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by matt_s 9y ago
At one point (1920 I think) there was an amendment which made alcohol illegal. It went on for 13 years and then was removed. So there is a legal framework to add/remove amendments from the US Constitution, they are amendments after al
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Anyone else thinking these are very similar behaviors coming from Facebook execs and the White House? Threaten lawsuits, fire/demote people that don't agree with you, etc.
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For Facebook, an actual data breach would be better. They could button things up and make some statements and move on. This appears to have been systemic and profitable for them because companies would turn around and pay them for highly t
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The media likes to get people's eyeballs just as much as FB. They will over react to get views. If those little radio buttons in privacy settings do literally nothing on the backend, then FB could have a massive legal/financial b
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Maybe you haven't had it happen then to know what I'm talking about. Never had a gut instinct or a bad feeling that becomes true? Sure maybe it happens and there is nothing really going on but my point is there is something about
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You know how sometimes you get a gut feeling or your awareness picks up somehow? You experience it sometimes where you just happen to glance in the right direction, as a driver, and avoid horrible things from happening. Or hesitate to go t
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Just search ninja's youtube, it should come up to the top. Cartoony makes it fun in a way that realistic graphics based games just can't match because of the aesthetic. It begs a silly-ness to elements that make it enjoyable and E
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I get the feels when you got a trip to Toys R Us it was really cool. Today, my kids get to a toy store weekly - Walmart and Target have pretty decent sized toy departments that they repeatedly get lost in for a while. There isn't a ne
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Looks like a modified sliding dovetail. Who knew that joinery techniques hundreds of years old could make furniture stronger?
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A couple of interesting things - I spend more time reading code now than I used to, less time actually typing out code. I think this is natural with many years of experience. After this many years you start to see patterns, not design patt
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Ideally one would hire self sufficient engineers that don’t cause drama which causes political battles. A small organization doesn’t need much management, but the larger corporate environment has middle management - managers of managers. Th
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It is hard for software engineers to see the value added of a good manager. Often a manager will have deep knowledge of the software being built, current priorities, and will know (from their team) where 'thar be dragons' in the
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I think you answered your own question in a way. The baseball analogy is you keep making the team (acing interviews) but it sounds like you are trying out for teams below your league. Like a major league player trying out for AA ball team
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It sounds like you have gone with the breadth approach so far. Maybe go deep on a couple of things where there are problems at work. You mentioned "little bit of mysql" dive on that a bit more. There is a huge amount of tuning t
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I used to use IDE's but have changed over to Sublime Text. I really got turned off from my tool (IDE) assuming things I wanted to be done and doing things for me without my knowledge. I don't need wizards to start projects. I als
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For learning how to code, you are perfectly fine on Windows. You are going to read lots of technical arguments in here about why you should use Linux or a Mac. You are learning how to program, so once you progress outside of an editor and
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Including room & board gets you to $25k per year easily.
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Brainstorming here about software projects you wouldn't want to be agile. Agile being where you are shipping to production in short cadences. - Healthcare system software - not IT but like software on those blood pressure monitor, dru
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I think you're reading into the answer a little too much. The role of a scrum master is really to shepherd the work through, not micro manage. In software, a manager's job is to help plan work and shield the team. It is critical
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Do the shit work, and do it well. I learned this working at a discount store growing up, not in my professional career but it carries forward. No teenage kid wants to mop the floor, but when you do it and do it well you get leeway on other
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> 3. Notes This also works in code. Commenting why something was done a certain way, and think of yourself 6 months from now when you have to fix a bug but don't remember what the thing was supposed to do.
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Jenkins will run test suites after merges. Once a pull request has progressed through dev & testing, and you have approvals, you can deploy whenever. Occasionally there are PR's/tickets that relate to each other but most of
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I like that you're in here commenting. After reading through the postmortem, it reminds me of scaling issues we had at previous job. We had hundreds of thousands of clients that would get "hyper active" if they had issues c
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I think they detailed in the article that the problem isn't their game servers which are AWS cloud based and can scale up, it is their login/setup/matchmaking (my term) server infrastructure that is the first thing users firs
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A lot of players of massive online games tend to get hand-wavey when there are problems and act like "dude just get more servers" is the answer. This clearly shows how complex a system is needed that has to handle 3.4 million conc
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I went from working at a Fortune 500 with > 100k employees to a small firm with less than 500 people. You would get weird looks from people in the Fortune 500 if you wore jeans into the HQ. You might bump into the CEO (literally did th
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My father in law was at a loss when I was transferring files from one computer to another via USB drive. He thought I was some magical wizard. Any average grandparent aged person will not be able to comprehend the terms you are using. I tr
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There's also markets for gaming gear that has lower latency and modified gaming gear like console controllers with extra buttons or scriptable buttons. I think the gear would give more of an advantage over drugs since it would be more
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That's sort of my point. If Bitcoin and gold lose all financial value, at least with gold you have a heavy rock and to most humans, visually appealing. You can do something with that - build a house with enough of it, make jewelry ou
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The tech is interesting and the ideals of a currency not aligned with a government or big bank are nice but cryptocurrencies have no real value. Essentially, they are a verifiable ledger of anonymous people exchanging bytes. They may have

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