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by mberning 3y ago
Developers are not investors. They borrow money to build and hope to sell at a profit. It’s just like a new car dealership. The “inventory” isn’t owned by the builder or lot, it’s owned by the bank. The builder pays interest, taxes, insuran
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by mberning 3y ago
Completely agree. When I went to Yosemite the POS was down and they just opened the gate. The resources needed to run the admission system could be better spent elsewhere.
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by mberning 3y ago
To be fair they did say that when contributing to a shared project they follow the prevailing standard. I don’t see the harm in following this for your own passion projects. You aren’t doing it for the world, you’re doing it for yourself.
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by mberning 3y ago
If you are interested in this type of thing look up gauge blocks. And wringing gauge blocks.
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by mberning 3y ago
I think this is a great example of a justice system working as intended. The statistical evidence alone likely would not have convicted her, but it could have exonerated or cast doubt on her being the perpetrator. It did not, for reasons wh
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by mberning 3y ago
Not sure why you are downvoted, because this is spot on. You can tell many people on HN nave never worked in an enterprise environment. As a developer I would love to have a Linux laptop, but a Mac is as close as I can get. Companies do not
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by mberning 3y ago
The top line numbers are so cooked. We are losing full time jobs in well paying sectors and adding part time jobs in hospitality. That’s not the big win that it seems. Just yesterday El-Erian wrote a column casting doubt on the soft landing
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by mberning 3y ago
Chick lit is absolutely fine.
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by mberning 3y ago
Descartes wrote a book with a similar title, but I agree with you, I think Marcus is way more talked about on HN.
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by mberning 3y ago
It is career advice. Whether it is pretty good is debatable. To suggest that you look at people slightly ahead of you and use that as some kind of magic mirror is just so tragically flawed. First, it supposes that the you of now, inexperien
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by mberning 3y ago
First stinkbugs now this. I remember first seeing them in PA a decade ago. Now they are everywhere in Ohio. People joke it is the new state bird.
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by mberning 3y ago
I’m not familiar with Chicago, but the only 3br showing up for me in Lincoln Square is $835k.
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by mberning 3y ago
The evidence would suggest that people making a median income are up to their eyeballs in debt, particularly credit card debt, and have very little hope of their situation improving in the future.
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by mberning 3y ago
Exactly. This is not controversial or very hard to understand. By the time you pay the taxes on your income, health insurance, maybe fund your 401k, pay an average mortgage, pay for insurance, power, other utilities, etc. I won't even
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by mberning 3y ago
Sadly $200k/yr does not go very far anymore, even in the midwest.
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by mberning 3y ago
The coin of the realm. Nice Hellraiser reference. Very apt allusion to the state of San Francisco.
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by mberning 3y ago
Same experience. The medical system is a reflection of pop parenting culture or vice versa. Everyone was so gung ho on breastfeeding, but when the milk didn’t come in and our son wasn’t interested in a dry breast the only advice given was “
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by mberning 3y ago
This reminds me of some of the stuff I would write in my early 20’s, well after midnight. The difference being that I read it the next morning and hit delete.
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by mberning 3y ago
It only takes a small nudge in the economy to force a lot of real estate back on to the market. A small uptick in unemployment could force the number of homes on the market to double or triple in certain areas.
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by mberning 3y ago
This is the arthouse philosophy of software and I’m totally in support of it.
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by mberning 3y ago
Like what they did earlier this year.
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by mberning 3y ago
The fact that these programs obscure or even hold hostage the different fare classes is what I really dislike about them. The only fare class that you can get realistic, transparent pricing on is the most basic economy class. Sometimes &quo
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by mberning 3y ago
40+ years of hollowing out the middle working class has clearly not been good. Unless you are in the billionaire class. Revolutions happen when a certain proportion of people cannot attain the necessities of life. Food, shelter, work, famil
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by mberning 3y ago
I like it but a month after paying for it the subscription model was changed significantly to be way more expensive. I just can’t let myself become depending on something with such capricious business practices. Maybe it is a positive indi
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by mberning 3y ago
It’s an interesting idea, but I don’t see how this is really going to simplify the life of the IAM team in an enterprise. Even if you use their proxy to presumably add authorization capabilities to a legacy app, there is still some type of
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by mberning 3y ago
I find it amusing and very telling that the organizations with the most burdensome and unnecessary overhead are always the first to take an interest in developer productivity. A metric which their own structural inefficiencies are in direct
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by mberning 3y ago
4 in one hour happens all the time.
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by mberning 3y ago
Every other word is a euphemism. 1984 was not supposed to be an instruction manual.
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by mberning 3y ago
How many FTEs were required with elixir knowledge? This day and age it doesn’t take many engineers to burn up $2M in comp and ben. Not saying it’s a bad idea as the cost savings will accumulate over time, but it’s probably not pure savings.
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by mberning 3y ago
The role of shame and self respect as a social regulator has been severely diminished. Going out in public is sadly like going to a circus side show nowadays. Everything is ugly and people are very crass. Oh well, better get used to it, it’

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