michaelchisari

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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   So nobody has ever shrunk clothes before? Or ruined whites? Or mixed ammonia and bleach to clean a floor?
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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   Tech: Skype, Spotify, H&M, Neo4j, Mojang Music: Tove Lo, Robyn, The Knife, Miike Snow, Those Dancing Days, Icona Pop, Lykke Li. In fact, pop music around the world has been shaped and written by Swedish producers and writers, everything
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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   The strongest welfare states (and by that, I also mean the best managed) are the Scandinavian countries. And the amount of culture and technology that comes out of Sweden alone is extraordinary for their population size.
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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   The only gap between "knowing" and "not knowing" is perhaps three seconds of Googling Have you ever worked tech support and had to help a lawyer or doctor set up their router? It's not about mental deficiency.
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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   I'm sure I'm not.
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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   Don't underestimate the value in a multitude of skills. When Argentina's economy collapsed in 2001, I'd prefer to know how to write code, do laundry, and wash toilets than only knowing how to write code.
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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   Maybe we're not in a tech bubble like we saw in the nineties That's what I think. Not repeating the same mistakes doesn't mean we're not making new ones. Which means the bust will also be different, for better or worse
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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   I applied with an entertainment (film) industry related startup, but looking at the company categories, it looks like that wasn't on the menu this time around. Always next time, though!
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   by michaelchisari 12y ago

   Using easily readable/recognizable variable names is one thing computer programmers got right. It's always frustrating to read mathematic or economic models that use symbols instead. I'm sure there's a good reason for i
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    I agree with using a percentage of the world population, though. If you look at it in terms of what percentage of people are acting non-violently towards each other, 90% of the population being peaceful versus 99.98% seems to show a clear p
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    If you are "senior" in only 5 then where do you expect to go from there? Our industry has a significant salary cap, since 27 year olds hold "senior positions", the 47 year olds aren't going to be making much more
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    If you immediately write someone off because they work with technologies you don't work with[1] then you're doing it wrong. I've had a hell of a time interviewing for just this reason. For the first set of interviews, I was
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    I would think you'd need some kind of layer over the database for security, I think managing security at the db level would be very clunky at best. But since the idea of GraphQL handles so much from the logic standpoint, your programmi
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    The question is why anyone relies on Wikipedia. Because it's an incredible resource. It's unfortunate that there isn't an embrace of it in schools so that we can teach kids from an early age how to use it properly. For ins
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    If there was the political will to do so, it could come close. The actual construction is a small part of the process, compared to securing permits and such.
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    American unions were always pussycats compared to German and Japanese unions, which didn't suffer near the same fate.
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    I put 180,000 miles on my first car, traveling the country, and I'm on my fifth vehicle. I've lived on both coasts. The only mid-sized+ city I haven't been to, weirdly enough, is New Orleans. It's on my list. And you?
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    As the spec for Swift solidifies, we'll see open source implementations. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple ends up releasing Swift as open source eventually as well.
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    Yeah, I'm a bit bitter about it. Why? You won.
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    Yes. I'm from Chicago.
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    far too 'midwestern' I don't know what that means. worse weather than New York. Much worse, no argument there. That said, it's nice to be able to go into a building in the winter and have it be nice and warm, unlike
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    “One of the things he didn’t love about those campuses was that they were very exclusive,” Maria Phelan, a Downtown Project spokeswoman told me. “He liked the idea of more of a NYU-campus feeling—you don’t know for sure where the campus en
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    SF and NYC aren't near the nicest places in the US. The reason NYC and SF are so expensive is because of an inability to develop outward (or even upward in SF's case). Chicago is a fantastic city, with plenty that those cities ha
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    I always use the Startup Guys as a reference this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMmdl4VltD4
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    > Do as I say, not as I do. This is a beginner's guide. You need to learn the rules before you can break them. Case in point: http://mesosyn.com/pp-e1.jpg Early Picasso
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    After having watched so many frameworks come and go, the pattern I've noticed is that it's not just about hotness. It's that the new ideas that the frameworks provide push everyone else into better directions. Everything bec
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    Go is such an elegant and compact language.
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    I don't know if we'll halt, but we may have a point where things stagnate for a bit. We've been increasing at breakneck speeds for a very long time. I don't see that as a bad thing. There's plenty of optimization
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    The question then arises then for how compensation for leaders in structureless organizations is handled.
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    by michaelchisari 12y ago

    I'll be honest, I'm working through a React book right now, and there's so many additional subject chapters that, while useful, would be better off spun off into their own books. I found the first 2/3 of the book immens