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by matt_s 6y ago
There is bias in selection of what news to print/air as well, I think that is more of a problem than objectivity inside of articles. Balance should come from covering sides of an issue, presenting facts, but from maybe multiple angles.
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A possible path for this type of business to be profitable is for other businesses to participate instead of individuals. Apartment complexes and car repair shops come to mind as places that have printers. The fees to the consumer would pr
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Having a team with someone remote should force remote first communication practices. This pandemic is going to go on for a while, meaning months and months are likely. If you have the factor of someone on your team being in a high risk cat
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To flip the idea, petition the government to absolve loans for certain degrees - low paid but highly educated job requirements like Teachers, Social Workers, etc. A way for the government to invest for the future is to fund large projects f
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Uninformed opinions have likely been more prevalent on the internet since the first comment box appeared. People that comment without reading the article or maybe even without clicking into it will likely make comments that just don't
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Find a job at a company that is in the wind or solar industry writing software for them.
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I also like that book. There are some obviously major motivational things that are different from corporate life (from what I've read, I have no first hand military exp): a camaraderie of protecting your peers with a common mission of
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I'll pay $20 for a movie and be entertained for a couple hours. I've paid $90 for a collectors edition game and played 100's of hours (maybe a thousand or more). They could charge $100 for a AAA game that doesn't have i
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You said weaker hardware but really it comes down to cost and modular builds with PC's are a huge factor from a game player perspective. You can piece-meal together a decent gaming system for half the cost of a Mac and the most useful
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If you are ever in the Raleigh/Durham NC area, Roy has a school nearby where he actively teaches. https://www.woodwrightschool.com/
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I'm just starting the hobby and found Sketchup to be cumbersome and too big of a learning curve. I have been using graph paper and pencil to do 2d drawings, side, top, etc. to get the idea down. I found a channel from the UK of a cabi
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I don't know if you could say school teachers are doing it to make money. Facebook and Google are advertising companies primarily. They will be taking money from advertisers for nearly anything that isn't in their TOS. I'm
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I remember disillusionment in my 30's. I think this comes about when you have enough experience to realize there are a lot of people out there that have no clue what they are doing, people just going thru the motions. You mentioned tr
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How secure do you want it to be? Also - what are the chances your users will leave API keys in their source code repo or pass them around to other devs on their team? A lot of the reasoning around API security depends on who your users are
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Like others have said, talk to a lawyer. But first - who owns the source code? Are there legal protections in your country (assuming not US) like a copyright? That could be your leverage in a business negotiation if you own the code. If
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I also would assume and sincerely hope the stupid tests around "can this person write software?" are eliminated when you have people on the team _using_ software the candidate wrote.
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Just because sports stories are omitted doesn't mean HN is taking a stance for/against sports, its just stating that isn't a topic for discussion here. Same for political discussions or crime. Technology has become more perva
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I think his concern is the amount of money from political campaigns this coming season. If that stuff was fact-checked, they would not be making as much money. The side effect of people internet hating on stuff on FB is lots of ad revenue
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Lots of good advice in this thread about paths to learning in CS, etc. Two huge items for a software development career I haven't seen (near the top at least) and I don't know if are covered in college these days (they weren&#x27
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Some may also be much more financially sound to back up their talk with resignations or other actions if they feel strongly that their employer does things that don't sit well with them.
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Nope. Most of what you see in social media and mainstream media is intended to spark discussions, get eyeballs/likes/follows and go 'viral' (in the digital sense). Most people that disagree with the politics of people in
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You're on Rails, just scaffold everything. Any solution that provides a UI for you over database tables is going to feel clunky after a while. If your purpose is to just get something up, use Rails scaffold and throw some bootstrap at
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I've been using US MVNO's for years and buy lightly used smart phones. When you look at a 10 year time span, it is much cheaper than essentially leasing your phone and upgrading every 2 years. Customer service is different with a
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A thought/theory: US baby-boomers (born around/after WWII) grew up in a time where nationalism and scandalous mass surveillance happened (J. Edgar Hoover, communism, lists of people, etc.) Many people in authoritative positions i
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Did you RTFA? He isn't parking the domain, he is picking one and then building something small around that. To me domain parking is akin to real estate investors just buying up land and hoping some large company suddenly wants it and
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This is why things like "most used languages" coming out of places like StackOverflow are laughable to think they represent the entire software industry.
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I'm guessing large companies like FAANG have massive traffic that they can use in their design process. They probably can tweak UI/design for a tiny fraction of a percent of their user base and just use statistics on usage to driv
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Maybe people (Spolsky, others) want to work on other things? Or retire? Or focus on family? Or angel invest? So they find a buyer for the business, transition things, cash out and go find something else to do.
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What I like better is when you are bumbling through code you wrote a while ago trying to figure something out and there it is, a golden comment from past you, telling future you why you wrote shit this way. Usually it's some corner ca
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There has been a shift in the last few years where more "news" like content gets on HN that is not really hacker/startup focused. To me, the "Hacker" in HN is in the sense of engineering culture around making thing

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