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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> They then have to decide, do they want the $80 jeans or the $20 jeans? If they buy the $20 jeans then they can make more trips to the skatepark. What seems important is the willingness to let your kids make mistakes. When I was a
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
A question to those of you that know more about this than I do: I'm a mid-career professional programmer. I'd like to make this situation better. What are some concrete things that I can do to help?
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>> This sounds a bit like a thought crime to a laymen like me and the verbiage flags my weasel alarm. Conspiracy is a crime, though. A guy can be charged for saying something like, "Let's plan out how we're going to ki
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> University is a not a "school" you attend for learning a subject. Except for the Keynes thing, the stuff you're talking about is included in classes that every 12-year-old has to take. The analog would be using a
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That's the interesting thing about non-public companies from management's perspective. There's no direct way for the public or journalists to really tell if they're succeeding. The best way to know would be to ask Googl
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Tech-World Hopefuls at the Draper Universy of Heroes(nymag.com)
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Serious question: Is there an alternative? I've never seen a secure fob that wasn't from RSA.
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True. Are we talking about auctioning beanie babies or dialysis treatments? I expect that folks would be much more accepting of the former than the latter. (To be clear, I'm not saying that Uber rides fall in the same category as dia
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>> There are a number of competing apps for rides (or they would be built quickly to compete) and cars could freely undercut Uber. That's one possiblity. Another is that network effects would allow Uber (or Lyft or whatever) to
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
After you speak to someone you want to remember, you might try excusing yourself to the restroom to make a note on your phone. Or recording a voice memo in your car on the way home with all the information you can remember about various pe
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
I wish I had known in high school that they meant, "Don't try to be cool, just make being cool the central focus of your life." Thank God the definition of cool gets much more flexible after high school.
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Right. I'm fairly outgoing, but I still have to turn on the "socialize with strangers" switch in my brain if I'm at a conference. If I don't, I end up spending all my time talking to friends rather than making new
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
I don't know about Germany, but in the U.S. it's common that only the union leaders and negotiators get paid their normal salaries during strikes and lockouts. The rank-and-file members get a reduced amount or nothing from the un
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Why Fab's Top Brass Thinks CEO Jason Goldberg Can Turn It Around(businessinsider.com)
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>> There is no way we could print the $2000 trillion dollars[1] of derivatives now in existence. This is a red herring. You also couldn't print the money to pay for all the patents now in existence. Or all the copyrights in exi
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> Maybe we should ban slick bathtubs, tile floors, and raised floors. You can usually look on the box and find the coefficient of friction (COF) for any floor tile you buy. OSHA has requirements for what COF is appropriate for vario
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
I think you could do a cost/benefit analysis on this sort of thing. How much cost does it add to a project and how much space does it take up vs. how many people benefit and what's the scale of the benefit? In the case of lever
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> Handles are bad[3], that is why we use door knobs. It's a bit off topic, but, I was working at a summer camp where a counselor got his lanyard caught on a) a door knob, b) a fixed pull handle and c) a stair railing. He was a
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Child-proof covers for lever door handles work pretty well and cost less than $10. They also can keep clever pets from opening doors with lever handles.
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A fair number of people get paid to make part of their work open source. I know a couple people whose github profiles are entirely populated by projects for their employers.
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My dad used to coach high school and college football way back in the 60's through the 80's. At one stop, there was a rival catholic high school that almost never kicked. No punts, always going for two on extra points and no fiel
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> When the business is actually just you, it's basically invisible in regards to your tax situation. Not true. In the U.S. if you create an LLC or S-corp you can pay yourself a salary and also pay yourself dividends (sometimes
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
Good point. On top of that, pretty much every CEO in every industry says some variation of the following: "Our true strength is our team. They're the best and most talented group of programmers/butchers/bakers/can
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I suspect it has more to do with not wanting to train somebody rather than not wanting generalists. Once you get in, you'll be expected to do a little bit of everything if the company is small.
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It might be more an exercise in keeping current on new technologies rather than fixing a broken codebase. I have friends who keep rebuilding the same hobby site as different technologies pop up. It sounds as if they treated it as a side p
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IANAL, but this practice is illegal in many places. If your days off are called something like "vacation days" or "PTO", they're regulated by the government. Generally the company has to pay them out after leave a
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by jtbigwoo 13y ago
>> It can sometimes make sense to sell yourself when you're small for a few million, rather than take more funding and roll the dice again. If they sold hackermeter for "a few million" I'm giving up on capitalism
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Yes, but the libertarians like her and her work. It doesn't matter that she didn't like them.
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They don't appear to have much of a product or much business. Let's call it what it is: a signing bonus, not an acquisition. Perhaps I should use this approach the next time I apply for a job. "You're going to have to a
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I'm of two minds on this. On one hand, making deadlines as short as possible is a great idea. It's too easy with one-year or two-year projects to six months arguing about infrastructure, requirements, and standards and end up del

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