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by kemiller 15y ago
This is probably the single most discouraging thing I've ever read about startups, but at least it's honest. Entitlement? "Naughtiness"? I think after Google, the idea got out there that it's possible to succeed by just being good . Te
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by kemiller 16y ago
As a hiring manager, the only concern I'd have is whether you can work effectively on a team. If you can demonstrate that you can, then it's not really an issue.
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Ask HN: Lawyers for individual techies
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by kemiller 16y ago
I was all set to defend the "jiggle randomly" school of development with something along the lines of "sounds like someone who has never had an external deadline to worry about" but then I got really sad, and didn't.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Speaking as a Vi(m) user, viper is a pale imitation of the vi model. It gives you the basic keybindings all right, but you can tell its fake. Getting vi right is about more than keybindings. Undo doesn't behave predictably. You can't al
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by kemiller 16y ago
You don't think experience helps with that? It frustrates me that our profession seems to have no real career path. It's great that you can hit the ground running, but we do seem to systematically devalue experience. And it DOES matter, t
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by kemiller 16y ago
It sure seems amazing for what it is. I do with people would stop comparing it to message brokers -- solving for entirely different problems as far as I can tell.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Oh, didn't notice that.
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by kemiller 16y ago
I don't think a brand-new webserver hack counts as a reputable source just yet.
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by kemiller 16y ago
I'm fairly disappointed. When it works, the data is really interesting. I'm on my second unit, and they've both been really really flaky, mostly battery issues as far as I can tell. Annoying to use (constantly have to find a little tiny
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by kemiller 16y ago
"Robot" is already derived from the russian word for work. Is that connected or no?
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by kemiller 16y ago
When the have the force of law, and when they've been burned in the past, absolutely.
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by kemiller 16y ago
He was my undergrad advisor, and I have to say, he never convinced me.
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by kemiller 16y ago
The whole affair is reminding me of how Ivy League colleges (and Oxbridge) work. They used to be places where the privileged, moneyed elite could educate themselves in relative privacy, save for a few exceptional commoners allowed in on sc
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by kemiller 16y ago
I just wish someone would give Stallman the memo.
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by kemiller 16y ago
It's not as wild as it was then, no doubt about it. But the investors pumping money into Zynga and Facebook are still significant.
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by kemiller 16y ago
No, I don't have it backwards. :) There's always two groups of people. The wild-eyed optimists, and the doubting Thomases. There are still tons of wild-eyed optimists right now, but for me, the emergence of a vocal minority of doubting
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by kemiller 16y ago
My rule: if people are worrying that there's a bubble, there's a bubble. It's almost the definition. It's clearly not as bad as the last one in that the overvalued companies actually have some value to begin with, and it's only us techies
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by kemiller 16y ago
For the level of education and skill needed to make a good engineer, it is underpaid. It's not about entitlement -- it's the real economic forces the article mentions. The most skilled people will be attracted to other careers. Maybe it m
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by kemiller 16y ago
Robots that get their energy from flesh. What could possibly go wrong? Can we teach them to regard eating humans as cannibalism?
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by kemiller 16y ago
Not contradicting you at all, but those of us who have been Apple customers for decades now (cripes) have to smile wryly whenever Apple's supply chain is described as "legendary". Back in the bad old days they never could seem to get suppl
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by kemiller 16y ago
Ooops. Well, point remains. :)
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by kemiller 16y ago
"Hey RIAA lawyers, here's a list of people who download movies!"
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by kemiller 16y ago
There's an "all's fair in love and war" point you have here that carries some water, but there's a difference between reimplementing ideas and literally reading the output of your competitor and using that in your algorithm.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Depends on what you mean by stable, and what you mean by rewrite. If your end result is buggy and unstable, it's sometimes worth using it as a rough draft and starting over. Ground up rewrites in a successful environment (which was the su
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by kemiller 16y ago
App developers and other API users do in fact rely on them. Their unreliability is part of what's convincing many sites to rethink that.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Shocked... shocked I am that that buggy pile of crap has no QA.
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by kemiller 16y ago
Perhaps the skype announcement that was floating around will ameliorate that somehow.
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by kemiller 16y ago
I wasn't accounting for cost of living, only taxes.
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by kemiller 16y ago
The salaries are proportionately higher.

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