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by irq11 7y ago
Better yet, don’t buy the book, and donate the money you would have spent to charity.
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by irq11 7y ago
One of the first things that happened with the advent of k/v databases is that devs immediately re-implemented relational joins in software. I suppose it’s only fitting that the top-rated HN comment is someone suggesting that a k/
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by irq11 7y ago
”I live in SF and can get door-to-door to a friend's house in San Diego in 3 hours. I can do similar things for LA, Vegas, Portland, and Seattle if I like” Takes about a half hour from SF to SFO by car or BART. You need to get to the
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by irq11 7y ago
”the US is a county in which long distance rail is decidedly non-viable, nor does anyone have enough time to take 3 days to travel 1500 miles (which is how long it takes driving or by train - and even longer by bus)“ The current shinkanse
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by irq11 7y ago
The article demonstrates clearly and objectively that the person was denied entry after an image was found on his phone. That’s of interest to anyone with a phone who travels to the US. I’m personally horrified that dubiously educated, low-
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by irq11 7y ago
Mods: unflag this. This is a prime example of ideological abuse of the flagging system.
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by irq11 7y ago
Why wouldn’t you? Easy: because you probably don’t have enough “services” to make the costs of kubernetes worthwhile. If you do, then congratulations, you’re in the top 5% of dev teams, and you presumably also have a well-funded organizatio
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by irq11 7y ago
The characters of 可愛い do not have the “correct” meaning. Just like in Chinese, 可 means “can”, or “possible”, and 可愛い is a weird exception. (It’s also nearly always written in hiragana.) Nearly every word involving the kanji 可 in Japanese ha
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by irq11 7y ago
You think your vote counts in the bay area? Say what you will about voter suppression in Atlanta, but a vote counted there is worth a lot more than a vote counted in California. Flip Georgia blue, and you’re making real change.
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by irq11 7y ago
What is so “scary” here? It’s literally the easiest thing you can possibly do . It’s the default option . “You know how you were gonna have a second kid? Here’s a thought: consider using the time and money you’d spend on that to do someth
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by irq11 7y ago
No, not at all. I don’t believe that; the point is that the magnitude of the impact is so dramatically greater that all of this other stuff is rounding error. Drive a Tesla and put solar panels on your house and eat vegan and shop local a
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by irq11 7y ago
Exactly. This harsh reaction to what should be an obvious statement of fact underscores the ridiculousness of the conversation, and the point of the original post. It’s not surprising at all (as I said, people don’t want to actually change
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by irq11 7y ago
So? I’m not talking about “industrialized nations”. I’m talking about you, personally. If you elect to have one fewer child, you can drive a car everywhere and fly first class for vacation and eat a big steak every week of your life, and yo
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by irq11 7y ago
Only if you equate “having fewer children” to “killing yourself”, which is transparently incorrect, not to mention tasteless. However, the responses to this simple fact continue to be enlightening: people would rather commit all sorts of to
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by irq11 7y ago
You can deny it all you like, but it’s true [1] and you’re just illustrating the point: nobody wants to do the things that actually matter , because those things are painful (not incidentally, #2 is “sell your car”). It’s far easier to moc
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by irq11 7y ago
Do you know what the #1, most significant thing any of us can do to reduce climate change? Have one fewer child. Nothing else even comes close. It’s a simple fact. It’s easy to do. But nobody wants to do that. It’s far less painful to pr
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by irq11 7y ago
It’s because everyone is copying Google. FAANG companies have this problem: when you hire thousands of people a year, a higher false-positive rate is a big deal. When you are startupbro.com, you don’t have this problem, but you’re desperate
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by irq11 7y ago
Big brands (i.e. the only companies with budgets that matter) are violently opposed to being associated with anything that might degrade their brand. It isn’t surprising, and it has nothing to do with morals or prudishness. They are equally
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by irq11 7y ago
I’ve been looking for that quote in the referenced article, but I can’t find it. What page is it on?
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by irq11 7y ago
I have started giving websites a one-strike rule for javascript. If you pop up a paywall, a modal, an autoplay video, or anything else that distracts me, you permanently lose js execution privileges on my browser. The world would be a bette
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by irq11 7y ago
Your logic disallows absolutely everything: I don’t know what the impact is of your existence, so the safe thing to do is to not allow you to exist. At some point, you take calculated risks, because there is no action in life that comes wit
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by irq11 7y ago
There is zero chance of this occurring in our lifetime. We don’t understand even a tiny fraction of human biology, and every new drug - by definition - is exploring a new part of chemical space that we’ve never sampled before. This is the f
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by irq11 7y ago
Well, sure: you disagree, and you’re seeking out arguments that confirm your existing beliefs. In any case, I’ve said what I have to say on the subject. I can’t make you listen to my direct experience, but I’m not going to spend time arguin
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by irq11 7y ago
I think there are some orgs that definitely benefit, but it’s an 80/20 thing: 80% of software shops are more than content to hire junior devs and live with the costs of their mistakes. (Especially because most of those costs never real
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by irq11 7y ago
I honestly wasn’t trying to be condescending to you. I even said, right at the very beginning of my comment, that you’re right about many of your observations. My word choice may have been poor in some places, but overall I defend the conte
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by irq11 7y ago
It’s practically a trope that every time this subject comes up, the top-rated comment is a skeptical response...from a junior developer. As someone who actually has worked as a programmer on the far side of 40, let me assure you that yes,
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by irq11 7y ago
Ah, indeed. I took your comment to mean the opposite. Mea culpa.
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by irq11 7y ago
The “former role is free”? Google is huge and has thousands of managers, so it’s only “free” in the sense that they’re hiring some managers. There’s still only one Jeff Dean.
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by irq11 7y ago
DAU/MAU is an engagement metric, not a growth metric. The decline says nothing about their growth rate.
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“Force multiplication” is an intangible. If your salary depends on it, you’re depending on someone in management noticing that you’re “multiplying the force”, and that you’re willing to leave. It happens, but it’s rare, and usually occurs

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