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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
The guys in the trenches debugging are going to end up having a better overall understanding of the system. Not to mention they're going to be really good at debugging; if they decide to get into a more development-oriented role, that
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
I think it actually is possible for startup founders to take the route you're talking about. Check out this talk by Lew Cirne (CEO of NewRelic): http://ecorner.stanford.edu/authorMaterialInfo.html?mid=3367 He basically
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
Garbage collection is not a public service everywhere, especially in towns that don't collect utility taxes for it or in locations not within city limits.
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
Fair points, I'm used to having some flexibility in my day to day. If you're being handed strict requirements that include implementation details, that could be a grind. My greater point would be that there's a lot of creativ
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
I had a long stint with game development. Started contributing to MUD codebases as a teenager, later invested a lot of time in XNA and web games, although none of that work was particularly successful. As satisfying as that work was, I get
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
I read the end a couple of times to see if I missed something, but I agree with your assessment. The author sounds a bit paranoid.
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
It's not the money that motivates me. I get the most satisfaction from writing good code and pretty/usable UIs, and that is what ultimately drives me. My feeling is that I could get the satisfaction I describe above at many workpl
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
In my current role, I like the company, the product, and my co-workers, but I'm almost positive I could be making 20,000 more a year in the same area. My pay is (I feel) relatively low because I'm a junior software engineer, so I&
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
I don't know, we've done hack weeks where I work and they were really fun and productive. The past few times, it has basically been "take a few days off of your normal tasks and work on a feature that you personally want to w
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
Somewhere, there's a product manager or developer coming to terms with the fact that the decision to check that box by default tore at least one family apart.
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
Next up: open-source HTML Ragnarok Online bots.
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
Great headline. Repeated bursts of ~6 seconds (aka interval training) is what they're talking about here, not 6 seconds total.
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by d357r0y3r 12y ago
When a democratic government makes decisions, everyone gets an equal share in that choice. Isn't this an assumption? Perhaps if the system were such that every issue were up to a nation-wide popular vote, the statement would be true.
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They're going to leverage that synergy, empowering key corporate values to enable a full service solution. A true game changer.
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by d357r0y3r 13y ago
I prefer this kind of experimentation on the city level. It's easy to find out what works and doesn't work, then adjust accordingly. I'm contrasting this to reform on the state/federal level which tends to be a lot more
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by d357r0y3r 13y ago
Require that the company submit a legally binding/notarized document before changing the e-mail address.
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by d357r0y3r 13y ago
Yeah, somehow I don't see the IRS and the various other federal institutions than have grown up around revenue collection closing their doors any time soon. The good thing about guaranteed basic income is that it has the positives of w