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by don_draper 12y ago
Common sense tells me that if he cared about the average USA programmer he would promote a more specific policy that would help prevent companies from abusing the H1B Visa program.
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by don_draper 12y ago
"the idea of pg lobbying to flood the market with cheap programming labor is not only demonstrably wrong" He wants the top programmers in the world to be able to come to the USA. But my suspicion is he has very little concern for
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by don_draper 12y ago
Note to self: Donate to EFF
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by don_draper 12y ago
Is the restaurant claiming all review systems are broken? Do the owners ever read reviews on Amazon or the general web? I don't think you should throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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by don_draper 12y ago
Very nice. You know one feature I would love to see are strumming patterns. It's nice to see the chords but it's tough for an amateur to identify the strumming patterns.
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by don_draper 12y ago
It pretty much says they could use it for any legal reason. Life is short. The chances of it causes problems are slim. I'll probably just sign it.
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Ask HN: Should I sign a photo release form for a Hack-a-thon?
5 points by don_draper 12y ago|5 comments
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by don_draper 12y ago
They should have just put the proposal on elance
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by don_draper 12y ago
"If you walk through a physical market where 8 apple carts are lined up, all selling apples for $1, buy every apple at cart #1, then buy every apple at cart #2, and so on, would you be surprised to find the price moving up or sellers s
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by don_draper 12y ago
For anything non trivial, putting data into an Avro object and pulling it out is manual and tedious. Instead of json_parse("{'nice json':'string'}) you have to assemble the object and for large hierarchical objects
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by don_draper 12y ago
"Reason #3: Less Boilerplate Code" Anyone who has used Avro in Java knows that this is not true.
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by don_draper 12y ago
They drop junk at my house every day without any easy way to opt out. Do they deserve scorn? Absolutely.
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by don_draper 13y ago
What's a good sync solution for 1Password that doesn't use Dropbox?
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by don_draper 13y ago
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigot "a person who hates or refuses to accept the members of a particular group (such as a racial or religious group)" He refuses to accept gay people as equals. He
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by don_draper 13y ago
Some would call him a bigot, not just someone with a different opinion. Marriage can be a great thing and he wants to deny that to some people.
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by don_draper 13y ago
Tim Armstrong should not only resign but leave the country. We would be better off without losers like him.
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U.S. Democrats seek to restore net neutrality(pcworld.com)
2 points by don_draper 13y ago|0 comments
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by don_draper 13y ago
I'd love to see a list of services grouped by industry that use 2 factor authentication. It would affect which service I use.
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How I lost my $50,000 Twitter username(thenextweb.com)
2 points by don_draper 13y ago|1 comments
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by don_draper 13y ago
Because much of what the government does it solely for corporations. Take the agency US AID. They are not a charity. I had lunch with a high level official and asked him what he did and he said mostly it was to help drum up business abroa
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by don_draper 13y ago
Will someone please disrupt Academia? Tenured professors don't want you to see that many suck at teaching so any website that brings that to light is shutdown.
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by don_draper 13y ago
Better to die fighting for your freedom than live in that hell hole.
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by don_draper 13y ago
Please tell me about these other countries that respect your privacy. I'm all ears.
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by don_draper 13y ago
I think outlandish statements are a seen as a technique by powerful people to get their message across. I know a guy who is very successful and he makes wild, speculative remarks and sometimes he is very wrong. It doesn't seem to aff
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by don_draper 13y ago
"A voracious reader – he has always taken periodic breaks from his regular routine to read about and ponder the biggest problems he has taken on – his conversation is littered with references to authors. Given the smallest excuse, he p
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by don_draper 13y ago
I hear working at Amazon requires being available on call and working long hours. If this is the future I'm worried.
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by don_draper 13y ago
Some people think, rightly or wrongly, that home ownership: * Results in citizens that care more about the neighborhood * Nudges people into saving for retirement * Allows the average Joe to take advantage of inflation (this is true IMO). H
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by don_draper 13y ago
Can you give some specific numbers? What does very well mean? Here are salaries at glassdoor. Nothing amazing here: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Amazon-com-Software-Engineer...
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NY Fed Fired Examiner Who Took on Goldman(propublica.org)
2 points by don_draper 13y ago|0 comments
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by don_draper 13y ago
A few people at the top are greedy and exploiting these laborers or slaves. But it appears religion and culture and being used to justify it in the general population.

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