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by huherto 10y ago
I am sort of reaching that conclusion myself too. We are better and better on manufacturing. I don't know how much efficiency is left to extract. And human labor is becoming less and less valuable as we are better on automating. Real E
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by huherto 10y ago
> because socioeconomic status persists across generations even if income fluctuates from one generation to the next. Or it could be regression to the mean?
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by huherto 10y ago
Hard working parents. Rich children. Stupid grandchildren.
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by huherto 10y ago
Very interesting. At least they cannot add content. And it is easy to know if they may have hidden something. Since the robots.txt should be public. I hope. May be a judge can make them unhide. I don't know.
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by huherto 10y ago
Often is about developers trying to make their systems flexible. In software. You can make any part of a system flexible. You can make several parts of a system flexible. But the more flexibility you add the less maintainable the code becom
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by huherto 10y ago
I believe there is an age when confidence is created. Teenage years. You carry that status the rest of your life. Even if you are successful later in life, you still feel a bit like an impostor. (see impostor syndrome) And it shows in your
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by huherto 10y ago
Perhaps what we produce is limited by what we can consume. If we assume that wealth is not concentrating at the top like many people say; it is possible that people are not consuming. Not because they don't need things, but because the
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by huherto 10y ago
I used these examples for interviews back in the 90s. I liked the follow ups. I don't use it any more because linked lists with pointers doesn't seem relevant now that computer languages have some sort of native dynamic list imple
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by huherto 11y ago
> Agile is Dead. Ok. I listen. What is it wrong with it ? Then there is an endless list of links. I don't even know where to start. Impossible to argue against that. But I still don't understand what the author meant. So. If we
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by huherto 11y ago
SCA ? It is not in the article and it is hard to google.
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by huherto 11y ago
> Again, how should the initial units be distributed fairly? Same amount for everybody. One weekly/monthly payment for everybody. Like basic income. I am just guessing, I haven't thought about it deeply.
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by huherto 11y ago
That is actually a really good idea. A national lottery to decide who presses the switch. Lots of people will enter.
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by huherto 11y ago
May be the cars will travel very close taking advantage of drafting. Like trains on the highway.
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by huherto 11y ago
This one includes northern Mexico and Canada. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2013/11/08/w...
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by huherto 11y ago
> Distance Which is an (invisible) cost created by big lot sizes. Which has many nasty consequences. It creates scarcity of housing, longer commutes, requires more infrastructure (roads, power lines, drainage, internet, etc). It in turns
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by huherto 11y ago
... or do not play God at all. (Edit: This is also an ethical choice) Just drive safely. Keep your distance and be very good at reducing your own speed as fast and as safe as possible. Even in this hypothetical it will certainly help reduci
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by huherto 11y ago
At least the lender can make extra considerations. Career choice, academic history, etc. Better than lending any amount to anyone and still have a guaranteed payment.
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by huherto 11y ago
Perhaps if you have a solid business model you don't need them to drink the Kool aid ? Is hype an indication of that?
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by huherto 11y ago
Yes. I am definitely not excusing the behavior.
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by huherto 11y ago
May be we just don't understand the social clues. I friend had a little sister in high school. And she was very happy learning programming. She thought about studying CS, but she changed her mind. She was never able to articulate a rea
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by huherto 11y ago
Perhaps the elephant in the room is the large number of young men in our profession that feel desperately lonely.
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by huherto 11y ago
> Really? I believe that the top 25% "quality" products in most market segments are better than they've ever been (and usually cheaper as well). Agree. We can get quality things that are pretty inexpensive. But housing be
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by huherto 11y ago
I believe it is called "plausible deniability". ;)
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by huherto 11y ago
oh please. He didn't hack an election. They tried to influence public sentiment using social media. They hacked some phones and emails. But they didn't rigged the election. Just so you know. The Mexican electoral system looks like
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by huherto 11y ago
The workers and capital are just part of the equation. The more fundamental part is the consumers. The current trends will eventually kill that too. It is a loose loose situation.
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by huherto 11y ago
I am 47. 27 years of professional experience. Got hooked in Basic. Fell in love with Pascal, C, C++, Smalltalk, Perl, and Java. Most new technologies are a re-encarnation of something that I did already the first time or second time around.
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by huherto 11y ago
You will need to write a lot before you even start solving the problem.
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by huherto 11y ago
Paraphrasing the classics. It is the housing market stupid. Really, Even living in a place with very low population density(Rural Mass/NH). Rents are high (and scarce), you need at least 250K to buy a small house. Houses are old, Lot&#
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by huherto 11y ago
Don't know if it is an urban legend. They have tigers or hogs to dispose of the bodies. Source: I live in cartel land.
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by huherto 11y ago
Most people are focused on salaries. May be salaries wouldn't be such a big deal if houses weren't that expensive. - It is killing the middle class. And the lower class is hopeless. - Beyond individuals, it makes the country as a

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