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by baron816 8y ago
> Cooking or baking is another option. Celebrity chefs can make a lot of money, but I’m pretty sure just about everyone else is just barely scraping by.
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by baron816 8y ago
I have a feeling I would get a brain aneurysm if I tried to read this.
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by baron816 8y ago
The Bay Area isn’t the only place that has experienced an economic boom, but it is definitely the one that has managed it the worst.
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by baron816 8y ago
1000% if my jokes are exaggeration jokes.
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Ask HN: How is software development different in China and India?
183 points by baron816 8y ago|137 comments
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by baron816 8y ago
If I were to do a start up right now, I think I would do a meal kit start up (not that I actually know what I’m doing). There’s still a market for it—people really like the kits—it’s the business model that’s the problem. I think the delive
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by baron816 8y ago
I wonder if there’s still value in etiquette classes that used to be common but seem to have disappeared. I can imagine there being benefits to practicing politely greeting people and holding a conversation with eye contact and complements
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by baron816 8y ago
>“We want to preserve iconic, historic structures, but even more important, we want to protect our reservoir of more affordable housing stock...” SF is a lost cause. The city will never have affordable housing so long as people with this
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SF to developer who tore down landmark house: Rebuild it exactly as it was(sfchronicle.com)
5 points by baron816 8y ago|3 comments
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by baron816 8y ago
Slack and Spotify are two other famous examples. Yeah, like everything, Electron is all about trade offs. It’s incredibly expensive and difficult to implement every new feature 3 different ways for three different clients. It’s very nice (a
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by baron816 8y ago
I’m not convinced NCs are always bad for workers. There are lots of junior SWEs out there who can’t get jobs because no company wants to hire them and pay to train them just to watch them leave for more money once they become productive. Th
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by baron816 8y ago
I’ve found myself unable to do even elementary maths recently just because I’m sorely out of practice. Hasn’t really affected my performance as a programmer. Wondering, what kind of math I could learn that would benefit me in my job?
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by baron816 8y ago
The real breaking point will be when solar is so cheap that it costs less to replace a coal or natural gas plant than it would be to continue running it.
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by baron816 8y ago
I’d like to hear people describe why the code they’ve seen is bad.
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Ask HN: What did you do to get promoted as a SWE?
2 points by baron816 8y ago|0 comments
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by baron816 8y ago
It’s a big deal because the White House made it a big deal by revoking Acosta’s press pass.
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by baron816 8y ago
Is it satire? Are they being facetious? I honestly can’t tell if they’re serious. They don’t make an argument against permanent DST.
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by baron816 8y ago
All this talk of JS getting new frameworks every few months is just BS. Front end development has evolved a lot in the last few years, completely out of necessity. But it is stabilizing because we’ve discovered the patterns that make sense
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by baron816 8y ago
How much more do you think it's worth now? 2x? 10x? All this media attention is definitely having a huge impact.
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by baron816 8y ago
I’m fine with less than idea answers. The problem is that most people I see prematurely optimize and don’t try to abstract the problem out at all. Or they only abstract one small part, or a part that makes no sense to abstract. They gravite
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by baron816 8y ago
The question is to make a function that will group the values of a linked list by odds and then evens. So 1->2->3->4->5->6 becomes 1->3->5->2->4->6. The solution essentially comes down to creating filter and co
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by baron816 8y ago
I tell them exactly what I’m looking for and am very clear up front. Many of them don’t follow orders, they put everything into one big function and don’t try to abstract at all.
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by baron816 8y ago
Too many software engineers get into a mindset of “just make it work.” For me, making it work is only half the battle. You need to build something that will make it possible for you or someone else to come back to later and be able to reaso
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by baron816 8y ago
I’m not opposed to new taxes, but that was a really poorly designed tax.
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Ask HN: Will humans ever create a new, widely spoken language?
1 points by baron816 8y ago|1 comments
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by baron816 8y ago
Damn, Bezos is worth $166B. Also shocking, AAPL is already worth $1.1T and MSFT is worth more than GOOG.
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by baron816 8y ago
Couldn't they just use recycled concrete (from broken up roads and buildings) or just rocks instead?
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by baron816 8y ago
If this became a real thing, can the employees who operate the cranes be called "Sisypheceans?"
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by baron816 8y ago
Bidet toilet seats? They’re not prohibitively expensive now, you just need an outlet in the right place (which is why I don’t have one).
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by baron816 8y ago
I’ll just ask Dan.

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