bobby_9x

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by bobby_9x 11y ago
"And in personal lives: Your current job seems like an absurdly good deal? Save and cross-train for when it becomes obsolete or oversupplied." Too true. I've talked to many successful small business owners that managed to ma
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"Now, there's nothing wrong with that — in fact, it's a good idea in general" When you are spending more money than the money coming into the system, which happens with almost all socialist systems (because commerce is s
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
This has happened to many so many times. The other situation I've had is that even when I start working on my next idea, I start getting distracted by a ton of new ones.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
This isn't really passive. Most people need lots of support and the servers will need to be constantly checked for abuse.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
"We all spend most of our time at work -- yet, somehow, we seem to give up every right as a human being when we become employees." Workers in the IT industry probably have the cushiest jobs in the world. You make way above minimu
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
You are replacable. You can try to give them an ultimatium and threaten to leave. But they may just show you the door. Even if they don’t now, when things get better, they will probably be thinking about ways to reeuce their risks by repl
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
This is basically just re-creating the taxi industry all over again. Eventually, there will be unions and some sort of system in place to keep out upstarts, like the medallions in NYC.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
More and more, I push for more in-house and self-hosted services for things like this. If I‘m using this as a regular workflow, I want to know that it won‘t go away one day.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Even look at public wifi. Most non-tech savvy people I know really have no problem using piblic wifi to conduct business and login into important accounts. They want the path of least resistance, which isn‘t good for security or privacy.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
That's his personal opinion. I have no idea why people are getting so upset about it.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I think one of my problems with all of this is that many communities allow people with unchecked mental illnesses to continue to manipulate and harass everyone around them. I ran a meetup group with a few other co-organizers and it's a
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
"it's just fun to be a dick online." Because someone who would go to those lengths to just 'be a dick online' has an underlying psychological problem. They get off on it, and it's not something a healthy socie
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
It all sounds well and good, but Vietnam is really corrupt. I lived there for a few months a few years ago and people pay off the police for pretty much anything. It's also one of the only communist countries left in the world. There
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
There is no shortcut to learning. You can spend less time studying, but you definitely won't learn the same material or have the same knowledge. We now live in a society with lots of distractions. We should be encouraging structured l
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I would much rather pay for it. Why? Someone that gives you something for free has no obligation to protect for you.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
There is still a need for software developers to go to college (or something like it). I have a degree in computer science and when I was in college, we studied the theories behind compilers, language constructs, and database design (and m
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I'm fine with this, as long as the risk/reward ratio is equal. Maybe each employee has to donate credit to the company for expenses if they don’t have the cash? I started my company with bank loans and credit lines. If it goes bu
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
People are scared of 'discruption' because it's usually a fast change and 9/10 it has unintended consequences that negatively effect people for a long time. The youth always want fast and radical change. But the older a
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I disagree. It's the same. Its just that too many people expect more of the reward, for less of the work and never realized just how much work it actually took to achieve these rewards in the first place. I see it all the time with p
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Computers and algorithms have no compassion. It would be very difficult to send someone to prision based on justice bot 2.0. It's bad enough when companies like Amazon use bots to do their dirty work to ban marketplace sellers.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I don't understand why they didnt't just announce to the public about the bad water. It would have made it looked like they actually cared about the citizens of Flint, once.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
besides the technology to censor people at a grand scale, what piece of technology was invented in China that hasn't been ripped off from another company in another country? I've been to China many times over the years for busines
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I guess an honest opinion of HP computers in a thread about HP computers is grounds for down voting now?
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
For front-end web projects, I still love using PHP+codeigniter. However, for all back-end tasks, I now use Python. It has so many features that I wish were in PHP and it works well for long-running tasks. Most long-running PHP tasks that I
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
I've had 3 HP laptops over the years and will never buy another one. With each one, within 8 or 9 months, various components would just go bad (sound card, network card, even the screen). One of my friends worked for HP a couple of ye
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Internships are important. I never did any internships and after college, I couldn't find a job. So, I went out on Craigslist and found some freelance gigs for well below what I should have been paid. I did this for about 8 months, s
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
"Around 80 percent of the value of the stock market is held by the richest 10 percent of Americans while the bottom 40 percent barely have any wealth in the stock market at all." So to reduce inequality, we are just going to give
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
This is dangerous. Mostly because it leaves the technical co-founder in a position of power. If he/she leaves, you are in trouble. If you start a tech company, you really should know tech.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Is this supposed to be the one example to prove me wrong? ...it's an exception to the rule.
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by bobby_9x 11y ago
Copying doesn't really encourage progress, because nobody wants to be the one to spend millions (or billions) in R and D (while the rest spend $0). I don't know any brand off the top of my head from China that is top-quality. Mos

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