iratewizard

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by iratewizard 4y ago
Starting the path is also age restricted. I've had some friends ask how they can switch into the industry by asking what languages they should learn. It's a hard pill for them to swallow, that they're better off becoming good
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by iratewizard 4y ago
The article is about a guy who finds a friend inside of his pallet of books and you're all arguing about the theoretical value of the books.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
Not selling. As a 15 year old I had no access to a debit card or credit card. In order to buy computer equipment, pay hosting fees and pretend to be a 19 year old computer programming student, I needed to buy visa gift cards and use them fo
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by iratewizard 4y ago
It's been a long time since I was a child trying to run a business, but gift cards as a payment proxy worked well back then.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
That's HN. 8 years ago it would have been how Ethereum will make this all redundant
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by iratewizard 4y ago
There aren't many good reasons to make good web content like that today. Money? It's way oversaturated with people who can live off $400/y. Recognition? Your content will be stolen by the previous group a thousand times over.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/613948-hitler-has-grasped-t... Orwell's thoughts on Hitler don't line up with your convenient framing of his book.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
1984 might not have had the subtlety of what is happening today, but isn't that true of most literary evils? It was written post-communist takeover of Russia. Post-Weimar Germany. It abstracted much of what actually happened and what w
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by iratewizard 4y ago
It's much appreciated. I try the best that I can to do the same from an EVP level, but the layer above me is intent on imitating the big 4 in every respect.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
Imagining a world government as anything but dystopian is a failure of imagination
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by iratewizard 4y ago
CSS grid is hard for people to comment on, but their perception of Figma is easy. It's the root of why bike shedding is so commonplace.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
The problems I'm paid to solve pay a lot more. More than triple the maximum salary of government officials.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
f) Rely on teachers less and let their value be established by the free market Being forced to pay a school that your children don't attend is rent seeking. Strip schools of all rent seeking funding, make tax money follow the child and
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by iratewizard 4y ago
Community college can be a great investment in some cases, definitely. Especially for people who struggle with setting goals and self-discipline. If you have self-discipline and know what you want to be able to do, there can be a lot of unn
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by iratewizard 4y ago
College isn't an opportunity for social mobility anymore. The cost of tuition shoots up as the curriculum relaxes. It's an investment trap for people who can't do the math and listen too closely to what their midwit school te
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by iratewizard 4y ago
If you want to go into charity work, don't expect to be paid like a brain surgeon. If you can't afford the education required to go into charity work, start a GoFundMe or choose something more attainable. Stop spending other'
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by iratewizard 4y ago
In a sense, student loan forgiveness is making the financially responsible (self-taught, self-made, more valuable degree, worked through college) pay for the financially irresponsible.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
It's better to face opposition like that than to be disappeared from the public square.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
Top notch documentation. Carefully thought out patterns like authentication pipelines. Simple syntax one you learn it. There's lots to like.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
Too mediocre to read deobfuscated JavaScript, yes. Many such cases.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
... you go to a doctor to have it set and casted. Unless the break is so minor that you can self-treat with RICE. You don't have to be a passive recipient of a medical treatment flowchart.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
Maybe you should understand what medical interventionism means, before typing out a meaningless and unrelated argument.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
You call it a scare tactic because you believe in medical interventionism. I respectfully point out one of the massive numbers of unexpected side effects of medical interventions.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
With how mediocre most developers today are, obfuscation is enough.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
Thalidomide is out of your system by your first grandchild.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
> It seems to require a very different kind of thinking than does programming in C That's the beauty of it. The more exposure you get to these kinds of different paradigms, the further you advance your craft. It all transitions to w
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by iratewizard 4y ago
Same. The best decision I could have made was skipping 4+ years of adult daycare. When my peers were getting out of college I was already in senior positions and 6 years of experience on my resume.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
It sounds like you make jokes when you feel uncomfortable. There's nothing wrong with that, and you're probably better leaning into it rather than trying to punish yourself for having a personality. Make light of the fact that you
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by iratewizard 4y ago
This gives me a strong feeling of general unease and flashbacks to the days of WD hard drives.
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by iratewizard 4y ago
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity 90% of their posts are self promotion and they've done it more than 50 tim

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