josephorjoe

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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Documentation sucks where no one gets promoted for writing great documentation.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
So, maybe off topic, maybe not. i have a cat. She's a good cat, mostly. We get along pretty well, mostly. Before the pandemic, there were large parts of the day when we didn't see each other. Because we knew we would be separated
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
I wish you were right, but you are not. It is very easy to have lots of people believe a fake story. QAnon conspiracy theories are incoherent and absurd yet are embraced by thousands and cause needless harm to many.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Ultima VIII was the first (and only) Ultima game I played. There was so much hype for the franchise and I had never played, so I bought it new and had high expectations... ooof. i tried to play it but got into some boring dead end where i d
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Since firing an employee won't bring the $500,000,000 back, I'm thinking the linux philosophy is probably not the best one to use here. The linux approach is "what you are doing is not my problem, so go do whatever you want&q
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
That UI is depressingly awful, and not having a confirmation screen with a summary of the transaction about to be initiated is so very very bad that it should get people fired. Pretty much every modern financial app I've used has one o
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
yeah, a shopping cart existing on a webapp where you are not purchasing product is such a red flag
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
> What if there is one industry that has to shutdown if it's banned? Then the world is improved and we should all feel relieved. Seems pretty straightforward. Just because someone found a way to profit while damaging society doesn&#
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
lol. but the third time you read Moby Dick those are the best parts. loose fish vs fast fish is top of the line 19th century humor. i admit i was bored to tears by those sections on the first read. honestly i think it just isn’t a great rea
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
> Everyone gets paired off to video chat with a random person for 20 minutes at the start of the day. i would quit this job sooooooo fast random, enforced, early morning socializing is so very much not my scene
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
i've skipped a lot of "optional" work events and i'm sure it has been a negative for my career. there was one former boss who i felt was always a bit cold and standoffish (but always professional) with me and i could nev
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
If you excel at management, you will eventually make more than most ICs, especially in a tech company where they have to pay up to get engineers to convert to a meeting oriented job. I was a good tactical/operational manager but did no
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Best career move I ever made was to quit a managerial job and learn coding. Three years later I was making more $$ as an IC with none of the stress and nuisance of management. Five years later I was making 2x my old salary and significantly
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
defendants should always be able to challenge expert witnesses qualifications. and how could anyone on hacker news claim there is 'no evidence' that unreviewed software may do something other than what people claim it does? especi
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
How is this even a question? Online brokerages are from the first dotcom boom. They are over 20 years old. There are many well establish reliable brokers. And many of them have cut their transaction fees to $0. All Robinhood seems to have d
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Maybe (maybe...) they did nothing against the 'rules' but that's not going to help them much when their angry customers transfer their accounts to other brokerages. In my book, "really pissing off your customers" is
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
I don't think the SEC should shut them down. I think they should go bankrupt because their customers leave them for one of their many more reliable and trustworthy competitors.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
It is completely clear that they betrayed their customers' trust. I know some people think "but that's not illegal so they did nothing wrong". Those people are bad and should feel bad. And I think in this case enough cus
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Whatever else happens, Robinhood should not survive this. They clearly violated their customers' trust, so their customers should leave them. And I will be completely unsurprised if when the dust settles it turns out they acted illegal
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
It is fine to say "this is a bad situation and we need new regulations to prevent it". What is not OK is bending and breaking the existing regulations to stop a group of individual investors who are individually doing nothing wron
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
If that is possible here, there needs to be more regulation on hedge funds so they do not operate in a "heads I win, tails the US govt. bails me out" scenario.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
It would seem Google should remove the app from the store since it does not do what it claims to do. An app claiming to be a stock trading app that doesn't allow trades for a NASDAQ listed stock isn't really a stock trading app.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Exactly. Stock owners are free to not sell their stock and this cannot be ignored. I have a guitar that I could sell on the open market for ~$300. But I don't want to sell it. If someone offered me $300 for it, I'd say no. If they
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
not to pile on here, but what is happening is money is getting transferred from one gambler to another
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
The string change (rightly) is always brought up, but the one that has always amazed me is they changed how division works. Whenever I show this to people they are (rightly) horrified. ~ $ python Python 2.7.16 >>> 3/2
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
This has been my experience as well. I'm still not sure who is fake and who is sincere about this stuff. We have a weekly status meeting with the first section dedicated to "how are we winning" -- which is like awesome if you
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
It gives it that really cool look of weatherworn text chiseled into stone. What you should do is spread some parchment over it and get some charcoal and rub the charcoal on the parchment over the chiseled letters... oh. yeah. sorry...
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
They may or may not have a point about whether or not some academic pursuits are fact based. But their leap to "if X is banned and Y is similar to X and Y isn't banned then X can't be banned" is still wrong because it is
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
you are ignoring the “why”.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
agreed. nothing novel about people lying to convince other people to do something. what’s novel is the centralized nature of social media (in terms of # of people reached from a single source) and the fact that some incredibly wealthy compa

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