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by hacknat 13y ago
Thank you for the additional links, but by my tally this article only cites two statistics without bothering to explore how the statistics could be irrelevant to the overall point that the article is making. I find the generalized claim tha
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by hacknat 13y ago
Americans also live in a much more diverse and accepting society than they did 40 years ago. Let's give it some time, hmmm? Articles like this make me peevish. I really dislike articles that glorify the 1950s-1990s, in anyway, without
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by hacknat 13y ago
depends if you say F-A-Q in your head or not. Interesting discussion: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1016/do-you-use-a...
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Ask HN: Any non-profits looking for talent?
1 points by hacknat 13y ago|2 comments
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by hacknat 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810806
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by hacknat 13y ago
Or a failure, depending on one's perspective. Edit rationale: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6810806
907.
by hacknat 13y ago
This assumes that stability comes from a lack of speculation. This is not true. A majority of any modern currency's stability comes from its government's ability to ease and tighten the money supply as they see fit.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Isn't the removal of this flaw baked into bitcoin by it's nature? No, it's not. Bitcoin isn't backed by any political will of any kind. It is a sheer market. That is the author's main point. That since it is money
909.
by hacknat 13y ago
My least favorite bullet point: "And we are not historians" No shit.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Thank you!
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by hacknat 13y ago
My point is that open source software is better wherever we see it. Wherever we don't see it, it probably sucks.
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by hacknat 13y ago
My point is that this is, in and of itself, fundraising. Edit Also, I don't want to minimize the effort it took for you to create Rails, build momentum behind it, and get other people excited about it. What if Kickstarter, et al is j
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by hacknat 13y ago
Fair enough, I didn't say this, but my point was more to highlight that people who take in donations are on the right side of the argument, not the wrong side. There are good open source projects that don't take "institutiona
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by hacknat 13y ago
It's against this fantastic success of social norms that we should be extraordinary careful before we let market norms corrupt the ecosystem. I consider myself a reasonable person. This quote makes me angry. This comment seems willfu
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by hacknat 13y ago
It is funny to me that people extrapolate "code" as just our best way of representing computational instructions we want done that we can express in natural language. I agree with you that sometimes this isn't true. Sometimes
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by hacknat 13y ago
I think it's really important to talk about what Science is. It gets bandied about like it's this abstract idea when, in fact, it is a real process that is taking place. A good definition of Science is humanity's current work
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by hacknat 13y ago
There must be a lot of us for this question to receive so many up-votes. I was expecting maybe 2 or 3 at most!
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by hacknat 13y ago
Good luck! I think "a" is ideal, but tough to find, I'm going with "b" for a while longer I think, because I don't even think that being a back-end developer for a place that is doing simple CRUD (99% of busine
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by hacknat 13y ago
Would you recommend doing my own thing or helping out on a high-visibility project? Both?
920.
by hacknat 13y ago
Fair enough.
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by hacknat 13y ago
You're right, I just realized I'm looking for someone to tell me what to do, because I don't want to face the music on my own. This adult shit isn't easy.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Thanks
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Ask HN: Should I leave my job?
19 points by hacknat 13y ago|18 comments
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by hacknat 13y ago
Absolutely. Java is probably the most well known language in the world. Some time well spent on Google should yield some gold.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Because you know Java I would learn the Android platform. There is a large demand for mobile developers all over the world right now, and even being in a foreign country you could contract your services to people in the US for some pretty d
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by hacknat 13y ago
I know, I don't care if they are objectively the best browser (I doubt they are), my grudge against them runs too deep. I want them to fail. Does that make me a bad person?
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by hacknat 13y ago
This is a fair enough concern, but I fail to see how it applies in this situation.
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by hacknat 13y ago
The promotion of false conspiracy theories is not harmless. In the past, what one historian dubbed as the "paranoid style of American politics" has led to fear of and antipathy toward certain religions and social and political mo
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by hacknat 13y ago
This thing always comes up every few months and it's interesting to see how it evolves, because it does change. I live in Seattle and know people that work there and it really is an amazing place to work, but you must, must, must be en
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by hacknat 13y ago
He makes some good points, I disagree with his use of the word "obsolete". The definition of obsolete is: "no longer produced or used; out of date." In which case C is not obsolete by definition. He does make a strong ca

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