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by bugsy 15y ago
You have to pay a $500 application fee and cover the cost of your own airfare? I stayed at a pretty nice place for $10 a night in Costa Rica, so $500 covers 50 days during which one can code or swim and ends up owning outright whatever they
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by bugsy 15y ago
There is a huge problem with the linked article. He asks the rhetorical question: "is hiring only the best practical" for every situation. The answer is of course no, you can get by with competent or very competent and don't need the absolu
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by bugsy 15y ago
Asking where's the body is not a conspiracy theory. It's a basic reasonable question.
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by bugsy 15y ago
FB has really been overanalyzed. It's a test of if you can program at all. 90% of applicants couldn't pass it so it was once a useful quick first line filter if they have any skills at all. Yes, there are 100 ways to solve it. That doesn't
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by bugsy 15y ago
It's kind of bizarre. The government takes the people's money, using its militarized police powers, and then "gives it back" in the form of school funding. If the person then wants to CHOOSE which school they would like their children to at
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by bugsy 15y ago
Who knows. With Khan Academy you have one guy teaching 1 billion people. It works pretty well too. Maybe we can get rid of most teachers and school districts. It's not like giving them more money has ever yielded better results before, it'
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by bugsy 15y ago
The entire premise of the article, and much of modern science, is that something is not a true discovery until a white european or american observes it. There are countless examples of this principle.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Interesting article. It's strange that over the last 100,000 years no one in Namibia or other parts of Africa had discovered any of these insects. Or had they.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Really sounds to me like a consortium that would end up using its collective power to destroy non-members. Would be easy enough at some point to make sure only large corporations can afford to be members, and go after innovative small compa
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by bugsy 15y ago
Wow, so these yellow badges are sort of the plantation slave labor then? Amazing to hear that Google has a strict caste system. edit: wow, at 1:05PST dozens of people suddenly hit this thread and started attacking the premise.
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by bugsy 15y ago
Completely insane!
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by bugsy 15y ago
The ineffable value of "connections" is always brought up in conjunction with selling your equity for a pittance, or with paying $250,000 for an MBA from a brand name school. If you need connections with people that have nothing to do with
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by bugsy 15y ago
I have found it is extremely problematic to contribute to open source. The reasons are good ones though and the problem not solvable. A typical open source experience for me (some 90% of cases) is I download a package, compile it, and it do
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by bugsy 15y ago
So... rather than make not enough to pay the bills, now you make nothing yet have a giant support burden.
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by bugsy 16y ago
I agree with 8 and 3. 4 is highly debatable and possibly completely wrong. The rest are all promotion of spending lots of money on legal services even when you really should not be and there is no benefit to doing so.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Hurray, it's the Manga Guide to Soldering. Good stuff, I love these things. One of the amazing side effects of technical comic guides are that small children, who are not really the target audience, end up picking these up and learning thin
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by bugsy 16y ago
"I'm looking to build one this summer." Build one this summer? And then what are your expectations? That it will be making $5000 a month from then forward with no further input? If you want to make $60k a year by the end of next year, adver
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by bugsy 16y ago
"Every Internet service that has a concept of users has to deal with identity." We have users and customers and we don't care who they are. Customers we care if their money is good. The idea of validated internet identity for things outside
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by bugsy 16y ago
Accurate estimation is certainly possible and is practiced by professionals, I do it myself. It's a skill though and it requires ground work in advance. Those interested may find discussion of some methods in McConnell's "Software Estimatio
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by bugsy 16y ago
Interesting. Sounds like he doesn't have a patent, no one at the other firm has ever had any contact with him, the idea is so obvious there are many companies with similar apps, and it's a conflict that crosses international borders and wou
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by bugsy 16y ago
No, when companies "complain that it's hard to retain/find talent" they mean that they are paying far below market rate, have poor working conditions, don't pay relocation or interview expenses, have poor benefits, are in a god forsaken loc
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by bugsy 16y ago
Google-stalking you just now, it looks like you work at a place called ignew which has seven employees and annual revenue of $1 million. The company site doesn't even have job listings though. This is a problem. In a search I found a single
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by bugsy 16y ago
"Other locales have spokespeople who talk about how they are desperate for programmers and how great it would be to work there." Another amazing thing about those jobs is that they want you to sell your house, probably at a loss, and move t
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by bugsy 16y ago
Gosh that is an extremely nice post. Very rational and puts in words a lot of good points clearly and concisely. Please make more of them, your contributions raise the bar here.
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by bugsy 16y ago
Yeah I'm aware of that. Above I pointed out that the XX was possibly coming and would have Saturn V level payload capability. The Saturn V is a giant rocket and needed to be that big to ship a bunch of stuff in one launch in order to beat t
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by bugsy 16y ago
Well... amazon at this point has a pretty long established reputation as being an underpaid hellhole for developers. So I am not surprised they have 1900 open positions. If you are any good, you'll have better places to apply to. So they ge
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by bugsy 16y ago
The article says "early stage startups need to compete". I agree with this. I haven't really seen much movement in that direction though. So many startups try to get early employees to shoulder all risk themselves with no hope of reward, bo
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by bugsy 16y ago
I didn't mean to suggest the ISS in any way. I am talking about the various plans such as von Braun's Das Marsprojekt, where you assemble a fleet of (for example) 3720 ton Mars ships in orbit: http://www.thelivingmoon.com/41pegasus/01archi
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by bugsy 16y ago
The Falcon XX is planned to have a 140 metric ton to LEO capacity, but that comes later, for when we need to ship cargo to Mars colony without requiring a space station stop. http://news.discovery.com/space/will-a-commercial-flight-be-...
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by bugsy 16y ago
Someone doing work with no business value for another party doesn't make much sense to me. Sure perhaps it benefits the worker in some way. Perhaps he learns the value of coming to work on time and obeying arbitrary orders to do work that e

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