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by crpatino 11y ago
If you create a product that runs on client's hardware, you want to be able to run consistently in as many platforms as the majority of your potential customer's. You are leaving money on the table if you don't. If a subset o
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by crpatino 11y ago
I know this sucks, and its relatively common, but it gets better. One thing I could not wrap myself around is how this novice kid goes on to Advice companies what they have to do in order to hire junior developers. This is completely upsi
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by crpatino 11y ago
...said the israeli agent.
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by crpatino 11y ago
> So he was a 10x analyst and maybe would have gotten 25% to 50% more pay than colleagues -- not worth it. They guy died when he has barely old enough to (legally) drink a beer. I'd say it was pretty irrelevant if he was making 10%
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by crpatino 11y ago
#1 is never going to happen. It is a fact of life that if you wait until having anywhere near 99% of understanding of the problem space, you will be driven out of market by the guy that did a quick prototype with mere ~70% and iterated from
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by crpatino 11y ago
Population growth is half of the problem. I do not deny anything you have said, however... What do you make of the DINK couple that has foregone their reproductive rights for the sake of "environmental concerns" but still get them
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by crpatino 11y ago
> ... but the unnamed people who reported the arthritis are more believable than all those public servants? And you can be sure that millions are going to die, not because they are stupid, but because the authorities are reluctant to cra
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by crpatino 11y ago
If the alternative is unemployment, sure, why not?
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by crpatino 11y ago
I am positively sure that is not the case. There have been "modern" human beings (homo sapiens sapiens) for at least several tens of thousands of years. Even accounting for the fact that human population today is much bigger than
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by crpatino 11y ago
They don't have to process every violation notice, you know. They can just index them, put them in long term storage somewhere offline, and wait until they want to make an example of someone for a wholly unrelated reason...
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by crpatino 11y ago
I do not agree that the Greater Fool theory is a necessary condition for there being a bubble. That would be closer to a pyramid or a Ponzi scheme. Not 100% sure of what the difference is. Rather, the problem is when unsophisticated investo
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by crpatino 11y ago
You are correct about that, maybe even in the upper limit. Given that you are aware of that, it makes even less sense to pretend that 1 billion people can keep eating the amounts of meat that are currently considered "normal" in t
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by crpatino 11y ago
That statement can mean pretty much whatever you want if you carefully choose your definitions of "sustainable", "overpopulation" or even "meat". I wouldn't go as far as to tinker with the definition of &q
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by crpatino 11y ago
I think it was Warren Buffet who said something along the lines of: if we handled the Olympics the way we handle wealth, we would be looking for the grandchildren of medal winners in the 50's and 60's and sending them to compete t
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by crpatino 11y ago
Agreed. But if that's the case, how (or to what degree) can inequality be the consequence of "one's own chosen behavior".
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by crpatino 11y ago
Right, I have seen that research before, and I don't think you should be getting down-votes either. The relevance of social mobility in the discussion was because the GP assumes the correlation that the problems related to inequality&#
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by crpatino 11y ago
That is a falsifiable statement, you know. Is there any statistic to show what percentage of today's top 1% earners where born to a bottom 50% family from the previous generation, and viceversa? If less than what you would expect from
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by crpatino 11y ago
These are standard contracts in many places of the world with stronger labor laws than the US. It does not mean you have tenure, or any non sense like that. It means there are specific, objective causes to terminate your contract, which inc
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by crpatino 11y ago
I'd put it rather like... for any reasonable definition of "good code" and a sample that highlights the characteristic features of such good code, you will find a competent, intelligent developer that will consider it bad. Wh
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by crpatino 11y ago
I have a pretty clear recollection of having heard about VCS in an undergraduate class, but presented in the most boring possible way, so I learned whatever I needed to regurgitate for the exam and moving one. A few years later, I found mys
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by crpatino 11y ago
That's funny, but it is a real issue preppers often dismiss. If you sit on a big cache o stuff, and have nothing else to offer for the rest of the community, what's going to prevent them from taking it away from you. Though I susp
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by crpatino 11y ago
> I don't get why the world thinks software engineers are so rich... Everybody know how much a programmer makes in Silicon Valley, and think everyone in the industry is paid accordingly. Also, high cost of living in SF area is not t
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by crpatino 11y ago
I find it kind of confusing how you fit this back to the land idea with being an engineer that wants to work on his own engineering projects rather than just scape the cubicle farm. Also, you mention you have a spouse. I know it is terrib
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by crpatino 11y ago
And hippies don't go to war either. But how is that relevant to the point of religion being the only way to make people work against their own interest.
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by crpatino 11y ago
Farm work is exclusively physically demanding only if you want to be the village idiot for ever. Machines (or for the matter, mules/oxen) are better suited for this than humans. While there is a lot of physical work in farming, you n
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by crpatino 11y ago
Strictly speaking, salaries lag behind prices in typical inflation scenario. It is not that your wage go down, it is that it won't go up until your performance review 3 months down the road, but in the mean time you still have to pay b
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by crpatino 11y ago
I beg to differ on the monopoly of religion over the power of hierarchies. Take the military by example. They have a remarkably good track record of literally sending men to die, in full knowledge that their chances or survival are negligib
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by crpatino 11y ago
It. Is. Not. About. You. Nobody's bashing your job. It's about someone sharing their own journey. On the other hand, I think you do us all a big disservice by clubbing down anyone who has anything slightly negative to say about
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by crpatino 11y ago
It is interesting to speculate why is it that religious groups fare better in this kind of arrangements. I think it has to do with 2 things: The ability to shame individuals into compliance without resorting to violence, and the ability t
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by crpatino 11y ago
In a way, he's doing that. Not the company thing, but he still holds a part time job as a programmer. But then, there is the issue of focus. How good can you get at both trades at the same time, if people normally take years to go thro

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