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by crpatino 11y ago
> You know who built Google? People who weren't working in Yahoo or AltaVista. It was not people trying random shit either. It was a pair of PhD students, who were already experts in how information is indexed in libraries, and who
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by crpatino 11y ago
Know your strengts. If that's what your skillset is right now, and you need it sooner rather than later, sysadmining it is! You may want to extend your skillset to other (non-tech) areas, as long as it makes you happy. But use what you
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by crpatino 11y ago
> I have no idea what other career I would choose That's what serious hobbies are good for, pal. Those won't allow you to support your current lifestyle, but if you can do something useful - and do it well enough to charge mone
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by crpatino 11y ago
Outliers make for poor descriptors, but still; probably less than that between Bill Gates and the lowest paid American. It would be more interesting to see the differences between two typical families in the 10% and 90% of income.
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Yes. Cuba, like every other modern State this side of Oz, has some human rights issues. And yes, Cuba is probably worse than average, though you would need to present some references to make a compelling case that it is anywhere near the bo
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by crpatino 11y ago
> The Ford maxim still applies. You have to pay your workforce enough to buy the products that they make for you. Which is why it's very hard to get access to high-quality manufactured goods at any price point. By directly screwin
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Not if you know the difference between genotype and fenotype.
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They are not going to get $10^9 for it, they are asking for that much because asking is free. But then, when the rubble stops bouncing and the companies come to an agreement, that high watermark will help them negociate an actual price that
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by crpatino 11y ago
I'd be wary to use the opensource alternative that shares APIs with Oracle's. Postgress sounds like a safer bet to my ears.
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In my experience, if you try to do without unit tests, your integration tests will grow to fill in the gap. This will slow you down in a two-fold way: 1. As your integration tests will both more numerous and complex to cover corner case sce
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by crpatino 11y ago
Let me take the opportunity to repeat myself. We need a "professional-courtesy" license. Something like a GPL on steroids that can only ever be distributed as tarballs. The minute to pass a binary around, the minute you try to dep
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by crpatino 11y ago
In free markets, client is always right, right? Like in... the client is 16 y.o., loaded with hormones, and more interested in the current gossip than in the skills that will change his/her life a decade from now. The client is also in
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The quality of the simple is not reached by simply pursueing simplicity for the sake of simplicity. That will take you instead to the realm of the simpleton.
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> "Can we trust this young nobody," way. That's normal science at work. Old sages are biased, like everybody else. Fortunately, they are mortal too [1], and science keeps moving forward 'one funeral at a time', a
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by crpatino 11y ago
There is a technical name for that in psicology: Double-bind. There are 2 acceptable responses to that, plus a taboo one. The 2 standard responses is either to try to uphold an unrealistically high standard (the neurotic overachiever type),
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Didn't you read the Memo? Science is a lot like sausage processing. The end result may range from the quite passable to the quite good, but if you actually saw the raw materials and the process, you'd be more discriminant on what
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by crpatino 11y ago
Or just maybe, militar personnel ough to rely on their government's reconn/intel reports instead of using customer grade apps that were never designed for wartime usage.
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by crpatino 11y ago
And in a world where stepping on someone's glasses can bankrupt a well to do family, that pettiness of yours and all that think as you do causes people to die under the tires of a car... because would be helpers do not think they can a
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by crpatino 11y ago
I was not talking about littering, jaywalking, or traffic tickets. I was talking about the economic warfare that the American moneyed class is waging to the American working class; and one of which's fronts is illegal immigration. It s
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> When someone says, "ah, screw it, I don't like that law, so I'm not going to follow it," ... Yes, I am Mexican and I agree 100% with you. So, I would be extremelly happy to see that every time an illegal Mexican imm
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by crpatino 11y ago
With due respect, ideas are a dime a dozen; and if this people had the "ability to execute on it", they would not need the engineers to do just that, would they? I do not want to disregard anyone's skills, technical of busine
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by crpatino 11y ago
Well tradespeople usually work for multiple clients on smallish projects. For good tradespeople, a significant number of those projects come from repeat customers, which means their optimal strategy is not to serve all customers equally,
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If that's the case, you assume priming will be needed in your original estimation, then go do the test anyways, and at the end of day one you will look like a hero when you say "hey guys, I think we can get away with cutting primi
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by crpatino 11y ago
If you can do "creative software development" and get paid for it, count your blessings. And better yet, give a very big "Thank you!" to your manager. The reality of this trade, regardless of you doing in-house work or a
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by crpatino 11y ago
It's pretty interesting to me. It reads like 1492 and 1972 at the same time.
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Nobody got fired for picking 42.
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If by "functionality" you mean "stuff that makes money for the manufacturer and is at best marginally useful to the customer", then I agree. Otherwise, the whole experience of the 20th century demonstrate that it's
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by crpatino 11y ago
A hundred times yes!!! The main value that uber drivers bring to the table is not the brain that connects the engine to the driving wheel, it is that they use (and maintain) their own damned cars to do this lame pretense of a part time gig.
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by crpatino 11y ago
This is a very insightful comment, from a person who has first hand user experience with self-navigation systems. Sadly, if you dare utter blafphemy against the Almighty God of Technology, bad karma will happen to you. This is even against
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by crpatino 11y ago
TL;DR If we just ignore the energy sector (and close our eyes very, very tight), the economy looks rosier than ever.

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