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by cbanek 9y ago
This echos my experience completely. One other thing to realize is that you're building a game, you're not building tech. The tech supports the game. A buggy game can be fixed, but a game that works but isn't fun is hard to
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by cbanek 9y ago
Now we just need a nice restrictive license to grab all the patents.
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by cbanek 9y ago
Thanks - that's a good datapoint. > Culture especially is interesting, as often there's tradeoffs between culture and role and interesting problems to solve. 100% true in my experience. For interesting problems, there's a
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by cbanek 9y ago
That sounds pretty sweet. I'd love to know where that is, if you don't mind sharing. The problem about the "moving on" from bad workplaces is that it's hard to tell if your next workplace is going to be the same, e
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by cbanek 9y ago
The problem is, unlike a copilot who is trained on the system, usually on-call people are winging it at best, and after the horse has left the barn. I've been on many on call rotations for many different projects. Some of them have ha
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by cbanek 9y ago
Both of these comments sound interesting, and make me want to go interview there and report back! :)
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by cbanek 9y ago
It doesn't need to replace it (it's not like c++ is being deprecated), and there has to be real reasons to port over existing code, because there are real costs. The technically best format doesn't always win. Just look at B
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by cbanek 9y ago
While Uber seems to be the current whipping boy of Silicon Valley, I wish I could say that this article would sound different if I replaced Uber with any other big tech company. Getting yelled at constantly, usually with profane language?
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by cbanek 9y ago
> As research indicates, out-of-school factors like family and neighborhood account for roughly 60 percent of the variance in student test scores; teachers, by contrast—the largest in-school influence—account for only about 10 percent. &
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by cbanek 9y ago
> Is "consistent" about going days without a bug? Because I can't do that in any language. Amen to that. Even when I feel like I cover most of the cases, the sands of time will slowly eat away at the foundation, things be
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by cbanek 9y ago
So to get the tech vibe, start giving out free Goldman Sachs t-shirts and golden colored jeans to the techies. If you give it away for free, all the techies will start wearing them all the time.
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by cbanek 9y ago
I don't disagree that people aren't getting all the steps they need, but it seems like there's a pattern where hotter areas have less 'activity' (step count). Central America, Northern South America, Northern Africa
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by cbanek 9y ago
So, what's your point?
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by cbanek 9y ago
I loved this article 987 pounds worth, however I was only able to carry 100 pounds back to the wagon.
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by cbanek 9y ago
First off, realize that pushing against a wall takes effort, but neither you or the wall go very far. If you aren't feeling it, and aren't productive at all, don't force it. Take a break. Do you feel better when you do oth
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by cbanek 9y ago
That's super interesting about demographics with a long history of agriculture. Do you have any links for further reading on that?
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by cbanek 9y ago
This was a great read, and especially hit on the human elements of the Flat Earthers. Here's my favorite quote: > “How are we Flat Earthers supposed to explain to our friends the solar eclipse in August?” asked one attendee. The ro
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by cbanek 9y ago
Reminds me of Viceland where they toured the area around Chernobyl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INAlUGn0RYg Except this was like a million times more hardcore, and more awesome with space shuttles.
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by cbanek 9y ago
Operations. Forward and backward compatibility concerns. In professional coding, good enough beats cute implementations that no one will see.
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by cbanek 9y ago
I love that it's a "will someone please think of the children" piece, but really, adults are just as self absorbed. Being able to see how everyone around you is tuned out to the real world (on their phone, talking to imagina
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by cbanek 9y ago
Who exactly is pro-abortion? Do you think there are women out there getting their kicks from getting pregnant just to have an abortion because it's such a fun time? It's an imperfect choice in an imperfect world, where a lot can
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by cbanek 9y ago
Totally agree in terms of a normal legal definition. Of course different religions have different views on the more metaphysical concept, I find it interesting that it seems for Jewish people, that babies aren't considered "fully
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by cbanek 9y ago
> You seem to be viewing all these problems through a political and government lens. I feel it's a leap in logic to say "if someone doesn't support progressive policies then they don't care about mothers, families, an
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by cbanek 9y ago
My bad, I was thinking of employer sponsored healthcare, and I think they usually didn't count labor under the deductible. But yes, buying any kind of healthcare on the public market pre-ACA was terrible. And I meant that being pregna
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by cbanek 9y ago
That pales in comparison to the contraception apocalypse. And now that more have access to contraception, abortion rates are steadily going down, which I think everyone can agree is a good thing.
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by cbanek 9y ago
Sorry, I meant screen for. And yes, screening for people who suffer from genetic diseases. A lot of which we can't cure right now. But we are working on some of them. Childhood diseases are very tricky though, because they're t
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by cbanek 9y ago
While there is something to be said for screening for genetic diseases, etc, I was referring more to how pro-life people more seem to care about people having babies, rather than those babies being treated well and having a good life and go
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by cbanek 9y ago
Apple is a great case to bring this up. Like I said, "usually". In this case, you managed to pick the stock that is trading currently at a 16.85 P/E, which is about half of GOOG and MSFT. It's even less than the S&
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by cbanek 9y ago
Pregnancy at least used to be one of the things insurance companies were excited to cover you for. It means you aren't sick, and the more money they spend (and labor is pretty cheap, compared to a lot of health care), the more likely
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by cbanek 9y ago
I feel in the US that we have an almost unnatural desire to protect children, to the exclusion of other people. Sure, who can be against children? They're young, cute (as long as you aren't changing their diapers at the time), an

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