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by rdgthree 6y ago
Is this just an assumption? It's an interesting thought, I'm curious if there's some sort of data to back it up.
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Can confirm this is from Kapps, and I believe it was added recently. Not sure how he does it, but he streams on Twitch[0] and you can probably just ask him in chat if you catch him when he's live. He's live right now actually (7:1
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Neat, iRacing on HN is a collision of worlds for me. Outside of software, I'm a huge racing fan and spend a fair bit of time on iRacing (mostly oval). I've been wanting to build something related but haven't come up with any
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Though I'm sure you know this, it's worth noting for those unfamiliar that it started from a NASCAR game - NASCAR Racing 2003 Season[0]. A lot of the quirks are related to oval-racing based assumptions for that reason. A lot of th
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by rdgthree 6y ago
The title is technically accurate, but I think the omission of scale and any sense of how far along these plans are leaves quite a sensationalist tidbit. "Google workers announce plans to unionize" translated to "the necess
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Yeah, they definitely need to gather support of some sort, I'm just curious about the scale. 40,000 people from within the 120,000+ organization seems huge. If that's really the case, the coverage so far would seem fairly sensatio
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by rdgthree 6y ago
It seems incredibly significant that only 230 people are officially involved with these plans to unionize. As of 2019, Google had nearly 120,000 employees.[0] That seems quite small, relatively speaking. Legally (I think, just learning abou
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by rdgthree 6y ago
This is an interesting topic for me because I hold a handful of domain names (10-20) that I'm not using and have often had this internal debate. I have them because they're ideal names for a few side projects I've been consid
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by rdgthree 6y ago
I think the argument here is essentially that of the prisoner's dilemma. A system or game can put two rational (or we can say ethical for the purposes of this argument) actors in a position where the most rational/ethical decision
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by rdgthree 6y ago
This is an argument that I've found myself making fairly regularly, and often frustratingly after attempting to hunt down a bug through 10 levels of abstraction that didn't need to be there. Add "debugging complexity" wh
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Wow Matthew, I had no idea. Lee's story struck a personal chord - I lost an uncle to frontotemporal dementia when he was in his 40s and he lived with my family as the disease progressed. It's an incredibly painful experience for e
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by rdgthree 6y ago
I've gone back and forth on this. Yes - sometimes your worry is completely unfounded, but this article lost me here: >Untangling messy parts of the codebase, identifying and removing dead code, cleaning up build, deploy and monitori
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by rdgthree 6y ago
This is certainly the (fairly robust) legal argument. My hesitation is that I think a significant amount of drivers prefer and would benefit from the arrangement that Uber and Lyft have set up, and it's a shame that we aren't disc
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by rdgthree 6y ago
It strikes me that these articles are always biased in the direction of the benefits of being an employee. I have several friends that actively choose to be contractors because they prefer the (legally protected) flexibility to decide their
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Personally, I agree with you - my will to live is certainly predicated on theoretically being able to be directly responsible for significant accomplishment. The attitude that everything is set in stone and you can't change anything ab
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by rdgthree 6y ago
For me, often the problem is just one of perception. When something seems impossible or out of reach, I think about how my own accomplishments can seem out of reach to some industry outsiders. For example, installing a router and setting up
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by rdgthree 6y ago
This strikes me as a bit silly, because "master"/"slave" are simply words that describe a relationship. One that unfortunately still exists in many parts of the world. We're certainly not going to stop using th
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by rdgthree 6y ago
I think this comment is reasonable if they're simply saying that it's plausibly true that not everyone who is gay is born gay - some choose to live their life that way, others are born that way. I think this is a fair read on sexu
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by rdgthree 6y ago
I think your parent comment is neither here nor there on actually leaving, but rather just using hyperbole to demonstrate that this isn't a problem easily fixed with laws. A food establishment forced to serve you might serve you food t
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by rdgthree 6y ago
> I'm not going to be happy in a place like this even if government will force those people to tolerate me. This is an important point that those in disagreement with these kind of arguments often under-emphasize or ignore entirely.
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Sure, there might be, there might not be, but regardless this article doesn't even suggest at the possibility of something like that going on. If this was a story about Snowden's hinting at it, sure, the title makes sense. If this
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by rdgthree 6y ago
I don't agree that it's fair to imply that all police have been spying on black reporters and activists for years without providing any evidence for that claim because of the here and now . I think I understand what you're a
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by rdgthree 6y ago
I expected this response, but I'm not defending or attacking police. This article mischaracterizes it's own contents and implies something more sinister and objectively false in the title. This article is not about the institution
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by rdgthree 6y ago
> They're meant to be eye catching and make it seem like everyone is being hit by it, then a few lines into the article, they rapidly cut back on the scope because they've already got your ad money. I'm not certain it&#x27
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by rdgthree 6y ago
This article is about US hospitals. It is not about one singular US hospital. > Mark McCarren, a New Jersey federal prosecutor involved in the case, said Rosenbaum indicated that the transplants he brokered took place at more than one U.
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by rdgthree 6y ago
It's a bit frustrating that a large portion of articles just refer to "police" as a singular group. This article is about the Memphis Police Department. If a ring of doctors were caught illegally selling organs, we wouldn&#x2
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Sure! I have a ton of thoughts on this, so I'll just touch on a handful of higher level things that I think matter: - Avoid rules and tools Until you understand why someone came up with them originally. My biggest blind spots came fr
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by rdgthree 6y ago
This is extremely well said. When I started coding I didn't have these habits and I was convinced it simply wasn't possible to write clean code as fast as I was writing sloppy code. Then, I met the person who is now my Head of Eng
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by rdgthree 6y ago
I think it's worth noting that Uber has rarely gone down (I can't even remember one example, though I'm sure it's happened). While I'm absolutely sure some parts were downright horrifying at times (we've all be
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by rdgthree 6y ago
Startups tend either to do many things right, or many things wrong. If doing x right were a coin flip, there would be a bell curve with the peak at doing half right. But it is not a coin flip. [0] Code can be decently sloppy, but there&#x2

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