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by grosjona 8y ago
I think that the author is wrong in saying that HN is toxic but I don't think that the article should be flagged. If HN flags this article, then I might be slightly more inclined to agree with the author.
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by grosjona 8y ago
I'm not familiar with these specific cases but I do think that many popular open source authors are extremely rigid and uncompromising. And yes, personal attacks against prospective contributors is a very harmful thing for the project.
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by grosjona 8y ago
Exactly. I was thinking the same thing.
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by grosjona 8y ago
If you specifically select a bunch of successful people and pitch them against a bunch of random people then of course the successful people group will perform better. I'm sure though, that if someone finds a group of successful people
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by grosjona 8y ago
It's interesting that 10 years ago, people avoided this subject completely - The authors of such papers would have been accused of being jealous and lazy. Now, the idea that we are not a meritocracy is basically common knowledge, it se
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> This sounds like an issue with being able to articulate why something is... The issue is not articulation of ideas; the issue is that when all the books, all the articles and all people believe that something is true, there is no a
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by grosjona 8y ago
It's refreshing to read an article which challenges common wisdom. I've endured a lot of suffering at the hands of the microservices fan club. It's good to see reason finally prevail over rhetoric. It would have been nice if
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by grosjona 8y ago
I understand the intent of this fund but I think that it's both racist and sexist. Why doesn't someone create a VC fund for people with disabilities instead? Or maybe a fund for ugly people? Or a fund for socially awkward people?
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by grosjona 8y ago
It seems crazy, I can imagine the horror if the pod gets stuck between rocks while going through a narrow tunnel. The simplest solution is to give the children swimming and scuba diving lessons from inside the cave and then once a safe rout
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by grosjona 8y ago
I don't know if what it's promising is actually possible. Ultimately you need to trust that the machine/node which claims to be running your code is in fact running it as-is and not running some hacked version of it which beh
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by grosjona 8y ago
It's terrible that friendship these days is based on superficial/selfish character features like confidence instead of more socially beneficial features like altruism. If evolution keeps going in this direction then there will be
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by grosjona 8y ago
I don't believe in happy relationships based on lies. The deception will always affect the relationship. - If someone wants to believe the lies, then in order to avoid discovering the truth, they will keep the relationship intentionall
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by grosjona 8y ago
One thing that I've learned though is that you should try to work for rich people who believe that we're in a meritocracy. When these people see talent, they tend to think that it's much more valuable than it actually is.
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by grosjona 8y ago
>> Employees want to work 5-10 years max and end up with millions to retire peacefully while working in an intense environment This sounds like either it is an extremely unrealistic expectation or it's extremely unfair. I know lo
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by grosjona 8y ago
Drugs desensitise people to life's "regular highs" which makes them seek out stronger, more stimulating experiences in their lives, which makes them want more money (since these experiences tend to be expensive), which makes
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by grosjona 8y ago
This is the result of western economic policy which is designed to promote corporate growth and monopolies (along with the income and wealth inequality which is associated with it) - It causes people to concentrate in major urban centers wh
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by grosjona 8y ago
What happened with the tech industry is that venture capitalists generated so much hype around tech startups that it attracted a huge amount of people who were only passionate about money. Thanks to their fake smiles, polished looks, well t
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by grosjona 8y ago
Most people are not rational. A lot of people are very good at recalling facts and pattern-matching, but they don't even come close to understanding the full complexity and the effects of what they're doing or saying.
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by grosjona 8y ago
There are full stack engineers, lots of them. This article is extremely narrow minded. It's like saying that there are no nuclear scientists because you've never met one personally. I remember the last big company I worked for, th
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by grosjona 8y ago
I knew that someone would write about this eventually. Facebook's GDPR popup was criminal. When I got the popup, I accepted some default settings accidentally. Based on the context of the popup and placement of UI elements, I thought t
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by grosjona 8y ago
The follower has a higher life expectancy and is more successful from an evolutionary perspective. That's why most humans alive today are followers. Following is smart, following works.
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by grosjona 8y ago
I wrote a system that automates disappointment. I wrote it once and now the disappointment keeps on coming.
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by grosjona 8y ago
All evidence points to this article being bullshit. I'd like to see someone try to make a decent game (including frontend) with Erlang, Haskell or Scala. Sometimes you need to separate state into different objects and let those objects
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by grosjona 8y ago
I like this approach, it has fewer steps and it doesn't waste other people's time.
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by grosjona 8y ago
I went back and forth between corporations and startups. The money and hours are way better when working for a corporation; especially if you manage to get a contract position with a high day rate. But I've realized with time that I&#x
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by grosjona 8y ago
That's not necessarily true. There are plenty of brilliant engineers who don't have special pedigree or flashy work history so they appear average and it's only when you start working with them that you realize that they&#x27
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by grosjona 8y ago
It's often possible for people to shift the risk towards other entities. In the absence of criminal misconduct, if a corporation goes bankrupt, it wont affect the shareholders or executives. They can still walk away with huge paychecks
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by grosjona 8y ago
Unfortunately for you, I don't have any money to give. When I get my paycheck, I do my best to get rid of it as fast as I can.
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by grosjona 8y ago
1) There are many possible implementations. Right now the problem is that very few software engineers understand blockchain sufficiently so that they can design efficient solutions. There is always an overhead when coupling a service to a b
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by grosjona 8y ago
I think it's related to the interest rate. If the interest rate is 0% then it means that money is worthless (because in that case debt behaves exactly the same as actual money)... If money is worthless then assets which produce money (

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