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by lsadam0 9y ago
Just from my point of view: Code that is a bit on the messy side is perfectly fine if the qualification of "This is a learning exercise" is attached.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
They simply show a desire to learn. Too many devs are happy to reach a comfortable level and coast forever there. I’m sorry, but side projects, especially simple ones, have been a great hiring metric.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Why not just put all of this learning code online? A side project doesn’t have to be Twitter in a weekend.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
But quality side projects are quite helpful in identifying a valuable engineer. A lack of them is not a warning sign either.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
On the level required to be an effective developer? Yes. Absolutely.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Invoking eslint-disable needs to have comment of it's own justifying why the line in question is being skipped. What use is the linter if we just disable it everytime it complains?
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by lsadam0 9y ago
I'm looking for comments and discussion with quality on par with HN. Reddit, generally, does not provide that.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Any plans to add a comment system? Edit: I'm excited by the idea of a crypto focused HN-ish site, I'd love if there was a comment system :)
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Perhaps then your definition of 'expert' is incorrect? Would it not be that the ones who saw it coming were really the experts? And those who laughed at them were anything but? I would argue that those who laughed at the doomsa
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by lsadam0 9y ago
I don’t think we disagree. There’s plenty of tastemakers, just an overwhelming amount of noise to cut through.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Yeah, they’d press it, but they had no distribution. Rendering them meaningless.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
In other words we are now optimizing for people who have talent AND are good self promoters....rather than just talent. Record labels, at one point, excelled at identifying and developing talent. I’m not convinced that this brave new worl
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by lsadam0 9y ago
There’s no lack of “tastemakers” in music. The problem is the absolute flood of garbage produced in bedroom studios. Cutting through the noise to find what’s good has become near impossible for everyone. Popular music used to focus on sce
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by lsadam0 9y ago
AirDrop on Mac solves this problem. But how do you propose getting Microsoft and Apple to implement a cross platform standard when they have financial incentive to not do so? Cloud storage is the best answer, even though it is an extra te
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by lsadam0 9y ago
All of the options I listed are cross platform. Why must a standard exist in this case? FTP is standard and cross platform. This is nothing more than a UX problem.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
There are numerous better options than a usb drive: Email, cloud storage, almost any messaging client, etc.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Yes, in it’s current state it most certainly is. Though as I recall there are already proposed updates to address this threat.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
We live in a world where the near-ish future could bring us asteroid mining. Something that could devastate the rarity of abundance of gold.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Exactly. The thing that I've struggled to explain to others is just how exhausting those coping mechanisms can be. I've lost count of how many times I've had to explain "No, I'm not shy, I'm just completely e
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by lsadam0 9y ago
I definitely isolated myself as a kid and poured myself into tech. I much preferred to hang out on IRC rather than face to face. At least on IRC I could say what I wanted without pouring a great deal of energy into saying it. I know what
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by lsadam0 9y ago
I'm curious if any others with a stutter have had a similar experience as myself. I've always had a severe stutter, and spent many years in speech therapy learning to deal. I'm fairly good at managing it, using many of the
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by lsadam0 9y ago
You don’t get to redefine monopoly to fit your argument.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
You don’t seem to understand what a monopoly is. Tell me a single category in which apple is a monopoly. High profit margin != monopoly.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
To me, this is the true damage the president is doing: hanging Americans out to dry. We’re supposed to be there for our own, not spitting in their face when they’re down and out. This only divides us more.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Of course they did. This was even briefly touched on in the announcement demo.
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by lsadam0 9y ago
I understand, but where does that stop? What if McDonalds raises the price in the next minute, should they be required to honor the previous price? This just screams of unnecessary, unenforceable regulation. If the average market price fo
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by lsadam0 9y ago
That's not a good example. If a supply shortage drove price that high, what choice would I have? However if the store clerk is demanding 5x asking price without basis, I'll just go to another store. That's just how supply
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by lsadam0 9y ago
> Aside: I don't think it should be legal to not accept the asking price for a home. You're attacking basic supply and demand here. Let's say I set a list price and then figure out I could have asked for more...you want t
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by lsadam0 9y ago
What about the rest of that paragraph? > Someone who finds the forks, crashes, etc. a personal offense, and will repeatedly risk annoying management by fighting to stop these things. Especially someone who spends their own political capi
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by lsadam0 9y ago
Absolutely. I still hope that HL3 will be built as a VR game.

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