of this is trivial." No, describing it in English on HN is trivial. Getting all of this to work in the really real world is incredibly difficult and time-consuming. Components and infrastructure will inevitably find novel w
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by angrybits 13y ago
I think this article is just google bait, there is nothing of any real consequence in it.
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by angrybits 13y ago
If we are going after the same wallet on the same product, then we are competitors. Not acknowledging me as such doesn't make it any less true.
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by angrybits 13y ago
It's simply a reference to history, as desperate people do desperate things. After all, what wouldn't you do to feed your kids?
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by angrybits 13y ago
AWS isn't about being cheaper, it's about capital preservation. (Although reserved instances give you an option to make an investment if you choose.)
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by angrybits 13y ago
yes. look up the term "swatting" if you want to see how far it can go.
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by angrybits 13y ago
I have seen this example before, but to me this neglects the aspect of using human intuition to understand how to, for example, send a wire through Citibank's site vs BofA's site. Without being argumentative, I think want to unde
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by angrybits 13y ago
Not everyone is salary. Hourly people tend to want all of the hours they can get, since it results in more income.
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by angrybits 13y ago
These are houly people that need the hours to make ends meet. They are being forced into part time so that they aren't eligible. This is definitely a net negative, but not the least bit surprising.
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by angrybits 13y ago
Even with the gratuitous dick-swinging aside, I don't think I could disagree more with this reply. SDKs provide a much needed layer between provider and consumer to prevent unnecessary coupling.
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by angrybits 13y ago
The ways in which it can (and will) fail are monumentally complex. Everything looks simple when it's working.
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by angrybits 13y ago
So yet another database (for certain definitions of database) built for the tiny fraction of applications that will: a) warrant this kind of complexity b) be able to give up ad-hoc queries So I guess if I ever need to build a highly scalabl
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by angrybits 13y ago
It's not because it's cheap, it's because you can avoid capacity planning and blowing capital (for which you would need an ROI). Once you are big enough that you hire your own accounts, lawyers & ops, then you can make a
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by angrybits 13y ago
is that based on a hunch or is there a source for that? (or similar precedent)
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by angrybits 13y ago
Yeah you can tell that that those are facts, because it says so right there in the domain name.
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by angrybits 13y ago
A decade later you stumble across code they still had checked out in the ancient VSS repo. And then the rest of your day is a bit crappier.
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by angrybits 13y ago
I don't disclose current comp unless/until it benefits me in the negotiations.
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by angrybits 13y ago
With closed salaries, you don't have to justify anything to your employees. They are called employees for a reason.
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by angrybits 13y ago
The time spent researching and building that cluster was time not spent building product. If you are low on capital then it was potentially a good tradeoff, but I'd much rather just scale up my read capacity by adding horsepower until
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by angrybits 13y ago
San Diego is cheap, hmm. Who knew?
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by angrybits 13y ago
pfft, I care as much about Quora as I do Expert Sex Change