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by josephschmoe 12y ago
This depends a lot on your job. If you work as a software engineer, it's likely that you have sufficient control and freedom to work on side projects. It's still brutal though - 60 hour weeks are insane, especially when you do the
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Most jobs that would fit in this category, I think, represent a form of economic liquidity. It makes it easier to move money from one area of the economy to another by creating these new jobs. It's harmful to businesses that don't
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
It was pretty easy for us. We just use Jira/Crucible. I don't think I've ever had to convince anyone they're necessary.
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
To be honest, the biggest mistake I've seen entry-level engineers make is not applying for every job. |Everyone wants senior or lead developers in 2014. This has literally always been the case. They want a senior engineer. They'
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Saying engineers sound like scientists is like saying Brits sound like Scots. Sure, they understand each other, but it's a whole different dialect.
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
"built a new system—known as a software “framework,” in engineering speak" Hearing the words "engineering speak" bothers me. Wired knows a significant portion of its readers are engineers, right? Saying just software fra
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Email will last as long as we are thinking of computers in terms of files and text. That's the foreseeable future. Anything beyond that is speculation.
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Honestly, the biggest fault of Google Maps is that I can't find something "along the way" to something, just nearby. I'd be much happier if I could specify "TGIF's on the way to Alice's house" or &quo
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
|In the current study, Jodi Gilman, PhD, Anne Blood, PhD, and Hans Breiter, MD, of Northwestern University and Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to compare the brains of 18- to
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
The problem with crowdfunding education is that most people with wealthy connections can already afford college.
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Natural language programming.
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
This seems like a tactic that would be completely ineffective - it has nothing to do with salary. High-cost employees are hired because they're valuable , not cheap. If someone asked about my personal finances, I would simply say: &qu
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
I remember this phase of my work. I solved it by producing content no one could possibly question the value of, then becoming an expert on that content. It's easy to work 40 hours per week if the company would see you as valuable if yo
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Hacker News is not an advertising venue.
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
|Discussions about which design is better are pointless to me. Why don't we just try both and let the data decide? This seems to indicate to me that you are stuck in the "expert beginner" phase of development. That's bad
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
This article is an Appeal to Novelty fallacy. He never gives a reason why explicit language is better - just that it occurred later in civilization. Beyond this, natural language programming doesn't preclude explicitness. You could sti
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Consider that programming doesn't have to be linear - while legal documents need to be printed on a piece of paper. Granted, they have limited non-linearity (references to prior pages, pointers, etc.) but it generally has to be readabl
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Why is the Silicon Valley half wearing a tie?
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
As a physicist working as a software engineer at a hardware company, I can give a bit of an explanation for this: 1. Doesn't matter if you're in the business of widgets or SaaS or whatever. Business is business. 2. There are reall
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Honestly, the best thing you can do is make friends with people who have already graduated college. Not even software engineers necessarily. And I don't mean acquaintances. I mean friends. They can give you real perspective - no piece
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
I would love it if this hooked up to another side where you could come up with code-snippet based lessons (list variables at top with an array of example combinations). Move up/down the tree/chain if the error rate is too low&#x2F
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
If you have a relatively equal social structure, it's going to have a lot of things in common with high school. It's a lot better than the alternative.
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
This is honestly the best one of these I've seen. Decision paralysis is probably the biggest fault when starting out in programming. This exists with the specific purpose of unlearning that habit.
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Unless he's giving you money, why would you give him any equity before the sales phase?
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
I actually really like the idea of Futarchy for corporates because it gives investors a way to invest in a change in the company, rather than just the company in general. For example: There are plenty of people who would love to invest in t
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
What's to keep someone from going short on a proposal and just going from house to house wrecking mailboxes with baseball bats?
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
How do you pronounce "futarchy?"
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Honestly, I don't think I've ever had expenses under 1200$/month (also San Diego) even when I lived with my parents. Rent here is 400$/month minimum - and that's sharing a room or splitting a house with 4 friends. N
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by josephschmoe 12y ago
Or even just Google it and it will work just fine (it has to for Google bots). This is there way of reminding people that that they need to make money and make them not feel like a charity in giving them said money. I would give them money

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