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by ativzzz 7y ago
On the topic of hiring 100k workers, how is amazon planning to safely manage such a large increase in a physically-present workforce when all the current suggestions are to prevent large gatherings and isolate?
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by ativzzz 7y ago
If this were an easy answer, software devs would not be paid as much. Read some books about the topic, then write a lot of code, then change a lot of that code, and learn from your experiences regarding what was easier or harder to change.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> non-productive for society Assuming if you made more money, you would then spend that money, there would be someone who would create opportunities for people like you to spend your money. And that just sounds like business to me.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." Or adapting to productivity gains, the productivity required is increasing to meet the needs of increasingly productive people. So taking into account
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> This is a cross-platform file interface, and we've had those for years. What we tend to discover is that if you do write something precisely correct on each platform, you lose a lot of value in the cross-platform bit. This is simi
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by ativzzz 7y ago
I agree with the author's opinion about > I’ll go out on a limb and assert that most of the up front data pipelining and organizational changes which allow for it are probably more valuable than the actual machine learning piece. Es
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by ativzzz 7y ago
You can encode it, but it is not enforced. For instance, I can refer to every instance/argument when I use a Person object as `person` or whatever name of the class is, but when you have many developers working on a large system, these
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Yea it depends on the technological competencies of the company. I have a friend who works at a company who implemented their own, and they seem to be doing fine, but you hit the nail on the head saying > you will end up running a busine
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Everything you said makes sense up until > clueless white guy race adds absolutely nothing to your argument, especially considering the USSR was majority white.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
In house solutions. Once a company becomes large enough where paying a company like Stripe's fees becomes larger than hiring enough people to create and maintain an internal billing system, then you do it yourself. This is something th
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Hahaha yea you're right, looks like I invented public companies a few hundred years after other people.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Typically you use both, github for the git repo and Heroku for automatically deploying from github.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
It sounds then, instead of accredited investors, we need an accredited capital investment designation. Allow anyone to invest, but require those who would seek investment from anyone to be under more scrutiny. Of course, this is only if the
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> but I really do not care about my work, my co-workers, my company, or my career growth It's really unfortunate to spend 1/3rd of your life participating in something you don't care about at all. I'm not saying most
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by ativzzz 7y ago
For one, Heroku has dedicated customer support when you pay them.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
The OP mentions > They're forms that submit stuff to a server and get a response. So it sounds like they're not actually doing any of the things you mention. For basic forms that just submit, of course React is overkill. Hell,
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Unfortunately that's not the way human society works. > There should be a school bypass mode for the manager types There used to be. These people could start at a company doing unskilled labor and work their way up to management. Bu
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by ativzzz 7y ago
For many people, the degree itself provides more financial value in the long term than the material the degree teaches.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> Why are they there? Are they just taking this class because they are pursuing the money Yes. Having a piece of paper makes you more qualified when competing against thousands of people. Of course you can do other things to make yoursel
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by ativzzz 7y ago
The answer is heavy handed moderation. You need active moderators who discourage toxic comments and commenting patterns, and give out punishments to repeat offenders. I don't know the the guys at HN do it since there are so few of them
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by ativzzz 7y ago
I agree with this. When you are creating a mobile experience for a website, you typically are burdened by the knowledge and existing designs/functionality of the desktop version which was usually built first. When you are designing for
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by ativzzz 7y ago
They get to pay an "unhealthy lifestyle tax".
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by ativzzz 7y ago
> Probably be better to just do freelance/consulting on the side and make an extra $100/hr in a day. Creating a technical book about a specific subject is a great way to advertise yourself as a freelancer/consultant as wel
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Agreed, with the exceptions being technical books or informational nonfiction. I've found that anything that requires taking notes is much easier with a physical book, as I can write in the book; taking notes and highlighting in my kin
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by ativzzz 7y ago
You have to remember that the vast majority of the US is nothing like NYC in terms of walkability or population density, and in the city I live in (suburb of a major Texas city) there is literally nothing within walking distance of my house
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by ativzzz 7y ago
The current hacker news meme is that bad management of any kind is due to MBAs, where in reality a bad manager is a bad manager and an MBA has nothing to do with it.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
The company I work at pays a lowish rate for our 10 hour take home project, which is also the last step of the interview process. I think this is a great practice, as this shows that we're taking this seriously and are willing to compe
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by ativzzz 7y ago
Realistically, which of my passwords are accessible by such? The vast majority of my passwords are on the web. I don't think any web server is capable of receiving that many password requests to brute force the creds there. Otherwise t
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by ativzzz 7y ago
I like to also purposefully misspell words, or use some kind of alternative representation of letters, like use 'keeb0rd' instead of 'keyboard'.
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by ativzzz 7y ago
In your example, it seems the app was not mis-priced for you. In fact, it was the perfect price, until the company decided it was mis-priced for them. So now they add all these unfriendly features, which now makes the app mis-priced for you

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