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by jonesb6 11y ago
In the Unites States, yes. I personally do not hold this opinion, but many gun owners see gun ownership as an inalienable right and any attempt to limit or take it away as a violation of privacy and overreaching by the government.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Fair point, I probably jumped the gun with that statement.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
It still seems like an excuse, "it's hard". The cost of "hard" shouldn't be $15B.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
That.. deserves its own hacker news post.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
If you build it they might come. If you don't build it they can't come. Therefore you must build it for them to come. Therefore the most important thing you do to make them come, is to build it by any means necessary. Them of cour
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by jonesb6 11y ago
You just made my point. Not all freelancers choose to improve their tool-set. Therefore they fall behind where, like you said, the whole industry moves forward.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
"demand for traditional web design is decreasing"? There is still plenty of demand for design work, but its moved to user interface and experience design. The change is mostly trivial but it reflects a more mature mind set when it
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Both points are endemic of smaller and newer companies (does xamarin still qualify?), poor legacy and deprecation strategies / product roadmap, bad pricing structure. I think Microsoft can aid in both categories.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
But the tools, and the marketing of those tools, have vastly improved in the last ~5 years. Or are you telling me dreamweaver's wysiwyg editor was the pinnacle of development..
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by jonesb6 11y ago
A) the bar is being raised B) the bar is being raised particularly high where you are looking for work PHP, Jquery, etc. won't get you as far as it used to in the Bay Area. But as an exercise look for job openings in the mid-west or no
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Competition is great until you find yourself standing in the middle of a bazaar with no clue what the fuck is going on, how you got there, or where you're going to go next.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Read like a self promotional piece, a database solutions shop posting a bunch of top ten ways to do x blog posts done by various consultants and colleagues, where x is any of (big data, design, architecture, engineering, performance.. with
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by jonesb6 11y ago
* The 50 publicly recognized richest people on Earth. * Putin [1] is a great example of how little we know about who holds the real money, and the real power. Also the blurbs about each of the fifty were a little to cheery for what some of
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by jonesb6 11y ago
MY REST API serves JSON. Some of us are still innovating.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Like all the Apple bill boards in that area.. never buying an iPad ever.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Great now they can free up some engineers to bring their Linux client out of beta, which has been in beta since dinosaurs.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Then there would be another terrorist attack and emergency legislation would be passed giving the coaches 6 challenges.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Yeah you're right, neither involve actual people.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Wait "war" sounds like it's an even fight. If I wanted to I could remove 90% of ads from my life RIGHT NOW. In fact I've already removed ~70% of them just by adding an ad blocker to my browser and by not having a tv (opt
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by jonesb6 11y ago
The author is trying really hard to come up with a reason for why she was fired, but she herself does not give one, so the article just stumbles guessing and making assumptions..
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Argument is for improved code clarity, not performance etc. Definitely something to think about. Thanks for the post.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
There is no bubble. Investor speculation taking a down turn? Sure. But that's been happening for CENTURIES.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Honestly I think most of the things you mentioned are completely do able and can improve quality of life enough to justify the expense. Overpriced car straight out of undergrad? That's a different story entirely. Those things could anc
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by jonesb6 11y ago
I predict in the future more people will declare bubbles until there is an actual bubble. Then, even after the bubble is fully deflated, those people will tell everybody about how they predicted this bubble ahead of everybody else. Then tim
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by jonesb6 11y ago
We have an entire generation growing up with the idea that large debt is natural and acceptable. I've had countless friends go down $10,000 in debt and say "what's $20,000 in debt really?" and it's a vicious cycle f
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Developers should be held responsible for the applications that they build. Management, and especially executives, should also be responsible for the work of their employees and how they handle their customers very valuable data. Personally
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Also if you aren't super prudent in turning of chat all the time, it would be trivially to notice those kind of anomalies in the graph.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
"If you I dunno, didn’t have a lot of friends in high school, you might recognise that as a UNIX time stamp - the time in seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970. " Great article. And a further reminder why Facebook kinda sucks.
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by jonesb6 11y ago
"Zenefits scandal highlights the perils of breaking the law at startups"
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by jonesb6 11y ago
Angular gives you plenty of room to shoot yourself in the foot via premature optimizations and over engineering. Multiple times a day you need to step back, gather outside feedback, and look at the big picture. Also, get designer(s) involve

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