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by hacknat 13y ago
I'm not so jaded as to think that deep language understanding isn't a useful or good thing, and I'd like to think I have some myself. However, deep language understanding is not what separates the great engineers from the goo
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by hacknat 13y ago
I like the way you put it, >>Your loyalty should be a reflection of your employer’s loyalty. A company a group of people after all. It's easy to think about our jobs as benefits acquired for services rendered rather than a relati
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by hacknat 13y ago
What is shocking to me is the lack of environmental predictions in this article.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Umm... What? The 10-Q you just posted says AMZN pulled in $4 Billion in cash equivalents for the quarter which is almost double what they did the last equivalent quarter. It also says they have $8 billion in the last 6 month period whereas
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by hacknat 13y ago
They are hardly a non-profit. He is maybe the most aggressive CEO in the US right now for putting money back into the company. Amazon's cash flow is insane, if they put the brakes on reinvestment right now, they would be making billion
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by hacknat 13y ago
I know...isn't history a bitch. Sometimes being judged and accused is okay.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Very, very good. I share the author's sentiments immensely, and he articulated these ideas much better than I ever could. However, the final lines bothered me: >> When you deserve it, come back to us. Share your service with your
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by hacknat 13y ago
As to your first point I think it is very, very important to keep in mind that this is the best thing available because of Western influence. Long ago, and up until today, Western power and money priced local populations out of being able t
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by hacknat 13y ago
Sigh Yet another US Education hit piece. I love reading these because they all have the same myopic trope: 1. Other countries score better on subject tests than the US on average. 2. This has traditionally been blamed on the USA's hi
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by hacknat 13y ago
Unless one of them happens to be a statesman, which I think Obama is.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Totally.
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by hacknat 13y ago
To the people speculating the the US will default, and that the Treasury won't prioritize payments, I think you are, understandably, misdirected by the idea that Wall Street cares whether this is resolved legally or not. The market gi
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by hacknat 13y ago
That a default will technically happen, but will happen in such a way that the market won't care all that much in the long term.
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by hacknat 13y ago
>> It would indicate that "the market" believes there may be some technical non payment scenario over the short term It may seem ludicrous to an outsider, but it makes sense that if the market believes that the odds of the 1
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by hacknat 13y ago
Yeah, it's insane. I actually brought up my concerns to my manager and, to my surprise, he completely agreed with me. So we're going to have a meeting with the VP of Engineering to come up with some sort of process.
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by hacknat 13y ago
This is what I'm experiencing right now. We've basically done away with prioritization. We have no project managers anymore (we used to have 7), so any interested party can come to any dev to get anything done. We basically have n
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by hacknat 13y ago
In people' experience(s) how likely is it that a company can salvage a situation like this? I'm starting to experience this at work and I've been thinking about leaving (for other reasons than just this), and I wonder if anyo
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by hacknat 13y ago
Because they're more obese.
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by hacknat 13y ago
This is crazy. If I had known that I could gin up money for a crappy database I would have written one. This seems unfair, but we'll be joking about this in 10-15 years.
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by hacknat 13y ago
>>If the users don’t control the program, the program controls the users. I hate that he says this. And, he says versions of this a lot. Of course there are times when he is right, but I think a lot of times he’s not. Most of us make
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by hacknat 13y ago
>>"That was my job", he says. "But they were lucky it was me on shift that night." Might qualify as the understatement of the century. ... Seriously.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Fair enough
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by hacknat 13y ago
I've never understood how this type of thing isn't a violation of the Sherman Act. Can anyone explain why to me?
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by hacknat 13y ago
>> The two main issues people have with developing on the .NET framework seems to be associated cost and that it’s closed source. Which they shouldn't, because this is patently false! It's open source!
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by hacknat 13y ago
I've never understood the argument that getting a PhD is worth it because education is worth it on its own. The premise is correct, but the conclusion doesn't follow. A PhD used to mean a qualification you had to get for a specifi
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by hacknat 13y ago
I think this analogy sums up the problem and the social dilemma it creates quite nicely. Who wants to hire someone who has past experience that pretty readily indicates they will not be interested in the work you are providing them.
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by hacknat 13y ago
I don't necessarily think that I am more valuable than they recognize, it's more like I'm being pigeonholed and I think I want to try other things. Thanks for your thoughts though. It's good to hear the perspective of so
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Ask HN: Should I leave my job? If so what are my next steps?
1 points by hacknat 13y ago|3 comments
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by hacknat 13y ago
For a second I literally thought Apple had decided not to fund clang (llvm compiler) anymore.
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by hacknat 13y ago
Hey Boomers: You raised an entitled, crappy generation. Get Over It.

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