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by nick_urban 10y ago
SEEKING WORK Location: Portland, OR or REMOTE. Sr. Ruby on Rails/JS/Full Stack developer with 10+ years experience. I specialize in software architecture and development processes (TDD, CI/CD, DevOps). I have a humanities bac
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by nick_urban 11y ago
SEEKING WORK - Portland, Oregon or REMOTE Full Stack Ruby on Rails / JS (JavaScript) developer and consultant with 15 years experience. My goal is to understand my clients' business, and to work together to determine what options
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How cybernetics connects computing, counterculture, and design(dubberly.com)
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Dance floor blues: the case for a social AI (1995)(web.stanford.edu)
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Dance floor blues: the case for a social AI (1995)(web.stanford.edu)
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by nick_urban 11y ago
“At the moment, mobility is crushing the soul: Don’t speed, don’t drink, don’t text. [...] What inspires me... is giving back people their lifestyles, so they can do what they want to do: texting, vegging out, drinking.” Texting, vegging ou
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by nick_urban 11y ago
Companies will never value employees as much as employees value themselves. If programmers can get a promotion and a 20% raise by switching employers, and a 3% raise by staying, why would they stay? I find it funny that startups would expec
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by nick_urban 11y ago
Living comfortably on little money is a skill. MMM calls it the "frugality muscle". If you don't understand how to do it, it's not because it's impossible. It's just that you haven't learned how. In parall
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by nick_urban 12y ago
Anyone I've talked to who commutes in rush hour traffic absolutely hates it, yet most of them don't move or change jobs. I suspect it's mostly fear and not love that keeps people commuting from the suburbs -- fear of other pe
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by nick_urban 12y ago
Yup, pixl97 is correct. I travel for business to cities that are not pedestrian friendly. It's kind of ridiculous when you consider the amount it costs, but it's an expected, reimbursable business expense.
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by nick_urban 12y ago
I have a somewhat different approach. I generally either prefer to get a "shit" version of something or a super-premium version. If the thing is simple and timeless and easy to transport, I opt for the timeless route. If I think I
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by nick_urban 12y ago
The naturalistic fallacy is not the idea that "natural things are better". It is a criticism of deriving ethical principals from natural/physical facts.
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by nick_urban 12y ago
To some extent, we always have to extrapolate from the short-term into the long term, but the point is to remember that we are doing so, and to reduce our confidence accordingly. Still, I love XKCD's take on it: https://xkcd
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by nick_urban 13y ago
If you want to improve your depression and clarify your thoughts, I recommend practicing awareness meditation for 15 minutes every morning and/or evening. After a few weeks, the results can be dramatic.
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by nick_urban 13y ago
A transcript of the brilliant speech by Heinz von Foerster titled "Ethics and Second Order Cybernetics". When I read this I found it truly amazing, because it effortlessly connected the existential questions I was facing with the
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by nick_urban 13y ago
Wow, your post became very interesting to me in the last two paragraphs. Have you considered joining organizations that do make demands on you (and hence keep you connected to society), but not for financial reasons? Social clubs would work
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by nick_urban 13y ago
Notably empty category: Business ethics.
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Oracle Consulting Rate Cards [pdf](its.ny.gov)
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by nick_urban 13y ago
This is the most pressing and actionable information I have ever gleaned from a news site. Thank you!
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by nick_urban 13y ago
My message must have been unclear, because you think you disagree with me, but I completely agree with you :) Let me just say: math is wonderful. Science is wonderful. You're absolutely right that math provides a rich source of models
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by nick_urban 13y ago
I'm not a scientist, so it's harder to speak to that, but as an engineer, I can definitely say that engineers are in general more interested and more skilled at asking questions of "how" rather than questions of "wh
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by nick_urban 13y ago
They are legion, but here are a few: - a less informed citizenry - increasing fundamentalism - increasing conformity - the loss of high culture - the triumph of materialism and external symbols over internal development - religion and poli
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by nick_urban 13y ago
There's a lot of thinking in engineering, but not much critical thinking. The type of thinking involved in STEM is mostly instrumental rather than critical. It's about mastering techniques and learning "how". Critical th
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by nick_urban 13y ago
The idea that a university education is only for job training is poisonous. The humanities teach critical thinking and broaden students' perspectives in a way that STEM programs, in general, completely fail to do. If we were to convert
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by nick_urban 13y ago
Among the HN crowd, and especially those who dislike working for others, I'm surprised there isn't more of a focus on early retirement. If you make an upper-middle class salary, it's not difficult to become financially independent in a deca
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Perhaps Culture is now the Counterculture(newrepublic.com)
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by nick_urban 13y ago
Bespoke Post is looking for a full-time junior / intermediate Ruby and JS developer Location: New York City (no remote, no visa sponsorship) Are you an intermediate web developer who is ready to take their skills to the next level? Do you a
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by nick_urban 14y ago
New York City / Full-time (flexible) or contract-to-fulltime. Local only. Do you like the finer things? Bespoke Post is hiring a full-stack Ruby developer. We offer mentorship, swag, a fun work environment, and a chance to make an impact in
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by nick_urban 14y ago
You can get many of the benefits of SPDY today by using Cloudflare: http://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-spdy
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by nick_urban 14y ago
Bespoke Post is hiring a Rails engineer, as well as marketing and design interns. Location: New York City Part time or full-time. Bespoke Post is a fast-growing startup in the e-commerce / subscription space. People often say we're like a h

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