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by hibikir 9y ago
This is only true when looking at tech companies that really hand significant stock grants. There are tons of software developers, all over the US, getting only salary and modest bonuses outside of those few places that grant stock that is
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by hibikir 9y ago
Something that has helped those games, and not the Xbox One, is that the exclusivity is just regarding other consoles: All of their big "exclusives" are released on PC too, which allowed people like me to skip buying the console a
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by hibikir 9y ago
The regulation doesn't have to be foisted upon them at all: Regulation that just harms new companies, or competitors of a very different shape, is introduced at the behalf of industry groups all the time. What makes Silicon Valley tech
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by hibikir 9y ago
I used to buy videogames at a Gamestop next to my neighborhood supermarket. At one point, they had an employee that seemed to love to make unnecessary negative comments about my taste in games. It's a manager's prerogative to fire
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by hibikir 9y ago
Repeated, cheap residential housing is common everywhere, it's just a matter of height. In the US, we have cookie cutter suburbia. In England, you have row houses. In Spain, depending on the city, you go from 5 stories to 12 or so, dep
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by hibikir 9y ago
If all loans were always repaid, we'd have no risk premiums, and the world would be incredibly different than it really is: Almost every worthwhile investment that has moved the world forward involved significant chances of loans not g
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by hibikir 9y ago
If you have a brick and mortar business, probably nothing. If you are selling on the internet, and, probably put a step between you and an old school credit card processor that will do that checking for you, professionally. There's jus
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by hibikir 9y ago
It's a relatively simple mix of economics and politics. If the only thing we changed was a single payer, without changing anything else, prices would continue skyrocketing and the government would either have huge deficits or very high
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by hibikir 9y ago
There are very specific definitions of sexual harassment. Asking a coworker out once when neither of you is in the other's chain of command isn't anywhere near that. If you believe that the word no means 'try again tomorrow&#
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by hibikir 9y ago
Studies indicate that Americans are moving less than ever before: People move for college, and will probably move again to their first job, but people move a lot less often afterwards. An important reason is that two salaries per family is
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by hibikir 9y ago
Every few days we have an article here in HN about a relatively big company, and people throw the classic comment that they don't understand how they need hundreds/thousands of programmers to do what they do, when the prototype of
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by hibikir 9y ago
The problem is not bias, but uneven representation. We can get uneven representation without bias quite easily: I've not ran your system in practical terms, but I'd be very surprised if, in the US, this gave you republican house m
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by hibikir 9y ago
Small project, on your own time, expected to take about 3 hours or so. Automated tests can do the very basics of evaluation. Then, 1 to 2 hours explaining the decisions made, and adding one more feature to the project. It lowers stress leve
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by hibikir 9y ago
Your assumption in the very first paragraph is that they are a good way to independently evaluate people's abilities. It makes perfect sense to look for a way to evaluate people before we hire them. It's a real problem, and we mus
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by hibikir 9y ago
Treaties like this have a big signaling component, just like macroeconomics. Improvements are perfectly possible without them, but even a toothless treaty affects all kinds of decisions downstream. We also take into account that energy prod
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by hibikir 9y ago
This is especially true in this time where even successful companies drag their feet when it comes to IPO. If you don't think you can't afford to buy the options and pay the taxes (yes, there's taxes when exercising illiquid
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by hibikir 9y ago
This problem still occurs in countries that are far more stringent in their fundraising and campaign spending regulations. While I wouldn't say that campaign finance reform is a bad thing, it doesn't really fix this problem. The U
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by hibikir 9y ago
I might be completely wrong on this one, but it seems to me that a lot of the precepts of TDD and full code coverage have a lot to do with the tools that were used by some of the people that popularized this. Some of my day involves writing
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by hibikir 10y ago
In mine, it's been just the opposite: I've been working professionally for 16 years, and extended contact with non developers always helped. It didn't help me code faster, but it helped me code the right things, which is far
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by hibikir 10y ago
I, on the other hand, have spent an inordinate amount of time, including waking up in the middle of the night for incident response, due to Hiberanate misuse, which is so easy that I'd not touch Hibernate with a ten foot pole. There is
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by hibikir 10y ago
There's a wide variety of reasons to want the schema in the database, and schemas are so valuable that even our good friends at Google decoded to add database level schemas to their massively distributed data stores. The strongest reas
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by hibikir 10y ago
Their market is people that don't cook all that often, and want to cook relatively fancy things. It's people that cook so rarely that they throw away half of the groceries they buy, because they don't cook enough, and the dis
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by hibikir 10y ago
There's plenty of sources. For example, Planet Money, episode 760, where we hear a story of how a program to make filing easier and less error prone, without changing the tax code in any way, is axed when Norquist starts to pressure re
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by hibikir 10y ago
While I fully agree with you in that interviewing is broken, and it's broken because we throw away a lot of great people, you'll be surprised how much time a company spends finding the right candidate. Imagine we spend an hour per
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by hibikir 10y ago
If you are contracting, and the libraries are also custom, and built by different contractors, what you'll get out of your tests is just a tool to accurately know who to blame: I'd much rather have that be done by whoever is in ch
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by hibikir 10y ago
A big percentage of our internal services are near-real-time asynchronous event consumers. Writing a consumer is not all that different than writing a service. For events and consumers we have mechanisms that serve similar functions as API
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by hibikir 10y ago
Railroad Tycoon 2 had an interesting story by itself: It was originally not named Railroad Tycoon at all, as it was built by a very different company, PopTop Software, based in a St Louis suburb. Close to release they managed to get the lic
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by hibikir 10y ago
It's not that you can BS your way through a tech interview, but that the skillset required to do well in a tech interview is different than the one you need to be good at a developer job. I've seen way more than a few false positi
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by hibikir 10y ago
The way I see it, this is describing the system exactly as much as it needs to make its case that 'banking system is bad and expensive, use our stuff'. Covering security, or the lower fees in Europe (thanks mostly to the security
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by hibikir 10y ago
Training about testing backups is still a bad idea: Why make someone do a job that purely verification? Those jobs eventually stop getting done, and it's hard to keep people doing them. Instead, you make a machine verify the backups si

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