baron816

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by baron816 7y ago
How about you try to transition to being a product manager? Lot’s of MBAs become product managers, but I know at least at my company, SWEs have switched over to becoming PMs. What they do is pretty different depending on what company you’re
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by baron816 7y ago
We look back at the suburbanization of America with such regret, but looking at these pictures, it’s hard to imagine sticking it out in these cities during that time. I question how anyone who was alive back then would want to return to thi
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by baron816 7y ago
I don’t feel that bad for the investors, or really even the employees. A lot of startup equity is worthless anyway. But screwing over your cofounder and COO—your partner who’s been on the frontlines with you effectively running the company
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by baron816 7y ago
Best of luck. Something like 25% of food that’s grown won’t be eaten because of, among other things, spoilage. Keeping food fresh for longer would mean not using as much land or as much fertilizer for agriculture.
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by baron816 7y ago
Hopefully (from a convenience standpoint) driverless will be the solution. Could still be zero emissions. Hard to imagine half the country migrating to denser areas within 30 years.
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by baron816 7y ago
That was the result of a one time cost, their IPO, not a continuing operating expenditure. So, that $5b figure doesn't fairly represent how they will perform as a business in the long term.
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Ask HN: Is there any point in getting an MBA as a SWE?
2 points by baron816 7y ago|2 comments
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by baron816 7y ago
I’ve been thinking of starting a cult. Not a real cult. It would explicitly be a fake cult, and it would have rules to prevent all the evil stuff cults do. But there’s a reason that people join and become very committed to them (or religion
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by baron816 7y ago
Yeah this is what I’m most excited for. filter and map and my preferred array traversal methods. reduce can be awkward though, and people abuse it by using it to replace or combine filter and map. fromEntries almost makes reduce unnecessary
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by baron816 7y ago
Yep, it can be a big motivator. I think companies should dangle those numbers around more. “Competitive compensation” doesn’t really mean anything. Saying top engineers can earn >$1M will make a lot of people ask “what do I need to do to
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by baron816 7y ago
In theory, these stores could sell more nutritious food. They just need the incentives. Taxing sugar seems like the correct approach. Banning a type of store is very heavy handed, and likely to have unintended consequences. Schools should p
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Show HN: Aquaman: Build composable, declarative flows with Redux(github.com)
2 points by baron816 7y ago|0 comments
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by baron816 7y ago
I mean using this project to counteract 10% instead of 100%. We don't have to rely on a single tool to eliminate carbon emissions, we can use a bunch of them.
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by baron816 7y ago
That’s to counteract for 100% of emissions, right? A more reasonable goal would be to go for 10%. Still very ambitious, but could be done and would have a pretty huge impact. Combine that carbon pricing, technological advancements, and othe
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by baron816 7y ago
Please watch this video on what’s probably the worst car ever designed: https://youtu.be/Y16ObVRvgOE I’ve watched it probably two dozen times and crack up every time.
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by baron816 7y ago
Sure, but 99.99% of devs don’t need to know this and probably shouldn’t know this lest they decide one day “this will be faster so I’ll just do it this way” not thinking of how awful and confusing it will be for everyone else.
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by baron816 7y ago
I hate these microperformance hacks. There’s no way you’re going to have a bottleneck here and you’re making the quality of your code dramatically worse.
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by baron816 7y ago
This has not been my experience. I never take notes, almost never go to StackOverflow, and can find anything I don't know from MDN and W3 docs. Maybe it's because the things I work on are really simple, but I like to think it&#x27
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by baron816 7y ago
The article starts out talking about median rents, but the data they use is based on something called Fair Market Rent. There’s a link in there explain it.
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by baron816 7y ago
So cities should be walled off gardens that don’t let new people fair access the opportunities to be had within?
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by baron816 7y ago
The problem with these types of price controls is that it’s inherently unfair. If you’re on the inside and lucky enough to get a rent controlled apartment, you win. Everyone else loses.
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Ask HN: Old guys, what do you miss about development in the 70s, 80s, 90s, 00s?
65 points by baron816 7y ago|153 comments
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by baron816 7y ago
My theory (no evidence) is that the whole recycling movement has been completely counter productive since most of that material has been shipping abroad to countries that are poorly regulated. Had we just stuffed it into landfill (we have n
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by baron816 7y ago
>before we doom and gloom about B&N, it's important to remember that independent bookstores are doing great It’s funny watching a movie like You’ve Got Mail today when the trend was reversed. That movie hasn’t aged well for many
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by baron816 7y ago
>How capitalism killed one of the best video game studios Ahem, no. Capitalism didn't kill it. Had Valve tried to maximize revenue/income, it would either hire more people to develop those profitable franchises, or contracted t
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by baron816 7y ago
The round trip is going to take 30 billion years (assuming no expansion). By the time you got back, Earth would be long gone.
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by baron816 7y ago
>Second, 18 to 35 is sort of a crazy range Agreed. The data can be skewed by more people going to college or grad school. Those people tend to not have much or any net worth.
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Ask HN: What are engineers rewarded for at your company?
18 points by baron816 7y ago|13 comments
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by baron816 7y ago
> I would especially recommend cancer Umm...probably rephrase.
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by baron816 7y ago
Page crashed twice while I was trying to read this and only made it a few paragraphs in. My phone also got very hot. Too bad sites like these have to rely on shady adware to produce interesting content like this.

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