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by nthj 14y ago
The older I get, the less I care about technology and hacking as ends to themselves and the more I care about empowering people to create great things. It's so much more rewarding.
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I'm doing my best to track this conversation, but it's a bit over my head. So say the key cannot be read. What is to prevent Apple from delivering an iMessage software update which just POSTs each message to api.nsa.gov/warrants? If I can c
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or uncheck "Show in News Feed." I don't even want to know the ratio of people I'm friends with vs. people I actually see in my feed. Probably 1 in 10 at this point.
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> Before you conclude that I'm an asshole, hear me out. Without basic income, we absolutely need one. But what is a minimum wage? It's a clumsy basic income that's financed by low-end employers. How do they respond? They cut jobs. I hav
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The Internet would be a really boring place if we had to prepend "It is my opinion that: " to every sentence. [And now I'm wondering if I could write a Chrome extension to do exactly that, how hard could it be? pseudocode: `$('form').submit
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> For early-stage startups though, sometimes the challenge is more in actually reaching the stage where there's anything to tax Sure, I get that. I live in the startup world too. I just disagree that it's the government's job to take my
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This feels like a One More Level of Indirection solution. [1] The problem, I think most everyone agrees, is that the government isn't the greatest at growing businesses. The obvious, delete-all-the-code approach would be to leave more money
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> So to answer your question, there was never some crazy-awesome implementation of a distributed global queue that we got rid of. This sentence is really good, and I would humbly suggest you consider hammering it home even more than you
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I think we're having a disagreement over our definitions of "wealthy", which makes for a pretty boring debate. After reflection I don't think you're advocating for "work for peanuts! money sucks anyway!" so much as "charging market rate, wo
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Because if I'm rich I can work on what I want to work on, not what the rich guy says I have to work on. [and there are a thousand other reasons that money helps out in life, but I use the above example to show that your argument is self-def
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I prefer the term ”remote work” over ”working from home.” I almost never work from my apartment, beyond the occasional email. But by working from co-working offices or a coffee shop, I avoid the constant “hey, quick question man” and “let's
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I'll clarify: I was homeschooled. My parents always had a set schedule and curriculum. Within that defined structure, I mostly taught myself. A parent is perfectly capable of evaluating and deciding on a wide variety of curriculum even if
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> Surely with homeschooling kids are going to get even more inconsistent results due to radically varying teaching abilities and knowledge of parents? Some homeschooling parents might say that (1) the numbers play in their favor (no tea
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> There are just too many wrongs in the world for someone like me to be complaining about not being able to save up for shiny new product X, Y days earlier I don't complain when a startup can't afford me, it's just business. But I also
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> However, I'm told by people that myself and my colleagues are getting underpaid (we work at a startup). That's how “market rate“ works. A profession's salary has nothing to do with what you deserve and everything to do with how your s
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Entitlement is when you're a welfare recipient smoking dope and watching TV all day and demanding everybody else cover your existence. Demanding market rates is a rational response to a job offer, and I do not understand why otherwise ratio
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Well, I haven't used RSS in years. I just follow bloggers & websites' on twitter. My twitter feed spits out all the news articles into a passive stream of noise without interrupting me (like an email would do), so it's pretty similar to
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by nthj 14y ago
About time is right. I had to use Transparent Redirect for a high-volume-sales app recently (couldn't use Stripe for legacy reasons), and the experience was frustrating, error-prone, and didn't fit well within "the rails way", requiring a l
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I'm not a huge fan of TDD either. Tests are helpful when refactoring or adding new features because you avoid regressions. Regressions are the worst kinds of bugs because clients get really, really annoyed with "I thought we fixed this the
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> Now it makes sense to hire freelancers, contractors, etc who are easier to abuse. I imagine it's different for software developers than, say, graphic designers or copywriters, but why do you feel freelancers/contractors are easier to
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> Maybe they don't care to network.. maybe these foreign workers would rather work and do well in their field than suck * to get ahead? Yeah, I'd definitely rather work and do well in my field than play the popularity game. Oh, and I'm
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by nthj 14y ago
SEEKING WORK — Austin, TX — Remote Welcome We're a Ruby on Rails & design studio in Austin, TX, but we work with clients in Australia, San Francisco, and everywhere. We deliver full-stack experiences: our latest engagement is to craft a
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And my microwave door handle fell off the other day. That doesn't mean GE needs to include a disclaimer for that edge case in every 30 second advertisement, nor that they're liars because they fail to do so.
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At the risk of invoking a No True Scotsman, that sounds like a hiring problem, not a remote working problem.
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> I used to think that the most dangerous thing about the AR-15 was that it had the capacity to hold 30 round magazines Yep. I'm gonna feel so much safer when I'm murdered with ten 9mm bullets instead of seventeen. Oh wait, not so much.
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DHS behaved in a morally indefensible manner. I don't care if Arrington is telling a one-sided story and was actually a total asshole: DHS works for the American public and my tax dollars pay for the pain of putting up with jerks for the pu
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I'm just curious who already had a good feeling about United. I mean, I fly Delta/United/America when I have to, but I've been pretty annoyed by all 3 for years. I don't really see anything changing from this article.
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absolutely. easy enough solution now that I know this obscure piece of technical information. I don't see anybody offering to refund my lost bandwidth, though.
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I take responsibility for making my software behave the way users expect. I would expect other developers to do the same. This "well you should have known about obscure UNIX command X" stuff is both why software still sucks, and why busines
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I commonly stream Spotify on my MacBook while tethering via my iPhone at coffee shops. Little did I know I was paying $10/GB to let others listen to music. Thanks, Spotify, thanks.

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