pnathan

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by pnathan 10y ago
Super cool & congratulations.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Thanks for chiming in. One of the joys of HN is seeing people Doing The Real Thing show up and be candid.
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by pnathan 10y ago
> it is quite expensive (I have heard figures quoted like USD 5000). A bit of correction, I'm afraid. That's the cost for mid-shelf copy of Visual Studio 2009 or so. It's not expensive at all for corporate purposes at a
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by pnathan 10y ago
> Long lunches, nap in the car, run some errands, etc. Eventually everyone runs out of piss and vinegar. It's not so bad. I hate working with people like that, and would hate myself if I did that.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Aha. OK. Yeah, there are famous downsides to trade unions, but I think we can give them the ole college try again, and not repeat earlier issues. I'm super ok with unionizing gig workers. I really hate the exploitation that's g
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by pnathan 10y ago
I'm sorry for not responding to your post earlier. > We need to stop assuming that bad things are happening because a few bad apples tricked roughly half the population to support them. They are making America great again. Look at a
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by pnathan 10y ago
That's a good question, and I haven't really read enough history/economics regarding that time period to piece together an intelligent answer with the nuances needed. Among other things, I think it's too soon to really l
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by pnathan 10y ago
Interesting. My understanding of this is from the Microsoft contractor case, where a key part of the finding was that since MS was providing the tools, the contractors were employees. I may misunderstand the details though! ( http:&#x2
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by pnathan 10y ago
Can you talk more about how that works out? In my interactions with the trades, there were no trade unions in the area, so most people were either 100% contractor or employee, no union intermediary.
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by pnathan 10y ago
A major part of the 50s & 60s boom was the fact that most of the industrial nations had been turned into rubble in the 40s and the US hadn't. Once the 70s rolled around, the US manufacturers came to grips with serious competition.
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by pnathan 10y ago
They aren't employees. They provide their own materials, they set their own schedule.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Why does everything that might be flawed about the economy have to tie into the "American Middle Class". It seems almost this fabulist's position of Things Were Better Back Then, And Can't We Make America Great Again?
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by pnathan 10y ago
It would be prudent for the policy-inclined among us to work with the state houses to develop a third category besides contractor or employee. As Homejoy's founder correctly pointed out, a gig worker coordinated by a central company fa
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by pnathan 10y ago
If, at the same time, driver and customer are being shown different prices, as the article alleges, then that is a problem. If the price is an estimate, and the estimate is revised based upon actual time and distance, then that is within re
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by pnathan 10y ago
This is a very interesting treatment of the famous paint: http://rdemaree.com/blogs/emerald-green-the-deadly-pigment-a...
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by pnathan 10y ago
Thanks for the clarification. In the next few months, I'm going to be examining the feasibility of Postgres as a timeseries store, with an eye towards deployment onto RDS for production. Might have some feedback then. Best regards- thi
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by pnathan 10y ago
Very interesting. Can you speak as to the stability of your system for production usage?
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by pnathan 10y ago
Corporations want to include code other people wrote, for free, and without any legal obligations or liability. That shouldn't be a surprise to anyone .
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by pnathan 10y ago
Oh yes, quite so. But the cold truth is that a 2LT is an adult, given adult choices, and adult consequences. Mr. Luckey is identical in this regard, and if, by the time you're 23, you're not capable of sober decisions- then that
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by pnathan 10y ago
Haha, this is great! Memories. All those terrible lines of code I wrote when younger led up to less terrible later. I too got on some of the cargo cults until the harsh reality of the projects showed me why not. :) This year marks 20 years
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by pnathan 10y ago
> I get that 24-year-old kids don't take much seriously, but for goodness sake don't use your money for political purposes without thinking it through. Hmmm. Let's look at a slightly different statistic: > In the U.S.
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by pnathan 10y ago
Seems perfectly reasonable to control this sort of thing. Loose lips sink ships; operational security is a big deal for a spy agency. I would be entirely unsurprised to learn that the security agencies provide secured bars for after-work dr
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by pnathan 10y ago
A major theme in non-fiction writing today is to construct a narrative around the events and objects. That the writer couldn't do this with Chiang is hilarious. Chiang sounds like a great guy at a dinner party: incredibly nerdy and lea
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by pnathan 10y ago
whataboutism was famously used as a deflective defense to redirect conversation from the USSR's (major) issues to the US (not quite as major) issues. But I think I'm done with this conversation. Thank you for your time.
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by pnathan 10y ago
That was a huge thrust of the 90s Linux nerd thought. Call it a lazzeiz faire countercultural perspective. esr provides a certain window into that time, although he seems to me to get more and more right-wing libertarian over the years. The
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by pnathan 10y ago
I would suggest (1) working with the Democrats to focus on removing gerrymandering to using a more algorithmic approach that is party-independent. This helps ensure that seats aren't (in effect) locked to a single party. And, (2) worki
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by pnathan 10y ago
Hi Daniel, I would agree that the remit of Congress is to govern the people, by the people, and privacy falls under that umbrella. The executive branch should not be operating as an independent law-making body, as it has been. I would gentl
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by pnathan 10y ago
Quoting this dead (and useful) comment for others who don't browse showdead: ``` l04m33 3 hours ago [dead] [-] I wrote a new CL plugin for Vim, which only depends on +channel and supports most SLIME features: https://github.
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by pnathan 10y ago
The niche of "welcome to Lisp, here's how to code" has been super well filled over the years. And regularly people write sort of intros to SBCL, CCL, etc. articulate-lisp isn't intended to do that - there are a few notes
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by pnathan 10y ago
I do need to study the matter. I've found the ASDF docs to be unusually opaque (last time I read them), and my current solution to be Very Simple (and a little Stupid), so I've been content not changing the setup. Thank you for yo

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