clavalle

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by clavalle 6y ago
Don't become a project manager. If anything become a product manager. It is a desperate need to have product managers that have some inkling of what it's like to develop software. In some places this might be a semantic differen
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by clavalle 6y ago
Learning about (Ithkuil)[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithkuil ], a constructed language that incorporates a few of the ideas in the article along with many others has changed the way I see language and the effect it ca
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by clavalle 6y ago
I'm in Austin and my heater uses gas. Every house I've had has used gas. It's incredibly cheap around here.
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by clavalle 6y ago
'Closed system' is not accurate. The Federal Reserve created over $3.38 Trillion in 2020. Since that goes to banks that can lend 10x their reserves, they effectively created over $33 Trillion last year. That's about enough to
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by clavalle 6y ago
I wonder about the GDP, because it took $3 trillion dollars to keep the country humming when less than 30% of the workforce was thrown into turmoil for a few months.
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by clavalle 6y ago
>I don't think people like doing these bullshit jobs, they do them to survive. Give people UBI and they'll simply quit their telemarketing, soulless middle management, ad tech job I think you're forgetting half the equatio
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by clavalle 6y ago
Access to people that don't want to buy a gaming PC. Or can't, these days, considering how strangled the GPU market is.
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by clavalle 6y ago
Why would they? The professionals that make up the organization benefit.
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by clavalle 6y ago
SolarWinds was a wakeup call but it was also a special case. I remember when I got the first demo of SolarWinds years ago and the cold sweat feeling when they drilled down all the way into individual calls to the database and thinking &#x2
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by clavalle 6y ago
> frankly don't know what we can do to defuse this situation other than punishing those directly associated with hateful messages Bingo. edit: I should clarify - hateful messages might not reach the bar, but calls to violence and o
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by clavalle 6y ago
Oh, let me be clear, I was a teenager when that thing was around. I'm not remembering it fondly...I just remember it and thought it was funny that it was being renovated into an office at the time. If I'm going to remember someth
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by clavalle 6y ago
It's already solved. We have charter schools and specialized public schools for tech and arts that are pretty fantastic.
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by clavalle 6y ago
Not all. Lubbock and Ft. Worth are red through and through.
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by clavalle 6y ago
Texas was pretty pro-employee when it came to non-competes until just recently.
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by clavalle 6y ago
>People forget that South Congress was grungy for awhile. When the porn theatre was renovated into office space...who knew that was the turning point.
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by clavalle 6y ago
It's not ABET accredited, but it is regionally accredited -- which all of the big schools are. That means credits earned at WGU will generally transfer to a traditional school. There are a lot of top schools that are regionally accred
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by clavalle 6y ago
So many are in this boat, though; having the chops they've built informally but not having the paper to get in the door. I really like WGU because it focuses on competency rather than time in a classroom. I hope more educational orgs
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by clavalle 6y ago
Pluralsight is great. But the courses that stand out to me are the ones that have labs, specificially Quiklabs, embedded in them. I wish they'd highlight those somehow so I can find them Nothing like hands on keyboard to get something
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by clavalle 6y ago
I used Linux exclusively for a number of years and was pulled into the Mac world kicking and screaming for bureaucratic reasons. I actually like it. I get a sane shell with all of the basic *nix tools I need and I get the wide consumer-leve
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by clavalle 6y ago
Side note: Explosives law is pretty interesting. If you hurt someone or something using explosives, even if it was a complete accident and in no way foreseeable, and even if the person or thing was damaged because of /their/ negli
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by clavalle 6y ago
Theft and intoxicated driving are still illegal. You can get explosives and machine guns, you just have to jump through a few hoops with the ATF.
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by clavalle 6y ago
And spending resources to maintain existence.
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by clavalle 6y ago
I think a better metric would be net value creation. There are two times to care about inequality: When the low-end creates physical suffering and when the high end controls enough they can force the low end into suffering. But, between tho
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by clavalle 6y ago
You just described science if, after the guess, they test the guess and observe the results.
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by clavalle 6y ago
Whereas, in the real world, the poor might not get the chance to not be poor because destitution would cause their death. I'd be interested in playing with such a simulation where the agents must buy or make food to eat and must have s
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by clavalle 6y ago
Experimentation. If you are doing interesting work it is important to run good experiments. Bad or ineffective experiments can be a huge time sink.
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by clavalle 6y ago
The Kyria...that looks like a lot of thought went into it. And I like that you can download templates so you can print them out and find the right size.
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by clavalle 6y ago
Dallas has dirt cheap cost of living compared to SF. Engineers still make 100-200k there.
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by clavalle 6y ago
I've had mixed results. Romania has been great. Pakistan was /terrible/... India has been a mixed bag. Firms tend to be terrible. Individuals tend to be good to great. The great devs tend to move here as soon as they'
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by clavalle 6y ago
Oh, it's not a bad thing. But competition works the other way, too. Which developers are sitting around making less than a third of what other developers with the same skillset are making? The best ones?

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