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Some part of the solution could be with city planning government officials. They could work to lure other different or complementary industries to their city/area. If the base labor skill set is similar but the parent companies are d
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A manager has hiring, firing and often budget responsibilities. Also over-looked other HR responsibilities like ensuring policies are being followed which are usually there because there are laws the company has to comply with, like sexual
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My theory is that its for the same reason 3d TV's never took hold. They don't want to sink their own money into equipment but they might go see a 3d movie or play a VR like game in an arcade. It feels gimmicky. It feels weird to
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It appears to me to actually be more complicated to host things in the cloud than buying physical servers and DIY hosting. If anything I think they are deepening the knowledge needed to just operate a basic web app. I don't follow how
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Isn't he residing in Russia now? A related follow-up question is: could his knowledge of our systems and processes somehow have helped Russians do the hacking prior to 2016 US elections? Not that they couldn't have done it withou
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I was mostly referring to highway roads in poor shape. They were bad in other states but noticeably worse in NY. Driving up from the south you do notice a "line" sort of where you enter areas that more commonly get snow and the h
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Don't buy a new car with every large raise. Seems obvious, right? If you take a 10 year span, 25 to 35, and say you are moving from junior to intermediate roles in IT/Software you are going to see some decent pay bumps. Instead o
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I don't know why anyone would want to appear to leave. Just leave. The property taxes are ridiculous, infrastructure is falling apart, etc. On a recent trip back up there you can tell when you hit NYS roads - rusted bridges and crumb
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We have to take a lien on loans for cars that in some cases are much less money than school loans. Maybe make schools take some brunt of the loans. If they feel so strongly that their degree is worth it, its like they should back you as an
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I think you may be mistaken on the 40's to 50's part. What you don't see from experienced, well aged professional software engineers is they probably don't want to work in SV or at startups because they may see it as sil
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Loops, joins, making sure there are bind params used in queries so the DB engine will recognize them as the same query, and make sure there are indexes on columns being queried. Also look at data volume. There may be much more data in tabl
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In a way, it is sunk cost all the way down. Those companies' entire existance - supply chain, manufacturing, down to identity of what they do was so etched into everything it was hard to change.
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An interesting bit from the article was that he talks about 'sunk cost' with the defining example of ordering a dessert when you're nearly full and feeling compelled to finish it. > There was an economist once early in my
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Delegation is usually the biggest problem for new manager. Second place is probably trusting people to do their work, they will do it in their own way. In our field there are so many ways to solve the problems we have as long as they are
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He and the OP are talking about a Bachelors degree though. Those are really geared towards fundamentals of computer science and not necessarily applicable skills to software engineering. OP might want to look at very specific applied techn
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You could make people pay upfront and the more friends they enlist to join and stay active then the more money from their monthly/annual cost will go to charity, up to some limit. They pick the charity from a list. Or be blatant about
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The title suggested to my brain that some sort of eye glass device would handle projections from your phone in a non intrusive way for quick access to things like calendar, last text received, etc. No 3d, could just be text with voice contr
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By that I meant that it doesn't have land west for suburban sprawl to occur with cheaper rent areas. People can move farther out to east but then like another commenter stated they have a 3 hour commute. At some point maybe people giv
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San Francisco and surrounding areas are sort of isolated geographically right? If rents become so high won't that essentially drive lower income people completely out of the area? Maybe over time they move away and then how would lowe
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I think if you set expectations that you both will be learning together (about the tech) as you go and that there 100% will be some unknown roadblock you come across it might help. Everyone feels like an imposter and that is a good thing co
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Awesome that you're running two companies! I was just pointing out there is a difference between an actual clinical addiction vs. a really bad habit. I know the feeling about gaming and have been in similar shoes. I actually stop mys
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PSA: Playstation has a 'Family Management' feature where you can limit game time played on sub-accounts. You can set time limits per day and the action to take like auto-logout. It reminds the player as they get closer to being
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Did you lose your job, destroy relationships with your family and friends? Or did this merely replace 500 hours that would have been spent watching TV, Netflix or other types of entertainment? The word addiction has a real meaning with some
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I think that is what the author means as strategic vs. financial. For example, buying a company for its list of customers, to eliminate them as a potential threat, to get some IP/technology they have, etc. You are right that the large
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Ask HN: GitHub people: how's things?
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One thing I observed when interviewing candidates for offshore positions was that people wanting more senior technical roles wasn't as strong as here in US. Granted this is anecdotal from interviewing maybe a couple dozen people out of
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I guess, also stay at home parents as well as baby boomers who got laid off and can maybe eek by til they collect retirement would be in this category too. Just seems like an 'other' type of metric.
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Ok, this seems plausible as to why that metric is counted by BLS separately. Politicians change unemployment coverage and stop counting people that move off unemployment funds to a different category, looks like they did something.
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If you aren't actively looking for work and you don't have a job why should this count as unemployment? This means they aren't collecting unemployment from their state, correct? If they are disabled (mentally/physicall
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I read through those while working at a Fortune 500 company. It sounded so close to truth, like the author was observing the same interactions I saw. Turns out he was at the same company at one point. The fact that those stand the test of

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