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by matt_s 5y ago
> they don’t have the technical capability to fix it This is a key point. Many school administrators just pick tools to use and don't bother understanding them and do not have the technical staff to setup and maintain them properly.
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by matt_s 5y ago
A headline less scary gets less clicks. Clicks is money to them.
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by matt_s 5y ago
Sounds like it was on purpose, not an accident, since the stone marker of the border was always in his tractor's path.
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by matt_s 5y ago
Nope, waste of time. In the true spirit of Lean, eliminate waste - the wasteful time of estimating things and the overhead of that. When using kanban flow instead of sprints it really doesn't matter what any estimate is. This smells li
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by matt_s 5y ago
HN is more about tech than what any given financial instrument is doing over some period of time. I think there is a wall of acceptance too tall for crypto to become accepted by "normal" people (aka non-technical and non-finance p
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by matt_s 6y ago
Tesla is classified as a car company. They also produce renewable energy products in the form of battery packs. I would consider this an offshoot of the main business, kinda like a lumber mill might also produce bark chips or mulch for land
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by matt_s 6y ago
Tesla is a car manufacturer. They operate in the luxury segment which is ~5% of all cars and they only have a slice of that. Nothing they have done, yet, has made a change in the climate that can be measured. You can believe in their mis
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by matt_s 6y ago
A lot of folks on here think the most sought after companies for SW engineers are FAANG. Base for major profits at these companies: FB - advertising Apple - hardware company with software/services Amazon - ecommerce Netflix - entertain
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by matt_s 6y ago
In Rails-land there is a term DHH used (not sure if he coined it) called "conceptual compression". All of these OS, compiler, run-times, emulators, etc. have been conceptually compressed down so far that a typical application wri
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by matt_s 6y ago
Why hasn't EV tech hit the RV world? How many batteries could one of those Greyhound bus size RV's, or smaller ones, hold? Maybe it has and I'm ignorant. I get that corporate shipping industries would benefit but a lot of de
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by matt_s 6y ago
This culture/attitude of constantly trying to level-up various skills in ones life like its a video game skill tree and always being "productive" is tiring and could be worse than my advice because it could very well lead to
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by matt_s 6y ago
Watching 3 hours of TV is perfectly fine. Lean into the binge watching. Do more of it. Find more shows you want to watch. Pile it on, watch so much you get bored and then turn it off. Then maybe just sit there. Maybe that takes a few weeks.
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by matt_s 6y ago
The people losing their shirts are probably mindlessly following others, putting all their money in and/or doing options contracts. There still is potential for short and long term wins with GameStop. The company is starting a transfor
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by matt_s 6y ago
The GME situation sparked my interest and I've been researching a lot about how to effectively trade, for normal scenarios not whatever is going on with GME and others. The concept of bear markets is key vs. bull market. We've b
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by matt_s 6y ago
From what I hear and read there is a bit of ageism there. Good to hear it is possible there too.
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by matt_s 6y ago
Outside of cult-like SV, you'll be fine. There are tons of companies that need programmers to solve problems. If you have a base understanding already in a field, work towards programming things in that field. Having deep knowledge o
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by matt_s 6y ago
Following any process to the letter by some text book is problematic. If you consider things in the Agile Manifesto and the spirit of being agile, the pros are things like you don't waste time building stuff nobody uses. Why gather req
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by matt_s 6y ago
This is helpful insight into the company. Offtopic: They are a large Rails shop and apparently are on a hiring binge this year. It sounds like developers don't really own their app/code, own in the sense of you build, maintain and
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by matt_s 6y ago
If you've watched any of his YT videos you can understand where he is coming from and he has valid points on why GameStop pivoting could be huge. If a successful pivot doesn't happen, he still believes their legacy business of tr
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by matt_s 6y ago
A pump and dump is a scheme done on purpose with misleading or exaggerated statements to boost a price while holding a significant amount of shares and then sell the shares at some peak [0]. Wolf of Wall Street got caught with a pump and d
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by matt_s 6y ago
I think there is an element of naivety ON Robinhood with how the clearing house (DTCC) could demand deposit money from RH. I feel like RH might have been bullied to shut down buys on those securities and the absence of the clearing house i
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by matt_s 6y ago
For a hobby project, solo developer to start means it is a personal choice. If you pick a stack that is new to you, carve out time to learn. Don't bother considering popularity. If you are familiar with PHP and Python, see what framew
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by matt_s 6y ago
Will the fund be using the same tactics other hedge funds use to manipulate prices like short ladders? If you discover a struggling company will you be a catalyst for its demise by shorting the stock? If the fund is for the people, will it
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by matt_s 6y ago
I have not home-schooled my kids, however the topic for this post was remote schooling. I think those are two different topics with some overlap. Parent engagement in their child's education is probably a big factor regardless of hom
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by matt_s 6y ago
Teaching kids at home is not remote schooling. Remote means the instructor is not in the same room as the student. Homeschooling implies the instructor is present in the room, probably in a 1:2 teacher/student ratio. Even if you are
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by matt_s 6y ago
I don't think the author of that intended the clinical definition of sociopath, at least when I read it I thought of it as "enterprise corporate person out for themselves."
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by matt_s 6y ago
What you have described sounds like the MacLeod principle which I read about in the Ribbonfarm posts about the Gervais Principle [0]. I thought it was analyzing satire, then the more I read, it was gospel. Then I found out the author worke
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by matt_s 6y ago
Empathy is not guilt. I don't feel guilty because I've lucked into a career I enjoy and pays well. Luck in the sense that I picked a CS major in the 90's before "Tech" companies existed and CS was an offshoot of Mat
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by matt_s 6y ago
This is essentially Parkinson's Law. The common one you hear about Parkinson's law is about work filling up time but really if you read the original from 1955 it talks about "the increase in the number of employees at the Co
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by matt_s 6y ago
I had to scroll thru the website, find docs then click thru to the quick start to discover that this is nodejs. Put the tech used on the front page. You may want to hold back the "Stripe for Auth" tagline until you have more lang

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