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by bruce511 1y ago
I presume you're referring to the concept of alchemy in the middle ages? The problem in that context is test it would have been impossible to keep the process a secret. To be useful (to say the king) it would have to be more than one g
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by bruce511 1y ago
It really doesn't take much to get people outraged. The last 20 years or so of social media, and cultural politics has taught us that. And enraged people are easily manipulated. Americans were enraged after 9/11, and that engageme
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by bruce511 1y ago
The whole concept of "turning lead into gold" is somewhat self defeating. Because turning lead into gold doesn't make lead as valuable as gold, it makes gold as valuable as lead. This has happened before. Aliminium used to be
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by bruce511 1y ago
I feel like you've assembled a group of criteria (some of which are mutually exclusive) and trying to make a job fit all of them. I wish you luck in thst, but it may help you to identify them to understand what to compromise on. Signif
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by bruce511 1y ago
This is going to sound harsh, but please read it as offered in good faith. Also, the obvious caveat is that I don't know you or your director so these are generalizations not specifics. >> My interview is dedicated to assessing c
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by bruce511 1y ago
I've spent my career writing code in a language which already abstracts 90% of a CRUD-type app away. Indeed there are a whole subset of users who literally don't write a line of code. We've had this since the very early 90&#x
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That's entirely the point. If you see the degree only as a stepping stone to the company job, then that's all you see and that's all you get. If you accept that the degree/job relationship is the start, not end, of the r
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by bruce511 1y ago
I did a comp science degree, so I can't speak for the liberal arts. However I imagine the same experience could apply. For us the curriculum was the start of the learning, not the end. We'd get a weekly assignment that could be do
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by bruce511 1y ago
You get what you measure, and you should expect people to game your metric. Once upon a time only the brightest (and / or richest) went to college. So a college degree becomes a proxy for clever. Now since college graduates get the goo
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by bruce511 1y ago
Alas, I am not a gallery, and thus I don't make an income displaying drawings. I encourage you to target your sales at those best placed to profit from your product. So from my perspective, I can getter better value moving my cash to d
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by bruce511 1y ago
It will be dispersed to more thsn a single family. That's the point. In this case specifically it's unlikely the family sold an asset simply to buy another asset. They've had it a few hundred years, and the gallery has had th
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by bruce511 1y ago
I'm not downvoting you, because this is a common economic misconception, and I'm sure your opinion is shared by many. Money is never wasted. While the long explanation is some what technical and boring, the short version is this;
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by bruce511 1y ago
Yes, it added a lot of new things snd gained 100% market share. Then did absolutely nothing for years and years. The web basically stagnated because once you have 100% there's no incentive to even fix bugs.
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by bruce511 1y ago
Taking your suggestion in good faith, I'm intrigued by your concept of democraticly controlled, worker owned. Please explore this further. I guess I'm wondering primarily what "democratically controlled" even means. Like
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by bruce511 1y ago
As far as I recall, the Netscape browser was free. There may have been a paid one (for enterprise), but I'm pretty sure we had a free one. They did charge OS makers to bundle it (via support contracts) but the biggest market there (Win
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by bruce511 1y ago
>> There's a huge gap between ie6 and what's happening now. Yes. The fast paced development, and rich environment we see now is sooooo much better than the stagnation of IE6. Cutting funding essentially returns us to the IE6
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by bruce511 1y ago
I think maybe you are misinterpreting the data. Is the abuse you experienced a function of software development? Or perhaps some companies are shitty and some are not. Or perhaps it is NY (big city) that is the root cause. Change is good, b
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by bruce511 1y ago
That's not really how markup works. Let's say 1 pay x for a product. Gross markup is say 100%. Do I sell it for 2x. Let's say there's a tariff cost of y. That means the cost price is x + y. I mark that up to 2x + 2y. It&
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by bruce511 1y ago
American Manufacturing never left. Total goods manufactured in the US peaked in 2018 and 2019. It dropped during covid but has returned to those levels now. Of course manufacturing jobs left. Replaced by automation. A much smaller number of
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by bruce511 1y ago
The technical term for where you've arrived at is "mid life crisis" - albeit a bit earlier than most. Your search for success is over. So the next step becomes the search for significance. First though, as others have said, y
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by bruce511 1y ago
It depends on your time scale. As an employer we're not just looking for someone to fill a role now, we're considering the person's potential to grow and move onto more challenging roles. As an employee money is clearly a dri
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by bruce511 1y ago
It would be nice if it did, but that's not how experience works. Which is to say that yes, we can learn from the mistakes of powers, and the story is worth telling. For 99% of people, who want safety and security, they'll just ho
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by bruce511 1y ago
Yes, and no. Sure you might have figured it out sooner. But there's a lot you learned in the other 8 months which you shouldn't negate. You could have taken Gus' dad's advice - and you'd have saved some lot of time,
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by bruce511 1y ago
I think you nailed it here. >> I hope that by reading this story, I can protect some of you from 11 months of pain. That's not how experience works. What you really did was get an 11 month business education. And again, you can t
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by bruce511 1y ago
>> You can build a product and sell it without business guy but you can't have a product without the tech guy. I'd argue that you need both guys. But that both guys can be the same person. It's just uncommon that they a
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by bruce511 1y ago
I think perhaps you misread it? >> You’re saying that there’s no point in having the skills to actually do something (building a product), unless you have someone derivative skills as well (all the business things you state). yes, wit
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by bruce511 1y ago
>> I personally think it’s better to struggle early on than to give away money like candies to founders I agree, and disagree. My business was bootstraped, we never took outside investment, and it succeeded and makes money. It emplo
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by bruce511 1y ago
>> Anyone can do programming. That's not really that impressive. You're completely right, but just because anyone can doesn't mean it's unimpressive. (It does make it 'not valuable'). It's like cooki
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by bruce511 1y ago
Your qualifying statement is found some heavy lifting. First 'tech company' is a very narrow band. There are lots of companies that were founded to leverage technology, but which do not consider themselves 'tech' compani
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by bruce511 2y ago
No, it's certainly not like medicine or law. And you can certainly aquire skills on your own. Of course, in this field, learning is continuous. You're not going to use just one language (much less one framework) over a decades-lon

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