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by hbt 9y ago
your land is protected by a club. instead of protecting it yourself, you delegated the job to the government. libertarians will argue "why not delegate to a private company?" because we all learned from past experience. it is bett
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by hbt 10y ago
for ref, you should use https://github.com/lukasz-madon/awesome-remote-job to improve your list. it's already curated and contains great content.
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by hbt 10y ago
all files ending with py with "import flask" https://github.com/search?q=filename%3A%2A.py+%22import+flas... use advanced search to specify stars:>20 etc.
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by hbt 10y ago
Anyone knows how this compare to iron functions https://github.com/iron-io/functions Looks similar. Docker image with entry point but the entry point is a server instead of process and it reuses the docker container in
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by hbt 10y ago
I like the 4dx approach. Lead measures vs Lag measures. you pick a long term goal and associate a metric to it. Example: weight from 180 to 170 That's your lag measure. Your lead measure are the activities you get done daily. - Daily c
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by hbt 10y ago
Gist: - you can't measure programmer productivity - instead of brainstorming ways to increase it or measure it. Focus on reducing friction, impediments to progress and measure fine grained tasks (like design, test, review, release etc
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The Myth of Developer Productivity(dev9.com)
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by hbt 10y ago
There is a name for that: price gouging. Maybe you can justify selling an ebook for 800$ because when using it the customer will recover their investment. What if your hospital/doctor/insurance starts doing that? After all, wouldn
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by hbt 10y ago
chromium is open source and you can create a google account and add each API you want. There are no ties to big corp unless you want to. You don't get features from giant cluster of computers for free. When firefox implements voice rec
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by hbt 10y ago
Firefox is trying to be chrome where as chrome is leading the way. Chrome dev tools are superior to firefox where I remember a time nothing could compete with firebug. The chrome extension API is now better than the upcoming "Web exten
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by hbt 10y ago
checkout "tabs outliner" on chrome.
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by hbt 10y ago
The part that listens for the "Alexa" word is analog not digital. It cannot be updated remotely by firmware. Crack open the device, test the analog component and confirm the signal only fires when you speak alexa and nothing else.
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by hbt 10y ago
The belief that tomorrow will be better than today. That progress is being made.
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by hbt 10y ago
So now, quitting your job (because you're asked to do something unethical) is the equivalent of losing your life and limbs? Let me guess, you believe all government actions are lawful. All lawful actions are righteous and justified. Th
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by hbt 10y ago
This is why we (as a community/industry) need to have the equivalent of a prison/death threat. The government wins by making it personal, by threatening prison and death for your obedience. It's not an abstract threat. It is
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by hbt 10y ago
* Get it to work first. Make it pretty later. * Don't waste time & energy learning trendy tech. Hold your excitement and ask yourself: "what can I do with it that I can't do with my existing arsenal and is it worth the RO
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by hbt 10y ago
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought this. No one has a solution for climate change that doesn't involve changing personal habits. People don't want to do that. Eating less meat or a carbon tax (i.e taxing the worki
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by hbt 10y ago
The anti-innovation backlash is the most likely thing to happen. Today, politicians are winning the populace by lamenting on unfair trade deals, globalism and foreigners taking jobs. Those jobs are not coming back, if they are, certainly no
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by hbt 10y ago
Does limited functionality work instead of free trial? i.e here are 2 out of 5 features. Upgrade to PRO to get the other 3. The 2 features providing basic functionality. I realize this is difficult in your situation since it is more a 1 fea
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by hbt 10y ago
Yes, the classic "just world hypothesis" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis If you "work harder", you will be compensated fairly. Of course, "work harder" is overrated now
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by hbt 10y ago
Here are your choices: * educate yourself and grow your self reliance to understand & use these technologies and look for your interests * delegate the work to experts, trust authorities and hope they have your best interest * isolate y
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by hbt 10y ago
You'd have to be a fool to trust lawmakers or law enforcement with your data and privacy by this point. They will always find some loophole in the language. Illegal to collect but not illegal to access what has been collected by allies
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by hbt 10y ago
Keeping the population in line by fattening them up and distracting them only works if they believe in something bigger than themselves. With the lack of community and the focus on individual and the self, people will not be fulfilled if th
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by hbt 10y ago
This is great work. FYI spacex uses LabView http://www.ni.com/labview/ (amongst other stuff) I wonder if you could use annotations to manage the visuals e.g http://drakon-editor.sourceforge.net/folder-
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by hbt 10y ago
ULA has a 100% success rate. http://www.space.com/30738-united-launch-alliance-100th-rock... Why does spacex have occasional failures? Do they run their experiments with customers cargos? Note: I know nothing of the space i
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by hbt 10y ago
He wrote on salary negotiation and creating value as a consultant + boosting his rate. Is that what you are referring to by pay-per-performance for engineers?
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by hbt 10y ago
On a related note, is there any successful pay for performance scheme for engineers? Pay-per-performance is well established in sales and marketing. Even when the sales/marketing strategy requires a large team to implement, the spoils
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by hbt 10y ago
I do blame them. You're in a cage. They are outside the cage. You ask. They have no incentive to comply. The power dynamics are not in your favor and that's why they can treat you poorly and get away with it. Poor treatment in jai
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by hbt 10y ago
Past a certain level of income, the number of things you can directly buy that will make a significant improvement in your life are extremely rare. You're back to square 1 and you need to work to improve your life. The technology, prod
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by hbt 10y ago
One thing the post doesn't cover is a defeatist attitude or a poor outlook on life. Basically, depression (regardless of the reason). Depression doesn't need to paralyze you. You can be productive when depressed but it is often

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