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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
I don't think it's useful or accurate to attempt a value judgment on "disruption" in general. It means massive change, the results of which can and likely will be good for some people, bad for others, and neutral for som
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
I have no clue; I've never used them or been involved with them. I'm simply pointing out that comparison on cost without even the attempt to analyze quality is a recurring theme that encourages lower prices without consideration o
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
The unspoken premise here is that the only important thing about loyalty is how much it costs you compared to always using the least expensive service. I'd like to point out that many people (myself included) complain about phenomena l
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
It's not about avoidability. This is what happens when someone is more concerned with looking like a startup founder than founding a startup.
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
Do it. I got rid of everything but a suitcase full of clothes, a couple laptops, and some books (less than a dozen). It's incredibly liberating.
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by obviouslygreen 12y ago
This is crap. It's also not very Japanese... the assertion that your apartment already has all the organizational equipment you need is utter bullshit if you've ever visited or lived in an apartment in Tokyo (that costs less than
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Very cute. I didn't extrapolate it to "all of us;" if it fits you, you're not "us" in the sense it was intended. Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life? Very petty sentiment from an i
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
You really put the ass in assumption. Thanks for your input; this is your output.
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Starting from false premises makes the rest of your article likely worthless (I can only say likely worthless because I stupidly kept skimming but fortunately stopped carefully reading). This programming thing is a lot of fun, right? We
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
+1 for doing something genuinely pleasant for online gaming. This is something that would have been nice when I was into online gaming; hopefully it becomes more common for people to run their own vent/teamspeak servers not just for pe
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Here’s a counter-intuitive fact: Chances are all those features you've been adding to your design are hurting your user experience. Every feature that’s squeezed in, in the name of giving your design a competitive edge, has been makin
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
American citizens are ashamed of our government for all sorts of reasons , in many cases including the things they have our soldiers doing , much less whether or not they're paid to do them. Yes, this is disgusting, but let's no
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Even if you do subscribe to that point of view, modern politicians neither pay attention to their constituents' opinions nor exercise judgment for the good of the same. The reality-relevant betrayal is the application of the representa
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
At least in the web world (which is the only one I have a whole lot of experience working in), there seems to be an interesting progression that developers go through if/when they leave the corporate world and try things on their own.
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
To add to this: Both of these are things we used to do extensively in PHP, years ago . Not only does that pretty much kill the 'unique' angle the article wants to take, it wasn't a good idea or readable practice back then. I
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Excellent points, particularly with respect to looking outside of hackerdom.
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
The problem comes when people express their ideas intemperately, either by making extreme statements that should be more qualified and tentative, or by being uncivil to one another. I hit plenty of opposition here when writing in favor of
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
This was by far the best thing about living just outside of Orlando (and, in the long run, the only good thing). I spend more now to live in Minnesota, and the tunnel vision exhibited by Silicon Valley and San Francisco residents is an ever
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
A higher rate is commensurate with a higher end product. This is definitely not axiomatic. I've encountered plenty of high-rate consultants and consultancies that consistently deliver sub-par work; for various reasons (often favoriti
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Yes, it seems pretty normal here; at least in the consultancies and businesses I've worked in, I've never seen hours or weekdays listed anywhere in an employment contract, and I can't imagine any of the employers I've go
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I'm not going to argue that the USA is a great target for its relative monoculture, but relative is all it is. That the many cultures here are often a bit closer to one another than in most other places on the globe overlooks the fact
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
On an unrelated topic, how can the AP claim copyright to this? It's not unrelated, and after enjoying the read, this was definitely the worst thing to come out of it. Anyone posting something like this and attaching such 'boiler
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Without being present in the relevant board meetings, it's hard to say this with any realistic certainty... but it certainly does ring true given the hulking, festering mass of anecdotal evidence Yahoo keeps leaving in its wake.
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Ha, thanks. Guess this is me falling for anecdotes; how embarrassing. :)
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I hope I'm not the first to break it to you... You most certainly aren't. I normally cite this as an international phenomenon, but it's gotten to the point where either people know that or they've had their heads burie
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
True, but "my passport has been revoked" is not nearly self-promoting or dramatic enough for Snowden. Also, being a citizen of any nation doesn't mean a lot when returning to your country of citizenship means a (possibly one-
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
Thanks very much for adding your perspective. The article itself is very intriguing and points out things I just would not have understood, even from 'watching' spoken Italian, as an intrinsic part of the language as it is actuall
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
I'm not a huge fan of Java either, but sometimes it's important to get past that and either try and work with a language that's extremely effective for some deployments, or consider that the JVM supports quite a bit more plat
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
While I agree that that's a time-tested generalization, this isn't an immutable fact. It's the result of letting the wrong people into office for the wrong reasons for too long in too many places. If we had enough people (wit
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by obviouslygreen 13y ago
...his campaign promises made him seem like... The worst thing about the whole "we used to love him until he did x" misses the issue that leads to these situations in the first place; it would more accurately be "we used to

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