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by phillmv 12y ago
People here are predominantly American or European, which means they already have good visas and even if they don't live in a big city with lots of computer industry jobs they can at least move there. This is probably not how it works
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From the TFA, >Also, as I went to bed, I remember thinking “Ah, crap. I have to like something about Gaza,” as I hit the Like button on a post with a pro-Israel message. >By the next morning, the items in my News Feed had moved very,
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by phillmv 12y ago
This compares nicely against Yudkowsky's Harry Potter fanfic, in that it's not nearly as strident and self-satisfied and arrogant. That said, I have an vague high level technical understanding of btc, but none of Stellar, and I&#x
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by phillmv 12y ago
Surely, your emotional reaction depends on how long ago the DUI was. What if they had ONE DUI ten years ago? Armed robbery and home invasion are very different crimes. Just because they held up a liquor store doesn't mean they're
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by phillmv 12y ago
I have the privilege of being a white male who lives in a safe city and thus rarely feels threatened. So, it's not something I think about. What's the threat model? They're going to case your house and rob you at some point i
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by phillmv 12y ago
Talk about a great way to phish any unsuspecting saps who might try out the service. Also, I'm vaguely horrified at the notion that background checks might become standard even for 'sharing economy' gigs. Ah, well, you see, y
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I was critiquing "free markets are best" and not singularly EMH. I will grant that I've used terms imprecisely.
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Skills are not fungible - just because I can make a web app doesn't necessarily mean I can learn how to perform surgery - but most people with certain skillsets certainly are. How else would people build products by hiring more devel
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>This is such an important point, and why free markets work best. Well, there's a subtlety there. It's not that "free markets work best". It's that the efficient market hypothesis claims that a market with perfec
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>The amount of self reflection in trying to find your own solution while in the deep is frankly impressive. The short story follows a Depressed Person being neurotically introspective yet incapable of escaping her toxic and destructive b
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by phillmv 12y ago
We can split hairs over the different kinds of nerds, but I'm interested in how you would describe a group of people who sit in a room for 8 hours in a row while roleplaying foreign affairs on a fin-de-siècle map of Europe ;).
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by phillmv 12y ago
It's a common depressive symptom. DFW had a great and unsettling short story on the topic: http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-0...
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by phillmv 12y ago
>I'd love to see virtually all crappy jobs today disappear, On that note, Graeber is fun to read on this topic http://www.strikemag.org/bullshit-jobs/ >I cannot imagine retarding technology just to preserve
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by phillmv 12y ago
A field can remain highly regulated while having certain aspects deregulated. This is what we saw before the financial crisis. For instance, the repeal of the Glass-Steagall act is credited with enabling the broad systemic risk that created
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by phillmv 12y ago
There are network effects regarding the portion of outliers that SV captures, but if we're talking about experience alone then I'm skeptical of your claims given how much of SV is driven by freshly minted CS grads.
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by phillmv 12y ago
You're reading a lot into a single sentence fragment, and an awful lot of these decisions are not obvious a priori. In this case, the impression I got was "separating a large monolithic app is a risky, expensive move" and t
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by phillmv 12y ago
Let's get on a more basic level, even. Which of the two apps is more pornographic? The cutesy anthropomorphized vagina giving anatomical lessons, or the game that rewards you for staring at cleavage?
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by phillmv 12y ago
Yes. Edit: I mean, unions are all about solving collective action problems. How outrageous is it to ask a camp counselor to sign a non compete? The only way out is if the camp counselors can band together and act as a group.
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by phillmv 12y ago
I'm just smiling at the juxtaposition. It's amusing what in most circumstances would be a fact of life becomes a major sticking point. Apple doesn't take pull requests. I'm sure Google accepts patches, sometimes, but the
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Libor is an example of lack of regulation, though. There was no oversight involved; some dude at Reuters called up some handfuls of banks and then averaged out the responses, and it was self-regulated via an industry group. Regulations are
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by phillmv 12y ago
>petty, small minded nagging I think you'll find this to be a facet of every forum or comment box ever made available on the internet :). >Seems like just another 'intellectual' echo chamber to me. Are big words bad? Wh
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by phillmv 12y ago
It is one of the better link blogs on the web. I've been reading it since 2005? and I gave them my $5 back in 2008. Prior to the rise of the fractal advice subreddits, askmetafilter was (and probably still remains) one of the best gene
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They do, and I see it pretty often - but /via attribution has died out.
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Heh, this sounds analogous to what Gary Bernhardt finished "The Birth & Death of Javascript" with: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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Tyranny is a strong word for "please only use this free code in the ways that I have outlined".
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>I think that is more a difference in which frameworks you use as opposed to which language. I don't think it has much to do with which language per se but more to do with what the language community considers acceptable. You ca
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Like I said above, "Granted, this may be easier with newer frameworks, but still." :). Good to see it's you can have some lighter loads. TFA mentioned this was how Modern Java Web Dev With Instrumentation is Done (worth menti
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by phillmv 12y ago
Well… checkout Flask, for instance: from flask import Flask app = Flask(__name__) @app.route('/') def hello_world(): return 'Hello World!' if __name__ == '__main__': app.run() Of c
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Man, am I ever fascinated with the complexity Java devs have to put up with. Maybe it's just been a long time since I had to deal with Java-land, but you need to know about so many different things just to get off the ground. Granted
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>I use his name because I'm tired of seeing well-heeled individuals throw their weight around in the court system. Are you comparing the resources of a single individual against that of Google ? Is the guy a billionaire? >Had he

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