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by greendata 13y ago
Chemical engineer who now mostly works as a programmer checking in. This is 100% true.
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by greendata 13y ago
what! That's very cheap
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by greendata 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing. There were literally the same arguments against rails in 2006-2008: - it won't scale - too much magic - it's is too opinionated. Only good to do things one way - it's ok. but only for toy apps -
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by greendata 13y ago
Great story. Uber sounds like a wonderful place to work at. To those commenting that this is a BS self-empowerment article, I disagree. The founder probably knew that these design issues were a problem. A competent designer gave a criticism
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by greendata 13y ago
This is a great point. Obviously a city needs towing, city workers need to be paid, and tow companies need to be paid. There's no problem with that but the fees are clearly outrageous and a form of hidden taxation, very regressive taxa
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by greendata 13y ago
I'd take the mafia over what they have in SF any day. The mafia is significantly cheaper and they actually give better protection than the police. I used to live in the North End of Boston, an area which used to have little active poli
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by greendata 13y ago
what's you company?
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by greendata 13y ago
Here's a thought. We don't need them and they do much more harm than good. They didn't protect us against 9/11, mislead us into Iraq, took 10 years to capture Osama Bin Laden, didn't foresee the collapse of the Sovi
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by greendata 13y ago
You're forgetting that a dog "alert" on a vehicle provides probable cause. If an officer suspects someone in a car has cash, here's the algorithm to get probable cause every time. - Pull car over for x (x=illegal lane ch
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by greendata 13y ago
This is one of the major problems with unregulated and unsupervised NSA activities (and other agencies). We've seen them blatantly lie about their actions, to the public and to congress. They've lied under oath without any repercu
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by greendata 13y ago
This disheartens me but thank you for your effort. We know the TSA is already on buses and trains. I think more and more areas are going to be deemed "4th amendment free" zones (schools, airports, football games, buses, trains, 10
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by greendata 13y ago
Tim Ferris?
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by greendata 13y ago
Regulation is the biggest obstacle with Uber. The Taxi services have the city regulators in their pockets. Google, with their influence and money, may help solve Uber's biggest issue.
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by greendata 13y ago
Agreed. It can be very frustrating to see technology change so, so rapidly. What we worked hard to learn is worth a bit less each year. But The fundamental data structures/algorithms don't change and the problem solving skills don
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by greendata 13y ago
You certainly don't have to do this. But let's face it programmers have a higher wages, in part, b/c the technology is constantly changing and the supply of those who keep up is small. Since the structural barriers to most de
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by greendata 13y ago
I wish people would stop fetishizing sociopaths. Common sociopaths are actually pretty boring. Most of them are very, very prone to addictions and substance abuse and spend a lot of time getting money for that. They follow the path of least
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by greendata 13y ago
This is the correct path. Also, something like Heroku or google app engine can be a first step if you have only one developer for front/backend/"dev ops". I prefer a VPS like like Linode as a first step but there is so
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by greendata 13y ago
Are we really ready to put Facebook on the level of big banks? Many of those banks have admittedly participated in gangsterism and fraud. I think FB should be held to a somewhat higher standard than the most hated institutions in the US tod
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by greendata 13y ago
yes, this sounds like much more than a single serving at 6 pm and maybe one later on. Honestly it's hard to estimate how much one is having sometimes. That said, well done on quitting.
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by greendata 13y ago
Generally, I won't be hiring them, in hiring interviews I'd recommend against them for ethical reasons, and I'll avoid doing work for them if possible. I'm referring to a very small percentage of the government and contr
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by greendata 13y ago
This is an old warrant from April of this year. It's highly probably that this is not the reason for the shutdown. We can't know for sure since Lavabit's founder is, according to him, under gag order.
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by greendata 13y ago
Good point about the dependencies. If it was something that someone's life depended on, especially mine, I'd do the encryption operations in a vetted C/C++ library due to possible dependency issue in GOLANG. I just don't
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by greendata 13y ago
love it! Hey NSA how does it feel to have your privacy violated. If you have nothing to hide, you should care
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by greendata 13y ago
Obviously you're being somewhat facetious. If you're good/confident enough to write your own crypto, go seems fine as it's open source so you can inspect it. I don't trust myself to write my own crypt for important
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by greendata 13y ago
Agreed. The nails are in for the current system, but that is not The System, just one of many potential ones. If you are non-US citizen and your customers request a product similar to US product please do exactly as AJ007 says. It will help
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by greendata 13y ago
This a thousand times. Nathan Myhrvold is fundamentally responsible for this. Name, Shame, and Shun
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by greendata 13y ago
Agreed, these US Gov contractors and agencies systematically destroying our industry and our prospects. As a community, let's shun and shame all those who continue work for those agencies (NSA/CIA/FBI/DIA/DEA) both
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by greendata 13y ago
It's not just going to be hosting providers that are affected by this. It's going to lawyers, software engineers, sys admins, writers and graphic designers who are going to lose work/business from SAAS companies. Software is
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by greendata 13y ago
Oh, it's going to get much worse than this. You know how hard it is to be get a bank account and/or financial services if you are US citizen living abroad? Other countries simply do not want US citizen's business in banking a
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by greendata 13y ago
Yes, bitcoin is definitely not an appropriate VPS to run a bitcoin trading application from where the bitcoins are stored. Stored bitcoins are one of the most sought after targets since law enforcement generally will not investigate. For

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