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by iamcasen 9y ago
Right? That's my takeaway as well. I think people mostly paint others with their own preconceived notions about the world. They might be accurate in judging how someone will react in a given situation, but my coworkers truly don't
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by iamcasen 9y ago
This. 100%! I find whenever I have a career crisis, or lack of motivation, it is because of this right here. So much code no matter where you go will be something like this. You'll have to make something work even though all the code s
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by iamcasen 9y ago
You'd think so, but the last couple of years have truly astonished me in terms of what I thought was common sense. I am willing to bet a significant percentage of our population is truly incapable of critical thought, and not equipped
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by iamcasen 9y ago
It's true. There are so many more things I'd rather be doing than writing code. I think after 8 years in the industry, things can get boring unless you land on the right teams and the right projects. One thing I think a lot of us
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I completely agree with you in principle, yet I still find myself working on a personal website with stuff to show off how I think and work. In any industry, you need to capture people's attention one way or another. You can craft your
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by iamcasen 9y ago
So true! Search engines in a way have both invigorated, and ruined the web. They are great because now you can find anything, but they suck because they've removed a lot of the mystery. I loved hearing about cool websites via word-of-m
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by iamcasen 9y ago
To be fair, I would not be surprised if people used this satire as evidence for their hatred of CNN. Perhaps even missing the fact it was satire at all. There's a reason /r/nottheonion exists...
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by iamcasen 9y ago
While I believe you're right, wealth is the biggest factor, I would say race is probably the next biggest, and gender the next biggest after that. At least here in the USA.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
AMT for one. If you get a sudden windfall in the form of stock options, the IRS requires you pay tax UP FRONT for the full amount. Even if those stocks are not liquid at all. So say you worked at google in the early days and spent 10k of yo
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I don't disagree with you. The US has an outrageous drug policy as well.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I have had exactly the author's experience at prior jobs. Quite literally the EXACT experience. I didn't realize it at the time, but I was put on a project that was doomed to fail from day one. I was looking at it optimistically.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I agree completely. Dogs by their very nature need to be with their humans most of the time. For those who travel often, it is not really an option to leave the dog at home alone all the time. If we are going to allow people to have dogs, t
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by iamcasen 9y ago
If it's legal to own a pet, then in my opinion, it cannot be made illegal for a pet to live anywhere. The fact that hotels, businesses, landlords, or whatever can deny entry to a pet is simply ridiculous. The same rules for humans shou
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Yeah I understand. What I meant by "not an option" is that it's not personally an option for me because I don't like how much data Tesla has in the first place, so I won't be buying one.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Singapore is also an extremely authoritarian state. Possession of drugs can get you the death penalty, or state sanctioned torture and beatings. Kinda apples to oranges when you compare to the US.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Yeah that sounds reasonable. I think you're totally right honestly. I think the hardest part of the problem is that everyone's talking in circles rather than getting to the root of the problem. "Tax the rich" is a vague
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by iamcasen 9y ago
As a computer scientist, and all around maker/hacker, I find shit like this despicable. I'd love to be able to get a Tesla, download the data to my own lap top, and play around with their API's and what not, but it's not
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I agree with this to a point. Activism starts at home. The trouble is that FB is a public company, and that requires fiduciary responsibility, which means MAX PROFIT. I'm not familiar with the ins and outs of what's legal/req
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I think you make some good points, but in many cases it feels like it's just blindly in the opposite direction of the parent comment. What you cite as problematic regulation is interesting. I'm not sure regulation is to blame for
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by iamcasen 9y ago
It's sad to me how little is known about the native Caribbean peoples. When I read stories about a thriving island population, the Maya and Mexica empires, and the new discoveries being made with Lidar in the jungles, I just feel a sen
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Not sure why you're being down voted. You're absolutely right. The current state of affairs in China should have everyone in a panic. I fully believe that they are leading the way into the future tech-wise, and that before long, a
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I think a relatively minor footnote in the article is the most important point: CTO pay is about what contractors make, except it comes with a hell of a lot more stress and responsibility. From my experience in the states, CTO pay starts at
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by iamcasen 9y ago
That's all well and good, but what if delivering good code actually necessitates a pretty large shift in the codebase? Usually that requires buy-in from teammates because it will take substantially longer. Almost always the answer will
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by iamcasen 9y ago
I think you've hit the nail on the head here. From my experience in life, pursuing the truth relentlessly leads to one becoming a social pariah. It's why I've always had a very difficult time labeling myself or my beliefs, be
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by iamcasen 9y ago
True, and I think ultimately it is merely a fault in our thinking. Many people think "I'm going to suffer through this process because the end goal is worth it." Where they are wrong is equating a process that does not necess
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Thank you. I couldn't help but feel like Pinker is peddling feel-good nonsense to sell books, and give people hope to cling to. Progress or betterment is entirely subjective, and when considering the human condition, relies on too many
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by iamcasen 9y ago
Think carefully about this negotiation. I've been down this road before, and I feel I was a bit too quick to decrease my salary. Many times companies will use the region you work remote from to compute your salary. So if you live in Co
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by iamcasen 9y ago
What do you know, the world isn't black and white! /kinda sarcastic I find it fascinating that so much rage can cause hoards of people to jump on bandwagons of all kinds. The reality of everything in the universe is far more compl
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by iamcasen 9y ago
No, I believe they are trying to say that rule of law is breaking down, and the fabric of our society is at stake.
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by iamcasen 9y ago
It seems the only way to combat the thawing permafrost problem is to deploy world-scale carbon capturing schemes of some sort. Here's to hoping that we can develop something like that in time.

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