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by candybar 13y ago
This seems like a good balancing act. The levers of power are already available for crooks trying to prop up billion dollar empires. Why shouldn't they be available for those who are trying to expose the crooks and take them down?
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by candybar 13y ago
This is what I mean - your baseline assumption here is that African Americans as a whole are dependent on government help and expanding social safety net is about keeping African Americans dependent on government help. This exact attitude
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by candybar 13y ago
This is amazing! Scala right now doesn't really have a good story in terms of user-facing apps - it's not impossible to piggy back on Swing and Android, but that's about it for now. Definitely looking forward to seeing this
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by candybar 13y ago
This isn't everything, but racism is a significant part of what's motivating the economic right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics Obviously, a lot of people are caught up in the bubble withou
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by candybar 13y ago
Aside from where the startup is, it is also hugely dependent on who that first engineering hire is. If it's a junior developer with a lot of potential but not much experience that they are taking a chance on because one or more of the
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by candybar 13y ago
The worth people are talking about here is, for the most part, the market rate. If you don't own the business, your labor is fungible and the revenue you bring is not separable from the rest of the company, your worth based on revenue
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by candybar 13y ago
Because they have to employ somebody at your position and it might as well be you. That they are indifferent between you and a market-rate replacement does not mean they don't benefit from having you in your position. Say I'm in
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by candybar 13y ago
Lots of people get paid way more than average software engineers in health care industry, which pays very well in general, so I don't think that's the problem. Your problem may be that you're trying to hire software engineer
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by candybar 13y ago
Most employees don't directly contribute to revenue and are largely replaceable. Assuming their position cannot be eliminated, that is, the decision to have that position in the first place is reasonable, they are worth approximately
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by candybar 13y ago
If a company is losing money from employing an engineer at a below-market rate, that means the company likely has a bad business model, not that the engineer is paid more than they're worth. One's worth, at least in this context,
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by candybar 13y ago
"A lesson I've learned, the hard way, many times, is that it's possible to appear intelligent when you aren't." But why isn't this true of yourself? You've created this elaborate personal definition of in
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by candybar 13y ago
Almost everyone is an outlier along some dimension and almost everyone has genius intellect if you measure their intelligence by what is important to them, but not to others. You can choose to interact with people based on what you have in
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by candybar 13y ago
so the problems other people have are simple, but the problems you have are not? Almost every normal person feels this way sometimes, though your version is more exaggerated. Other people's problems can be changed with a simple chang
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by candybar 13y ago
Hence the quotes. What I find interesting is that there's a class of developers for whom their quest for elegance results in the exact opposite of elegance. You can spot these developers by a complex class hierarchy that does absolut
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by candybar 13y ago
The main reason that I agree with this is that developers are, as a group, the boy who cried wolf. It's not that technical debt doesn't matter or code quality doesn't matter but so many developers complain about technical de
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by candybar 13y ago
For some perspective, I added node.js and removed flightjs (not sure what it is) http://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=angularjs,+extjs,+emb... As for arguments that popularity doesn't matter, well transferable s
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by candybar 13y ago
The main reason that I find this hypocritical is that similar complaints against non-YC companies, whether Google or Microsoft or some startup or US Government, are not given this treatment.
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by candybar 13y ago
I really don't like the anti-intellectual tone of the beginning. "The problem with most programming languages is they're designed by language geeks, who tend to worry about things that I don't much care for. Safety, type
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by candybar 13y ago
No that doesn't work either because you need an existing payment system to deposit money into a bitcoin account at an exchange. You can't disrupt something by requiring your customer to use it.
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by candybar 13y ago
No, you haven't introduced anything, because sending money to a bitcoin exchange is exactly as hard as sending money to a merchant. I already conceded the global bridge argument, but that's just a legal loophole. Authorities can
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by candybar 13y ago
Except that's exactly the problem that existing payment systems solve that bitcoin fails to solve. What problem do you see bitcoin solving as far as payment system goes for people who are not using bitcoin otherwise? People can buy f
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by candybar 13y ago
Except, you're not getting around the problem here either - I need to find a real money payment system that the bitcoin exchange and I both trust and and the merchant needs to find a real money payment system that they and their bitcoi
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by candybar 13y ago
The part about bitcoin entirely as a payment system makes no sense, because both the consumer and the merchant need an existing payment system, to convert into and out of bitcoin for this to work, in which case bitcoin is just a middleman d
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by candybar 13y ago
Is this legal? Unless those faces are fictional drawings, using someone else's face for a fake profile seems way over the line.
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by candybar 13y ago
Another thing that's easy to forget is that human languages often evolve to be difficult to learn, with this difficulty later being used as a social weapon against outsiders and a marker of status. This evolution is at times deliberat
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by candybar 13y ago
All these abstractions leak on actual hardware - a haskell program running on faulty hardware does not necessarily satisfy any proposition you can prove on paper. I think you're also confusing the mathematical concept of abstraction a
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by candybar 13y ago
Every time this comes up, I find it quite depressing how everyone becomes so self-centered. Half the comments here are along the lines of: I'm good at X, but bad at Y, so X is a better way to judge programmers than Y and if you do Y,
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by candybar 13y ago
how did she lose her nursing license? is that a common occurrence?
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by candybar 13y ago
Most of this simply has to do with lack of disruption. Almost all sites tend to add clutter over time because new things need to be added and some stakeholders don't want old things removed. Sometimes the only way to get clean new de
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by candybar 13y ago
RyanZag is right that the way you approached this was probably not ideal, but it's quite appalling that the response to a raw display of passion and technical talent was dismissal. They don't deserve you, really.

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