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by qsymmachus 8y ago
There's a book about it! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit_Jobs
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by qsymmachus 8y ago
As the comments on this post make clear, there are a lot of HN readers who go to great lengths to reduce or even eliminate screen time for their kids. Just this week, the NY Times wrote a piece about how parents who work in tech are most wa
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by qsymmachus 8y ago
This is the thousandth time I've clicked on a "crypto" article expecting it to be about cryptography, and instead it's about blockchain/cryptocurrencies. Is this a losing battle?
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by qsymmachus 8y ago
You make it sound like poorer Americans are blowing their paychecks on designer handbags, but the article makes it clear that that's not what's happening. "Luxury goods" as economists define them are not what you'd
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After Caviar courier's death, what about gig workers' rights?(philly.com)
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
Mhmm, sure thing pal. I studied Latin for five years before I read the Golden Ass. It's not a straightforward text.
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
Glad this is back on the front page, because an earlier post with the story was flagged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16576569 Someone care to explain why this was flagged?
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
Certainly, and it's probably difficult for smaller tech companies just barely making a profit to cover the high cost of hiring a software engineer. But typically the companies who complain the loudest about "not finding qualified
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It's very lightly regulated compared to most other industrialized countries.
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> FANG An acronym invented by Jim Cramer: Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google > Maybe they can't find anyone who will work cheaply enough to justify hiring them based on how much they will generate the company While we're
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
The Tech Worker's Coalition organized a protest outside Lanetix's office this morning; it had good turnout. Edit: Check out https://techworkerscoalition.org/ if you're interested in joining future actions.
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
As an epistemology science is extremely rigorous – if something can't be measured (and thereby tested), science can't claim to "know" anything about it. This is an excellent standard for particle physics, but can be extr
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Ask HN: Resources to teach high schoolers to code?
36 points by qsymmachus 9y ago|17 comments
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
Does anyone have experience with both gRPC and Thrift? I'd be curious to know how they compare.
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
> I don't understand why she would be entitled to half given that she did not contribute half Under California law, all assets acquired after marriage are considered "community property". This means that regardless of who
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
People who learned block letters first, and who rarely encounter cursive, undoubtedly find block letters easier to read. But you might imagine that if had learned cursive first and used it regularly, you would have no problem reading it. Th
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
Russian Cyrillic is hand-written exclusively in cursive. Children are never even taught how to write block letters. The author may be right to argue that cursive has no decisive advantage over block letters, "so why teach it?", a
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While you pay into your 401k, CEOs collect $250k in monthly pension payments(latimes.com)
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
This is not a pure supply-side problem. In general, demand for college instructors remains high and job growth in the sector outpaces the average[1]. This is not surprising given that the number of students enrolled in post-secondary educat
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
A creepily common idea among certain libertarians. "Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
You carry two laptops, two smart phones, and two cameras on your person?
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Researchers demonstrate long-term deposition of tattoo ink in lymph nodes(nature.com)
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
> It's his money. He could buy a fleet of yachts, set them on fire, and upload the video footage - why shouldn't he be allowed to do that? At what arbitrary level of wealth does 'his' money become everyone else's
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
It's funny, at my company we implemented deduplication almost exactly the same way for our push notification sender. The scale is smaller (about 10k rpm), but the basic idea is the same (store a message ID in a key-value store after ea
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
"Our merchants and master-manufacturers complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price, and thereby lessening the sale of their goods both at home and abroad. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high pro
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
> If you lean more towards the functional programming paradigm side of Scala then you’ll probably love the following about Rust’s type system Some of the more popular functional languages have advanced type systems, but not all functiona
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
> It's easily conceivable at this point that Uber could IPO well under its $50+ billion private valuation. It's almost like stock options are monopoly money 99.9% of the time
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House Passes Republican Health Care Bill(nytimes.com)
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by qsymmachus 9y ago
Maciej Ceglowski's takedown of superintelligence is a much better articulation of these arguments, and more (and it's funny): http://idlewords.com/talks/superintelligence.htm

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