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by redcircle 13y ago
He left out an important reason to know and use SQL directly: you should always be aware how you are using your indices. This goes beyond making an index for a column in the table: you also need to know whether the query will map well to a
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by redcircle 13y ago
Do you mean East Palo Alto, or the whole valley? There is almost no housing supply in the valley. I have the feeling that engineers are now priced out of the market in the valley. Houses sell to bidders that offer no contingencies, cash,
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by redcircle 13y ago
Perhaps you really believe this definition of science. I've never encountered it before, nor do I know anyone that would use this definition. When people operating on a different definition of science encounter your definition, you can ho
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by redcircle 13y ago
1. It has lots of meaning before replication, which is why people tend to replicate things --- they were inspired. 2. Apparently the first study isn't science. I didn't realize that science was a catch-22 situation. 3. This is so absurd th
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by redcircle 13y ago
It is quite possible for the middle class to move into the upper class. It is just ironic that the desire to entire the upper class is often part of neuroses that make it impossible to enter.
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by redcircle 13y ago
One example: the inferiority complex.
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by redcircle 13y ago
I agree: upper class isn't about wealth. So much of it is about culture (in the sense that culture breeds character traits). And the ambition to obtain wealth in the middle class breeds character traits that impose a barrier for entering
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by redcircle 13y ago
Don't attribute it to me --- it didn't originate with me. It is probably a rephrased concept from Erich Fromm.
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by redcircle 13y ago
(1) Part of it is about choosing whom you work with. Be careful about choosing a job that might have fun work, but is with repressed people. (2) If they are ignoring you in a meeting, there is a good chance that they have their self-image
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by redcircle 13y ago
Apple's bug tracker is accessible to developers: https://bugreport.apple.com
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by redcircle 14y ago
They should have taken the opportunity to make it rear-wheel drive (or at least all-wheel drive). Mercedes generally cares about driving fun, given how so much of their line up is rear (or all-wheel) drive. Too bad it was left front-wheel
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by redcircle 14y ago
The people adjusting the hiring process are those that passed it. It is a filtering system that picks out a particular type of person and reinforces it. I find it hard to believe that it will change in any way that adjusts the filtering sy
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by redcircle 14y ago
When is the last time that you have read a TOS? You are shifting blame to the user, and it should not rest there. This is bad UI, and laziness. Meetup's TOS reads like a boiler-plate legal document; no one will read it.
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by redcircle 14y ago
Self abasement is still a humblebrag, and thus can't remedy arrogance. I don't understand this application of self-abasement to the case of rich people talking about the days when they were poor. If it is self abasement, then that implies
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by redcircle 14y ago
I agree, the chairs are nice. But don't use them as the solution to back problems. Back problems need to be solved through muscle maintenance, etc. Once back problems are eliminated, you should be able to sit comfortably in any chair.
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by redcircle 14y ago
VCs have a hit rate of 1 or 2 percent in choosing successful startups. An employee, in contrast, has an even smaller chance to choose well, to get rich via an exit. It just doesn't make sense to join startups to get rich. You do it for the
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by redcircle 14y ago
If you want flourishing employees, or want to flourish as an employee, then you need opportunity to learn and grow at work. Everyone needs a mentor, including the members of the executive staff. You can survive a little while running off ex
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by redcircle 14y ago
I hear you. While living at my prior location, I was always integrating plausible deniability into my business plans and their initial implementations, besides keeping my work super secret. Now I don't worry about the secrecy, and feel mo
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by redcircle 14y ago
California has a nice law that says that the employee owns IP created on his own time, unrelated to work, etc. This is a reason I moved to CA: the state I was in lacked such a law, and all the tech companies had contracts that failed the se
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by redcircle 14y ago
Being a proposition, does the legislature have any responsibility involved in the unfairness of this retroactive tax? Isn't the responsibility of a proposition in the hands of the voters, thus making it really important for voters to do th
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by redcircle 14y ago
Silicon Valley has so many tiger moms. Yet I bet that the Americans who succeed here, on any measure of success including just plain fun, were raised in America's lax educational system. I'd be surprised if anyone showed a correlation betwe
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by redcircle 14y ago
Why do people put the TL;DR summary at the bottom? If the content is too long, and I didn't read it, then I'm not going to see a summary at the bottom. Abstracts, introductions, executive summaries, etc., go at the top. You don't even ha
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by redcircle 14y ago
The article primed us for a bitch fest. I came to the comments expecting it. So in this one case, for the therapeutic effects that come from getting shit off your chest, I expected and overlooked the belittling and pretension; maybe other
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by redcircle 14y ago
Make it happen! You'll be buying back your time, which is the most valuable thing you have. I wish that I'd done this when I was young and single. Now I have a family, and am the only income earner, so I have to work 40 hours (for now).
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by redcircle 14y ago
Python, like all dynamically typed languages, has no readability once you start using multiple modules. Static types are important for declaring interfaces between components. I have pretty much written off Python, particularly now that G
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by redcircle 14y ago
Would you like a higher quality site? Belittling comments such as this, to a group of the users here, will not get us there.
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by redcircle 14y ago
This is probably off topic, but it makes an interesting contrast: in Afganistan and Pakistan, where the Bill of Rights doesn't restrict the U.S. gov, trying to peacefully express disagreement with the U.S. government's policies gets you d
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by redcircle 14y ago
What is your point? If we want a balanced view of the world, and most news sources push government propaganda (including NY Times, Washington Post, etc., which are like press agents for the executive branch), then we need to combine multip
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by redcircle 14y ago
My subconscious did. I didn't mean to imply that HN lacks group think --- I just don't want to see it in the submission summary, and HN's structure prevents that to some degree.
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by redcircle 14y ago
I stopped reading /. long ago due to the embellished story descriptions tacked onto the submissions. They are very judgemental, trollish, and became too trite for me to read any longer. As others here have mentioned, /. has some serious gr

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