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by matt_s 9y ago
How is this hacker news?
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by matt_s 9y ago
It's not shady, its politics. The DMV IT department didn't want to deal with "corporate" aka Nevada Enterprise IT. Perhaps Nevada IT was too busy digging out of a debacle with healthcare IT systems to be bothered with
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by matt_s 9y ago
And at one point Oracle was just using open source software, adding on some things and calling it something with a $10k/cpu cost. They may still do this.
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by matt_s 9y ago
The pull is the 50,000 jobs right? If that averages out to $100k/person then that is approx $5B per year going into that local economy (minus Fed income tax but some of that comes back at state level right?). They aren't going to
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by matt_s 9y ago
When will they block all political ads?
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by matt_s 9y ago
Wouldn't an approach not emphasizing the corporate lawyer be better? Something where say a media company can just pluck whatever images it wants out of a repository and the software will infer a blockchain hash out of the image or met
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by matt_s 9y ago
Kodak is just a brand that they essentially lease out. The various CEO's all shed any businesses that resembled something profitable in attempts to, well I don't know, help shareholders. Another imaging company where Kodak has it
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by matt_s 9y ago
"For citizens of poor and cut-off countries - it's huge" Can you explain this? How is a citizen of a poor country that doesn't have a personal computer, probably not even a smart phone, going to be able to do anything w
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by matt_s 9y ago
Simple trick: you are a manager and probably spend > 50% of your time in meetings. Schedule yourself some meetings to spend time keeping up with tech. I also found when I was a manager that there are some natural downtimes that occur wh
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by matt_s 9y ago
Same could be said for programming regarding prose. You can write beautiful code (modularized, great exception handling, proper form, etc.) that doesn't solve the problem properly or write ugly code (huge monolith, repeated code, meh
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by matt_s 9y ago
This is a red flag. That company or manager probably assumes people doing remote work are doing their laundry or whatever and not doing work. Perhaps they had a bad experience with someone? Or was this an HR person just doing their &quot
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by matt_s 9y ago
I learned mostly in college. I already had a decent understanding of computers at that point from playing games and messing around with them. You don't need to go to college to learn how to program though. Programming is just feeding
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by matt_s 9y ago
It'll come at some point, even from your own team perhaps. It occurs when there are two teams that have a common need and one of the teams has deep knowledge of the space and maybe has a working POC but is too busy with other work to d
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by matt_s 9y ago
Knowing edge/corner cases is experience based. You have to understand the business domain to really understand how those types of things come up. As a senior dev starting at a new company less than 2 years ago, I still don't rec
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by matt_s 9y ago
True - it's society's value on the exchange of bitcoin to $USD that could go to $0. The ledger of all those transactions would still be out there.
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by matt_s 9y ago
Comparing cryptocurrencies to actual companies isn't fair. A lot of companies that went bankrupt (aka worth $0) had assets. Those assets were worth something and were probably sold off and used to pay debtors. What assets does a cryp
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by matt_s 9y ago
Small niche product. I wish I could focus to come up with one to put time into. Why? Full control and ability to hit a goal of side income type of profit. If it goes well enough then it becomes a "lifestyle" business I would w
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by matt_s 9y ago
I would also hog all the tedious work as an engineering manager. I tried to make most of it go away but in order to allow people to grow in their careers, they have to be assigned "stretch" work. Being a manager is an entirely di
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by matt_s 9y ago
One agile methodology is to use fibonacci numbers, I think its called planning poker out of scrum. Then you assign the numbers to tasks/tickets with the bounds being: * 1 being easy, doable in a day * 13 being too many unknowns, have
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by matt_s 9y ago
I live in NC and have voted twice (last 2 years) and have not been asked for any ID, nor did I see anyone else get asked.
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by matt_s 9y ago
One article I read said that there is a 30% Republican voter base that is covered by 76% of the congressional maps. They redrew the maps so they would have 10 seats and Dems would have 3. In the past I've read the Democrats have done
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by matt_s 9y ago
I believe she stated it was a rural road or had just turned into a rural road. Commonly now these have a 55mph speed limit and people do live on them. Its not described that she was going 45 or 50 through what we think of as subdivisions
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by matt_s 9y ago
Even as an adult I find it hard to get out of the quick feedback loop trivial entertainment (silly games, reddit, HN, etc.) give me. As a parent with two children who are gamers we try to limit their time but it is a struggle for them to si
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by matt_s 9y ago
You might want different molds for different parts and maybe sell those at a premium for DIY at home. Also local delivery with premium fees (its gotta stay cold) to all local hotels for bachelor/ette or any kind of party.
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by matt_s 9y ago
Every dev I know has never liked any ticketing system. Maybe its psychological though, makes us feel like we work at a deli counter?
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by matt_s 9y ago
When can we get a flight simulator using Google Maps data? It doesn't need the fidelity of data for names of streets, places, etc. just the imagery. If they can extrapolate building details like bay windows, then they should be able t
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by matt_s 9y ago
Programming languages are just tools. People that are finding they are productive with a language/tool are out building things and not complaining. I'm personally not someone that likes to look at new languages and compare them f
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by matt_s 9y ago
This is also a question I have. I'll often find comments everywhere that when applying for tech jobs, having a relevant blog is of little value, hardly looked at. If the goal of your blog is purely to establish yourself as some author
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by matt_s 9y ago
Maybe there will be a consolidation and some crappy repetitive movies will go away? I think these businesses are overvalued. What happens when consumers get sick of the super hero genre? EDIT: for whoever down-voted - that wasn't a sa
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by matt_s 9y ago
Are there any studies that look at the costs of tuition compared to the rise in freely available equivalent information? I wonder if this is common in other markets where the companies recognize that a lot of their business is commoditized

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