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721.
by dasmoth 11y ago
How much trouble does the resume gap cause you? The idea that everyone should want to have a job all the time seems like a strange distortion in the labour market.
722.
by dasmoth 11y ago
Y Combinator does seem to be generally anti-remote, at least for early stage startups: http://blog.samaltman.com/how-to-hire Agree it's a shame.
723.
by dasmoth 11y ago
As someone who grew up on "a few acres and a big garden" but currently lives in town, I'd say there's a pretty big difference there.
724.
by dasmoth 11y ago
Do you do this yourself at the moment? It's certainly possible on paper, and looks like a more-or-less ideal balance to me -- but very interested to hear about actual experiences.
725.
by dasmoth 11y ago
World, maybe. But in terms of building a somewhat-self-sufficient community -- which seems to be what's being suggested here -- why wouldn't all-engineers work?
726.
by dasmoth 11y ago
> I love being outside, but I also love programming and wouldn't chose any other career over it. Couldn't agree more. The strange thing is just how hard it seems to be to reconcile these two preferences. Growing up in the UK
727.
by dasmoth 11y ago
That seems in line with some of the claims made about a typical office job...
728.
by dasmoth 12y ago
"Number of people managed" seems like a wholly awful metric. Can't we judge people by results?
729.
by dasmoth 12y ago
UK too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail_Price_Index For most purposes, the UK now uses a measure (CPI) which excludes housing costs. However, RPI is still used when calculating changes to the state pension.
730.
by dasmoth 12y ago
What's the engineer doing at the time? What are you doing? Why shouldn't you be the one writing the docs?
731.
by dasmoth 12y ago
> What are the arguments against these rules? There must be some. I don't actually find this set terribly objectionable, at least when they're treated as guidelines rather than rules, but I'll have a go anyway. Excessive f
732.
by dasmoth 12y ago
Essentially every evening plus a varying number of lunches. Just a electric stove, plus dreams of a larger kitchen...
733.
by dasmoth 12y ago
It's kind-of a shame that you're not allowed to do an HTTP GET with a body.
734.
by dasmoth 12y ago
That's definitely retroactive, my old copy says no such thing. Neverness is a fabulous book though. RfHS also worthwhile, but does sprawl a bit for my taste.
735.
by dasmoth 12y ago
Poul Anderson's "Technic" stories, e.g. "The Trouble Twisters". Must re-read some. Somewhat more recent: pretty-much anything by David Brin. For my taste, a lot of recent sci-fi seems to be a little too focused o
736.
by dasmoth 12y ago
And in practice, compromise is possible. E.g. Clojure's vectors which are unashamedly LISP-like to work with, but still avoid much of the pointer-chasing of a linked list.
737.
The Big Rewrite, revisited(signalvnoise.com)
7 points by dasmoth 12y ago|2 comments
738.
by dasmoth 12y ago
It still amazes me that this doesn't get tried more often.
739.
by dasmoth 12y ago
I don't understand the idea of "...an ethical responsibility to work full time" at all. Why shouldn't the amount of labour you want to sell be open to negotiation? The fact that it's relatively hard to find "n
740.
by dasmoth 12y ago
Not something I've used myself yet, but is there any particular reason Julia isn't on that list?
741.
by dasmoth 12y ago
To a certain extent, isn't that what an acqui-hire is doing? (with some extra costs involved...)
742.
Do you have to love what you do?(signalvnoise.com)
2 points by dasmoth 12y ago|0 comments
743.
Two-day Datomic training course now available online(blog.cognitect.com)
2 points by dasmoth 12y ago|0 comments
744.
by dasmoth 12y ago
Another potential negative is the increased the pressure to move to high-density locations in order to find two jobs within a non-stupid commute.
745.
by dasmoth 12y ago
For some people, it's density itself that is the negative here.
746.
by dasmoth 12y ago
"Up" does still bring a unique viewpoint. Waiting for space-stations/moon-bases/whatever before working on cheaper ways to get people there leads to a massive chicken-and-egg problem. We do have a reasonable idea of how
747.
by dasmoth 12y ago
While e-mail may not be perfect, it still seems to be the best medium there is for people who collaborate best via asynchronous communication. The antipattern of using more synchronous media -- the telephone, in particular -- to force quic
748.
Datomic Pull API(blog.datomic.com)
2 points by dasmoth 12y ago|0 comments
749.
by dasmoth 12y ago
Very substantial amounts of nuclear waste already exist. Stopping making more doesn't make the problem go away (...at least for many thousand years). I'm more optimistic that current waste will be reprocessed or stored safely if
750.
by dasmoth 12y ago
"I think it would be great to be born on Earth and to die on Mars. Just hopefully not at the point of impact." http://shitelonsays.com/transcript/elon-musk-and-the-giving-...

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