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by ergothus 7y ago
> Jira isn't user friendly but neither is C++ I can accept this. But I've chosen to be a programmer - project management tools are a necessary evil, not something I enjoy. Expecting me to put in the effort to master it they
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by ergothus 7y ago
Perhaps those well-versed in such arts can inform me, who knows little about ACH and the rest: Why is it so slow? I get that this is a system that can work built on top of any number of manual processes, but check-cashing scams are rampant
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by ergothus 7y ago
Great question - how would one find those? I can't look for anything without getting spammed by the buy-your-house-cheap not-quite-scammers, but anything else is pretty light. That said, I suspect they'd pay less than we'd
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by ergothus 7y ago
It's a split. There's the eminent domain question from the city - they need space for the road, which would eat my front yard and put traffic a few feet from the front door. There are various kinds of eminent domain (some other
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm in Seattle, and my house only a couple of blocks away from a new light-rail transit station that is opening. My neighborhood has been rezoned for MRU (condos and apartments vs the single family homes that are here now). Plus, the
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by ergothus 7y ago
Other responses have tried to summarize WHAT is happening, but not as much as the why (or at least, the direct why as opposed to the handwavey "encourage innovation" why). For that, look to the past before copyright was a thing.
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by ergothus 7y ago
I had a friend that ran a small food shack (basically a food truck that didn't move) serving hot dogs and nachos and the like. He said the cups cost more than the soda in them.
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Thank you for this - a ton to digest, and a lot of thought-provoking material here.
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Thanks for the recommendations, I'll give them a go (Asimov I've been all over, but only a handful of Lem and Le Guin). Excellent points - I grew up with a single mom and often semi-joke that sci-fi/fantasy provided all of my
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I love sci-fi and grew up devouring as much as I could. But honestly, reading the older sci-fi is painful when it comes to gender portrayals. When Heinlein represents some of the better portrayals, you know you have issues. Even the more
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by ergothus 7y ago
And yet, we've been in a state for decades where a $1 increase in IRS budget results in more than $1 in income, yet their budget has continued to be cut. I'm all for closing down those well-known loopholes, but that doesn't m
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by ergothus 7y ago
One thing I think is notable is how the article that work is how people meet others and encounter new ideas. As online interactions and news become more prevalent (I realize not everyone is equally online), does this change? I myself have n
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by ergothus 7y ago
Sure, but how many managers are actually trained to do what they do? There's this strange expectation that everyone somehow knows how to be a good manager, when in truth, most of us know (some of) what a manager is supposed to DO, but
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by ergothus 7y ago
I'm either old enough or out-of-touch enough that I never used Encarta. Reading the comments here, I see a lot of mention of the interactive elements and video. I generally prefer text - it's easier to search, and faster to consu
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by ergothus 7y ago
No, I was saying it should be like iTunes was for music where you could buy a song without having to buy the CD, contrary to the trends of the time. Obviously that doesn't line up as well for visual series episodes, but I was focusing
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by ergothus 7y ago
Right? For all the hype about the iPad, iTunes (the store) was the real genius of Jobs (pre-iPhone), and it was just what people had made clear they wanted - all their music tastes in one convenient place that wasn't bundled with stuf
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by ergothus 7y ago
I know nothing of the details here, so this is total speculation, but I can imagine value in going with a solution you know wont "succeed", if the data you get from the failure is valuable. Like, no need to spend money trying to
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by ergothus 7y ago
...and the rest is evidence that it's not speculation. The poster SAID they understood trademark law, and specifically asked only about the symbols, so posting "why that's [notice] important" was redundant and off-topic
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by ergothus 7y ago
1) Hey HN peeps - I'm disappointed in the number of people that are either not addressing the actual question, or are simply offering speculation. I'm not angry, just disappointed. 2) On the USTPO.gov site I found the following:
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by ergothus 7y ago
Why is the "by a startup" relevant?
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Can you expand on what you mean by this? "zero tech debt", when understanding that tech debt is maintenance efforts at a minimum, is unavoidable. If a workplace has a "zero tech debt" rule, that workplace (the mana
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Which codebase will be easier to adapt - the debty one or the zero-avoidable-debt one? I feel this is a bit of strawman, though that may not be your intent. As I mentioned in the above comment, wanting to avoid hurting your long term
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by ergothus 7y ago
I've also had several fights with google over my refinements. If I search for 2 words, odds are stupidly high that most of the results will NOT include one of my two words. Thanks Google, for deciding I didn't really mean to type
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by ergothus 7y ago
> My current policy is to allow zero tech debt I was in an office that had such a policy - it didn't go well. Perhaps it's a matter of definition, because: > I hadn't heard of tech debt being something so subjective&#x
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I see nothing concerning in what you've described, except that they are totally at your mercy for whether you are delivering what you describe. EVERYONE will say that the code is clean, maintainable, and has documentation that is meani
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by ergothus 7y ago
Above poster never said anything about freezing the population. Instead, they talked about removing the _requirement_ for unsustainable growth. Heck, even if we're 10 generations away from some "exactly correct number of humans&
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by ergothus 7y ago
> It is really astounding that someone can spend so much time logic chopping and fail to understand what I was actually saying. Perhaps because I was interpreting it in the context of the comment you were replying to (mine). Poverty is d
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by ergothus 7y ago
> Nobody had it easy in the past. Clearly everyone has had it equally difficult and there is no grouping of peoples that get systemic mistreatment, evidence and statistics be damned. Yes, people can have it hard. And people can have it
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by ergothus 7y ago
> The last hackathon I attended, the winners.... (Not a comment on you, but you poked the button) While my hackathon experience is limited, I think any attempt to crown a "winner" reduces the experience. Of course, I am too se
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by ergothus 7y ago
> FWIW: Several of my role models - if you include people who are not alive, people I've only read about - are not white males. But you didn't and don't lack for options. I'm a straight white man from America. No mat

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