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WEF warns: AI could lead to collapse in the global financial system(thenextweb.com)
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by joeax 8y ago
Unless there's a policy establishing otherwise, it's going to get worse, especially if it's coming from the top. If it's something that bothers you then try to ride it out, but have a foot out the door in case you hit yo
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by joeax 8y ago
I don't think the MS stack is going anywhere. It's true that startups tend to avoid MS due to the (real or perceived) high upfront costs and its general lowness on the hipster curve, but once you look outside of SF/Bay Area i
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by joeax 8y ago
I overcame my fear of flying by accepting that if it's my time, it's my time. I too am in my early 40s and I feel I have lived a decent life. Unlike you however, I haven't traveled much, and it became more of a priority for m
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by joeax 8y ago
> And if someone could provide a reasoned... That's my point. To promote civility, respond to a person with a rebuttal (just like you did) and not a drive-by downvote. A downvote shouldn't come to mean "I disagree". I
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by joeax 8y ago
I personally hate downvoting and can say with honesty I've never downvoted anyone on HN (although I've wanted to a few times). Downvoting promotes groupthink and mob rule. I will admit HN downvoting is not as terrible as Reddit or
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by joeax 8y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this (after hearing about the Airbnb guy [1] the other day) as it pertains to the cloud i.e. Azure, GCP. I'd hate to be a company that spends hundreds of thousands moving its infrastructure to the cl
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by joeax 8y ago
I've worked for two separate companies as a remote worker, and with neither did I have to take a discount. Most companies want to pay you for the value you bring, and are not willing to lowball and risk losing highly-talented employees
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by joeax 8y ago
The term 'post-mortem' doesn't appear anywhere on that page. It was added by the OP in the title. In reality it should be called an incident report. If we want to be technical, a post-mortem in the tech world is commonly used
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by joeax 8y ago
At this point you're over-granularizing your services into nanoservices, which is an anti-pattern.
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by joeax 8y ago
I was once asked to take an IQ test for a software developer job. I believe it was more of a formality, and they wouldn't tell us our score. I'm not sure it was legal or not, and I was glad to do it. That being said, in my 20-year
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by joeax 8y ago
The article states that they don't even ask at all, so you cannot assume that the "restricted subset" has all high GPA candidates. Within that subset could be high school dropouts who are math and/or CS geniuses, for all
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by joeax 8y ago
> In the engineering/academic world, grades do matter and are highly predictive of ability. Can you cite some research studies that conclusively show this to be the case? I'd like to counter by saying that companies like Google
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by joeax 8y ago
I read about some years ago, that due to grade inflation, kids in high school are pressured to distinguish themselves further through more extracurriculars, volunteer work, even internships. And you are right, the population is growing, but
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by joeax 8y ago
+ I'm wary of Amazon Grocery. We had a bad experience with home delivery 10 years ago and my wife refuses to do it again. For packaged goods and non-perishables it's fine, but with fresh meats and produce it's hit and miss. I
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by joeax 8y ago
In the long-term it's to their detriment. If the company finds itself on the decline, they may look back on it as a missed opportunity.
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by joeax 8y ago
What I find interesting is the Nintendo is sitting on a billion+ worth of IP that they haven't even scratched the surface of unlocking. The Zelda universe alone could generate millions with movies, novels, merchandising, and other cont
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by joeax 8y ago
I'm also a late-career dev like the OP and agree with everything said. I'm going to add that if you want meaningful work, work on a side project. Even if it doesn't pan out, it's a great learning experience and could ope
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by joeax 8y ago
Melissa Mayer is up there as a "tech bro" if you ask me.
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by joeax 8y ago
A star means "I think your project is cool, but just not enough to contribute to it (with a fork)."
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by joeax 8y ago
LOL I posted my GitHub project here on HN a few years back and picked up 8 stars. More like a scratch-off win for me.
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by joeax 8y ago
It ebbs and flows. I recently interviewed for a remote position (found on HN 1st of the month job posting) and they couldn't stop gushing about how many candidates they had. At another company, they realized they weren't getting q
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by joeax 8y ago
I think it shouldn't be necessary, but people should do it as a courtesy. It's like a PTO calendar. It's just nice to know when people will be around, especially if your environment requires some collaboration.
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by joeax 8y ago
Stack Overflow needs to be broken up into smaller, baby SO mini-sites (Bell telecom style) focused on separate lagnuages or stacks, like one for Node, one for .NET/C#, one for databases, etc. It seems they are headed this way for some
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by joeax 9y ago
Yeah that seems odd. What's an extra hour if it's your own car with your own gas on your time? On the flipside, would have it been possible to work out an arrangement for you to move an hour or two closer? The whole thing seems li
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by joeax 9y ago
Ha ha thank you.
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by joeax 9y ago
As an author I laugh whenever I hear about the big debate over the Oxford comma. It's the literary equivalent to the big curly brace on the same vs next line. However, in this instance, as well as certain code scenarios in JavaScript,
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by joeax 9y ago
I think Medium is good for those bloggers just starting out, but yeah host your blog and just syndicate to Medium to build traffic. Even better if you can get picked up by an existing publication -- I saw a dramatic increase in reads. This
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by joeax 9y ago
I had Dell in mind (being located north in Round Rock) in mind. I have friends in Austin and most enjoy living closer to downtown, and I guess commuting sucks there going north, so heading south seems like a logical choice to build a HQ. Be
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by joeax 9y ago
Take a city like San Antonio. Austin is 80 miles north. Amazon puts HQ2 in the northern suburbs and suddenly you have a major tech corridor along I-35 that will bring growth and investment along with it, bridging the two cities ala San Fran

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