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by jbob2000 7y ago
That's great, but what does that actually mean for someone? Does it mean that they are less happy? Does it mean that they earn less money? Does it mean they have less meaningful relationships? I understand the mechanisms behind marijua
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by jbob2000 7y ago
What are the side effects of this system developing incorrectly?
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Some car companies actually don’t want you to buy certain models, believe it or not! The Chevy Bolt was hard to get a hold of because Chevy just had it in their line up for regulatory reasons - they had no interest in actually selling and s
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by jbob2000 7y ago
An architecture is good if it is serving your business’ needs. My company makes $13 billion a year off of garbage architecture. If we completely re-engineered it to be perfect, we’d probably still make the same amount of money, it would j
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by jbob2000 7y ago
I get what you’re saying but I think you’re not being pragmatic enough (and perhaps being a bit developer-centric, ignoring that there are millions of people out there who run businesses that have 0 need for offering a consumable API). You’
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This article is junk. There are many reasons for not offering an API to customers. I run a small b2b app between two completely non-technical businesses. There is absolutely no need for me to have an API available to them, they’ve never ask
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It’s a 32 line piece of code that wraps another library so you can use it in react. Struggling to see the relevance to HN here...
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They got to feed their industrial machine. That money re-entered the American and Global economies in ways that non-warfare economies could never provide. It was never about making the country peaceful or stopping al qaeda (though I’m sure
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Microservices are good for large complex systems, with many developers making many changes. It sounds like your system is rather simple, I don’t think you need to pursue this architecture, especially just starting out - you’ll need to write
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This is not what unions are for, unions protect labour. If you want to stop google from doing business with China, then you need to work with the government.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Of all the places that need a union, google is the last place I’m thinking about. We’d be much better served by organizing a retail & fast food workers union, rather than one to protect highly educated and highly paid employees.
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The only reason it’s not simple is that the product manager or designer or client wants something different. If I don’t have to deal with them, then it’s a piece of cake to implement a standard front end.
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I am not kidding. We don’t even need to replace them, the commit logs are there for exactly this purpose. They can just disappear and nothing would change! They’re a legacy team, I am sure their time is up soon. What enterprise companies do
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by jbob2000 7y ago
We have an entire 15 person team at my company who's job it is to copy the source control commit logs and paste them in a word document. This document is then kept on a server for a few years, after which it is deleted.
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by jbob2000 7y ago
That's not a dirty tactic at all, that's just how you compete, it's called first-to-market. They're not trying to fool anyone, they just have a product on the market that's better than the other products on the mark
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Ballet is mired in tradition. Startups are all about changing the things that people never questioned. It's almost an oxymoron to try to run a professional ballet company as a startup - at some point you may have to pivot to not bein
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Which new reality? The one where most of the population can read and write and where most hold degrees and diplomas? This isn’t the 1900s industrialization era, where employees were picked out of the farm fields to work in factories, having
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by jbob2000 7y ago
You could look at this as a shifting of talent. Instead of those 2,400 people wasting their time managing short term office rentals for yuppies, perhaps they'll move on to more meaningful work! Some will start companies, some will join
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by jbob2000 7y ago
This is a blog post about a twitter post about a picture. The whole article can be reduced to "tim cook good, trump bad, why in picture together?". HN cannot become reddit, we have to hold our bar higher than blogspam about politi
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by jbob2000 7y ago
You don't understand how fickle technology is and how fickle users are. It's a browser plugin, it takes 2 seconds to uninstall. This entire company could disappear in a flash if something about the plugin ecosystem changes, or if
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by jbob2000 7y ago
But where do you draw the line? The wait-list for immigration is full of stories like hers. Every immigrant has a story like this.
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The money isn't being kept there for safety, it's being kept there for anonymity and easy access. These countries don't ask any questions when you show up and ask to withdraw a million dollars. Maybe you're withdrawing t
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I don't think the immigration system is setup for basic human decency and compassion.
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The sad thing is, is that without her husband, her case for immigration is probably much weaker. From the article, it doesn't sound like she has a job, her and her child were totally dependent on the husband. These aren't the kind
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How do you craft a law to make this illegal though? And then how do you enforce the law? How do you bring these companies to justice? A fool and his money are easily parted. If those students didn't blow their tuition on MLM garbage, t
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We need a new phrase, "OK billionaire". Every time they say stupid disconnected garbage, OK billionaire.
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I’m sure the evidence is out there, but I have so many first hand experiences of people having health issues from vegan diets, that I’m not terribly motivated to go out and look for it. When I was in high school, I had a few friends who tri
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by jbob2000 7y ago
Didn’t say that, I said that it’s hard to get kids to eat vegetables that provide protein and iron at the same levels that chicken fingers do. Good luck getting a kid to eat a plate of spinach.
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The left has been co-opted by corporations. They have used liberal policies to water down the cost of labour through mass immigration. They use trade agreements to decentralize their labour to avoid disruptions from unrest. They use social
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Vegan diets are much more destructive to children than candy and pop. If a child was only eating candy and pop, then yes, it would be harmful. But usually, kids eat junk as a supplement to otherwise stable meals. You need protein and iro

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