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by noarchy 11y ago
Google wanted to take on Facebook. I'd contend that they didn't succeed, and I suspect most would agree. LinkedIn has a market, but it apparently isn't the one Google wanted. Interestingly, there are people posting on Google+
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>You must have worked in a shitty place if your weren't with any programmers that laughed or drank beer. Indeed. If anything, the beer culture has penetrated deeply in the startup world. I'd even say that it seems almost contri
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>Hm, who actually uses GitLab or Atlassian? On this question, at least, I certain have used Atlassian's products. Jira I've used at a good handful of gigs, both contract and full time. And I have enjoyed using Bitbucket when I&
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This is essentially true, but some may still be interested in the results.
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AT&T CEO won’t join Tim Cook in fight against encryption backdoors(arstechnica.com)
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>A startup is always a company, but not really a 'business' until it's making a profit. So is a newly-opened mom & pop grocery store, then, I guess. But that kind of business isn't likely to generate blog write-up
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One-on-one meetings suddenly scheduled after management themselves have been in meetings for an unusually long time.
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>I've worked with many a QA who would get bent up over a detail outside of the spec that didn't really matter, and where all QA testing was manual. This is where you need management (or someone from the product side) who can se
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North American (Canada to be exact) here. I'm seeing jobs being outsourced by some of our local shops to places like Armenia and Romania. You can hire very competent developers on the cheap (relative to North America, at least). I expe
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>It sounds like you don't live in the Valley. Indeed, I don't. I even asked, in one of my replies, if this was a "Valley" thing. I'm ok with being asked to code or write things out during interviews - that is, if
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>How unfortunate why? Is it unreasonable to ask a candidate to know CS101? Not at all. For a junior position. But that's a difference of opinion with which we may have to live. For more experienced candidates, I'd be far more i
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>It's not a "Valley" thing. It's a tech. company thing. I've never interviewed in the Bay Area, but pretty much every interview I've had has asked me to write algorithms on a whiteboard. The last time I had
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>Yes, people are really doing this. It's stupid, but to not do so puts you at a competitive disadvantage against other candidates. Competition for programming jobs is fierce. I'm suspecting that this is a "Valley" thi
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Maybe where you are (and how unfortunate). But in a decade-plus of doing this, I haven't been asked things like that since I was trying to find my first job in software development. At that point, asking CS 101 questions made sense,
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>On top of the interview itself, there's the hours of studying you have to put in. Yikes, are people really doing this, or feel like they must? If I'm interviewing, I expect to be asked about previous projects, maybe my Github
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If your use case is comparable to a desktop machine, maybe the RPi isn't the best choice for you. You'd get a lot more power from an old laptop, though obviously in a larger form-factor.
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I just wanted to mention that I did read your reply, but I've yet to take the time (and some time would be needed) for a proper response to what is a bit of a wall of text (in the context of HN, at least, I'd say). I may eventuall
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>Aren't taxes a zero sum game? If one "dodges" any amount the state must make up that revenue somewhere so the actors with finances and ability to best take advantage of the system then end up not paying their fair share?
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>With Cable public-access, the government had to require cable companies to give access to communities to equipment such as a cameras, studios, video players, etc. I don't even see why public access cable was forced on any company t
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Why does the government need to do such a thing? You're free to set up your own corner of the Internet, unless the government itself tries to stop you, which does happen to some people in this world.
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Anecdotally, I think I see a new post about this topic every week or two on HN. When it comes to software culture, this has to rank pretty highly in terms of how much discussion gets generated.
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>How does it cost society money? When people waste money on gambling, it just recirculates to others. There is the odd case of areas where there are government-run gambling establishment (not uncommon here in Canada), or a lottery. That
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I don't buy the argument that it offsets costs, or even that there are serious costs, where it concerns gambling. I wouldn't be surprised if the law enforcement mechanisms are more costly, by comparison. Rather, it is an attempt t
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Why should gambling be taxed more than anything else?
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by noarchy 11y ago
The excerpt from that post that I find most appropriate is, "Bad tools typically take longer to work with, and typically teach bad habits to get around their deficiencies." That's how many of us feel about Agile.
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>Those "agile advocates" are just trying to sell their own services to improve your "agile functioning". Shame on you for falling for it. Agile is so widespread at this point that "doing Agile wrong" isn&#x2
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>There is no "True Scotsman" argument against Agile, IMO because there is no such thing as "true Agile". If Agile is so nebulous as a concept that it can't be defined (only vaguely described, at best), then perha
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Of course it is a marketing term. There are enough people billing themselves out as Agile "coaches", or Scrum "consultants", that the marketing seems to be working. But if they aren't Scotsmen, they've done som
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More of the "No True Scotsman" apologia for why Agile fails so often. I especially liked this gem: >Team members reject Agile methodologies openly, as they do not want to be pushed out of their comfort zones. I can't say I
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Older people don't want shitty deals, and they've seen it all. They've seen the latest fads in both the development sphere (every new framework under the sun), as well as management (think: Agile, Scrum, etc). They can smell

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