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by navyrain 13y ago
The core problem here is that high-earners are being concentrated in one area. If the Google employes weren't expected to commute to a computer, and were free to remote in from anywhere, their economic impact on their neighborhoods would b
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by navyrain 13y ago
Nice start, but some criticisms: - This just seems like a wrapper around webrtc, with some presence stuff thrown in. - Your website does not mention anywhere that the majority of web users do not support webrtc http://caniuse.com/#feat=str
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by navyrain 14y ago
Not sure if you're just trolling, but I'll bite. The government has regulations in place on dangerous weapons, which you are ostensibly free, through the democratic process, to change if they are not to your liking. Google has decided that
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by navyrain 14y ago
Hardly the same. Lets not kid ourselves into thinking any of the popular software we use is bug-free, which is nigh impossible feat for any large codebase. If this rails bug had not been discovered, it would still be there.
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by navyrain 14y ago
No, bundle update rails will change your Gemfile.lock to the version of rails it upgrades to.
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by navyrain 14y ago
When an excellent education can be had with the internet and self-study, universities will simply curate topic sources, and sell accreditation. Glad to see my alma mater acknowledge this inevitability.
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by navyrain 14y ago
100% agree. Bashing on other languages, as the author has done, makes him look childish, but worse, does the community a disservice. Professionals should be able to articulate and compare the merits of the decisions made by different langu
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by navyrain 14y ago
Of course, some people like working in offices; that was never disputed. However, there are an increasing number of organizations which have caught on that offices are not "software factories", but rather, an optional luxury.
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by navyrain 14y ago
Good work! However, there is no mention of telecommuting/remote positions. Even as a US worker, I prefer remote work, and it baffles me that us "internet folk" are not working hard to fight the industrial-era assumption that software has t
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by navyrain 14y ago
My anecdotal experience has been that those salaries are accurate, on a US national average. Lamentably, location plays a significant factor in it -- salaries are notably higher in tech centers like SF and Seattle. Conversely, I've heard o
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by navyrain 14y ago
If we're going to be pedantic here, lets at least attribute the continued success of Disney's vintage films to their appropriate source: Disney's relentless marketing.
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by navyrain 14y ago
With the dubious security reputation Bitcoin already has, you're already on thin ice with regards to this sort of thing. My gut says that by asking for banking passwords, you hurt yourself more than you help yourself. If you're looking to
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by navyrain 14y ago
Blatant ripoff of Bruce Schneier's article http://www.schneier.com/essay-198.html
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by navyrain 14y ago
I'd like to think that this was some sort of nefarious action from an old-guard finance company who was threatened by Bitcoin enough to resort to the enlistment of some hackers. In reality, this was plain amateur security practice, and if t
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by navyrain 15y ago
I want an agent, not a recruiter. Yes, sort of like the ones hollywood actors have (but hopefully less sleazy). Let me describe to you the what I'd like to see out this hypothetical agent, named "Sam": * Sam knows me and my personality, no
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by navyrain 15y ago
Of course, there are do exist hard laws in computer science; this is not in dispute. However, web programming is inherently not a ivory-tower mathematic art, as the objectives of the web programmer are different than those of computer scie
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by navyrain 15y ago
In programming, pragmatism always beats dogma. The blog post to which this link responds was particularly venomous and unsubstantive, and is easily dismissed when you apply a modicum of reason. I'm a little surprised that rant even earned
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by navyrain 15y ago
Read the guidelines: "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter."
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by navyrain 15y ago
So Regretsy gets a (potentially) reasonable human to look at their case only after making a media fuss? This is pretty troubling, as for every Regretsy out there, there are many more smaller fish who will continue to get quietly screwed, s
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by navyrain 15y ago
Firstly, you've got it backwards. Paypal takes a cut of the merchant's revenues for virtually passing the money from the consumer to the merchant; therefore, the merchant is PayPal's customer, and the consumers the necessary evil. Secondly
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by navyrain 15y ago
Love where you're going with this; however, the trust level is just not high enough for me to move my funds from a credit union (becu.org for me) to your partner bank. Now if you could partner with them, or a similar credit union, that wou
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by navyrain 15y ago
I fail to see why anyone selects a big bank like BofA/WellsFargo/Chase for their personal accounts, when they are known to have a plethora of fees and dubious ethics, and there are almost always better options in regional credit unions. Wh
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by navyrain 15y ago
You got me; I didn't realize I was reading an elaborate advertisement until the very end.
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by navyrain 15y ago
Yeah libraries are another good candidate. In my experience, libraries aren't as social, and can be a little antiseptic, but I think this varies widely based upon which library you visit.
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by navyrain 15y ago
I'm a telecommuter and I work out of coffeeshops quite often. For me, they offer social interaction and a change of scenery that I don't get at home. Going to a coffeeshop will also force me to get to business if there is some work I've be
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by navyrain 15y ago
I am a committer to this project, which is its infancy. We got some premature attention to our homepage, which was not clear on the specific use case we are seeking to solve with Monotable. We've updated the README to address most of the
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by navyrain 15y ago
Nothing stops anyone claiming to have a copyright to send a notice for any IP. Frankly, if I don't like your haircut, and know your IP, I can send a notice to your ISP claiming that you "infringe on my intellectual property." Without judic
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by navyrain 15y ago
Given that these ISPs often have exclusive markets, in which they have no direct competitors, this would effectively deny internet access to anyone who had the misfortune of getting a few of these notices. Lack of judicial oversight is obvi
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by navyrain 15y ago
As with most things, you get what you pay for. If you look to hire someone cheap from the other side of the planet, don't expect them to perform as well as the guy hacking on your SF startup from Seattle.
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by navyrain 15y ago
Allow for telecommuting. I'm surprised this gets so easily dismissed.

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