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by buckbova 11y ago
And most Software Engineers never "engineer" a dang thing, but I'm not one to nitpick and rant about nonsense titles.
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by buckbova 11y ago
Exactly, I did my first instructed programming in a 6th grade computer class in BASIC on Apple IIes. I think my teach at the time taught typing as well.
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by buckbova 11y ago
> ivory acquired before a worldwide ban in 1989 This allows those who own ivory, potential many historical, to trade in those pieces. How does this contribute to extinction? Unless there's time travel involved.
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by buckbova 11y ago
Is this even a problem in the states? Only I've ever seen is faux-ivory. "The United States is the second-largest market globally for illegal wildlife products after China, and it still allows trade in ivory acquired before a worl
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by buckbova 11y ago
For my last three jobs I've moved close to the office, within 5 to 15 minutes. For my own sanity I had to and I really love it. I have road rage insanity moments out there on the so cal freeways. I know not everyone has this option, bu
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by buckbova 11y ago
Most of these have been starters or quick intros and over a couple years old, although potentially useful. I have downloaded a few and read through the entire postrgres one in under an hour. I am reading AngularJS Web App Dev Cookbook from
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by buckbova 11y ago
Illumina is building a cloud product of its own and we still need sequencers. So, Illumina still looks like a good investment.
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by buckbova 11y ago
When I see this I immediately flag the submission. This is why I left digg and reddit. The upvote circle of promotion with armies of article upvoters and comment upvoters/downvoters ruined these sites for me.
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by buckbova 11y ago
> When Wix started, we had a Flash-based product—both the Editor and the created sites were Flash applications—which turned into a second monolith (especially the Editor application). These flash sites were ugly, even for the time. I&#x2
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by buckbova 11y ago
Yeah, not sure why it has font weight of 100.
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by buckbova 11y ago
I didn't see a specific answer for the current setup referenced in the article that would have netted zero downtime. It's true the table wasn't available for 15 seconds, but current connections weren't dropped/lost,
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by buckbova 11y ago
If you look up the artist you'll note his previous illustrations are mostly crudely drawn comics. I suppose that is the charm.
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by buckbova 11y ago
> Why doesn't Python get new framework so often? It definitely did with django, pylons, flask, turbogears, web2py, . . . I didn't know which way to turn. PHP had the same thing with cakePHP, symphony, drupal, and so forth. I re
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by buckbova 11y ago
I'd probably go with firebase for a simple app or proof of concept. It even includes authentication. https://www.firebase.com/pricing.html
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by buckbova 11y ago
That wasn't the whole of the back and forth. We discussed opportunities within the company, what's a good fit for me, starting my own business and eventually that I'd been looking at what else is out there. I actually told hi
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by buckbova 11y ago
This goes two ways. Oftentimes employees act like entitled children as well. You are not "owed" anything for your loyalty to a company other than a paycheck for services rendered.
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by buckbova 11y ago
> "They know that employers want loyalty," Hoffman says. "They know they want to hear, 'Oh, I plan on working here for the rest of my career.' When asked about where I wanted to be in my career by my boss (boss&#
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by buckbova 11y ago
If you're great at what you do, you can afford to be an asshole. But it doesn't mean you have to be one.
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by buckbova 11y ago
Did the second manager fire you? He doesn't sound so unkind letting an apathetic unmotivated lead keep his or her job. It doesn't seem like we're getting the whole story here. That second manager might have been an ass, but i
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by buckbova 11y ago
I'm definitely more patient than I was a decade ago, but I still have little use for useless people. I don't feel like I have to be kind to those who aren't motivated to contribute and do thoughtful work.
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by buckbova 11y ago
http://bjorn.tipling.com/all-this Good stuff here.
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by buckbova 11y ago
Isn't the title "12 Gurus Got 5 Questions About How They Set Their Rate"?
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by buckbova 11y ago
> Judges and juries are only allowed to be the same race as the defendant. So if a white cop shoots a black person and is arrested for it, the judge and jury should all be white? Sounds about right. They do say "jury of your peers&q
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by buckbova 11y ago
FYI, this was posted a couple times before and once with some discussion associated. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7358333
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by buckbova 11y ago
That's a fair question and gives insight into the person's objectives/aspirations. "I need a paycheck" is a great answer for some positions, but a person in demand would have choices, so it's valid to ask &quot
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by buckbova 11y ago
Why couldn't this sales rep use a mobile connected ipad to access a web app with pricing and ordering?
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by buckbova 11y ago
This article makes some dubious claims like lack of butchering our own meat to a rise in slasher films. It reads like nonsense speaking from some unknown authority.
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by buckbova 12y ago
Some good angularjs content here: https://github.com/jmcunningham/AngularJS-Learning Honestly the best way to learn it is to do it.
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by buckbova 12y ago
Creating views and triggers on the fly does sound like insanity. There's got to be a better way.
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by buckbova 12y ago
I know it's not the point of the article but Olympic boxing is very different from pro boxing.

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