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by brackenbury 11y ago
Does it make sense to have special laws to protect endangered species? Why not protect all species? Does it make sense to have more severe punishment for cop killers? Why not have severe punishment for all killers? Does it make sense to hav
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by brackenbury 11y ago
I can't comment about the framework since I don't speak Lua, but I want to congratulate the author for her work. Less than 1% of opensource contributors are women. Women are already under-represented in tech, but in opensource wom
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Ask HN: Coding assignments for kids
8 points by brackenbury 11y ago|13 comments
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by brackenbury 11y ago
Regarding angular, please see this previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8651641 There appears to be lots of things the 1000 contributors didn't get. They are after all abandoning Angular 1 and work
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by brackenbury 11y ago
And what is it that you think is good in XAML? Two-way data binding? Angular and Ember tried that and are now moving away from it. XAML is poorly designed, especially those over-complicated data bindings. I prefer the jQuery way where the t
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by brackenbury 12y ago
Am I the only one who thinks Jony Ive is a fraud? Let's examine the evidence, shall we? Let's consider Jony's performance on software design first. This is what some prominent people have said about iOS 7: The Verge wrote in
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by brackenbury 12y ago
One solution is for Japan to start encouraging immigration. Maybe setup an H1-B program. This will increase the number of tax payers, while also increasing exports.
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by brackenbury 12y ago
No.
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by brackenbury 12y ago
I moved to another group immediately and doing well in the new group. The manager got demoted during a reorg several months later, likely because there was a lot of negative feedback from his direct reports. That's one thing I like abo
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by brackenbury 12y ago
"Microsoft uses bad performance reviews (“The How”) as a tool to eliminate the elder (40+) and senior ranked employees." Current Microsoft employee here. A few years ago my manager at that time did exactly the above. The review
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by brackenbury 12y ago
Trust is not a binary value. When large sums of money are involved you don't want to rely solely on trust.
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by brackenbury 12y ago
I agree with you when you say ideas are actually worth something. When investors say ideas are worth nothing, execution is everything that's very self-serving. The idea wasn't theirs, so of course they want you to believe the idea
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by brackenbury 12y ago
This lecture is from YCombinator and may be a bit self serving. I would take it with a grain of salt. I have noticed that YCombinator prefers multiple cofounders, and in this video they are now saying the cofounders all need to have the sam