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Thiel's Trump donation stirs controversy, ire in tech(usatoday.com)
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by edw519 10y ago
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by edw519 10y ago
Whatever it takes to best satisfy your customer. That's it. No, I'm not being snarky, so hear me out... I've met and worked with many developers over the years and lots of them have become very good with technology and user d
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Finally, you'll need to have the self-confidence or stubbornness to choose and stick to a path that most people don't take. You don't need self-confidence or stubbornness, just commitment to your principles... I have never
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by edw519 10y ago
“How can I get Bill to stop writing spaghetti code” is only superficially a technical problem. In reality, it presents a human problem. Actually, it's a management problem. Management must establish and enforce proper process and c
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I look forward to that book! (Although I'm not really sure I would classify anything I mentioned as "technical". I think it's all "CIO-discussable".) Welcome to Hacker News, Andrea, and thanks for making such a
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by edw519 10y ago
I really wanted to like this post. It's well written. With passion. Using a common metaphor (a house). And about the biggest elephant in the I.T. room today. But I couldn't. Because it just skated on the surface of the iceberg. OP
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Should the Grizzly Bear Eat the Salmon?(fivethirtyeight.com)
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The Importance of Recreational Math(nytimes.com)
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MAJOR FAIL! Losing brother: “I am shocked and disappointed with the decision and I will be considering my options.” Winning brother: “My love for my brother is unconditional...I’m thankful for the opportunity to put this challenging time be
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Silicon Valley brainstorms app to stop police killings(usatoday.com)
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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indif
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Whatever it takes to make money for customers. That's it. No, I'm not being snarky, so hear me out... I've met and worked with many developers over the years and lots of them have become very good with technology and user d
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The 100-Year-Old Man Who Lives in the Future(bloomberg.com)
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University pays $20,000 to ransomware hackers(bbc.com)
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by edw519 10y ago
Nice starter list. Here's more, off the top of my head: - failure to lock rows with pessimistic locking - failure to consider optimistic locking when viable - data sets within a table (undernormalization) - too much duplicate
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by edw519 10y ago
Wow, untilHellbanned, I was actually on your side in this strange thread. Until you mentioned your 12 y.o. nephew. You may have just set a new Hacker News record, moving up Paul Graham's Disagreement Hierarchy from DH0. (Name Calling)
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Analysis Programming Debugging Overhead ------------ -------- ----------- --------- -------- My Own Stuff 30% 60% 10% 0% Others' Code 50% 10% 30% 10% Enterprise
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It usually comes in a phrase similar to "I know how to program, but I don't know what to program." "How" is about yourself. "What" is about others. Both are important, but "How" ususally comes
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by edw519 11y ago
I'm in Florida, too. I own a car and drive it once a month whether I need to or not. And I ride my bike about 4000 miles per year. The weather's great, it's flat, and I can always put my bike on any bus or train. My favorite
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Sorry to hear about all of this. As a repeat solo founder and bootstrapper, I have an intense desire to spend the maximum amount of time satisifying my customers by helping them solve their problems. Sure, this approach often leaves a bundl
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by edw519 11y ago
“in the tech world, gray hair and experience are really overrated,” Halligan said. I guess once Halligan gets a little gray hair and experience, he'll realize how absurd this statement is and will regret ever saying it.
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In the end it’s all the same story, you get nothing or very close to nothing and meanwhile the owners of the company will get the product of your work and will make bank on that. Nice post (as usual) Jacques. My experience is similar but
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Fitspur: Individually you play together you have fun. Find your Activity Partner(fitspur.com)
8 points by edw519 11y ago|3 comments
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Exactly when did UnconventionalButTotallyLogical = CrankyOldMan ?
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Poverty is not just about a lack of money. Someone who was gifted $1 million on the day he was born preaching about poverty is like someone who has never written a line of code running an I.T. department.
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The delta between a great tomato and a good tomato is nontrivial but insignificant compared to the delta between any tomato and a Coca Cola.
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by edw519 11y ago
Aaah, feels like a good time for me to recycle an oldie but goodie from #245 here: http://v25media.s3.amazonaws.com/edw519_mod.pdf If it worked for Leonardo da Vinci, maybe it could work for me. The next time I’m looking fo
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by edw519 11y ago
Have less stuff. This may seem like a snarky answer, but I'm deadly serious... Your mind should be spending it's energy processing important thoughts, not constantly doing read-seeks for the "frivolous". It's trying

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