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by mjolk 10y ago
> So you're gonna need to give serious thought to where you're planning to get employees from. As well as the tax burden for supporting the aging portion of the population (similar to considerations of basing a company in Flori
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by mjolk 10y ago
Yeah, I think that there's a political type that is just a zealot scared of anything that will challenge his/her worldview and feels a need to flag/downvote/hide. The reform surrounding pre-existing conditions for people
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by mjolk 10y ago
The anecdotes illustrate that there were two main benefactors: young people without formal full-time employment and those with pre-existing conditions that had allowed insurance coverage to lapse. From someone too old to be on their parent&
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by mjolk 10y ago
This is a teaching moment for you then. Minimize external dependencies when you've moved from "thank god it works" to "this is production ready."
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by mjolk 10y ago
Status pages are typically human-controlled for the sake of outwardly keeping within SLAs and as to not sound the klaxons for a 5s blip.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Yep. GH is down as of a few minutes ago: https://status.github.com/ (see "app server availability"). For what it's worth, it's trivial to write a status check of your own using the GH API ( https:/&
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by mjolk 10y ago
I imagine they have fewer users than years ago -- I doubt they've been careful to remove _non-human-eye_ users from their MAU.
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'm willing to prioritize "having $425mm" over all the cards I currently have in Trello.
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by mjolk 10y ago
> The point I get from that is that it was worth it to him to stand up for himself even though it was costly to do so. He was the defendant: > A few weeks later I received a small claims notice in the mail that I was being sued for $1
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by mjolk 10y ago
Yeah, analogy -- thanks (was running on no sleep from travel). I just don't think it fits the situation, even though I know what he was trying to say. Submitting proof to authority that you had done nothing wrong (as a defendant) is n
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by mjolk 10y ago
> That it's really heartwarming to see an employer 'go to bat' for his team's work and his company He "went to bat" in court as to not risk a default judgment or additional monetary loss. Talking about how
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by mjolk 10y ago
> We all know that early adopters suffer the growing pains of buggy first versions. No reason for all of society to share this burden when It hasn't even been put to a vote. Humans, when aware, rested, and trained, are far better in
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by mjolk 10y ago
Eek. First off, joelx, sorry about the painful process. If things are truly as presented here, I hope things turn out in your favor. I'm inferring that the post is being polite in leaving off some of the challenging aspects of the cl
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by mjolk 10y ago
Responding not to throw truisms at you; checking that I'm not crazy. > I have to say for me, this is a great ad for this employer being a safe and employee-valuing place to work. The employer is meant to shield his employees from th
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by mjolk 10y ago
Talk in person first, sure, but confirm in written form after, whether this be a signed piece of paper or acknowledgement over email.
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by mjolk 10y ago
Is this an outlier comp package? When acting as an employee, I make far less, am only there for the money, and still work 10-12 hour days.
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by mjolk 10y ago
> No Google, AppStore and Google Play means back to the 90s. Not really because then Yandex App Market would just spring up overnight. There's technical know-how in Russia and the funding to make sure things get built to keep the m
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by mjolk 10y ago
I wouldn't bet on a lower price point or any sort of portability with a GTX 1080 (the lightest 1080-equipped single-screen laptop I could find is over 7lbs). > I think there's more room in this market segment than you might thi
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by mjolk 10y ago
I imagine this Razer "laptop" will have a price-tag of at least $5,000 and will have a battery life of less than a movie. This is a dogshow hardware to give to a few enthusiasts, industry people, and trade floors to build up th
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by mjolk 10y ago
Wait, why is it the ideal to be inclusive of bootcamp-people in the profession, especially when it's typically people just seeing dev as a way to get more money from work? Collaboration in engineering is hard enough without having to d
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by mjolk 10y ago
Fizz buzz is a trivial exercise; if someone that claims to have worked as a software developer can't do fizz buzz, something doesn't add up. How was she able to do her work without understanding basic things?
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by mjolk 10y ago
> I'm not sure what it takes to create a burner phone number not linked to you these days. Cash transaction for a prepaid phone. Pretty easy, if not a little inconvenient.
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by mjolk 10y ago
I'm years out of college, so unfortunately, most of my network of "known entities" have financial obligations that need to be met.
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by mjolk 10y ago
> It's clear who values their time more than the founder & employees. Bootstrapping means you control the destiny and a higher chance to pocket more than a C-Suite's salary combined. So you make 100k every month from your b
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by mjolk 10y ago
> It's best to just flag anything (not related to computing) about ESR. That doesn't mean that he's incapable of making a coherent or interesting argument. Don't flag just because you expect to be offended, as the
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by mjolk 10y ago
I've tried and failed in this space. In your MVP, you have to be relatively feature complete and be ready to handle chargebacks, CC processing, customer service, and be willing to sustain on whatever price you set as the surcharge --
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by mjolk 10y ago
Oh, sorry, didn't even think of that. Thank you for vouching for it.
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> And that isn't the case in the original quote. The US isn't listed as specifically bad, it is included as a member of a list where the author contends mistreatment of some groups is common: I contend that the US doesn't
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by mjolk 10y ago
> You're engaged in a discussion that is purely about the definition of fuzzy words. What is "common"? It's about trying to get the upper hand rhetorically by defining words (from both of you). Not a particularly enli
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by mjolk 10y ago
I don't think I was committing a logical fallacy -- I took exception to the article author's attempt at establishing alleged certainty, especially using relativistic terms. In any case, based on your mention of learning new fallac

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