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by gyardley 10y ago
Nonsense. 'Just following orders' does not remove your moral culpability.
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by gyardley 10y ago
When I read articles like this, I realize just how differently I'm wired than, well, the sort of person who writes articles like this. And I kind of dislike articles like this, because there always seems to be an implicit prescriptiven
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by gyardley 10y ago
You're almost certainly crazy from a financial perspective. You're unlikely to catch up, salary-wise, and will hit the ageism wall a lot faster as a developer. But hey, we all get a little crazy when it comes to the things we love
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by gyardley 10y ago
You're missing just how easy it is to write a quick script that downloads all the content and stores it on your hard drive. Subscribe for a month, write the script in an hour or so, unsubscribe, and you're done. I did this for one
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by gyardley 10y ago
There's no need to assume a central conspiracy when the same thing is easily explained by just a few too many random people flagging the posts, for what's probably a wide variety of individual reasons.
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by gyardley 10y ago
Talk to as many people as you can at the company, especially people who aren't in leadership positions. Ask if you can talk to a couple of the people who'd be reporting to you. A scheduled interview is like talking to a provided r
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by gyardley 10y ago
Thank you so much for this awesome, lengthy, detailed reply.
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by gyardley 10y ago
Is that a typical attitude in your culture? I'm a lot closer to "follow regulations only when I agree that they're justified or when I fear the consequences of not following them" and I'm not particularly sure why -
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by gyardley 10y ago
Outlandish and uncharitable? Interesting, because I wasn't trying to be. It seemed so obvious (to me, anyway) why people routinely break laws that I assumed the person I replied to came from a very different culture than my own, and I
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by gyardley 10y ago
Are you arguing that any law, whatever its content, should be followed unquestionably just because it's the law? In the United States, anyway, disdain for laws you disagree with is baked into the culture. The American Revolution and th
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by gyardley 10y ago
In a truly 'new whatever economy' with minimal barriers to entry and no middlemen, wouldn't the competition quickly reduce prices to subsistence levels? If these women are truly able to charge hundreds of dollars for their ti
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by gyardley 10y ago
During my first startup job, I took my freshly-minted history degree and explicitly treated the body of communications from engineering, marketing, sales, and the customer base as 'historical sources'. This helped me figure out wh
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by gyardley 10y ago
As far as I can tell, my great-grandfather's older brother committed suicide with his own infantry rifle rather than go over the top of the trenches again. The report from the military court of enquiry makes for some sobering reading -
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by gyardley 10y ago
> What about it, though? Violating the consciousness's right to life. I could be missing something, of course, but whether we can make an exact duplicate of a person at a given point in time doesn't seem relevant to this. I&#x2
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by gyardley 10y ago
Sure, as much as it makes sense to worry about the fate of any other independent human being - and perhaps even more so, if you feel more affinity with your copies than you do with random strangers. I wouldn't use a facility that kille
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by gyardley 10y ago
This happens everywhere, with the establishment varying with the culture. In much of Canada, the local community center is the Tim Hortons. My labor studies professor back in the day wrote his doctoral thesis on this and (unfairly, in my op
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Silicon Valley's Scapegoat Complex(medium.com)
2 points by gyardley 10y ago|0 comments
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Things Microsoft Could Do with LinkedIn(trackchanges.postlight.com)
2 points by gyardley 10y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 10y ago
Sure - that's how most places usually hire their first product manager, if they're not just promoting from within. Honestly, that's how most early-stage startups hire pretty much anybody. If the company continues to succeed i
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by gyardley 10y ago
No, I don't work in the industry - but I have an acquaintance, and if I want to message him, he's rarely on anything but ICQ. As far as I know it's just 'tradition', like the oil industry - once ICQ hit critical mas
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by gyardley 10y ago
Once everyone in an industry starts using a particular platform to do business, switching is very very hard. The porn industry still uses ICQ.
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by gyardley 10y ago
That depends on what you're doing with them. If you're doing something mundane, easy, and well-defined, yes. If you're doing something unique, difficult, or undetermined, no.
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by gyardley 10y ago
I'm not so sure building a robot capable of killing toddlers 'does something for the USA' - at least not anything positive. I'm not particularly horrified by military robots, but I suspect they'd have to deal with c
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by gyardley 10y ago
Was this truly a rant? I can understand parents with one child not quite anticipating how expensive they are, but surely parents who already have two children should understand the economic consequences of having two more.
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by gyardley 10y ago
No, since Ultron was made by Hank Pym.
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Startup Exit Stories You Didn't Read About(medium.com)
3 points by gyardley 10y ago|0 comments
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by gyardley 10y ago
I can't speak for anyone else, but I voted for Pinboard and only Pinboard because I wanted to maximize the impact of my vote for Pinboard. If that's what you mean when you say 'the votes for Pinboard look dramatically differe
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by gyardley 10y ago
Of course it does. If you pay someone when they reside in the United States, you don't have to deal with the Canada Revenue Agency or any of the provincial and local authorities at all. Instead, you deal with the same federal, state,
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by gyardley 10y ago
The thread is about remote workers, not immigrants. He's talking about a Canadian who continues to work remotely in Canada, not a Canadian who's moved to work in the United States.
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by gyardley 10y ago
Every right of first refusal clause I've ever been subjected to or subjected others to has had a thirty day deadline, so I don't think this is accurate. It's unlikely that the set of companies I worked for / founded was

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